The new civility apparently includes cyberstalking and physical threats (Updated: Author of letter identified)
Linked over at Althouse, but you really need to read the entire threatening letter. It’s three full pages of tolerant, loving lefties writing what amounts to a blackmail letter to someone whose politics they don’t like.
There’s no question that the threat should be taken seriously. But here’s a question: Can Althouse take this to the police? Their unions have chosen a side in this debate, and it’s not her side.
Me: I probably wouldn’t trust them. All it will take is one officer involved in the case who is a bit more of a union man than an police officer, and you have a potential problem.
Update: The author of the threatening screed is now crying in his milk, claiming that the right has forced him to commit some sort of “identity suicide.” After, incredibly, claiming there’s some campaign to silence him. As if his threats against Althouse did not constitute a campaign to silence her.
Drama queen, much, lefty?
Didn’t Althouse vote for commandante zero? If so, aren’t these the people she wanted to govern? Reap the whirlwind.
Didn’t Althouse vote for commandante zero?
And will likely do so again. I don’t take her seriously, but find her windmill tilting amusing, knowing full well she isn’t a conservative and would never support a conservative candidate.
No need to go to a possibly corrupt unionized police force. Because the threat was made using an interstate modality – the Internet – the feds, i.e., the FBI, has jurisdiction, if the case can be made that revealing the details of Althouse’s daily routine, the statement “We will *uck you up,” the statement that they will ruin Althouse’s “sense of safety and wellbeing,” and many other menacing statements, all add up to a physical threat.
The author seems to think that if he makes a lot of statements which reasonably add up to a physical threat, he can escape culpability by throwing in “non-violent” and “legal” here and there. But that’s not the current legal standard regarding what are called True Threats. See., e.g., the “Nuremberg Files” case of the 9th Circuit, which directs that the court look to the whole context. Wisconsin isn’t in that jurisdiction, but I know that case was not an outlier.
“the feds, i.e., the FBI, has jurisdiction,”
Does someone really believe that the Obama Administration is going to take the side of a US citizen against their beloved unions?
I’ve left thousands of comments on hundreds of sites since 2002, and the only time I had to contact authorities about a reply I received was due to a reply on Althouse’s blog.
Her commenters openly set out to get me to stop posting comments there, culminating in that. And, it was all under her watchful eye; she knew what was going on. In the past the comments at her site had been somewhat OK, but that all changed when Althouse decided to pander to the barely-sane tea parties types.
Your buddy Instapundit also told me to “STFU”… while hiding behind a pseudonym like a little girl (I was able to determine the IP address he used).
So, please don’t tell me about the new tone or civility: teaparty types are the most vile, most idiotic people I’ve ever seen online and off. What’s described in the post is bad, but TPers aren’t much better.
P.S. Because the above points out facts about TPers, expect them to respond with lies about me. They aren’t capable of making an argument; they don’t even know what an argument is. So, they lie and smear. Ask them why they’re following someone who joined with Soros to give millions to the ACLU.
“Your buddy Instapundit also told me to “STFU”… while hiding behind a pseudonym like a little girl (I was able to determine the IP address he used).”
Prove it.
Complaining about lies and smears, all you have is lies and smears.
I’ve told you again and again — if your approach is so effective, lead by example.
It’s because you are a one trick pony, lonewhacko, and you bore everybody with your overweening sense of superiority and your persecution complex.
Of course lonewacko, aka 24Behind, doesn’t think the document threatening Althouse and Meade is any big deal. Just look at his post above for proof he and Jim Shankman are birds of a feather…
Wacky, dear, we don’t have to lie about you; your posts are a chronicle of a mind spiraling down toward insanity, all because you’re being ignored by those you wish to lead.
If someone make a physical threat against the 24ahead guy, that’s wrong and actionable. But the 24ahead guy is quite possibly the lamest, most pompous self-promoting peice o’ crap on the interwebs.
Wow. That’s quite an achievement.
In some sense.
Update: Jim Shankman’s “identity suicide” involved changing his Facebook ID to Karl Asoah. His Facebook profile ID remains the same, 651447561. His erstwhile girlfriend apparently also changed her ID to Al Neon…
I guess Karl with a “K” because it seems more like his hero Marx… As for Al, all I got is that Paul Simon tune ringing in my head now.