meaning someone with a substantial audience, they you have to decide for yourself if you are going to allow yourself to be muzzeled by scare tactics.

In one sense, they left might get to you if you work in a capacity in which you might have to work alongside a lot of liberal people. They could make your live difficult.

As for threats of violence, That is mostly a bunch of crap. Lefties are notoriously panty waist, internet tough guys.

You have to make your own decision.

serious concerns that have been on my mind as well. First, I remember asking Erick Erickson last year at the RS Gathering, how he handled some of the hate mail he received. I think we had the gathering right after he posted one of the first venom spewed emails he had received, and in my naivety, I was shocked and voiced that to him. It was clear that this was a world I was unfamiliar with, and there have been times on RS when members have reminded Erick to be careful…

Since the Leftist Dems took over and if we do not stop them, even your registered party affiliation is something to think about.
More importantly, though, is my concern about what I do and how it can affect my children. One of whom just underwent a whole bunch of special clearances, and I am sure you know what I am talking about, I was scared (as only a mother might be) that somehow it would be revealed that his mother wrote on RedState. Only my friends know I write, and I am but a little cog in this wheel, so maybe it would not matter, but it certainly crossed my mind. I do not want to seem paranoid, but I have not seen one thing since this administration has taken power that makes me believe otherwise.

Like you, the SOTU and the address to Republicans on Friday, only reinforces to me that this is a man filled with hate towards the traditional American, and his cohorts and henchmen have an agenda. Your have written something that needed saying. I do want to add, I stand by my beliefs and love for my country. Being here at RS only strengthens me and I will not stop.

If it gets even uglier for the Dems, and if a sizable faction within the Dems openly and strongly tries to repudiate the far left, then what you talk about may come true. Look for it in late 2010, or early 2011 if the elections get as ugly for the left as some of what I consider the optimistic scenarios suggest…

Brave men (and women) don’t kill helpless children and others that they deem inferior. But throughout history ruthless evil power seekers have harnessed these cowards for their own benefit. My over-educated lefty friends are personally harmless, But they enable monsters like the Emmanuel Brothers and their hired thugs.

I’m old enough to not care if they try to muzzle me, but you younger people have to be brave and vigilant. That is a Randian-selfish request. I expect you to save the world for my grandchildren. All I can do is speak my mind

are now SOP on any job applicant. The federal government is vetting practically all job applicants for party affiliation and for jobs of any significance, even merit system jobs, applicants are being vetted with Democrat interest groups.

My wife wants to go to work for the federal government so she can get her 40 quarters of Social Security in (The State of Alaska doesn’t participate in SS.). She was informally offered a GS-12 job but told the offer had to be approved by DC. A couple weeks later the hiring manager sheepishly called her and mumbled a lot. Consequenlty, my wife has changed her voter registration to NP, but I suspect that her last name alone is enough to bar her from federal employment. There aren’t any private sector jobs here at her level and we don’t want to move – yet.

I was told point blank by some of my union “friends” back when I worked for the Republican-controlled legislature that they would see to it that I would never work again. I bravely responded that I wasn’t planning to work for anyone who would listen to them, but they pretty well made good on that threat for awhile. I lived off scraps thrown to me by the Legislature but even those scraps got front page stories. This is the game Democrats play. Unfortunately for conservatives and Republicans, Republican officeholders are afraid of these people and most of them are generally afraid of controversy and of any person who has been involved in controversy. I’ve done some seriously heavy lifting for Republicans but if I show up at some Republican grip ‘n grin, somebody will inevitably greet me with, “here comes trouble.”

I remember a few years ago, someone sent me an email saying they are going to sue me for something I posted on my blog. I asked my mom about it and she said they had no standing in any case and to forget about it. So I did and they never sent me an email again.

Just another one of the tactics the cowards use.

I take a different view Vassar. More in line with Mr. Hancock’s famous statement that he wanted King Georige to be able to see his name.

I realize that IF things hit the fan, I’ll be an easy target. But if I’m not proud enough of what I have to say using my own name, I’m not going to say it.

I worry a little about the effect it may have on my family, but I still won’t hide from the statists.

in CA showed the extent to which some will go to vilify those who don’t agree with their agenda. I was concerned for a friend whose name was on the donor list. She was not hassled and her husband was hired in the last year at a major entertainment industry company. However, her brother (who was also on the donor list) faced some recriminations in his business.

I have family who rely on governement contracts for their income. Unfortuantely, it does make me think twice about what lists I want my name to appear on. Part of counting the costs. It makes me sad to think our country has became a place like that.

The HillBuzz guys are working on pursuing legal action against their libelers; I’m hoping that they can get some traction to at the very least put the fear into the leftist types that have been attacking folks thinking that they could do so with impunity. As for myself, I stick to an online alias, one that I’ve used for 20+ years now; I figure it doesn’t keep me completely safe but it does make it a bit harder for the random wacko to try to make trouble in my life.

…the stalkers don’t necessarily have to resort to violence to ruin one’s life. They can “put you in the system”, triggering tax audits, inclusion on watch lists, stop-and-frisks by police, unannounced visits from Child Protective Services…all perfectly legal and defensible in when local governance is controlled by their party (see, “State of Ohio” and “Joe Wurzelbacher”).

If they’re more malicious, they can place fraudulent liens against one’s property (Posse Comitatus and Freemen specialized in this) or act as vexatious litigants (serial lawsuits filed against Sarah Palin). The liens, at least, would appear on one’s credit report and ruin any chances of getting a loan.

