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Mackinac Center Received Bomb Threats and Death Threats Over FOIA Request
Michigan Capital Confidential ^ | April 1, 2011 | Tom Gantert

Posted on 04/01/2011 5:10:49 PM PDT by La Lydia

The Mackinac Center for Public Policy received numerous death threats and bomb threats in the aftermath of national publicity about a Freedom of Information Act request it sent to three public universities. The messages were left on the Center's voice mail Thursday night and early Friday morning, but it is unclear at this point if one or two women were responsible for the threats. Mackinac Center President Joseph Lehman said the Mackinac Center has contacted law enforcement about the threats.

“We, along with the authorities, are doing everything necessary to protect ourselves,” Lehman said. “No threats will prevent us from showing the public how universities spend tax dollars.”

There were five messages left containing death or bomb threats. Four of them appear to be from the same caller. A fifth message was from a woman who left a death threat and, unlike the previous caller, left her name and indicated she lived in a neighboring state. It was unclear if the second caller was the same as the first caller. In one message, a female voice said: “Scotty Walker is dead. So are you. We know where you live.” The woman then recited the Mackinac Center’s address and said, “We are coming up to destroy you.”

In another message, a female who left her name said: “You are on Main Street. You are the first place to be bombed.”...

The Mackinac Center has been in the spotlight after some national news organizations reported that the Midland-based think tank submitted a FOIA request to Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. The FOIA asked for specific emails from professors in the labor studies departments that referenced Wisconsin collective bargaining, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker or MSNBC talk show personality Rachel Maddow. Maddow had made comments on her show critical of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s emergency financial manager act.


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KEYWORDS: crime; deaththreats; dncbrownshirts; freespeech; taxes
The Left doesn't like to be crossed.
1 posted on 04/01/2011 5:10:52 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia

Where’s Bill Clinton and the Civility police?


2 posted on 04/01/2011 5:15:08 PM PDT by Tzimisce (Never forget that the American Revolution began when the British tried to disarm the colonists.)
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To: La Lydia

Betting this is the woman.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2698155/posts


3 posted on 04/01/2011 5:15:49 PM PDT by rocksblues (Obama, the biggest liar in the history of American politics!)
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To: rocksblues

I suspect you’re right. Get a load of the look in her eyes. She’s resembles one of those people on true-crime TV, perhaps “Deadly Women”, who goes nuts and murders everyone in her vicinity and then sits down and eats an entire blueberry pie.


4 posted on 04/01/2011 5:22:02 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: La Lydia
“You are on Main Street. You are the first place to be bombed.”

Stupid parasite pig needs to come see me sometime. I'm in Michigan and I'm not hard to find.
5 posted on 04/01/2011 5:31:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: La Lydia

This can’t be and is a lie. IF it were true, the MSM would report it.

What? My bad.


6 posted on 04/01/2011 5:32:16 PM PDT by Drango (NO-vember is payback for April 15th)
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To: La Lydia

4 colleges in Wisconsin have unionized in a symbolic protest against Walker.

Theo, 51, a geography instructor, and her University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point colleagues voted in a two-day election to be represented by AFT-Wisconsin after the passage of a law championed by Republican Governor Scott Walker that would eliminate collective bargaining for faculty members.

It was the fourth state campus to vote in favor of representation since Walker introduced the bill Feb. 11, saying it is necessary to mend the recession-battered budget. The measure, which has been challenged in court, touched off weeks of protests. Professors say Republicans are using the budget crisis to attack education with the union bill, by proposing funding cuts and by seeking e-mails sent by a UW-Madison professor who wrote a blog posting and a New York Times opinion piece opposing Walker.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-03-31/wisconsin-professors-unionize-defy-walker-s-law-on-collective-bargaining.html


7 posted on 04/01/2011 6:04:58 PM PDT by Lorianne (o)
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To: cripplecreek
Stupid parasite pig needs to come see me sometime.

Actually it's about time a few right minded folks paid visits to these punks.

L

8 posted on 04/01/2011 6:08:01 PM PDT by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: La Lydia

The peace loving left...HA....
Just following their brave starters. Call the people who oppose you thugs while you blow stuff up{or threaten to anyways}.
We are heading towards a Civil War...the left is pushing for it. Obama wants it.....
There is no easy way to be free.


9 posted on 04/02/2011 3:12:50 AM PDT by Yorlik803 (better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks La Lydia.
The Mackinac Center has been in the spotlight after some national news organizations reported that the Midland-based think tank submitted a FOIA request to Wayne State University, Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. The FOIA asked for specific emails from professors in the labor studies departments that referenced Wisconsin collective bargaining, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker or MSNBC talk show personality Rachel Maddow. Maddow had made comments on her show critical of Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder’s emergency financial manager act.

10 posted on 04/02/2011 5:08:29 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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