So I got this press release thingy at my blog email address:
From: Peter Schiff <[email protected]>
To: Mark Draughn
Subject: Peter Schiff on the People Threatening To Murder Him
I have no idea who Peter Schiff is, but I was curious what he did that would lead to death threats, so I read on…
While most Americans spent the last few days peacefully celebrating the holidays with their families, hundreds if not thousands of people I’ve never met threatened me with bodily harm, attacked members of my family, issued death threats, described various diseases they hope I would fall victim to, and attacked me based on my Jewish religion.
“I really dislike you and am ashamed that you breath the same air as me,” came a Facebook note from one Karen Jordan.
Not a death threat.
After expressing his wish to see my wife and I murdered, Clayton Fletcher says, “Humanity would be much better off without these two gigantic wastes of human flesh and bone breathing in part of its air supply.”
Wanting to see you murdered or deploring your existence is not the same as threatening to murder you. Not a death threat.
“You are an evil person and you are part of what is wrong with this country,” Jeff Kernen of Eugene, Oreg., wrote me.
Not a death threat.
From Portland, Oreg., Lydia Andy Bendorf wrote, “I hope you get cancer, aids, gang green, the plauge, and suffer a slow miserable lonely fate [sic].”
Hoping you get sick and die doesn’t actually make you get sick and die, so not a death threat.
Allen Bates opined, “I hope you develop psoriasis on your [expletive].”
Not a death threat.
The blogger Truth Militia wrote to me, “[Expletive] you old [expletive], shut your mouth and die like a good gentile slave! These Jews make me so [explicative] sick.”
Telling you to “die” is not a threat to murder you any more than telling you to “get lost” is a threat to kidnap you. Not a death threat.
So how did I unleash such unhinged rage?
Nope. No way. I have so far resisted clicking that link. I have no idea where it goes.
I have no idea who you are, Peter Schiff, but your message got my attention by saying you had been threatened with murder, and yet not one of the six examples you provided was an actual death threat. When you mislead people this much in your teaser email, I’m not going to waste my time following your stupid links.
(Actually, curiosity will probably get the better of me. With an email like that, who knows what entertaining stupidity I’ll find…maybe I’ll get another post out of it.)
Also, Peter, when I say I hope you get painful rectal itching, I’m not actually threatening to make your ass itch. In fact, I’m not planning to go anywhere near your ass. Just wanted to clear that up.
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