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Hate Mail

by BooMan
Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 01:49:11 PM EST

This one is pretty good.

Hey anti-Semite,
How the fuck do I get my membership cancelled from your disgusting, bigoted, rightwing site. Why the fuck don't you respond to members' inquiries. Too busy calling for attacks on Jewish civilians? If I start posting tons and tons of extremely nasty comments will that work?
Please advise. It degrades any civillized person to be associated with such right-wing tripe, and I want out.
Username is [deleted]. Get me off your fucking site you fucking bigot. ASAP.

For the record, when you create a user account here (or anywhere else) and make comments or write diaries, you do so without any right to have your scribblings deleted at a later time. A free user account is not a subscription or an official membership that brings reciprocal obligations on my part. The reasons I will delete something are:

1. It opens me up to legal jeopardy.
2. It grossly violates the Community Standards.
3. A user requests I delete something they've incautiously disclosed that may impact their privacy or job prospects.

The Scoop software doesn't even have a mechanism for deleting user accounts. I can cut off your ability to comment, but I can't delete your account from the database or erase their record from google caches.

So, write at your own risk. I know you are proud to associate with this right-wing, anti-Semitic site, and fully endorse attacking civilians. If you didn't, why would you be here?

Hate Mail | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Hate Mail (4.00 / 3)

Wait a minute.....you mean people can read the shit we write here??? Holy crap!!

Wow BooMan, guess next time you'd better make sure you don't leave someone off your Christmas card list.

I received a somewhat similar, though slightly less vulgar, e-mail a few weeks back in the in-box for the Yahoo account that I associate with my user name here. Only it contained a veiled reference for me to "watch out" because they were one of those "crazy right wing nuts" who "hates loony liberals" like me. I was also informed that "there were a lot people" like them out there who thought people like me were all dangerous nuts. I found that observation quite ironic, given what they had just taken the time to write and send to me.

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:19:52 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

Mike,

Expect the worst. The hasbara liars sent out hate mail in my name.

by Cee on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 07:20:57 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (4.00 / 4)

that user obviously isn't a dKos reader, or he'd know that the correct format for that request is:

"Delete my fucking account BooMan!"

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by esquimaux (esquimaux1 at gmail dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 02:53:27 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

BooMan, I don't understand. Did the writer mean "left wing" blog instead of "right wing"? He/she does sound a bit stressed and his/her intemperate language suggests some kind of Republican troll. Not to worry, B-Man, we are with you all the way.

I don't think his/her bullying tactics will faze you in the slightest. Keep up your fine work.

Suppose you scrub your ethical skin until it shines, but inside there is no music, then what? Kabir

by Dongi 2 on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 01:59:10 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

I don't think it is prudent to try to understand the ramblings of an idiot. I just thought it was entertaining.

by BooMan on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:06:11 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (4.00 / 2)

A diarist on yesterday's rec list at dKos mentioned that he had received similar hate mail. It does make you wonder if these are just random malicious bloggers or if this is one more piece of an orchestrated campaign against leftist bloggers by Israel's Foreign Ministry during its Gaza offensive.

Richard Silverstein notes that the Foreign Ministry has revamped its network targeting liberal blogs.

The hasbara brigade strikes again! You always hear about Israeli attempts at media manipulation. Everyone knows it's going on but usually the process happens through cyber insurgents like those involved with Giyus (and its media monitoring software, Megaphone). Now, we know that the Israeli foreign ministry itself is orchestrating propaganda efforts designed to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information.
A reader of my blog has received the following email which documents both the efforts and the agency that originated them. The solicitation to become a pro-Israel "media volunteer" also includes a list of media links which the ministry would like addressed by pro-Israel comments:
...
My friend did so and received this official communique from the ministry with talking points about Operation Cast Lead which s/he was to use in her/his propaganda efforts. Among the links was was a Peter Beaumont Cif piece. The following were identified as "target sites": the Times, the Guardian, Sky News, BBC, Yahoo!News, Huffington Post, and the Dutch Telegraaf. Also targeted were other media sites in Dutch, Spanish, German and French considered critical of the invasion.
...

