I just emailed my Cong. Rep., Senators, FBI, Capitol Hill Police, and SS.

[ShaneGR]

Just when you thought the wing-nuts couldn't get crazier, out comes the following.

Check out this psycho:

http://markbyron.typepad.com/main/2003/11/the_usefulness__1.html

(snip)
Note-I am NOT advocating the following fantasy episode, but it has a following in the darker parts of my mind.

WASHINGTON-January 6, 2004. A paramilitary organization calling itself the Christian Liberation Front changed the balance of power in Washington by a pair of brutal attacks this afternoon. A force estimated at about 200 CLF commandos stormed the Supreme Court building, killing 35 people, including five Supreme Court Justices. At the same time, a contingent of 1,000 CLF paramilitaries attacked the Hart Senate Office Building, where a Senate Democratic Caucus meeting was being held. Approximately 50 people were killed in the attack. Once the commandos had seized the building, they systematically killed Democratic senators from states with Republican governors. Here is a list of the 21 senators killed Daniel Akaka Byron Dorgan Mary Landrieu
John Breaux Bob Graham Blanche Lincoln
Hillary Clinton Ernest Hollings Barbara Mikulski
Kent Conrad Daniel Inouyye David Pryor
Tom Daschle Tim Johnson Harry Reid
Mark Dayton Ted Kennedy Paul Sarbanes
Chris Dodd John Kerry Chuch Schumer

Joe Lieberman was campaigning in South Carolina, and missed the assassins. The attackers turned themselves in to police, and are proudly confessing their crimes, cooperating with authorities.

If the governors appoint Republican replacements, there will be 72 Republicans in the US Senate until replacement elections can be held. Even if a few Democrats are named, there will be likely at least 60 votes to vote for cloture and appoint replacements for the slain Supreme Court justices, changing the balance of power on the court.

OK, I'm ignoring Vermont, where the governor is a RINO, IIRC, and sparing Ben Nelson and Zell Miller as well. I'm also assuming that Bobby Jindal wins Saturday.

I'm also assuming that such bloodshed would be a good idea; I don't think it would. Would five extra conservatives on the Supreme Court and a filibuster-free Senate be worth the bloodshed? It is opposing evil, given some of the less-than-biblical decisions that have emanated from the court.

[Padraig18]

1. Whoa!

Holy shit, bat man--- that fucker's NUTS! :scared:

[Kathy in Cambridge]

2. What a sick f***-and he is a PROFESSOR at a Baptist college

Read his bio:

http://markbyron.typepad.com/about.html

I'd call his college too and say his fantasy life is so scary that he shouldn't be teaching young minds. Not that those fundie young minds aren't brainwashed already.

[ShaneGR]

3. Well, I contacted the Tampa office of the FBI

Who's the Congressional Rep for that area? The local police Department?

[goobergunch]

7. Ignore this post (n/t)

[Kathy in Cambridge]

8. Adam Putnam is his Congressman-a Repuke

http://www.adamputnam.house.gov/

[jiacinto]

51. Jim Davis of FL-11

He is a Democrat.

[Fovea]

4. The culture war is turning hot.

This is the revenge of the slaveholders for Uncle Tom's Cabin and every setback since.

Bleeding California, Bleeding New York, soon-- bleeding Washington.
Get a reliable gun, keep it safe, learn to use it.
There is a chance that in 2005 you will have to.

[catzies]

17. Some speculate the second Civil War has already begun.

The very thought chills me.

No, wait a minute, the window was open.

Seriously. God help us, why can't we learn from the past and stop repeating it?

[Renew Deal]

30. That's freeper speak.

I have seen shit like that on FR. I hope that's not where were heading.

[solinvictus]

33. Reliable gun

More specifically, a reliable center fire RIFLE, plenty of ammunition, a parts kit, cleaning kit, and some simple tools. Learn the mechanics of it in and out, practice with it, and it will become a useful tool.

Edit** "When they kick at your front door
How you gonna come
With your hands on your head
Or on the trigger of your gun?"
The Clash, "The Guns of Brixton" **

[Renew Deal]

34. Center fire rifle

Giddy up, who said dems don't like guns. :silly:


http://www.havlinsales.com/center.htm

Models 472/479 Series (lever-action rifles)
Stock $25; forearm $15 *
Buttplate with white spacers $8
Pistol grip cap with white spacers $4
Swivels $2
Rear barrel band $12; screw $2
Forward barrel band $8; screw $2
Finger lever $25
Bolt $25; complete bolt $40
Bolt lock $12, spring $2, pin $1
Firing pin $10
Extractor $8; ejector $8
Open rear sight $12; front sight $8
Outer magazine tube $15
Loading ramp $8
Rebound lever $5
Sear $6
Elevator $15; complete elevator assembly $24
Hammer $8
Trigger $6

[solinvictus]

35. That'll work!!

I'm getting either a Yugoslav M24/47 Mauser or an M44 Nagant carbine tomorrow, as the fancy strikes me. I think if I get the Yugo at a good enough price, it'll win as the ammo is now less than $40 for 500 rounds surplus.

