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47of74

(18,470 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 07:28 PM Mar 2016

84 year old Arlington woman who wrote letter critical of Trumpenführer gets a threat from the KKK [View all]

They're coming out of the woodwork now;

An Arlington woman who wrote a letter to the Boston Globe denouncing Donald J. Trump’s initial reluctance to disavow a former Ku Klux Klan leader said she received a copy of the KKK’s symbol in the mail.

Louise Mayerson, 84, who left her native Austria as a child when her family fled the Nazis, said she received an aonmyous envelope in the mail shortly after her letter to the editor was published in the Globe on March 2.

In her letter, Mayerson described herself as “an Austrian refugee from the time of Hitler” and said the Republican presidential frontrunner’s “failure to immediately repudiate [former Klan leader David] Duke chilled my blood.”

Days later, Mayerson said, she received an envelop containing a copy of the KKK symbol that featured a square white cross set against a red backrop. The envelope was postmarked from Boston, she said.


Here's her original letter, and a follow up letter she wrote a few days later;



Fuck Trump and fuck whoever mailed that threat to that brave woman.
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Howie Carr jpak Mar 2016 #1
Emboldened bullies Person 2713 Mar 2016 #2
Fuck Trumpenfuror and fuck white supremacists. Initech Mar 2016 #3
@&%#€ shenmue Mar 2016 #4
Nah, I wouldn't want to make space into a dumping ground for asswipes. 47of74 Mar 2016 #5
+1 million geardaddy Mar 2016 #7
Or OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb sakabatou Mar 2016 #9
GN-z11 is only 13.4 billion light-years from us SFnomad Mar 2016 #14
And yet the edge of the visible universe is 45 billion light years away. sakabatou Mar 2016 #15
Wouldn't the theoretical limit Krytan11c Mar 2016 #19
That would sound logical ... SFnomad Mar 2016 #20
Trump seems to draw the Klan like manure draws flies. gordianot Mar 2016 #6
Shush, you're insulting manure. sakabatou Mar 2016 #10
And flies! nt Aquavit Mar 2016 #13
AND Maggots! nt AZ Jim Mar 2016 #26
Courageous lady - especially with that second letter. salin Mar 2016 #8
small man parts (nt) The Wizard Mar 2016 #11
I wrote a letter to the editor in my local paper and this guy harassed me online for two weeks kimbutgar Mar 2016 #12
Our local paper used to insist on publishing the addresses of people who wrote in. 47of74 Mar 2016 #22
Arlington, Texas? Bangbangdem Mar 2016 #16
Arlington, Massachusetts, where they know a thing or two about resistance to tyranny... FailureToCommunicate Mar 2016 #21
Copy that Bangbangdem Mar 2016 #25
Donald Trump Wins Ku Klux Klan Presidential Nomination LS_Editor Mar 2016 #17
Yes it could. 47of74 Mar 2016 #24
We're never really free of them, are we? NBachers Mar 2016 #18
They make up 20% of Dumps base. Rex Mar 2016 #23
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