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Sunday, July 26, 2009

nice!

(not)

there really isn't too much for me to say here. i'm not really surprised. perhaps surprised at the stupidity of posting from your WORK computer. then again, i guess i'm not really surprised about that either.

if i said it once, i've said it a thousand times. it's fear and ignorance.

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Racist Web Posts Traced to Homeland Security

By KIRK SEMPLE

After federal border agents detained several Mexican immigrants in western New York in June, an article about the incident in a local newspaper drew an onslaught of vitriolic postings on its Web site. Some were racist. Others attacked farmers in the region, an apple-growing area east of Rochester, accusing them of harboring illegal workers. Still others made personal attacks about the reporter who wrote the article.

Most of the posts were made anonymously. But in reviewing the logs of its Internet server, the paper, The Wayne County Star in Wolcott, traced three of them to Internet protocol addresses at the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees border protection.......

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