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Leonard Pitts, Jr.: Secession not just about geography (Faux hillbilly letter-to-editor alert)
The Lawrence Journal-World ^ | April 25, 2013 | Leonard Pitts Jr.

Posted on 04/25/2013 1:02:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Ordinarily, I’d thank you for writing.

But truth is, I am not grateful you wrote; your note last week was one of the more troubling things I have read. I do not blame you for leaving it unsigned.

“We stand together,” I had written. “We stand defiant. And we stand with Boston.”

You disagreed.

“Your wrong pal we do not STAND TOGETHER.OH MY GOD we need a CIVIL WAR.The American people against the LIBERAL DEMACRAT SCUM that we have let allow SCUMBAGS like those that would BLOW UP people in BROAD DAYLIGHT to be here ... WE NEED A CIVIL WAR.Those demacrats that happen to still be breathing after that CIVIL WAR will have a choice. BECOME NORMAL or you are LEAVING with the 11 million illegals that ARE GOING HOME ... THIS IS SO CLOSE TO HAPPENING THAT EVERY LIBERAL IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD START LOSING SLEEP ... THERE IS A CLEAR REASON WHY WE ARE ARMED TO THE TEETH ...”

And you know, there was a time, not so long ago, I’d have laughed off your semi-coherent, misspellings-riddled rant. But I don’t laugh so much anymore, because you concretize a question I have been struggling with: Is America sustainable? Can a nation pulling so energetically in opposite directions survive?

We call it hyper-partisanship, polarization, balkanization. But those are SAT words, polysyllabic expressions that make abstract what they describe. So let us face what you embody and call it by name. It is hatred. And it is contempt.

It’s not just you. It’s Arkansas state legislator Nate Bell tweeting, “I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine?” as the hunt for bombers closed that city down....

(Excerpt) Read more at 2.ljworld.com ...


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KEYWORDS: banglist; civilwar; cw2; glennbeck; palin; rushlimbaugh; secession; talkradio
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Anyone here believe that (A) he received such a letter or (B) that it truly had all those misspellings?
1 posted on 04/25/2013 1:02:48 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Photos along with the postmarked envelope, or it didn’t happen.


2 posted on 04/25/2013 1:04:41 PM PDT by RobertClark (My shrink just killed himself - he blamed me in his note!)
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To: RobertClark

Even then, he or a confederate could’ve sent them while traveling or some such. Look how that guy in Mississippi was easily framed for the ricin mailings.


3 posted on 04/25/2013 1:06:19 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’d believe it. With over 300,000,000 people in this nation, there really are a fair number of crazies at both extremes.

I’ve wondered how long it will take until we end up with a few guys who go all Michael Douglas. After all, a LOT of men are “Falling Down” these days. It only takes one or two, and many of them are not restrained by a love of Jesus.

I think the liberals are right to fear “crazed conservatives” if it gets bad enough. It only takes a few and they are like cancer cells. We all have em, but if you exacerbate the situation, you actually “get cancer”. Same thing can happen as more and more people fall into the situation described by Gerald Celente: “When people lose everything and have nothing to lose, they lose it.”


4 posted on 04/25/2013 1:11:21 PM PDT by cuban leaf (Were doomed! Details at eleven.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wut miss spellinks?


5 posted on 04/25/2013 1:11:34 PM PDT by Slump Tester (What if I'm pregnant Teddy? Errr-ahh -Calm down Mary Jo, we'll cross that bridge when we come to it)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
“We stand together,” I had written. “We stand defiant. And we stand with Boston.”

You disagreed.

“Your wrong pal we do not STAND TOGETHER.OH MY GOD we need a CIVIL WAR.The American people against the LIBERAL DEMACRAT SCUM that we have let allow SCUMBAGS like those that would BLOW UP people in BROAD DAYLIGHT to be here ... WE NEED A CIVIL WAR.

 

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A little (OK a lot) of sanity is needed here. Some balance.

Boston created, cultivated and is responsible for the climate and culture that prompted two terrorists to blow up the Boston Marathon. I DO NOT stand with Boston.

Nor do I yell "WE NEED A CIVIL WAR" and carry on in that fashion. While it may be coming, and if it does; it will be a result of liberal agendas, I pray I'm dead and gone before that day.

