Unhinged scumbag of the year - blogger takes credit for card sent to Joshua Sparling (Michael Crook)

Michelle Malkin ^ | Sunday December 18th, 2005 | Michelle Malkin

[ajolympian2004]

UNHINGED SCUMBAG OF THE YEAR

By

Michelle Malkin

  ·   December 18, 2005 02:07 PM

Lowlife Michael Crook, the troop-smearing, cop-bashing, white supremacist sicko, is claming responsibility for the despicable death-wish greeting card received by injured soldier Joshua Sparling at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Recall that the card was signed "Miguel." Crook also claims that he sent similar letters to VFW halls across the country, as well as to the Veteran's Hospital in Syracuse.

From Crook's blog (I don't want to send him traffic, but you can find his blog here if you have the stomach for it):

For those that have e-mailed or IM'd me regarding the card sent to Joshua Sparling, yes I did it. I do not regret a minute of it.

I even included a jab at my detractors, by signing it "Miguel". Here in the photo, the card obviously made it to its intended destination, his hands and his hospital room. Enjoy that, tax-sucking scumbag!

Oh, and for the veteran scum at various, randomly chosen VFW halls across the country-- including Fountain Hills, AZ; Dayton, OH; Syracuse, NY; Mays Landing, NJ; Houston TX, and more.... you're welcome for your "special" cards and faxes.

And, yes, I was the "heartless SOB" that sent four cards to the Veterans Hospital on Irving Avenue in Syracuse.

No, I don't regret it, and yes I'll do it again in a heartbeat.

Any questions?

Yeah. Do you like hot temperatures? Because at the rate you're going, you are guaranteed a front-row seat in the 9th circle of hell.

Stuck on Stupid has more.

The Political Teen has video of Crook's appearance on Hannity and Colmes earlier this year.

Xrlq and Heidi at Euphoric Reality have background.

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A police officer in NY e-mails:

Michael Crook is admitting to have committed crimes. It is a crime to communicate with another via written or electronic means with intent to annoy, harass, or alarm (which he certainly did). In New York, it is called "Aggravated Harassment 2nd Degree" (Section 240.30 fof the New York State Penal Law). He ought to be locked up.

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[ajolympian2004]

THANK YOU, JOSHUA SPARLING

By

Michelle Malkin

  ·   December 05, 2005 09:53 AM

Lots of readers watched Fox & Friends this morning and e-mailed about the disgusting greeting card a wounded soldier received while hospitalized at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Thanks to reader Shari for taking these cell phone camera shots of the card displayed by co-host Brian Kilmeade:

The card front, decorated with patriotic and holiday stamps, was deceptively innocuous:

But take a look at what was inside:

Yes, that's right. It says "P.S. DIE" in the lower right-hand corner.

According to Kilmeade, who visited Walter Reed on Friday, a US Army soldier named Joshua Sparling received the death wish while recovering from a gunshot wound he received in Ramadi, Iraq. It's the only Christmas card he received. Fox & Friends is urging you to counter the hate by sending your thanks and good wishes to Sparling:

Joshua Sparling
c/o Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20307-5001

Do it today.

Nothing up on the Fox & Friends blog about the case yet, but keep checking in here.

Lisa at Two Babes and a Brain was at Walter Reed last Friday and recounts the story here. She has another photo of the card here.

Stuck on Stupid writes:

I called Walter Reed and was told that the patients appreciated calling cards especially at Christmas time.

I am sending him a card with several calling cards to distribute to other patients in his ward.

Anyone else interested in doing the same for others at Walter Reed? Call and get a soldier's name to send a card. The number is (202)782-3501.

I am sending a get well card, a Christmas card and $240.00 in phone cards for Joshua to keep and/or distribute to his buddies. Anyone want to match me and send some to other soldiers at Walter Reed?

Update: Reader Lynn D. writes...

I called Walter Reed to find out the best way to send a bunch of cards to soldiers, and was directed to the Red Cross office at Walter Reed. The gentleman I spoke to said to bundle multiple cards in one big manilla envelope and send them to the Red Cross office and they will distribute them. He was a nice man who is a wounded soldier himself.

The address I was given is:

Red Cross
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
6900 Georgia Avenue NW
Heaton Pavillion
3EO5
Washington, DC 20307

The man said they can also use stamps, gloves and stocking caps at the Red Cross office there.

Another gift-giving idea: Rush Limbaugh's Adopt a Soldier program.

More recommendations from Lorie Byrd.

[ajolympian2004]

Ping

[Nothometoday]

Sorry...But should that say " credit card" ?

[ajolympian2004]

No, Is sent a request to have it corrected...

[neodad]

Credit "for" card?

[neodad]

"dieing" for the war? Must be a public school graduate.

[MizSterious]

I should know by now that nutcases like this are out there, but this is one story that shocks even me. Not only shocks, but saddens--to think of the guy who received that horrid card just makes me sick.

[dead]

What's his DU screenname?

[mylife]

Have the authorities visited this moron yet for making a death threat?

[Popman]

This has been posted like 50 times, but it still needs to be bumped again and again

[ajolympian2004]

The direct link to the blog entry is here:

http://www.michaelcrooktalks.com/node/121

[Travis McGee]

I hope this filth eventually walks into numerous fists.

[Prime Choice]

What's his DU screenname?

Hell, he's probably a moderator over at Demoncratic Underground.

[saquin]

Please do not give this jerk's blog any traffic! It's what he wants. He's a juvenile, idiotic attention-hound. Deny him attention and he'll shrivel up and die.

(Although, I wouldn't mind it if someone took it upon themselves to give him a good a**-kicking to speed up the process...)

[Alissa]

Really this guy should be completely shunned. I wouldn't give him the benefit of a post on this site.

[atomic conspiracy]

It is perhaps not surprising that Michael Crook is also a neo-nazi, according to this article in Wikipedia. There are reports that some Nazi groups have repudiated Crook, but details are lacking. That raises a mind-boggling question: Just how big a seditionist a**hole do you have to be if Nazis won't put up with you?

As for his place of residence, the little cockroach is currently reported to be infesting the village of Liverpool NY (pop. 2505), near Syracuse.

Whatever you do, don't visit his websites. That's how the vermin makes his money. With unusual candor for a media career-seeker, he admits that money is the only reason he does this.

[tob2]

Hope there is a spot reserved in a very hot place for this sicko!

[ajolympian2004]

The spotlight of truth is far more powerful that us sticking our head's in the sand and ignoring this, IMHO. Email this story to every talk show host, news contact, etc. - This is the kind of crap that permanently marginalizes someone FOREVER if we get the word out.

[who knows what evil?]

What's his DU screen name?

...or much time he served with the Dean or Kerry presidential campaigns?

[atomic conspiracy]

Rantburg now has a pool going on, er, Michael's prospects for the future. Warning: Bad language (they don't call it "Rantburg" for nothing).