Seeing Rude People—And Fighting Back

We all see rude people, often every day. But as Amy Alkon describes in her new book, when she sees rude people, she fights back. Such as the example she describes in this quote from a new interview with John Hawkins, when a “progressive” Website decided to drop a whole load of weapons-grade Alinsky guano on her:

Basically they just find somebody they perceive to be conservative and then they become the kick ball, and they come on your site and leave all these really horrible comments and mess up your speech — which you don’t get to do to me. You can start a whole Web site: Amyalkonconisabiguglyidiot.com. I’m a free speecher. I’m all for that. Take pictures off my site, parody me, that’s fine. If you’re funny I’ll even link to you.

But, you don’t get to come on my site and try to screw up my speech. These people all left comments like — typical stuff — “Are you a tranny,” “Do you have a penis,” “You look like a man,” and then they left 30 page spam posts every minute one Sunday while using the server for Chinese dissidents.

So, I’m not a good victim. All these people — they’re all anonymous because they’re weenies. I only post on the internet in my own full name. I know not everyone does that, but I encourage people to at least post as if they are.

So, all these anonymous people keep doing this and one day, at two in the morning, I get this comment, “Are you a tranny?” Oh, whatever. So, I look up the IP and it turns out to trace back to the NOAA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. I track the guy down. He wasn’t as clever as hiding his identity at thought. He had posted on Keith Obermann’s site using the same e-mail address he left on mine. So it took me about 40 minutes I think, but not only did I figure out who he was and that he worked at the NOAA, I thought, “I wonder if they have a staff directory?” Sure enough, they do.

I looked him up, found his phone number and I said, “He posted on my website at two, it’s now about three, so maybe he’s still at work.” Sure enough, he was. I called and said, “Hi, it’s Amy Alkon. Do you think I look like a man?”

He said, “This is a government facility. You can’t call me here.” I said, “I know. I’m paying you with my taxpayer dollars and when you’re supposed to be making sure satellites don’t fall out of the sky, instead, you’re posting “Are you a tranny” on my website? I mean this is horrible. It’s amazing that you’re doing this. So, he ended up apologizing and everything. The guy was just such a wimp. It just illustrates to me what I always believe about these people who do these anonymous attacks on the internet — if you ever walked up to them and just like spoke three words to them, they would disintegrate into a small pile of ash. That’s basically what this guy did on the phone — and I exposed him, also. I e-mailed the NOAA and said, “Do you know what people are doing when they are supposed to be making sure that satellites don’t land on the roof of the White House?” So, that was basically what happened.

The book of Saul would approve.

And speaking of fighting back, if you’re going to a Tea Party later today, Charlie Martin writes, “Expose the Tea Party Crashers” — and describes how you can do just that, via Pajamas Media and PJTV.com