6 posted on 04/25/2013 1:12:04 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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This is as real as the lesbian that was 'attacked' and had hate words carved into her.

/johnny

7 posted on 04/25/2013 1:30:11 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Leonard is a liar, but he just may have gotten a letter from some nut. He’s using it to tar everybody who disagrees with his far-left agenda. Profiling.


8 posted on 04/25/2013 1:36:13 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: Responsibility2nd
Boston created, cultivated and is responsible for the climate and culture that prompted two terrorists to blow up the Boston Marathon. I DO NOT stand with Boston.

Did you stand with New York on 9/12? How about Shanksville, Pennsylvania or Arlington, Virginia?

9 posted on 04/25/2013 1:48:41 PM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Responsibility2nd; rockrr
A little (OK a lot) of sanity is needed here. Some balance.

I guess that's the new sign a really wacko comment is coming ...

And here it is ...

Boston created, cultivated and is responsible for the climate and culture that prompted two terrorists to blow up the Boston Marathon. I DO NOT stand with Boston.

Tom Menino, terrorist mastermind -- who could have guessed?

10 posted on 04/25/2013 1:51:49 PM PDT by x
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; x

All I can say (to the alleged author) is Stand Watie, is that you?!


11 posted on 04/25/2013 1:56:02 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: 0.E.O

Do you not know Boston is a liberal town? Have you never heard of politicians like Ted Kennedy, Barney Frank, Mitt Romney and worse?

They made their bed. Now they must lie in it.


12 posted on 04/25/2013 2:17:34 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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Do you blame the victims?

Cleary, I don’t. So what exactly is your problem?


13 posted on 04/25/2013 2:19:27 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anyone here believe that (A) he received such a letter or (B) that it truly had all those misspellings?

Color me highly skeptical. Pitts is a stereotype-bound, racist, liberal moron most of the time. But he doesn't have a monopoly on it, so anything's possible.

14 posted on 04/25/2013 2:24:41 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Responsibility2nd
A Saudi student was charged with planning a terror assault in Texas a few years back.

Was that somehow because of Texas politics? Or did it have more to do with Islam or the Middle East?

Same thing here. Did this have more to do with Chechnya and militant Islam or with local Massachusetts politics?

15 posted on 04/25/2013 2:26:16 PM PDT by x
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To: Responsibility2nd
Do you blame the victims?

Cleary, I don’t. So what exactly is your problem?

Not so clear, though. Not from what you wrote.

16 posted on 04/25/2013 2:27:59 PM PDT by x
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A Saudi student was charged with planning a terror assault in Texas a few years back.

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I’m drawing a total blank here. I’m sure if you told me, I’d remember. But the point is that Texas is not conducive to radical islamo-facist ideology. Boston is.


17 posted on 04/25/2013 2:54:40 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
My guess is Leonard's little “hate filled letter” is like Broncho Bamma’s girlfriend in his autobiography (written by Bill Ayres), a compilation. A compilation of words and phrases from several letters disagreeing with him. In fact, I am surprised that he did not include the usual "death threats" that liberals seem to receive daily. The left is in a duck & cover mode after their projections of the Boston Bombers didn't work out so well.

My answer to Leonard is:
PTTTS OFF!

18 posted on 04/25/2013 3:01:36 PM PDT by Tupelo (The Government lies, then the media lies to cover up the government lies.)
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To: Responsibility2nd
Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari.

Also Hosam Maher Husein Smadi.

Also, Manssor Arbabsiar and Gholam Shakuri.

Stuff like this gets planned in different parts of the country, not just in Boston.

I wish we could get beyond exploiting it for political gain, but if you can't, people aren't going to automatically assume that you're not attacking the victims.

19 posted on 04/25/2013 3:23:13 PM PDT by x
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To: Responsibility2nd
They made their bed. Now they must lie in it.

Ahh. The old chickens coming home to roost meme.

Ward Churchill, is that you?

Your approach also has a good deal in common with Michael Moore's being upset that the killers on 911 attacked NYC, which didn't deserve it. Why didn't they attack Dallas or Mobile, which did?

20 posted on 04/25/2013 4:15:03 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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