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And, yes, I DO take it personally: SMEAR ALERT: Harry Belafonte
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Sunday, January 22, 2006

SMEAR ALERT: Harry Belafonte

anybody wanna place bets on how long before the smear attack squad lets fly with their stink bombs...? poor harry's just askin' for it...
Entertainer Harry Belafonte, one of the Bush administration's harshest critics, compared the Homeland Security Department to the Nazi Gestapo on Saturday and attacked the president as a liar.

"We've come to this dark time in which the new Gestapo of Homeland Security lurks here, where citizens are having their rights suspended," Belafonte said in a speech to the annual conference of the Association of Performing Arts Presenters.

"You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel," said Belafonte.

as we know so well, truth-tellers are not taken to kindly by bushco... witness max cleland, john kerry, richard clarke, michael moore and john murtha [commenter says not to forget john mccain], to name just a few among the legions who have had their reputations and personal accomplishments viciously denigrated in public forum...

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