[theorist]

5. He may say he's against this type of violence,

but if the Bushies decided that conventional means were not working to fight terrorism and the best move would be to open Christian Terror Camps to "pursue a crusade against Islam", he'd be at the front gate waving his hands yelling, "LET ME IN! LET ME IN!"

[Pastiche423]

26. No need to do that

Just offer a "Christian Terror" class at the School of Americas.

I'd bet dollars to donuts, this guy by far, is not the only one like him out there.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

[prolesunited]

6. If it was a liberal

posting these "fantasies" about Repug, I'm sure the FBI already would have been knocking on the door and confiscating the computer.

[Kathy in Cambridge]

10. The NYPD has already raided and harassed anti-GOP Convention Organizers

but a brownshirt like this Moran will probably be ignored.

[indigo32]

9. Sick Sick Sick

and that is all there is to it.

[CBHagman]

11. I like the guy who said, "Keep looking for Christ...

...I don't think you've found him yet."

[CBHagman]

12. And it's "Bonhoeffer," not "Bonhoffer"

And Bonhoeffer was a theologian, clergyman, and courier for the RESISTANCE, not a paramilitary leader. He ended his days at the end of a hangman's noose.

I'm sick of vindictive, selfish, Gospel-perverting people appropriating past heroes for their sick political agendas.

[madfloridian]

13. Here's the Warner Southern website.

http://www.warner.edu/

He's a doctor at the school of business.

[ShaneGR]

15. I emailed them

He's screwed.

[John_H]

14. If someone wrote this about Chimp,

the FBI would be breaking down his or her door within thirty minutes.

[dusty64]

16. Won't do any good.

Some whackjob had a website called "christianpatriot.com" which called for killing the judges who ruled against the "under God" phrase in the Pledge. Nothing became of it except a form email after I notified the fbi. I guess it has to be a threat against a rightwinger in order to get any attention.

[grasswire]

18. did ya capture the screen shot?

Or download the web site?

It will probably get changed pretty quickly.

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

19. I snagged it last night.

So it's not going away from my computer any time soon.

[dusty64]

22. The page in question

was up many days after my complaint. The whackjobs website is still up however, so nothing became of it. It offers a glimpse into the insanity behind the "christian" militia type who use religious to spout hatred and murder, just like those in the WH and Congress.

[Renew Deal]

27. I got it too.

[JHB]

41. Au contraire, mon frere...

...if it simply makes him reconsider degrading the level of public discourse any further, it's worth it.

[funkyflathead]

20. How did you find that?

That is SICK.

And why call the Secret Service? Call the FBI.

[ShaneGR]

28. Was discussed earlier... but...

I thought it deserved a primetime thread.... BTW... I did contact the Tampa office of the FBI, which is the closest to the posters location.

[Renew Deal]

21. I am on hold with the FBI

This guy is nuts.

[Renew Deal]

24. OK, NY didn't care much, DC will call me back.

What kind of fucking country is this?

[Renew Deal]

25. The Secret Service said call in the morning.

WTF :wtf:

[ShaneGR]

29. Bleachers, the whack job lives near Orlando

So Tampa would be your best bet. That's who I emailed.

[Renew Deal]

31. Tampa was very eager to investigate.

Let's see what happens.

[spooky3]

40. Good for everyone who reported this.

Especially given the unsolved anthrax crime against Daschle and others, they SHOULD take such threats seriously.

[Catherine Vincent]

23. What a sick rat bastard!

[Renew Deal]

32. FBI + Secret Service contact info

http://www.fbi.gov/contact/fo/fo.htm#t

http://www.ustreas.gov/usss/field_offices.shtml

[Renew Deal]

36. Kick for Homicidal lunatics.

:kick:

[ShaneGR]

37. Yeah, lets see if we can get him frogmarched

Out of the bible-belt and straight into questioning at the nearest high-security prison.

[Renew Deal]

38. The FBI or Congressional police just called me!

Special Agent Watson just called asking questions. This guy wasn't playing. He wanted to know who said what and when. Maybe Mark Byron will realize it's not funny to threaten elected officials.

[ShaneGR]

39. What did you say?

Did you tell him about where this guy worked and the website?

[Renew Deal]

45. I don't know that info.

They can figure it out I guess. Where does he work?

[ShaneGR]

46. It's on the About page

http://markbyron.typepad.com/about.html

Biography
My day job is Assistant Professor of Business at Warner Southern College, about an hour south of Orlando in Lake Wales, FL. I primarily teach finance and economics with the occasional management class. Warner is an evangelical college (Church of God-Anderson affilated) which fits in fairly nicely with my "Bapticostal" background. We live in Winter Haven, just north of Lake Wales.

I'm a Michigan native, being born in Saginaw, spending my tothood in Lansing and moving to Midland when I was 5. I got a B.S. in Political Science from Central Michigan University and proceeded to have three depressing years being unsucessful at grad school and job hunting.

At that time, my father found the Lord in the midst of a mid-life crisis, going from aloof intelectual agnostic to Spirit-filled Pentecostal. Raised Methodist, I really hadn't been exposed to a full presentation of the core gospel message that God's perfect, we're not and that Jesus died to bridge that gap.

