Republican congressman (King) on TERRORIST THREAT LIST in the 80's!

[Renew Deal]

This story is crazy, but believable. Congressman Peter King was considered a thread to President Reagan in the 80's. King also advocated terrorist activities. Somehow a terrorist sympathizer in America become head of the Homeland Security committee. Only in Bush's America could a terrorist sympathiser head the Homeland Security Committee.

For all his sabre-rattling about terrorists, King was once a suspect himself...
From the NYSun
"In 1984, the Secret Service listed him as a threat when President Reagan made a trip to Nassau County to watch a Special Olympics event."

"He forged links with leaders of the IRA and Sinn Fein in Ireland, and in America he hooked up with Irish Northern Aid, known as Noraid, a New York based group that the American, British, and Irish governments often accused of funneling guns and money to the IRA. At a time when the IRA's murder of Lord Mountbatten and its fierce bombing campaign in Britain and Ireland persuaded most American politicians to shun IRA-support groups, Mr. King displayed no such inhibitions. He spoke regularly at Noraid protests and became close to the group's publicity director, the Bronx lawyer Martin Galvin, a figure reviled by the British.

Mr. King's support for the IRA was unequivocal. In 1982, for instance, he told a pro-IRA rally in Nassau County: "We must pledge ourselves to support those brave men and women who this very moment are carrying forth the struggle against British imperialism in the streets of Belfast and Derry."

By the mid-1980s, the authorities on both sides of the Atlantic were openly hostile to Mr. King. On one occasion, a judge threw him out of a Belfast courtroom during the murder trial of IRA men because, in the judge's view, "he was an obvious collaborator with the IRA." When he attended other trials, the police singled him out for thorough body searches."

http://kingwatch.blogspot.com/2006/09/king-was-on-secret-service-terrorist.html#links

[AIJ Alom]

1. Yup the real GOP: Closet Torturers and Terrorists. n/t

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

2. It's true

King may actually lose this year (fingers crossed). He's got a strong opponent (Dave Mejias), and his district is trending blue. Having Hillary and Spitzer at the top of the ticket won't help him too much either. ;)

[KingFlorez]

3. And a person like this is in the House of Representatives?

They blast the Democrats all the time, but at least none of our politicians have ever been listed on a terror threat list.

[Renew Deal]

4. King was listed as a thread AFTER someone took a shot at Reagan.

That's outrageous.

[hvn_nbr_2]

5. Link to source article at the New York Sun

http://www.nysun.com/article/15853?page_no=1

Since the OP refers only to a blog that I never heard of, I was skeptical. The blog refers to the third page of a NY Sun article. I gave a link to page 1 of that article.

I don't know the NY Sun, so I don't know if it is considered a reliable source or not.

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[Senator]

7. Here's "the rest" of that story

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x79630#80314

[Renew Deal]

9. Not a reformer?

So he admits to being a party tool? He hasn't done anything in congress. Just dead space.

[TheFarseer]

8. Get this info to the democrats!!!

Of course it won't count to the RW talking head because it's not Islamic Terrorism.

[Renew Deal]

10. kick

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