In the Wednesday edition of the New York Times, James C. McKinley Jr. falsely reported that an FBI informant who helped to thwart a left-wing terrorist plot had actually encouraged the conspiracy.
In the article Anarchist Ties Seen in ’08 Bombing of Texas Governor’s Mansion published February 22, 2011, the newspaper indicated that former left-wing activist Brandon Darby urged two anarchists to firebomb the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota:
Yet federal agents accused two men from these circles of plotting to make firebombs and hurl them at police cars during the convention. An F.B.I informant from Austin, Brandon Darby, was traveling with the group and told the authorities of the plot, which he had encouraged.
According to the United States Attorney’s Office for the District of Minnesota, this is a false assertion.
That office stated the following in a May 21, 2009 press release titled Texas Man Sentenced on Firearms Charges Connected to the Republican National Convention:
A 23-year-old man from Austin, Texas, who was connected to a group that planned to disrupt the Republican National Convention in September 2008, was sentenced today in federal court on three firearms charges.
On May 21 in Minneapolis, United States District Court Chief Judge Michael Davis sentenced David Guy McKay to 48 months in prison and three years of supervised release on one count of possession of an unregistered firearm, one count of illegal manufacture of a firearm and one count of possession of a firearm with no serial number. McKay pleaded guilty on March 17.
Today’s sentence included a finding by Judge Davis that McKay obstructed justice at his January trial by falsely accusing a government informant, Brandon Darby, of inducing him to manufacture the Molotov cocktails.
David McKay admitted he lied to suggest the Darby had induced the crime on which he was blowing the whistle:
I embellished — I guess actually lied — that Brandon Darby came up with the idea to make Molotov cocktails.
Apparently the New York Times was not given the proverbial memo, but they have it now. We request they retract the false claim and correct the record.
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The storyline that it was Darby's idea has been pushed by the far-left as a way to cover for their violent tendencies. It's never THEM who commit violence, see, it's always the government plants.
That the NYT perpetuates the lie is about as shocking as the sun rising in the east.
Gee…..
…..lefties sure do cling to their firearms.
The MSM will do anything to advance the progressive storyline.
Good luck with that, Retracto.
A fabricated story in the NYT ….
As sure as the sun will rise.
Makes one wonder, if the Left can just fabricate stories to push a very unwelcome agenda, why can't we?
Breaking news: Obama, in his younger years was involved in a robbery attempting to buy porn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HWEXUzzmDY
It never ceases to amaze me that the NYT, the LSM and lefties in general think they can blow smoke up our butts to pander to their audience and think they won't get caught. I thought these were the guys that had the alternative media and use of the internet down pat. That conservatives were old people who have not a clue how to use the net yet, they get caught all the time writing lies and saying things they aught to know are being recorded. Absolute power corrupts and they think they have the upper hand with The Zero in office and the media in their back pockets. As The Zero's own pastor said, "the chickens have come home to roost!". What's most hilarious is that one of their own, Algore, invented the means to bring them down! So he says anyway.
Shame an innocent guy is being smeared and its ridiculous that an adult would offer 'he talked me into it' as a defense when accused of plotting terrorism. If someone is so empty of heart and light of head that anyone can talk them into anything no matter how evil, they should live the rest of their life in a cage.
Uh Oh …Holder's Injustice Dept will somehow, someway take care of this …amend a few documents and then PROCLAIM the NY Times had it RIGHT. Scumbags.
I didn't know 'Playgirl' was porn….
Sounds like grounds for a defamation lawsuit: Malicious and/or grossly negligent falsehoods.
Is anyone surprised a left-wing pro-government propaganda organization libels a law enforcement officer in an attempt to defend left-wing pro-government terrorists? The New York Times is now officially a travesty.
It is past time that, We the People, demand the removal of the NYT as the country's paper of record. Since it has been proven, over and over, that the NYT is incapable of writing factual truth based news; it can no longer be considered a reliable source to produce any official record for our country.
it doesn't take a BIG stretch to tie this story to the Muslim Brotherhood and Obama…
Or the chaos at the Mexican border, or the funny money you are all being paid, or the assault on private enterprise, the insistence in All Things Gay, the transfer of property wealth from YOU to Fannie and Freddie, and the attacks on firearm ownership.
