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http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/28202-blogger-who-uncovered-gop-leaders-white-supremacist-ties-had-home-internet-lines-cutEarlier this month, Lamar White, Jr. woke up to discover his Internet connection wasn't working. He had just gotten a new cable box installed at his Dallas, Texas, home and figured his lines should still be in ship shape because it hadn't been long since they were last checked.
Rather than just assume he had crappy Internet service, like you or I might, he thought his home computer system was on the receiving end of a denial of service attack. White, you see, is something of a major figure in the political media. And there are a good many people who may want revenge for the things he's dug up.
Last month, the Louisiana native and current Southern Methodist University law student, set off a firestorm in Washington when a post on his personal blog revealed that House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, the third most powerful Republican in the House of Representatives, was a featured speaker at a white nationalist conference put on by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke.
While Scalise retained his leadership position after conservatives from around the country quickly circled the wagons, the story has generated headlines for nearly a montheven causing a new round of controversy when left-leaning news outlets started making a fuss over Scalise's multiple votes against making Martin Luther King Day a federal holiday. Nevertheless, when the cable guy came a few days later, and the first thing he asked after looking at White's Internet connection was, "Do you have any enemies?" White couldn't help but be more than a little surprised.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)I read the linked article. Turns out the cable guy investigated and found that the cable running into his house had been pulled out of the ground and cut, most likely deliberately.
I'll likely be banned from DU, but, my suggestion is he pick up a Remington 870, a box of 00 gauge shells, and camp out in his backyard for a few nights. Call the cops, tell them what he's doing. Put a stop to that shit.
Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)A surveillance camera would be a good move, though.
gordianot
(15,238 posts)Get some sticky spray glue douse it well on the area surrounding the wire. If you have a friend with a dog or cat get some feces and apply a generous supply of glue to that planted around the area. This worked great for me and was most satisfying they got some crap, green paper, and I found the sign wadded up in the yard second time around.
Although I can meet intruders with very deadly force I prefer a small aluminum T-ball bat (deadly enough) and a reinforced steel tactical ink pen with tungsten penetrator (Kuboton). In this instance I enjoyed the glue and did not have to clean up blood.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)its no mystery here in Texas that many a local police dept are in deep with the klan.
especially east texas.