Wednesday, March 09, 2011

I have always called people who anonymously do things like this cowards, and I have consistently put my name behind my saying so.


They spiff up a Jordan Hawkman thing, lifting their key animated gif logo from here, post anonymously, and choose to call other people "terrorists" while gloating that John Hoff apparently is facing another litigation pothole. And - publishing of it before anyone else has picked up that he's been served yet more papers.

As if somebody tipped them off - knowing who, precisely, to tip off

Puzzling evidence, eh?

They must think they're cute. It's sick stuff, to me.

My guess, pure abject cowardice.

Another guess, if you don't put the credibility of your name to what you write and say, it likely is because your name has no credibility.

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They can sue me for saying that.

Doing so, they'd have to publicly disclose their identity.

Once there, the anonymity might not fit well on the un-masked men and women. Perhaps even a "Why hide this time," if they'd not shown shyness before.

Any bets whether there's their process server in my near future?

Unlikely. This is NOT Angela Davis or George Jackson, despite the panther-wannabe memorabilia. This looks more to be a very big north-end pissing match - underlying the trial characters - with the U. taking an interest in the neighborhood and possibly money on the table, money to be made, power to be taken or fought over.


Yet, bottom line, this anonymous Jordan Hawkman stuff is an amateur hour show, but also a distractingly sleazy sidestreet to the Johnny Northside litigation, where Moore and Hoff put their names of record, before a judge and jury. Juxtaposed, a seedy skid row of a side street poopulated by people not daring to stand under the street lamps to show their faces.

Doing this on the backside of important ongoing litigation for the publishing trade and internet users in Minnesota seems to me the moral equivalent of being a hidden sniper at a duel.

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Don Allen, a trial witness and one time defendant now not so, and one of the more interesting consciousness-arousing angered black man writers on the scene, writes:

From the above observations therefore, we can see that the term Black is not necessarily all-inclusive, i.e. the fact that we are all not white does not necessarily mean that we are all Black. Non-whites do exist and will continue to exist for quite a long time. If one’s aspiration is whiteness but his pigmentation makes attainment of this impossible, then that person is a non-white. Any man who calls a white man “boss”, any man who serves in the police force or security branch is ipso facto a non-white. Black people – real Black people – are those who can manage to hold their heads high in defiance rather than willingly surrender their souls to the white man.

Black consciousness is a broad category that encompasses things as varied as race consciousness, race relations, Black pride, Black power, and even rebellion and revolutionary consciousness as it relates to a historically oppressed community, nation, or group acting and reacting against its oppression.

He's a Republican. Quoting Steve Biko, who was beaten to death while in custody in apartheid South Africa. This from a Tea Party icon of his own times. Yeah.

Allen writes on issues large in scope, and local, with a narrower but still pertinent reach.

Interestingly, Allen has highlighted the anonymous-attack site and figuratively picked up a bullhorn to broadcast over it.

But do read the disclaimer. "Not me, not within my knowledge. I cheer the team but do not know the quarterback or other players." (Recall Sgt. Schultz in Hogan's Heros? "I know nothing, NOTHING!") Get this:

Editors note: IBNN NEWS, The National Research Institute, USA Black Radical and its affiliates have no editorial ties to the blog, nor do we know the identity of the author of “The Jordan Hawkman.”

That is a courageous disclaimer. The print's not too fine.

Allen is the person in all this that most intrigues me. Sunshine on the man from all this cannot help but be a good thing. On his motives and his actions, and on his ways and means.