Death Threat for a Palin Critic

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Andree McLeod, a prominent Palin critic in Alaska ... has been publicly threatened with assassination—just for requesting, under Alaska's open records act, the work-related emails Palin sent and received while governor.

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On December 29, the Anchorage Daily News posted an article reporting that four journalists and McLeod, a local citizen activist, were still waiting for the state to release Palin's emails in response to requests that they had filed two years earlier. (I am one of those journalists.) ...

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Two days later, an anonymous person posted a death threat targeting McLeod in the "Rants & Raves" section of the Anchorage Craigslist. The posting, which echoed an email sent to the Anchorage Daily News, read in full:

I find it very offensive that Andre Mclead (sic) is asking the state for every e-mail written or received in ANY account maintained by Palin and her husband. Where does this bitch get off thinking the public should shell out for her revenge for the Palin family. I've heard enough from this, and I would like to use stronger words to express my feeling for Andre. Well…I think Andre has used up to (sic) much oxygen. So I have my scope cross hair on her head! She better watch out, the request may have been her last!

I know you won't publish this. ADN relish in bashing the Palin's too!

Let's clean up the political garbage.

On January 10, McLeod learned about the Cragislist post and contacted the Anchorage police. According to a police report obtained by Mother Jones, a sergeant named Michael Couturier, who is assigned to the cyber crimes beat, contacted Craigslist and asked the service to take down the posting and for information on the person who had posted the threat. The threat was subsequently removed, and the police report notes that the suspect used an AOL email address associated with an Anchorage woman. (The report names the woman, but Mother Jones is not identifying her at this point.)

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This 50-something Anchorage woman does maintain a MySpace page. On the site, she lists her interests as camping, hunting, and praising the Lord. The page is full of references to Jesus. One graphic on the page cites Jesus as her "anti-drug." She mentions that she has two children with military experience.

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http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/01/death-threat-palin-critic

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2. and someone chided me on another thread.....

...for calling these people human garbage.

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3. Jesus is the unidentified woman's anti-drug?

How nice that once again the threatener has her identity protected, while the person participating in the public process is left exposed. I wonder how the anonymous terrorist justifies her threats in light of some pretty clear teaching to the contrary in the Gospels? Well we won't know as long as her identity is protected.

Why do terrorists use terror? It works.