http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=164x1947Oh my.
Cowpunk (104 posts) Sat May-02-09 02:41 PM
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My World Herald LTTE against Hal Daub
"Hal's Dangerous Rhetoric"
If mayoral candidate Hal Daub wants to be the next Rudy Guiliani, he should work on his female impersonation skills. Daub's categorization of streetgang thugs as "domestic terrorists" is irresponsible at a time when the CIA's "enhanced" techniques are trickling down to local law enforcement.
There is a growing epidemic of police using high voltage electroshock weapons to force citizens to comply with their commands. Often these citizens are weaponless, nonviolent, and even restrained already. Occasionally they die as a result of this torture. Children have even been "tased" because these extremely painful weapons are wrongly seen as unharmful.
Due to passage of the Military Commissions Act of 2006, terrorism suspects have almost no rights in this country. If we start treating common street criminals as terrorists, then an authoritarian police state will exist in America.
No primitives at this bonfire, but again, it's in the Nebraska forum on Skins's island.
Hal Daub, running for mayor of Omaha, was a congressman from that area, from, I think, 1977-1989. He quit Congress to run for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senator in 1988, but lost to the incumbent Republican.
Solid conservative credentials.
Hal Daub was also mayor of Omaha from, I think, 1997-2001, when he lost to the current mayor (who's not running for re-election), the notoriously venal and corrupt Democrat Michael Fahey. (The Omaha mayorial race is non-partisan.)
Hal Daub is a law-and-order man, and given the sharp rise in homocides in Omaha during the current administration, he just might beat his opponent; the only poll shows him leading by 4+ percentage points, but the poll has a "margin of error" of.....4%. It depends upon whether or not the Democrat political machine in Omaha can create enough "votes" to override public sentiment.
The election's on May 12.