Posted by
VBushmills on Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:35:26 PM
This is not a suggestion but a call to arms.
If you don't know Katy Abrams, she's the thirty-something Mom who confronted Arlen Specter in PA yesterday...respectfully, I might add, as was Sen Specter, then was asked on MSNBC's Chris Matthews Show. They raked her over the coals, I'm told...I didn't see it.
So last night she begins to get emails and cellphone calls, death threats, taunts, including some calls to her father. Today, she called Glenn beck and I picked up most of her story there.
Analysis:
1) Your first inclination is to say she probably had no business drawing that much attention to herself, as she was a crying wreck during the entire interview. But on second thought, I'm reminded of a soldier's first kill in combat, once given the time to think about it. It's gut wrenching...until the next fight.
I'd like to say she probably won't do that again, but I'll bet she will. She's been bloodied, and now, knows what to expect next time.
So should you if you decide to get your nose bloodied.
2) The purpose of Katy being targeted is that she struck a nerve, much like Joe the Plumber last year. The calls and threats, while always the possibility of having some teeth, were sent as a message to anyone else out there who might want to sound off...as
Katy did. They are supposed to scare would-be Katy's away.
This is a common left-wing ploy, they send thugs out to the meetings, and then, have stay-at-home Sidney's and Cecilia's, living in
Mom's basement, send the night-long emails and cell calls. (Thugs often aren't that handy with electronics.)
How to strike back?
First, Katy has some interest in wondering how her personal email address and phone number got into these guys hands. She may
have filled out a card at the Specter event, or possibly via phone with MSNBC. Either way, get a lawyer, Katy. If someone at
MSNBC ratted you out, there's six figures in finding out who.
Moroever, the GOP has the personnel, as do other simpatico groups, who can trace the origin of the emails and phone
calls. It's time the money people on the Right got into this game. I cannot understand the GOP sitting back and letting ordinary
citizens, who are quite frankly doing their work for them, being beaten up this way. (Actually I can, but that's another issue for
another time.)
If you can locate these people, even one, then you can send a chilling exclamation back to them rather easily, since, as I said,
most run around in their bathrobes all day, and are just foul-mouthed pretend tough guys.
We don't have to use violence, I repeat, although it wouldn't be too bad to lay one across the bow from time to time. There are
hundreds of ways to publicly expose them, humiliate them, with double the desired effect they wished to leave on Katy. Most will
leave the game (Mom may ground them, or the wife may cut them off, or the neighbors will put up a spite fence), and will have to be
replaced by their handlers...a thing most of our Katy's won't do.
That is the difference between being for something, and being against it.
Let's go find these people, People!
Bernard Chumm