God Sees the Freepers (in honor of Chad Conrad Castagana)

[WilliamPitt]

Jumping into the Way-Back Machine for this one. This little piece of domestic-terrorism crap is nothing new for FreeRepublic...

http://www.apj.us/20010609GodFreepers.html

God Sees The Freepers
by William Rivers Pitt
Online Journal

June 9, 2001

"The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me."

- Denis Diderot

(snip)

As we all know, Jenna Bush was recently busted for attempting to purchase booze at a restaurant named Chuy's in Austin, Texas. The manager of the establishment, named Mia Lawrence, called 911 when she saw what was happening. The Freepers took this personally, believing the Jenna fiasco to be part of some liberal conspiracy to humiliate Bush and the daughters. They called for a 'Freeping' of Chuy's restaurant.

Salon.com recently wrote a story about the Freeper reaction to the Chuy's situation, which in turn quoted Pamela Parker's recent article in American Politics Journal. I quote it in part below:

"The attacks against Mia Lawrence, the bar manager, are being orchestrated on the Internet. Her address, date of birth, drivers license and registration information, physical description, and even birth information about her infant child have been posted on Freerepublic.com, along with calls for punitive actions. Freerepublic.com Web site's sysop pulled some of the information as it was called to his attention -- to his credit -- but the info has circulated and been posted to other Internet forums to spread the 'Get Lawrence' frenzy."

I felt a chill in my spine when I first read these words. The manager, Mia Lawrence, was in all likelihood seeking to save her restaurant from breaking Texas' punitive underage drinking laws, signed by one Governor George W. Bush, which would have cost Chuy's its liquor license.

She earned for her trouble a legion of stalkers who speak openly of loving guns. Her personal information, along with maps providing driving directions to her home, were posted on FreeRepublic. I am confident in my prediction that she has not slept since dialing 911.

I did some research regarding this topic on FreeRepublic. Entering the word "Chuy" into the search engine provided, I found the following Freeper commentary:

"The manager, (aka 'Mia the Liberal DemonRat'), tried to cause as much trouble for the Bush twins and their dad as possible and now might get it returned back on her own head in spades!!! This is sweet!" - Truth_Eagle

"Hell! Surround Chuy's with tanks and set the place on fire while fully occupied." - olustee

"Let's turn that TEXMEX joint into a BARBECUE!" - makoman

I read comments, since removed by the moderators of FreeRepublic, which suggested that someone should go into Chuy's and smear acid on the tables.

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[Coventina]

1. "Set it on fire while occupied." Wow.

Does it not occur to them that they would probably be killing a good deal of their own kind?

These people are without brains or hearts.

[Hav]

2. .

Wow, they are so tough behind their monitors!

[bigtree]

3. I think the FBI would like to see these

[KharmaTrain]

4. Hmmm...Sure Seems Quiet On Those Other Wingnut Sites...

Be assured if someone on DU were caught with more than 3 parking tickets, it'd be over the wingnut sites, but I just checked to several of the "undergrounds" and other covens of wingnuttery and no mention of this story yet.

[Turbineguy]

6. 3 parking tickets!

Gadzooks! I'm wide open for a wing nut attack!

On edit: updated profile.

[Cleita]

5. We seem to have a national illness that has infected these

very unAmerican people. The fact that there is so many of them is truly frightening.