After coming to the Lord myself in August of 1985, I started to get my life back together. I went back to my local community college to get a AA in data processing. My grade-point went from a 2.8 to a 3.8, as the Holy Spirit allowed me more diligence in my studies (or you could say I was a bit more mature).

The AA in DP turned into a BBA in Accounting and Finance at Saginaw Valley State U., just missing the 3.80 needed for Summa Cum Laude (I "settled" for Magna). Seeing my two key finance professors had Ph.D. from Michigan State and that they weren't any smarter than I was, and having the desire but not the stick-to-it-tiveness to get a doctorate and be a college professor, I set off for grad school.

I bagged a MBA in Finance from Michigan State and went on to get a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Kent State. When I got my doctorate in 1996, the academic job market wasn't all that strong, so I returned to Midland to open up a computer store with my father.

We ran out of working capital and sanity about the same time late in 1998 and closed the store in January 1999. I worked as an accountant in the Midland area for three years thereafter, primarily at Hurley Medical Center in Flint.

In March of 2001, I met the woman who would become my wife at a New Life Vineyard young adult outing that a friend from another single's Bible had invited me to. I found both a chruch that fit my theology and a soulmate. Eileen had come to town to be children's ministry director at the big Presbyterian church in town, but didn't fit in, and was working as an administrative assistant when I met her.

I became smitten with her and attracted to her church, which seem to fit my Bapticostal theology to a T; combining the best of the Pentecostal emphasis on the Holy Spirit as an active part of our lives and the Baptist emphasis on the Bible as the Word of God. Vineyard's "radical middle" between the Baptist and Pentecostal schemes was just my size. I haven't quite fit into either denomination.

So was Eileen. 39 at the time, I had all but given up finding someone who I could share my life with, but I found a fellow tenderhearted intelectual, someone who filled a spot in my soul that had ached for as long as I can remember.

Shortly before we married in July of 2002, I got a job offer to teach at Warner Souther, we moved down here a few days after we were married. We've settled in at church at the Lakeland Vineyard and Eileen is working as a second grade teacher's aide at Janie Howard Wilson Elemenatry School with an eye towards being a teacher in a few months once she gets used to the elementary classroom; she tried 8th grade last year and that wasn't for her.

Just before I got the Warner Souther offer, I found blogs. This blog was launched over on Blogger in January 2002 and moved it to its current locale on Typepad in September, 2003.

[WoodrowFan]

48. barely middle class, lost a business

humm, looks frustrated to me. He sounds like he is fighting to stay in the middle class. Note he says his professors "weren't any smarter" than he, and he started a business which failed. He found the job market too tight to get into his chosen field. The college where he started teaching doesn't sound like it is top of the academic heap, and from my experience with Ph.Ds looking for jobs, little fundy colleges like that only get applications from other fundies so the applicant pool isn't that crowded. Any bets he's been looking for someone to blame for his struggles?

[Sparkle]

42. I hope this guy gets a visit from the FBI.

Remember when some guy wrote to Dear Abby and had thoughts of molesting his step daughters or something like that? The police arrested him. The same thing should be done to this sicko.

[CBHagman]

47. Michael Moore said that they tend to take this stuff seriously.

In "Downsize This," Moore talked about all the violent threats issued against both the Clintons and Gores during their terms in, respectively, the presidency and vice presidency. He was surprised to learn that when Jesse Helms made his famous ominous comment against Clinton (i.e., that he shouldn't come to North Carolina without protection), the Secret Service took it very, very seriously.

For all that Byron is probably nothing more than a huge, self-pitying, self-indulgent loser who wouldn't know Christianity from the Kama Sutra, I'm still probably going to copy his text and send it to the staffers of all the senators named, and possibly even the Supreme Court. There are enough dangerous nutcases out there already, and a little extra security will do the good senators and justices no harm.

By the way, Byron mentioned BOTH my senators in his little fantasy. Thanks a lot, you infernal little loser.

Also, note his namby-pamby defense of running that little scenario and how he was just writing about civil disobedience. Yeah, if any Christian wrote about, say, marriage and its sanctity, I'm certain he'd start off by writing a pornographic account of adultery to start.

On edit: The guy's writing is also extremely amateurish.

[1songbird]

43. OMG, he is trying to plant the seeds

[shirlden]

44. I am getting real tired of

liberals being accused of political violence. Show me the proof. We are the ones who climb trees, stand in front of bulldozers and quietly allow ourselves to be hauled off to jail for peacefull protest. We don't kill doctors, or blow up buildings in Oklahoma City, or beat "fags" to death just for the hell of it. These are RW radicals who do this. Last time I looked, there were no RW radicals in the Democratic Party.
I am proud to be a wet-noodle liberal who thinks violence is never justified, except, of course, if we have to protect ourselves from those who really are the violent ones. I am very capable of protecting my family and my self.

:argh:

[NoBorders]

49. Scroll down his page

there are links to other site/weblogs, including liberal ones, that have linked to his site; one indicates that as horrible as it is, it does not 'rise to the level' of illegal...

[WoodrowFan]

50. kick

kick, i think this is chilling and important

[ShaneGR]

52. Back at ya

keeping the boot to the neck.