"Hope your children are beheaded."

[rodeodance]

I got this as an email and clicked the WPost story below. This is one paragraph from the WP story.

.....After the Sacramento City Council voted 8 to 1 for a "rapid and comprehensive" withdrawal on Nov. 1, members received hundreds of threatening e-mails saying things such as "You should be hanged" and "Hope your children are beheaded." The e-mails mostly came from out of state.....



-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 68 Cities for Peace in the News!
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 17:58:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Cities for Progress <[e-mail]>
Reply-To: [e-mail]
To: xxxxx


CITIES FOR PROGRESS NEWSFLASH

Dear Cities for Progress Friends,

Thanks to all your efforts to Bring the Troops Home, the count now stands at 68 Cities and Towns who have passed resolutions to Bring the Troops Home and yesterday's Washington Post featured a wonderful article on your efforts! The wires picked it up and the story has spread around the world. Please click on the link below to read the Washington Post story or Google Cities for Peace to see other stories. Please click on www.citiesforprogress.org to see a full list and to download your own Bring the Troops Home Resolution Toolkit so that you can proudly add your community to our list of Cities for Peace! While there, please see our other resolution campaigns. Congratulations on all that you have done and all that you continue to do.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/19/AR2005
111901183.html

In Solidarity,

Karen Dolan, Director of Cities for Progress, www.citiesforprogress.org
at The Institute for Policy Studies, www.ips-dc.org

[AuntPatsy]

1. Ahhh, is this news? Such threats are so yesterday..

Will they ever learn?

[rodeodance]

2. I still am surprized at the utter horrible emails send to people!!

[rodeodance]

3. I also posted it for the information about Cites for Pease campaign.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

7. The way you spelt that reminds me of the phrase....

Imagine Whirrled Peas..... sorry. :)

[bonito]

4. The misdirected and sick support bush

What else is new.

[noahmijo]

6. At this point if you support bush you're a sick sadistic motherfucker

misdirection was voting for him in 2000. At this point if you still support him you're my enemy PERIOD.

[Crunchy Frog]

5. Could those be considered terrorist threats?

Should Homeland Security be notified?

[raysr]

8. There's no way back from

this division in the country. This is a very bad signal that even if we win back the house and senate and beyond this will get very bad.

[Warpy]

9. "the emails mostly came from out of state."

That is the operative phrase. Make no mistake, the right fringe is very well organized. However, their weaknesses are that they're rigidly hierarchical and that they're now a minority in this country, and growing smaller every time another soldier is ripped to shreds in one of their wars or their moron of a president opens his over privileged, undereducated mouth. They know this and are getting desperate. Expect them to sink to new verbal depths and even to begin acting out from time to time. They are losing, and they can't stand it, and they will continue to make it all worse.

While we're waiting for them all to get frogmarched back to the lunatic fringe where they belong, we'll have to hope that newspapers, city councils, state governments, and all others who have spoken truth to power will notice what is happening and how small the fringe really is.

[YOY]

11. When they come to town they stick out like freakishly deformed thumbs

and they always stop for a head count the moment they get off of the escalators in the Metro.

[wiley]

10. Someone needs to distribute this in print

to all those who don't use the Internet. People don't know that these things are being said. We need to establish a national town by town truth squad to let people know what is going on.