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October 24, 2004
Leftist Indecency watch -- Escalation
Hindrocket of Powerline posts the latest and scariest report of voter intimidation in Colorado. Although, after reading the reports, that description is too mundane. These are terrorist threats (in the legal sense of California's Penal Code § 422*). Here's just a sample from a rather lengthy article:
[Eagle County Bush-Cheney co-chair] Henri Stone got a powerful message that her views could be hazardous to her health when the couple returned home from a short trip to find the French doors to their bedroom shattered. Nothing was taken, indicating to the Stones that more menacing motives than larceny were at work.“I wonder if this was a statement that we can come into your house and get you anytime,” she says. “We were only gone 24 hours, so somebody had to be watching the house.” Stone reported the break-in to the sheriff’s department, and says the incident won’t deter her from speaking out. ...
The reality that you can intimidate some of the people some of the time was driven home to Marty Lich, a Gypsum resident known for her outspoken views on illegal immigration. Her strong voice was quieted last spring by threats against her daughter at school, and by an email message sent from California by LaRaza, an activist Hispanic group.
“LaRaza’s email contained personal information about me and said they were going to come to my door and pay me a visit,” Lich recalls.
Shaken, she called the FBI.
For a year prior, Hispanic students at a local high school had been heckling Lich’s freshman daughter about her mom’s views.
“They told her they didn’t like what I was writing, and that they know where we live and will come and beat her up,” Lich says. “They said they could do whatever they wanted in this country and could cross the border whenever they felt like it.”
When her daughter begged her not to write any more letters, Lich gave in. The multiple threats, she admits, “silenced me very effectively because of my concern for my family.”
Me thinks Al Gore was doing a bit of projecting when he accused the non-Leftist elements of the internet of being "digital brownshirts."
*Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement, made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened, a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family's safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment in the state prison.
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