[FairfieldLife] Death threats (was Re: How The Post Count Came To Be: A Fairy Tale)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" wrote: > (And why were we "too stupid to live"? Because we didn't > support Obama and dared to say so.) P.S.: That was in the primaries. Raunchy and I both supported Hillary. As I recall, Raunchy wrote in Hillary's name in the general; I cast a protest vote for Cynthia McKinney (a Democrat) when it became clear my state was going to be an easy Obama win. Just so nobody thinks we supported or voted for McCain.
[FairfieldLife] Death threats (was Re: How The Post Count Came To Be: A Fairy Tale)
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb wrote:
> As for azgrey's other request:
>
> > If that doesn't get the point across, surely the "death threat"
> > would. That was as batshit crazy as could possibly be.
>
> I shall leave it to someone else to tell that classic campfire
> story. As part of an experiment, I have sworn off of mentioning
> Skidmark Smurf for a while, so I don't want to get any
> No-that's-not-really-what-happened-that's-a-lie-because-only-I-
> know-what-really-happened tarbaby discussion started that might
> tempt me to take a poke at it.
BTW, "Skidmark Smurf" or similar counts as a mention.
> I will say only that the claim that death threats were
> issued on this forum was as batshit crazy as AZ suggests, and has
> never been retracted.
Oblique but easily identifiable references to me such as this
also count as a mention.
Let's have a look, shall we? Barry wrote:
"In related news, a poll conducted at bellweather
Internet chat site Fairfield Life indicates that the
popularity rating on that site for posters Raunchydog
and Judy Stein (considered representative of Republican
tactics) has dropped in the last week from the next-to-
lowest Category Y ('Strident revenge harpies from Hell')
to the lowest possible Category Z ('Dumb angry cunts
too stupid to live.')
"Experts are studying the possibility that, since there
is no lower level to sink to in terms of favorability
ratings, if Raunchydog and Judy continue their anti-
Obama activism at this point, something more drastic
may happen to the two activists -- actually bursting
into flame."
Ha ha ha.
My mention of "death threats":
"Your hypocrisy is stunning, Curtis. You've seen the
misogynistic vomit (including death threats) hurled
at me and raunchydog and other women who attempt to
post here, not to mention at Hillary and Sarah Palin
and Cindy McCain and even Jackie Kennedy."
No mention of Barry's post. Curtis didn't know what I
was talking about.
But Barry did. If it was so batshit crazy, how come he
instantly recognized what I was referring to and went
on the warpath in an attempt to defend himself?
Obviously "death threats" was metaphorical in context,
just as "misogynistic vomit" was. So, one hopes, was
Barry's fantasy of Raunchy and me bursting into flame
and dying because we were "too stupid to live."
(And why were we "too stupid to live"? Because we didn't
support Obama and dared to say so.)
[FairfieldLife] Death Threats against Obama 400% higher than against GW Bush
~~Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service~~ Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W.Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service. - http://snipurl.com/s0b45 This has been widely reported. Since Obama's approval rating is at least 20 points higher than Bush's was for most of his second term, why do you think there's such a difference? Why do you think the death threats are 400% higher for Obama?
[FairfieldLife] Death Threats
The claim that actual death threats have been made on Fairfield Life is a serious one, and one that I do not take lightly. If the poster who made this claim cannot back up this claim with actual quotes that fit the definition on the following Wiki page -- "may inflict physical injury on anyone" -- I demand a public retrac- tion of the statement and an equally public apology. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_threat I've been a member of Fairfield Life for some time now. I have never seen a "death threat" made on this forum. Not once. I have seen people actively *wish* for another person's demise, but that's not a death threat. A death threat is where you say, "I or someone else will kill you." I have actually seen such statements on other Internet groups, one of them sadly another spiritual forum. When a poster on that forum started making statements like, "I know where you live, and I'm going to go there and find you and beat you to death" (no shit...someone on a spiritual forum really did say this), I'm as outraged as anyone else. In that case, although he didn't say it to me, I got in touch with the person who said it and told him in no uncertain terms that if he continued I would report him to the police. So I don't take death threats lightly. Nor do I take the claim that they have been made on this forum lightly. I think that's a knowing lie. I think that the person who made this claim needs to either prove her claim with exact quotes or retract the claim and apologize to us all.
[FairfieldLife] Death threats
During a trip to Scotland, New age guru Sri Sri Ravi Shankar casually mentioned while speaking to Edinburgh-based Evening News that he had received death threats from Islamic and went on to gleefully say that it "doesn't concern me at all". "Islamic militants have put me on a hit list," he told the paper's bewildered reporter while beaming widely. -- This may explain the death threats... Sri Sri Ravi Shankar of the Art of Living Center recently said: "In the Indian context, we have respect for all religions. Privilege for one religion above the other is not right. In our country the majority religion does not get facilities. Those people who go to the kumbh mela have to pay taxes whereas people are given a grant to go to Haj. These are disparities. That's why there is a sense of resentment in the majority community." This is only the beginning. As Sri Sri Ravi Shankar pointed out in the same interview: "The minority community institutions are fully exempted from taxes whereas majority community institutions are not. In Karnataka, we have 40,000 temples. The income from these temples is Rs 40 crore. Only Rs 50 lakh is spent on the temples, the rest goes to the government. Whereas grants are given to the minority communities (to an extent of Rs 8 crore) while their income is only Rs 50 lakh. These disparities should go. Everybody should be treated equally." This means, in effect, money is being taken from temples and channeled to Muslim institutions like mosques and madrasas. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
