Posted on 03/17/2011 2:14:59 PM PDT by Slyscribe
Ann Althouse, a blogger and University of Wisconsin law professor, has provided extensive firsthand accounts and photos — along with her husband Meade — of the Wisconsin protests and related matters.
Althouse has criticized the actions of the Democratic lawmakers who left the state as well as the behavior of some of the protesters.
Amid the numerous death threats against GOP state lawmakers, the ripping up of Democratic recall petitions and university professors musing about justifications for “political violence,” it was only a matter of time before the union/left rabble would turn their ire toward Althouse.
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Glad this is seeing the light of day! BUMP!
Link to letter (Warning-—the letter is hard to read and is filled with vulgar language)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50869881/Op-countertroll-Vs-Althouse-and-Meade
Whomever wrote that screed was obviously educated in the Madison school system - it’s almost unintelligible!
Look out for baseballs, LOL!
What a moron.
Wow! Nice folks, those teachers. s/off
It is incoherent but quite intelligible. It’s a threat.
Will this be on any MSM?
You are right about the screed being unintellible. Besides, I thought it was MY university, MY town, and MY coffee shop — just because.
If you have been reading her blog faithfully through the protests at the Wisconsin Capitol in the past three or four weeks you may have noticed a video segment, which, I think was shot by her husband. It shows a woman in black, roller skating on the walk leading to one entrance to the Capitol building, with blond hair (wig or natural not clear), which resembles Althouse at least generally. You see bizarre stuff like that (i.e., this imitation) all the time in Madison (by that I mean performance art, drumming for this or that protest cause, yada-yada-yada, etc.), but when it starts to turn into intimidation and efforts to curtail the free speech (and reporting) of someone you disagree with - then it starts to be a different animal. At some points in her commentary in the past few weeks (and probably farther back than that) Althouse exhorts us to stop being cowed, intimidated and silenced by the politically correct and apparently dominant liberal and progressive culture in places like Madison. How true that is!
I attended the University of Wisconsin Law School and regularly found myself weighing the utility of expressing my thoughts on a given topic, when I knew that a barrage of abusive and often personal attack was loaded and ready for me. That was the environment there in the early 1990’s - I do not know if it has changed.
I did not take courses taught by Professor Althouse, and don’t recall meeting her during my years in school there. Really regret that now. Until I started reading her commentary in the past 3 years, I would have been willing to bet a chunk of money that there were exactly 0.00 conservative-minded faculty at the law school (after Gordon Baldwin passed away.) As much of a surprise as it was - it has been extremely satisfying to see her skewer the protest movement with a handful of provocative questions and a surveillance camera view of exactly what the hell is going on.
This intimidation attempt has to be called out.
I see dead people...
The logical extension of the Obama administration and the 2010 election for all to see.
This is what is lying beneath the surface at a large number of university campus culture — Stalinist tactics. The Marxists will exercise their areas of majority until they are viewed with disgust by the population in general — only then will they scurry back underground.
Her Wisconsin career is over. Time for private practice.
Not. Gonna. Happen.
At some point the left will jump over that line and fire the first shot at "Fort Sumter". And like their EmoRat brethen of yore, the end result will be the same but I doubt mercy will be shown this time.
Isn’t “communicating a threat” usually a crime?
Seriously, when do we start peacefully picketing in front of the ABCCBSNBCFOX local stations demanding coverage of the violence and threats made by the union goons in this state! I have the names and contact info of a reporter for each local media station and newspaper, I’m going to, nicely, help them with fact finding by inundating them with video clips, audio clips, etc. as they become available if we have the same problems in Iowa. I’m tired of losing because we get shouted down or just worn down by the professional rent-a-goon class.
Unsigned and anonymous means the work of a coward. The screed contains numerous threats of violence, intimidation, slander, and extortion. Just the message itself is a stack of felony charges on the author. Go after this bum like the criminal he/she is and prosecute! Some recon of their own might reveal those posting “wanted posters”, handbills, emails, letters to the editors, etc. The author(s) of this load will undoubtedly brag about their diatribe and its wide reading on the internet. Use that ego to bait the trap. A little advice: CCW.
I believe Ann Althouse has grounds for charging some persons with harassment, and possibly discrimination. Bullies are cowards who only stop when they’ve been bloodied. She and her husband should also consider carrying concealed firearms.
The way to retard the indoctrinations at universities is to defund the Federal Department of Education.
This will force state-run and private schools both to concentrate on providing a real education.
Someone needs to be arrested and charged with felony Extortion, clear and plain.
Unions are a very dangerous and mindless demographic with which to deal with. While probably not reflecting a majority of individuals within such a demographic ~ those willing to do violence ~ it only takes a very small minority to intimidate and controlthose who are perceived as a threat.
That includes those who would speak out against “Madison REules” being revoked.
Frankly, its a form of terrorism.
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