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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:07 PM
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CSU Palin Controversy Incites Hate Messages
Edited on Wed Apr-21-10 12:09 PM by mike_c
From California state senator Leland Yee's web site:

http://dist08.casen.govoffice.com/index.asp?Type=B_PR&SEC={EFA496BC-EDC8-4E38-9CC7-68D37AC03DFF}&DE={437100F3-866F-475A-A6E7-6C4422A532C1}

CSU Palin Controversy Incites Hate Messages
Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Yee threatened with racist, homophobic phone calls and faxes

SACRAMENTO – The controversy surrounding an upcoming Sarah Palin event at California State University Stanislaus and calls for greater transparency from Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) has spurred several racist and homophobic phone calls to Yee’s office and even a fax threatening the Senator’s life.

An expletive-laden fax received yesterday in the Senator’s San Francisco and Sacramento offices says, “To: JoBama Rectum Sniffer Fish Head Leland Yee” and then in all capital letters, “WERE YOU TO EXTRACT YOUR HEAD FROM TREASONOUS MARXIST NIG**R HUSSEIN OBAMA’S RECTUM, YOUR BRAIN WOULD STILL FUNCTION AT ITS PRESENT MUCH DIMINISHED LEVEL BUT AT LEAST THE NIG**R SH*T SMELL WOULD EVENTUALLY DISSIPATE.”

The fax, which included a graphic of an American flag adorned pickup truck dragging a noose, also states “FIGHTING The Marxist Nig**r Thug Hussein Obama” and “Safeguard the Constitution, Death of all Domestic Marxists!”

Another fax received by the Senator’s office with a similar graphic says, “NEW WEBSITE COMING SOON: lyeesucksobamasnig**ras*.com,” as well as “JoBama. HE IS BRAVE ENOUGH TO KILL OUR UNBORN, JUST NOT BRAVE ENOUGH TO CALL OUR ENEMIES WHAT THEY ARE: Muslim Terrorists!” The fax also includes a rifle scope targeting a shirt with the communist hammer and sickle symbol dripping with blood.

One of the phone messages left after hours in Yee’s office voicemail says, “You know, I heard that Senator Yee wants to nix Sarah Palin from speaking at Stanislaus State…Maybe we ought to have a homosexual with a long enough di*k to where he can stick it up his as* and fu*k himself while he is on stage giving a speech. That would be acceptable to Leland Yee. So, good thing you run in San Francisco ‘cause you’d never make it anywhere else.”

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Hateful rat bastards, huh?
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:13 PM
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1. Perhaps this should be sent to Mika at MoJo...Just sayin', she thinks
these people are without sin...
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:15 PM
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3. feel free-- I don't know who Mika or MoJo are....
I'm just amazed at the bile bubbling up through those letters. I mean, jeez-- that's just UGLY.
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monmouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:20 PM
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4. Very ugly and disgusting. Thanks for posting...Mika and MoJo are
the two on Morning Joe on MSNBC in the a.m... Mika loves her some Sarah..
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ShortnFiery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:14 PM
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2. They're a small fringe. Stop paying attention to them and they'll go off radar. eom
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:49 PM
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6. I wonder how true that really is....
I mean, the ones that self-identify as "tea party members" and prance around with flags and guns at rallies, sure-- they're pretty small time fringe nutters. But the recent polls that show both deep disillusionment with U.S. leadership and government, and profound ideological and social divisions suggest to me that the teabaggers are just the tip of the angry right wing. California has SO many of them, too.

(As an aside, I originally typed "white wing" instead of "right wing"-- talk about a Freudian slip!)
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dionysus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 01:16 PM
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10. leave my teabagging buddies ALONE!!11!!1
:rofl:
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YOY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 12:28 PM
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5. They make such convincing arguments.
I mean...wow. How can one stand against their unfettered logic?
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 01:01 PM
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7. Gosh darn the luck!
It's just coincidental that all these racists just happen to be Palin supporters. I mean, 99% of them seem to be giving the rest a bad name. Just bad luck, that's all. If we pretend they don't exist, they'll go away.

Or fly a small plane into a building, as happened in Dallas. Either way, they won't be a problem anymore, although it will suck mightily if they take someone down with them. But it probably won't be you or anyone you know, so let's not make a big deal out of it. The noose and the crosshair motifs are just free speech, you know? Hyperbole. Don't really mean anything. Probably.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 01:15 PM
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9. the thing that amazes me so much is the sheer rage and hatefulness....
I mean, when Bush was in office I called him unflattering names in conversation here, among like-minded people, and we all criticized his performance relentlessly. Still, when writing to the White House, or to our state reps, I think most of us recognized that calling them names and threatening them were the surest ways to have our concerns dismissed out of hand as coming from a lunatic fringe not worth acknowledging, let alone paying any attention to. That so many right wingers apparently do not understand-- or just dismiss-- such simple precepts of human dynamics is pretty scary, IMO. The person (or people) who wrote those vile letters to Leland Yee are either en route to becoming another Tim McVeigh or they will just fester and boil their way through miserable lives as self-proclaimed victims.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 01:08 PM
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8. Remember the Tea Party isn't about race.
:shrug: :eyes:
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 01:19 PM
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11. yeah, that's pretty obvious, huh?
Although in fairness, there isn't any indication that these letters were sent by actual tea party members, despite it being clear that their sympathies lie pretty congruently. And Palin has elbowed her way into the spotlight as the darling of teabaggers everywhere, so at the very least, these letter writers undoubtedly share some of their anger with tea partiers.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 08:43 PM
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12. kicking for the evening crowd....
:kick:
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agentS Donating Member (922 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 09:18 PM
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13. I see the Freepers weren't happy about the Palin speech cancellation
Why would she even to Cali? I thought, from her own mouth, they weren't REAL Americans?
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-21-10 09:21 PM
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14. Dr. Yee is a charming, courtly gentleman. I can't imagine anyone
saying these things to his face.

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