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Sorry: A progressive fascist’s threat isn’t going to silence me
nypost.com ^ | August 14, 2020 | Karol Markowicz

Posted on 08/15/2020 7:27:56 PM PDT by lowbridge

This month, someone left an anonymous note on my home, and on several lampposts around my block, telling me to delete a tweet the stalker didn’t like.

The printed black-and-white note added the leftist refrain “hate has no place here” and accused me of celebrating the deaths in the explosion in Beirut.

Of course I had done no such thing. I had mocked the idea that it was a fireworks factory that had exploded, a lie disproved as more details emerged.

The stalker either misunderstood it or willfully misread my tweet. My bet is the latter. She had been waiting for me to say something even mildly offensive so she could pounce. Coming to my physical space was a threat, as opposed to, say, responding on Twitter, and that’s exactly how I took it.Too bad for her, I am not new to harassment. I’ve gotten anti-Semitic hate mail at my house. I’ve had neo-Nazis text me. I’ve had to turn off notifications on Twitter because of all the random hate. If she imagined that I would cower to a progressive fascist like her, she imagined wrong.

Still, the action is unnerving, because it’s the logical next step of the spreading cancel culture and the mad progressive rush to shut down offending speech. I’ve written in these pages about how people come for your job when they don’t like something you’ve said. Last August, I wrote about how conservative public figures are largely outside of this leftist circular firing squad.

Because they can’t come for our jobs, they do things like leave anonymous notes on our homes to threaten us into silence.

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In the Soviet Union, you had to espouse the correct opinion — or else.

The bully’s goal is conformity: You will think like us, or you will be targeted and harassed.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Israel; News/Current Events; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: beirut; cancelculture; israel; karolmarkowicz; lebanon; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; waronterror
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1 posted on 08/15/2020 7:27:56 PM PDT by lowbridge
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To: lowbridge

Call the ADL. I’m sure they’ll tell you that you are a White Supremacist.


2 posted on 08/15/2020 7:30:46 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: lowbridge
"The bully’s goal is conformity: You will think like us, or you will be targeted and harassed."

Worth repeating again and again. "Diversity," "inclusion?" Nonsense! It's all about silencing and destroying the opposition.

3 posted on 08/15/2020 7:36:26 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Fungi

Tell them to F-off! We need more of this response and less of compliance. Tell the football players the same thing.


4 posted on 08/15/2020 7:41:05 PM PDT by dandiegirl (BOBBY m)
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To: dandiegirl

We need to push back harder than they are pushing.

Like all bullies, they won’t stop bullying unless they get the bloodied nose.

Anything less and they simply see it as a sign of weakness and it’s blood in the water to them.


5 posted on 08/15/2020 8:04:19 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: metmom

We must arm up and lose our fear of cutting human flesh.

It’s about survival, now.


6 posted on 08/15/2020 9:04:24 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: metmom
Like all bullies, they won’t stop bullying unless they get the bloodied nose.

Rarely does a bloody nose get the job done.

What does work is to end the fight by destroying their mind, crushing their spirit, inflicting injuries that ensure perpetual physical pain, and leaving them alive, forever frightened of the next terrifying blow, as a reminder to all the other would-be bullies.

Never start a fight. But if forced to fight ensure you have the knowledge, tools, and most importantly, will, to beat your opponent to the point they think they are going to die, and then to the point where they are afraid they will live. At that point, the fight is over, and the threat is neutralized.

7 posted on 08/15/2020 9:07:47 PM PDT by Natty Bumppo@frontier.net (We are the dangerous ones, who stand between all we love and a more dangerous world.)
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To: elcid1970

no one here yas any fear cutting human flesh

the problem is too much of society and its leaders legally back the crybullies, as pols, as officers, as court judges, district attorneys, etc

and are waiting for the opportunity to throw you in jail for defending yourself


8 posted on 08/15/2020 9:24:03 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: lowbridge

This is off topic but I’m a little worried after a postal worker (called me on the phone) went hysterical Karen on me and said that if she saw me at the post office again that shed call the police and say that I was harassing her. I had to fill out a Customer Satisfaction Survey for my case and of course I left out no details and the only thing I strongly agreed with was that she quickly responded to my problem.... This psycho chick knows where I live...


9 posted on 08/15/2020 9:25:53 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; azishot; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; ..

