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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWisconsin: Walkers goon's and FB threats: "You signed a petition, so we know where you live"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/30/1060037/-Walkers-Goons-and-Facebook-Threats:-You-Signed-a-Petition,-So-We-Know-Where-You-Live!?via=siderecentWe are shown a burning house, and we are told that they know where we live, and that there will be retaliation at both the home front and the job site.
While we can roll our eyes at the incendiary fantasies of adolescent asshats, the GAB has indeed put us into a new territory. It would be very difficult to go through more than a hundred thousand pages to find your co-worker or neighbor's signature. It is very easy once a database is created. Witness a nasty convergence of conditions: 1) a highly polarized political climate in which the rightwing supporters of Walker have been systematically encouraged to act out aggressions and hostility, 2) the capacity through online communities for crowd sourcing tedious and overwhelming tasks, and 3) endless search-ability of various data-bases that will never disappear!
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I was walking away from the protest, this banner rolled up, minding my own business when a fat man in a Packers sweatshirt came up to me, put his cell phone camera right up in my face, and took my picture (or video, couldn't tell). I said, "Why are you taking my picture?" and he said "Because I feel like it!" I laughed and said, "oohhh, are you gonna put it on the internets? That would be cool! We could friend each other, and then we could both be friends!" at which point he turned to me and said, "fuck you, asshole prick... I'm going to use your picture to find out where you live and fuck you over!"
"You know who you are. WE know who you are. This is gonna get FUN!!" threatens the new Facebook page. Operation Burn Notice, in onanistic self-reflection, is the first to "like" their new page. Gee, what a surprise: like begets like. This new skit is even nastier and meaner than their previous creative projects.
eShirl
(18,494 posts)Was going to say "That's very un-American," but I'm not sure that's true anymore.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)You know, wearing those sheets and carrying those torches, you make such nice neat targets in the dark.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)I am amazed at how the ruling classes never tried to control guns. Flaw in their grandiose plans.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)"We know who you are, and where you live." Really? I'm sure the signers of the petition thank you for the warning, and will be waiting for you with their shotguns in hand.
socialist_n_TN
(11,481 posts)Malcolm X. I have guns for self defense and I know how to use them.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)I know far more liberals and Dems with guns than right-wingers. And, those that aren't hunters carry them for the same reasons Malcolm X did.
tanyev
(42,568 posts)toddwv
(2,830 posts)But they ain't Mooslim so's hit's all good.
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)I'll make espresso.