DEATH THREATS AT PRINCETON:

Four officers of the Anscombe Society and a prominent conservative politics professor received threatening emails Wednesday evening from off-campus email addresses.

The five individuals received identical messages telling them they would “suffer,” ordering them to “shut the fuck up” and declaring that “you are not welcome here.” “We will destroy you,” the message said.

Though the message did not explicitly mention the Anscombe Society, the four students who received emails were Anscombe vice president Jonathan Hwang ’09, president Kevin Staley-Joyce ’09, former president Sherif Girgis ’08 and administrative committee chair Francisco Nava ’09. Politics professor Robert George — who has publicly supported conservative causes, including the Anscombe Society’s goal of promoting chastity — also received the message.

I guess it’s part of the growing climate of fear in America.

UPDATE: More here:

Francisco Nava ’09 was physically attacked by two men in Princeton Township Friday evening, sustaining a concussion but no other serious injuries. The assault comes on the heels of several threatening messages recently sent to Nava, apparently in connection with his involvement with the socially conservative Anscombe Society.

I wonder if this will get the kind of attention that politically-reversed assaults would get?

MORE: Regardless, it appears to be a hoax.

STILL MORE: Andrew Sullivan seems to regard this as an “Insta-Embarrassment.” But there’s no embarrassment in correcting an error as soon as you’re aware of it. That’s something that Andrew, and his friends at The New Republic, should have figured out already.