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10 posted on 08/15/2020 9:35:18 PM PDT by bitt (Our rights donÂ’t end where your feelings begin.)
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To: know.your.why

Not really off topic.

It may take you a while, but you might call around and try to contact a U.S. Postal Inspector who will listen (some, won’t).

Because you may be at a threshold where a USPS employee is either, or both: harrassing you, intimidating you.

U.S. Postal Inspectors will usually only be interested in the commission of a crime.

But if you sense that you may be confronted by a USPS employee who is manipulating the commercial interchange between the employee (in an official capacity across a counter top) and you, it may be better for you to find a U.S. Postal Inspector who has some wisdom.

And, if you can, use some other USPS facility.


11 posted on 08/15/2020 9:43:25 PM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: lowbridge
I never ceased to be amused buy the Geriatric keyboard warriors comments in response to the post's this.

The fact is the guy provoking a fight is no doubt several decades younger and would like nothing better than to kick some geezers ass or do away with him or her entirely.

There is a time and a place to keep one’s head down in order to survive, something I learned in my senior trip to SE Asia.

This is one of those times..

Vote, support your candidate's financially spread the word with folks you trust..

As I learned through experience, the winner is the one who thinks and knows when to duck...

12 posted on 08/15/2020 9:45:58 PM PDT by montanajoe
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To: know.your.why

You’ve got my interest. Could you give us a little more information? Like what set her off?


13 posted on 08/15/2020 9:56:05 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: metmom

14 posted on 08/15/2020 10:04:22 PM PDT by knarf
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To: linMcHlp

WELCOME TO FREE REPUBLIC


15 posted on 08/15/2020 10:14:44 PM PDT by easternsky
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To: linMcHlp

USPS employees are determined to steal this election. They are being told by their union leadership that they can change the course of history.

I’m voting absentee ballot because I have to, but I will mail it anywhere but near my home address.

The mail carriers’ union may prove to be more dangerous to America than BLM/Antifa.


16 posted on 08/15/2020 10:17:26 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("Pres. Trump doesn't wear glasses. That's because he's got 2020.")
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To: lowbridge

Hate is natures way of weeding out weakness in a society. Weaklings and cowards always leave notes and then scurry away with their tail between their legs because they are to gutless to do otherwise.


17 posted on 08/15/2020 11:33:04 PM PDT by Herakles (Diversity is applied Marxism!)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
You’ve got my interest. Could you give us a little more information? Like what set her off?

For your reading pleasure, my (partially redacted) USPS Customer Satisfaction Survey additional information...

To Whom it Concerns,
I cannot overstate how much of a disappointing and aggravating experience it has been to deal with the USPS in correcting the simplest of errors in a recipient address. All you had to do was deliver a package to an apartment where you were already at the apartment complex. You were maybe 50 feet from my door. You decided to send it back even after I had gone through so much trouble even the day immediately after delivery to give you the correct apt. number. There is nothing "United" about the USPS. **Note: It was particularly disturbing to listen to the USPS employee get completely hysterical with me over the phone (she called me on Tuesday 8/11/2020) and threaten to call the police if I came to the post office again, saying that I was harassing her after I told her how ridiculous this situation was. I will not go into too much detail except to say that her name is D----e and her supervisors name is A- B----o. (or something). A- was very professional. D----e needs help. This is at the D----, Alabama post office on W--- St. In summary: A package was sent to me with my apartment number missing from the address. I have lived here 3 years and get regular mail. The package was labeled as "Insufficient Address" and was immediately returned to sender (please follow the tracking record). I was as proactive as I could be to help get the USPS my information immediately the following day as D----e was assigned to help me and seemed eager to do so. I gave her my apartment number and she assured me that my package would be delivered that day (Friday 8/7/2020 or Saturday). I have done everything that I could do online with the USPS to get the package. The customer service number 1-800-275-8777 was completely useless and frustrating. **I don't want to cause trouble. I hope that my case is used as an employee training tool to help fix problems within the USPS. Thank you for your consideration -D-----l M----y.
18 posted on 08/15/2020 11:46:07 PM PDT by know.your.why (If you dont watch the MSM you are uninformed. If you do watch the MSM you are misinformed.)
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To: elcid1970

Indeed.


19 posted on 08/15/2020 11:59:31 PM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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To: Natty Bumppo@frontier.net

You are quite correct.


20 posted on 08/16/2020 12:00:49 AM PDT by metmom ( ...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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