Jesse Jackson: Bush Spied on Me

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[Sub-Driver]

Jesse Jackson: Bush Spied on Me

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is claiming that President Bush illegally spied on him and should be held accountable with impeachment hearings.

Asked to respond to reports that U.S. citizens were being "spied" on by the White House the same way Dr. Martin Luther King was in the 1960s, Jackson said Monday: "Well, and so am I. We have gone from being lied to about the war to being spied on for protesting the war."

Speaking to Democracy Now Radio's Amy Goodman, he recalled that as a member of Dr. King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference, "our staffers - our wires were tapped. We were followed."

Jackson said that 40 years later, "There is no doubt that they’re having an enemies list of those who protest."

"Last year, those who disagreed with the Bush campaign were on the enemies list for I.R.S. investigations,"

[EagleUSA]

Jesse needs to be spied on, like every other CRIMINAL in this country.

[BenLurkin]

So . . . this means that he has an Al Qaida connection?

[randog]

"Last year, those who disagreed with the Bush campaign were on the enemies list for I.R.S. investigations,"

Uhm, that was Bill Clinton who did that, Jesse.

Don't worry, Jesse--memory loss is common with old age.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I suppose taking it upon yourself to contact the Taliban after the 9-11 attacks is no reason to be spied on. Right Jesse?

[wildehunt]

Good..

[Izzy Dunne]

Is there a bigger media whore in the country?

Maybe Howeird Dean, but DANG!

[L98Fiero]

"Jesse Jackson: Bush Spied on Me"

Considering you are not behind bars, he did not doa very good job.

I can just see Bush following Jesse around in an unmarked van, drinking coffee from a styrofoam cup and pointing a directional antenna towards Jessie's pad while the reel-to-reel records in the back of the van.

[KC_Conspirator]

Jesse should have a permanent tail and have a team of auditors go through his financials every year.

[DTogo]

Spying on Jesse Jackson would be a WASTE of the NSA's time - he has nothing of interest to say. The IRS should go after Jesse instead.

[atomicpossum]

"There is no doubt that they’re having an enemies list of those who protest."

You're thinking of the DNC mailing list, Jesse.

(Pretty much the same thing, I guess...)

[AmericanMade1776]

Jesse Jackson stands outside Bethel A.M.E. Church after speaking during the funeral of Stanley Tookie Williams in Los Angeles December 20, 2005. The 51-year-old Williams co-founded the Crips gang and was convicted for murder, but advocated against gang life after he was sent to prison. He was put to death by lethal injection December 13 after California Governor Arnold

[Gay State Conservative]

Jesse's clearly got another book or fund raiser in the works.
My guess is that he's behind in his child support payments.

[Westbrook]

Anything for a headline.

What a bottom-feeder.

Can you say, "Me too!"

I thought you could.

Jesse, a word of advice.

The government is only spying on suspected Al-Quaeda operatives.

While the intelligence required to blow yourself up in a pizza shop is on a par with the common ant, it's still more intelligence than you have, which disqualifies you outright.

[pissant]

F.U. you racist scumbag. Go give Fidel another BJ.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

I'd prfer NOT to see THOSE videotapes on the internet.

[One Proud Dad]

.. and they should since he has no definite source of income and yet spends millions.

[Voter#537]

Wishful thinking on the REV's part.
No reason to spy on him.
He is a useless piece of shit.

[El Gato]

I very much doubt that Jessie was singled out... at least during the Bush adminstration. BJC liked to keep an eye on his enemies, and an even closer one on his "friends".

Still, if he was spied on, I bet they could help fund the program by selling the XXX rated audio and video tapes.

[CAP811]

Sounds like Jesse has employed a new attention getting device, although someone else must have thought this one up as he could not have. He is just not bright enough.

[Westlander]

Good thing ! That's probably how his illegitimate kid was found.

[Beth528]

[stocksthatgoup]

I thought it was Robert Kennedy that wiretapped Martin Luther King.

[moonman]

Bill O'Reilly, on TV and radio shows, called on the IRS for months to investigate Jesse 'Shakedown' Jackson.

[b4its2late]

No doubt Harry Belafonte will jump on this bandwagon....

[AppyPappy]

thinking: "Dang. Where is that girl with my car? I should have got her name before I gave her the keys. At the time, her name wasn't important to me. If I lose another Lexus like this, my old lady is going to kick my ass. C'mon girl. And you better have that Discover card I gave you to buy a Latte.".

[popdonnelly]

Who gave Jesse Jackson a license to run his mouth and say any blasted thing he pleased? Could he back up his rant with some facts?

Incidentally, it was Bobby Kennedy who ordered wiretaps on Martin Luther King. Jackson thinks the rest of the country is historically illiterate, as he is.

[AmericaUnited]

Jesse Jackson: Bush Spied on Me

Oh don't flatter yourself!

[Right Cal Gal]

No, no - it was NIXON who ordered the spying on King, don't you know? It was right after he ordered Kerry into Cambodia....

[TaxachusettsMan]

Actually, given his impregnation history, wouldn't spying on Jesse Jackson be something like subscribing to a porn channel?