There are ways and ways of mounting reprisals. My advice, at least through the end of the Alinskyite Regime, to those at risk is to where at all possible live somewhere where the District Attorney and County Assessor are Republicans.

For the vast majority of those pansies who are living in their parents’ basements, that’s all it takes to get them all wee-wee’d up. I embarass the heck out of my kids, but they secretly think I’m the coolest mom!

I think that the Hillbuzz fellas have a lot of their hecklers on the ropes right now – most of them can’t stand being exposed to the light -

Is this somehow news to you? Come on folks, these are every day attacks here in the Happy Valley of W/Mass. If you so much as dare have a conservative bumper sticker expect having your car keyed to rocks in your windshield. From lawsuits and worse, that is what the liberal elitist will do when their myopic world is threatened by the truth. They try to bully you whatever way they can and that is their way of life. I am in a small college town of South Hadley, liberal elitists run this town, they are protected in this town and we just had a tragic result of this bullying, Google Phoebe Prince. Just how serious is the threat of this sick disease, it is and has been all out war here for a very long time. From bloggers to the schools, it is a threat and much more then what many realize.

we discussed a few weeks ago on another thread. There are other ways of determinig your political leanings without necessarily having to deciper your screen/blogging name. And it’s not that difficult, as I’ve said before, for a professional to discover whether you are responsible for a certain blog or another. You’d be surprised how far a $50 bribe will get you into a list of ISP/URL’s and specific addresses.

And they will lie about you, deny you anything over which they have power (or erode its’ usefulness or enjoyability) and harrass you every chance they get. To them, the personal is political and everything else is therefore political as well. And they believe they have every right to do this stuff whether legal, moral, ethical or not.

I have long been and am now a victim of this strategy of low level guerrilla warfare which resembles a series of teen-aged hi-jinks, but which can become demoralizing after a while if one is not aware of them. They sounds trivial, but messed up food, the sudden discovery that your paperwork is missing or incomplete, that the person from whom you are seeking help doesn’t know anything about it, that the item you want is coincidentally “out of stock”, that the long-since made reservation is “lost” or any number of a thousand other slights begins to have an effect after awhile.

In the service I was ready to give all that was asked of me. I am still willing to give all, but I would like it to count for something. I believe a time willl come when everyone will be forced to make a choice anyway. That’s when severe consequences will become commonplace and the time for sacrifice will be at hand. As one commentator stated above, I only regret the harm it might do to my family.

A couple I know who both work for the state kept sending me Palin jokes. I didn’t mind, (there were a few funny ones but most were juvenile or vulgar). Just to let them know where I stood politically, I sent them a photo of the big ‘Obama acronym’ bumper sticker painted on the back of a pickup. They e-mailed me back totally livid, and dressed me down in a very angry tone. It really blew me away, seeing that side of people who I considered friends.

Early in those halcyion days of the Tea Party in the spring ofn 2009 – when we were all making our first signs – and getting over the embarrassment of holding them high….a well placed friend in DC told me that the Tea Party movement was just emotion…..then. He also said that if it stayed just emotion it would run out of steam. If however, it turned that emotion into staying power, a sort of angst with legs, it would not burn out and it would be a force to contend with. In that case, my friend told me I had much to fear by being in the lead. I laughed. He repeated it and told me I had much to fear from Democrats AND Republicans and whoever was behind their march to power and seeming permanence. I asked him for clarity and he told me it would not be simple nasty blogs or tea bag name calling. It would be a show of force. He did not obviously know the direction or timing….but may the force be with us….not against us.

…deception and prevarication are their stock in trade, every day. The fact that their ‘Great Victory’ in 2008 has left them impotent enrages these people. IP addresses may prove to be dangerous things.

Somewhere on the order of 1.5 or 2. However, all politics is local in the end, and the *local* threat level is higher. It doesn’t require someone from the Federal Government to make a mess of your life: it just takes someone on a mailing list in your municipal government who has an axe to grind.

Now having said that, I have to hope that nobody in any municipal or state government would take the bait and do it, regardless of their political proclivities. Eventually they’d be in hot water, and the truth would come out. It might take longer than you can survive, however.

I don’t like to think of the United States in these terms. I have to try to believe that regardless of how heated the political climate can be, that people who are elected officials will play by the rules, or at least try to.

In fact that’s a good lesson for everyone: “Play by The Rules.” In the end, it’s the only way to be respectable as a public servant or anyone who works for them.

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away I decided that instead of using a cryptonym on this blog I would use my actual surname. I did that because, well, let’s be honest: Mike Krempasky did, so did Erick Erickson, and so did a bunch of other people who could. I don’f feel comfortable as a person walking around in dark sunglasses, whatever vulnerability that portends for me. Others are free to make a different choice, and some have, for reasons I find completely understandable. But I think that anonymity on the Web is something that is a crutch for the decrepit, first. There are some who have legitimate reasons for not talking about their real names, and I understand that even more pointedly now with a different Party in control of our government.

But the point is that I shouldn’t have to worry, regardless of which party is in power. My speech is Constitutionally protected. I make sure when I write that I understand where the boundaries are of that Constitutional protection and people shouldn’t be afraid of speaking here in the United States.

I don’t wear dark glasses and I’m not a catastrophist, so I will take it as it comes, I suppose. If America becomes a society where I can’t speak my mind openly within the law, with my real name, the rest of the world is just totally doomed.

Vassar said: “Which begs the obvious question, in the end, what will we do with them?…before they do it to us?”

This is just a wild idea, a shot over the bow, so to speak, but who knows what might come of it.

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