Mitch Wagner has done some digging into the stories of the guy who got arrested for taking photos in his hometown and the guy who got arrested for protesting the poor treatment of his wife at a security checkpoint. His conclusions? Inconclusive — he can't substantiate either story, and he can't pin them as completely false, but he notes that in the latter case, the site that carried the story is prone to posting revisionist nutjob rants:
LewRockwell.com's front page today links to a political cartoon at a site called RebelGray.com, where Bush is compared to Lincoln. RebelGray.com doesn't mean that in a good way.
The site's top story today defends Trent Lott and calls his ouster a "purge trial."
It is not true that supporting the Dixiecrats in 1948 necessarily reflected a racial bias against blacks. The real issue was not race; it was the place of freedom and federalism–concepts that are apparently not understood by the national press or by any of Lott's critics right and left–in the post-war period.
Of course, nuts get subject to bad treatment, too; and police-denial of a coverup is just what you'd expect if there was a coverup. It would be interesting if Denver-ites and Portland-ians with blogs followed this up, continuing Mitch's research (he suggests some avenues in the entry). A lot of this investigation is just-plain shoe-leather stuff, and distributing the load of that investigation is the best use of the LazyWeb of all.