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by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:32:12 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (4.00 / 2)

It's a long-time member of the site, albeit an irregular contributor.

by BooMan on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:38:25 PM EST
[ Parent ]

At least US Air Force members (none / 1)

are instructed to identify themselves as such: http://www.webinknow.com/2008/12/the-us-air-force-armed-with-social-media.html

(check the flowchart graphic)

by martini on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 02:06:23 AM EST
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Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

Hey if people are using this logic now, all the better:

"Something I disagree with" = "Right Wing"

I'd say that comment is a solid victory in the attempt to redefine Right and Left, Liberal and Conservative...

Declaring the bottom is the only way back up..

by anarchronarchist (mincers (-at-) hotmail (-dot-) com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:45:17 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

i'm here for the beer

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by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:03:04 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

WTF.....There's BEER???

Is that why everyone is carrying those little plastic cups?

"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity"

by MikeInOhio on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:17:04 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

yes, though the funnel belongs to me.

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:58:04 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

There has been a dearth of beer here lately. It's why I haven't been around much.

by maryb2004 on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:18:18 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

what's the old adage?

"if you brew it, they will come"

Latino Político | "We are condemned to kill time, thus we die bit by bit." - Octavio Paz

by Man Eegee (man.eegee at gmail dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:59:05 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit - Edward Abbey

by AndiF (ferguson1461 at gmail dot com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:45:36 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

Yeah, me too. It is after all the cause of and solution to all of life's problems.

mbr + dv + woyg

by keirdubois (keir@mybandrocks.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:56:27 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

I come for the pootie pics. Oh wait,...

Oh, there you are, Perry. -Phineas -SLB-

by boran2 (blogistan@yahoo.com) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 09:52:33 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

People like this are not left wing or liberal Democrats. Possibly they are assigned GIYUS operatives intended to counteract criticism of right wing Israeli hegemony over the Palestinians.

The only positive thing one can say is that Booman is getting too much attention and a higher readership and is becoming a threat to the right wing Israeli cause: oblteration of the Palestinian people, their rights to live in a free and self-determined country of their own.

Even Daily Kos is beginning to see its short-sightedness about what should be a central and principled issue in Democratic foreign policy. Today Hillary Clinton talked about two-states and the suffering of the Palestinian people in her confirmation hearing.

by shergald on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:12:23 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

People like this are not left wing or liberal Democrats. Possibly they are assigned GIYUS operatives intended to counteract criticism of right wing Israeli hegemony over the Palestinians.

by shergald on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:12:40 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

How often do you have this glitch with double posts, shergald?

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by RustyPipes (rustdotypipesatyahoodotcom) on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 03:18:22 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

it's hit me a once or twice...usually when my subnet is clogged.

Just be glad it's not a 250-line screed rambling on about nothing in particular with great outrage...

"The invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people"---George Carlin

by justadood on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 04:20:34 PM EST
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Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

Personally, I've found the discussions here to be a real eye-opener and applaud BooMan for his openness.

Recommended by Hideo Kojima

by robertdsc on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 07:01:33 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (4.00 / 2)

I hope this article is true.

Booman and others are making those in charge realize that we're not putting up with murder.

U.S. arms shipment to Israel canceled due to Gaza conflict

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1055098.html

by Cee on Tue Jan 13th, 2009 at 07:35:11 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Hate Mail (none / 1)

I just wanted to say it wasn't me! :)

Night and day you can find me Flogging the Simian

by soj on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 11:34:10 AM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

That's actually really troubling that Scoop doesn't have that mechanism. Is that in the TOS when you sign up?

by MNPundit on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 02:13:36 PM EST

Re: Hate Mail (none / 0)

All criticism of Israel will be met with charges of antisemitism. It's a way of shutting down debate.

Colin Laney

by ColinLaney (colinlaney00-at-gmail.com) on Wed Jan 14th, 2009 at 08:35:25 PM EST

Hate Mail | 26 comments (26 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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