Mundane and pointless because I doubt anyone who was really out to kill me would write me first.
Strange also because the site’s been cobwebbed since October; it’s been my goal to update it (and my personal site) over the King Day weekend if I can get access to a computer then.
It’s not my personal site that you get if you click the little house at the bottom of this message. It’s my Irish politics page (http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2677/). A bit nationalistic, to be sure, but there’s certainly nothing there that paints me out as a big fan of the IRA or anything.
So, you guys still want me to come to the St. Louis Dopers gathering (at a British-themed bar, no less!)? :eek:
You fenians are so full of s***.[expletive delted since this isn’t the Pit] The British government treats catholics quite fairly. Stop living on tales from the past.
Democratically Ulster has time and again voted to remain British and that vote included alot of Catholic unionists. You deserve to die for supporting the minority terrorist un-democratic IRA. A real American will always stand for democracy and the truth is, the democratic vote has always been for Ulster to stay British. America wont be a safe haven for fenians for much longer. Just wait until the U.D.A. get hit squads in operation over here. Maybe I’ll see you soon…
Not too clever on the part of the sender if it was. At the very least, a message to the ISP from whence it came is in order. If you wished to carry it further, the sender, if identifiable, could be prosecuted, IMO.
Yeah, moron sent it by e-mail. With luck he’ll lose both his hotmail account and his ISP. I’m not going to go any further than that. It’s probably some kid with more time than sense.
As far as what oldscratch said, if I had $100 for every death threat I’ve received about that site, I’d have $300. I would have expected death threats because of the uncharitable things I said on Upstairs at Garak’s about the Mets when the Cards were playing them in the baseball playoffs, but this is somewhat unexpected.
“Is this the MPMA?
Or is this the UDA?
Or is this the IRA?
I thought it was a U-K.”
–The Sex Pistols
“Anarchy for the UK”
I haven’t had that many death threats, but if I had a dollar for everytime I got called an fin bch (letters removed to keep it all family friendly), I would be retired and somewhere sunny.
Go ahead. Ask me if I miss my bartending days.
Luckily, no one evers gets upset over my Cupid website.
Palandine, your name comes from where I think it comes from?
I remember one of the times someone yelled a homophobic insult at me. Of course, I was walking out of a fetish café with Hamish, both of us in full goth (make-up, nail polish, leather, long black coats, the whole number). So someone yelled “Faggot!” at me (in French). I was like, oooh. What a smart man. I bet he took one look at me and knew I was white, too.
Haven’t read that one yet, although I’ve read some of her Brian Boru bodice-ripper novels (*Lion of Ireland *springs to mind). I tend to read more nonfiction than fiction about Ireland, although I love most of the movies made recently about Irish politics (Some Mother’s Son, In the Name of the Father).
Actually, I’ve not been keeping up with the Irish stuff in a while, but I’ve had Spirit of Freedom for going on four years and I just can’t let it go. I do need to update it, though. Unfotunately, my home computer died a few months back and I can’t afford to get a new one. Plus, all the libraries are closed on Monday. There’s a cyber cafe near here–I may see what their rates are.
Friends are suggesting I bring this guy to the attention of the FBI. Anyone think that’d be worthwhile? Personally I don’t want to do it because I already have American government folks hitting my site and don’t really want my name in any more files. Plus, I do tend to think the person’s probably just some idiot kid. I am holding on to the e-mail, though. He’s lost his hotmail account. If he tries to get in touch again, I think that’s when I’d let the authorities know.
Boy, imagine what a response I’d get if my site actually advocated the sort of things I’m accused of advocating.
I had a friend who recieved letters telling her that she’d go to hell after publishing a review of a Marilyn Manson CD in the local paper. Some people just need to calm down, no?
Not a death threat, but I got bombarded by the yo-yo Scientologists submitting more than 20,000 positive votes on the survey at the bottom of my negative review of Battlefield Earth.
I guess advocating Irish independence and calling a filmmaker a no-talent goon show up differently on the cultural radar, huh?
