The day after the election I posted a rather lengthy and reflective entry about how we’re all going to hell. Most of the post was about how divided is America, and how we need to try and understand each other instead of letting the majority rule. In closing, I said I wanted to throw Bush down a flight of stairs, quickly and explicitly saying that I had no intention or agency to do so, that it was one of those pleasant mental fantasies we indulge to feel better. Given the context, it was about how I understand how difference in opinion turns to frustration and the frustration turns to hate. Anyone with the IQ over 10 would see it is not a threat, especially since I bent over backwards to explicate my own comments.
Recently (even though the entry went months without comment) I’ve been getting a spate of comments telling me how sad I am, and telling me I’ve threatened the president and they’re sending my post to the F!B!I! You’d have to be really, really fucking stupid to come to that conclusion.
I can dismiss these nerds, but I have no confidence that in Dick Cheney’s America, and its corresponding crack-down on freedom of expression, that G Men will come a-knockin’. If you’re looking for a threat, sure, you can take it to be a threat, even with all the framing comments saying “this is not a threat!”
By seagull, I mean someone who just flies around and craps, of course. Of course the comments are all anonymous, but the interesting thing is, their IP’s are logged and I do see this sudden spate of comments come from all over the country. Is there some right-wing seagull email listserv?
Crap… What I’m talking about is my blog. I can’t link to it, because it’s got my real name all over it, and I don’t want you crazy mutherfuckers knowing who I am. If anyone is really curious, they can e-mail me with a promise that they aren’t going to show up at my house asking for money, and won’t disclose my name or whereabouts to anyone else on the board (I’m not paranoid, it’s just that they’re out to get me).
If we started with a suitably tall building, you could throw him down the first flight of steps, I could take over for purposes of throwing him down the next, and so on.
You’re welcome to post a link to this post on your blog. If the right-wing folk want to occupy their time emailing me with hate mail, good — maybe it’ll keep them out of trouble.
If your blog entry does get reported to the Secret Service, they will send someone out to ask you questions. No matter how obvious it is that you didn’t actually mean any sort of threat by it.
As stupid as that may be, and as inconvenient and annoying to you, keep in mind that they’re just covering their ass: the last thing they need is to have not investigated even an obvious joke when the joke-maker later does something horrible.
Which is why these guys are shits. They’re cowardly, hiding behind a pseudonym, and acting out of pure malice. I can just see cackling as they act out their little 1984 fantasies, reporting dissidents to the authorities.