What a moral reprobate - like our own Fat Bastard Senior Senator here in Taxachusetts, Senator Edward Moore Kennedy (D-Chappaquiddick) - the gall of these lowlife scums pontificating to anyone about anything and judging anyone else's activities is breath-taking (in the sense of making you gag).

[YourAdHere]

Well, he was getting calls from Tookie!

[Baynative]

Frank Zappa: An article raised some questions about whether or not Martin Luther King actuallyy died in Jesse's arms. There were reports that Jackson dipped his hands into King's blood or even used chicken blood and rubbed it on his shirt, which we wore for a few days afterward as he met the media.

So I did this song about the idea of communicating through nursery rhymes, as Jackson is prone to do. It rubs me the wrong way. I'm not saying that all of Jesse's ideas are bad; I agree with some of them. But I'm not confident that Jesse Jackson would be the person I would look to to implement any of them.

[Coldwater Creek]

You might mean that tongue in cheek, but I would bet the farm that Jesse has and would sell us out in a NY second. Does Hugo Chavez come to mind? Take your pick of World terrorist and JJ has had dealings with them.

[Liberty Valance]

The only thing oppressing Jesse Jackson is his own guilty concience.

[Zacs Mom]

[AmericaUnited]

Why haven't you escaped from that hellish Marxist taxhole?

[Coldwater Creek]

I do not care what you say about Richard Nixon. He and his brother's drive=in made the best patty melts you ever put in your mouth!!!!!!!

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

What proof does he offer? Why aren't people challenged for these type of ridiculous statements? Perhaps the White House should investigate his statement. Maybe they could get him to lie under oath. How I wish someone would sick a sock in this windbag.

[GunnyHartman]

"Jesse Jackson: Bush Spied on Me"

Maybe bush is just another name for his mistress...like ho?

[purpleland]

"Jesse needs to be spied on, like every other CRIMINAL in this country."

Jesse Jackson is not only a "CRIMINAL" he is a race monger and probably a traitorous threat. Also, I hope the FEDs are spying on ACLU members, their covert activities and associations. No need to spy on communist-hysteric Harry Belafonte - he is conveniently unabashedly overt. He's STILL crying over the executed communist spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and probably still racked in sobs over Tookie's execution. Faux cause celebre allows for Belafonte to emote his (self-deluding) humanitarianism.
I've always been for the underdog and sometimes for the lesser cause. BUT, never, like Belafonte, Asner, et at, but never for gerryrigging a false cause floated on false premises and, *denials & lies*. It is really important to analyze the state-of-mind of people who would so easily fall into embracing falsity.

[popdonnelly]

"No, no - it was NIXON who ordered the spying on King, don't you know?"

Some people no doubt believe that. Even if it overlooks the fact that Dr. King was assassinated six months before Nixon was elected President.

[Riley]

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is claiming that President Bush illegally spied on him and should be held accountable with impeachment hearings.

If JJ were wiretapped by a TLA- JJ would never know it.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

oops that was stick a sock

[smith288]

If he knows he was spied on, then they didnt do a very good job of it.

[Casloy]

There is an easier way to spy on Jackson. Just set up a camera at any natural disaster and he'll come and talk directly into the camera.

[Baynative]

Tall and tan,
Rhyme or reason,
Play your hand --
Rhyme on this—rhyme on that
Oh, you naughty Democrat!

They say when Doctor King got shot,
Jesse hatched an evil plot,
Dipped his hands in the Doctor’s blood,
‘N rubbed his shirt like playin’ with mud
Looked around for all the press
‘N said: “Check me out, my name is Jess!
I’ll be known from towns ‘n farms --
Doctor King died in my arms!”

Rhymin’ Man,
Tall and tan,
Rhyme or reason,
Play your hand --
Rhyme on this—rhyme on that
Oh, you naughty Democrat!

A few years later, legend says,
Rhymin’ man made a run for Prez
Farrakhan made him a clown,
Over there near Hymie-Town
Said he was a diplomat --
Hobbin’ an-a-knobbin’ with Arafat
Castro was simpatico,
But the U.S. voters, they said: “No!”

Rhymin’ Man,
Tall and tan,
Rhyme or reason,
Play your hand --
Rhyme on this—rhyme on that
Oh, you naughty Democrat!

Okay, here we go again!
Rhymin’ Man says he’s your friend
Any fool can make a rhyme --
Cowboys do it all the time
People say: “Now he’s mature!”
Cowboys rhyme that with horse manure

[ILS21R]

[purpleland]

"Jesse needs to be spied on, like every other CRIMINAL in this country."

Jesse Jackson is not only a "CRIMINAL" he is a race monger and probably a traitorous threat. Also, I hope the FEDs are spying on ACLU members, their covert activities and associations. No need to spy on communist-hysteric Harry Belafonte - he is conveniently unabashedly overt. He's STILL crying over the executed communist spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, and probably still racked in sobs over Tookie's execution. Faux cause celebre allows for Belafonte to emote his (self-deluding) humanitarianism.
I've always been for the underdog and sometimes for the lesser cause. BUT, never, like Belafonte, Asner, et at, but never for gerryrigging a false cause floated on false premises and, *denials & lies*. It is really important to analyze the state-of-mind of people who would so easily fall into embracing falsity.

[TX Bluebonnet]

So . . . this means that he has an Al Qaida connection?

I wouldn't be surprised.