It seems disparate.
It most certainly IS NOT. To Progressives this is the Appian Way. All roads lead to Rome; or in this case a 'New World arising out of the flames of the old' – Progressive hero/Fabian Socialist George Bernard Shaw.
These are not random occurances…
Because you see son, once upon a time there was this newspaper called the New York Times……………
America needs a hero now more than ever. But I wonder if we'd know one if he or she came along.
"What does it mean to be a hero? Is it someone fulfilling an ambition at great personal and physical struggle or is it someone doing something for the good of mankind? And why do we all need heroes – what is it that inspires us about certain people and makes us hold them up as examples of greatness?
The truth is that we look up to people who make a difference to our lives while at the same time overcoming personal struggle and hardship to achieve that goal. We admire their bravery and dedication; we aspire to be as courageous and focused as they are to achieve what they set out to do.
So being a hero isn't necessarily about achievement only. It's the effect that their achievement has on the rest of us and what we can learn from the struggle and hardship they underwent. They are what we could call exemplars – they are people who demonstrate high standards of character and dedication and who inspire us to achieve the highest that we can in order to emulate them.
However, being a hero isn't always front page news or the stuff of films. Being a hero can mean working all the hours under the sun and earning enough to send your children to college so that they can have a better future than you had at their age. It can be as simple as making sure that the elderly people in your area are always warm and well fed, or dedicating yourself to improving community amenities and overcoming all the obstacles that get thrown up in your path.
So you can achieve great things like win an Olympic gold medal by being fast on your feet and become an icon. Or you can achieve great things through strength of character and perseverance, and become a hero. You can doubt your ability to complete the journey, but having the strength of character and purpose to overcome your own fears about completing it – that's the stuff of heroes.
That's what inspires others – that you falter and doubt your ability to carry on, but that you then pick yourself up again stronger than before, doubly committed to your goal, and you press on to the end."
- Neel Raman
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Nor the takeover of the auto, mortgage, housing, energy, healthcare, education, media, and all the other industies.
At this point, it is apparent that the inmates are trying to run the asylum.
… "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others",
The New York WHAT???? Never heard of em!!!
Ooooo ooooo pick me, I know this one….
The NYT used to be a newspaper.
A lie is halfway around the world, discouraging other patriotic whistleblowers. The truth is (usually) here on Big Government.
D party Violence!
I tried to use the NYTP but it kept leaving ink smudges on my hands and buttocks..
Does ANYONE who reads teh NY Times expect the truth?
Not really, they want to know the Party Line and fo be made to feel good about the Party Line.
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"True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
who the hell still reads the NYT?
and who takes anyone that still does seriously?
NYT's having a field day on those who are not the Liberal minded. This means NYT's is part of the Liberal Propaganda machine, as with Time Magaazine…
And their religion of self-worship
Be sure to get word to your local police how non-violent vandalism and arson are.
Gotta love that moral relativism…
You always see these leftists in support of convicted murderers based on the "doubt" of their guilt and the process, yet to further their lying political agenda, they'll convict ANY ONE of ANY THING. They are EXACTLY who the founding fathers were trying to protect us from.
That is now called the New York Slim.
You insane pinko! You sound like a classmate at Stanford Law School who said a person with a pistol would not be justified in shooting someone with a baseball bat who was threatening to hit them because: "A gun is lethal force but everyone knows a baseball bat cann't hurt you!" You lefties are freaks.
Molotov cocktails are incendiary devices. Just make one and let a cop catch you and remember to bend over and enjoy it for the next 10 years in prison while you are friends with Bubba the love king. As for throwing firebombs at cars is non-violent….you are nuts. Arson is a heavily punished crime to deter nut jobs like you from trying it. Fire spreads and there is always a chance someone will be present and the perpetrator does not know….or a fireman will be injured or killed fighting the fire.
Come the revolution it is freaks like you who will be sent to re-education camps and if you flunk out of that….well comrade we have plenty of walls……
And gave us the gift of the Second Amendment to deal with out of control government and democratic mob rule.
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