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Interesting story developing here in Columbus. Yesterday it seemed a white supremacy group was attempting to, in essence, blackmail a number of state senators. The group responsible, the Council on Political Accountability of Seattle, registered the domain names of a eight Ohio State Senators (i.e. www.bobsmith.com) and then put those domains up for bid at eBay.

If you type in the senator’s name as the domain it takes you to the Web site of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, a “not for profit, non violent, civil rights educational organization, demanding equal rights for whites and special privileges for none.” Apparently the group is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white supremacist group started by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke.

The NAAWP’s site includes gems such as this:

The white majority must have a national organization that defends its rights, values, and heritage. . . . It?s not illegal to be white . . . YET! It only feels like it!

Nice. Just what Senators wanted linked to their name.

This activity is not limited to Ohio either:

An eBay check found the council also selling Web sites named for 140 other state and national politicians from 19 other states. In a sampling of the names, each one linked to the NAAWP Web site. The minimum bids for the addresses are between $99 and $499. Each Ohio senator?s Web site started at $149.

Apparently, this violates The Anti-Cyber Squatting Protection Act, so the Ohio Attorney General is moving to have the group remove the web sites.

It turns out, however, that the whole thing was not orchestrated by white supremacists but the opposite. The group who started the whole thing is now calling it a “protest”:

“For 50 years, the Republican Party has had an exclusionary attitude toward people of color,” said Jeremy Stamper, who identified himself in a statement as an African-American and president of the Council on Political Accountability. “My hope is that our act of protest in linking their names to the NAAWP will hold a mirror up to these people and their destructive policies.”

Yeah right! This is the kind of lame crap the left likes to pull. Instead of arguing in the marketplace of ideas they use deception and illegal activities to try and paint the GOP as racist. Is this what the “civil-rights movement” has come too? This is just another example of the depressing nature of the race debate today in many quarters.

All in all this is not that serious of a issue but it is certainly one more annoyance the Senators don’t need. And it is one more indication of the bankruptcy of many on the left.