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Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 03:53:50

Oh, Good: Left-Wing KINDERGARTEN Teacher Threatens to Kill Wisconsin Republicans
by Calvin Freiburger

Posted on April 2 2011 9:00 am

Hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College. He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online.

The fireworks in Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walkerâ??s efforts to rein in government employee unions arenâ??t over yet. Unions have declared war on any Wisconsin businesses that wonâ??t publicly oppose Walker, and the budget repair bill has been blocked by an activist judge, turning next weekâ??s state Supreme Court election into a proxy battle on the issue.

Oh, and weâ??re not done with the onslaught of violence and vitriol on behalf of the unions and the educational establishment, either. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Wisconsin resident Katherine Windels is now facing felony charges for death threats she made against state Republican lawmakers:

The subject line of the second email was: â??Atten: Death Threat!!!! Bomb!!!â?? In that email, she purportedly wrote, â??Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.â??

â??I hope you have a good time in hell,â?? she allegedly wrote in the lengthy email in which she purportedly listed scenarios in which the legislators and their families would die, including bombings and by â??putting a nice little bullet in your head.â??

According to the criminal complaint, Windels told investigators â??I sent out emails that I was
disgusted and very upset by what they were doing.â??

Asked if she intended to follow through on any of her threats, Windels told the investigators â??No,â?? according to the complaint.

At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey reveals two key details about the story that the Sentinel left out: first, Windels is a pre-school and kindergarten teacher, and second, this isnâ??t the first time sheâ??s done something like thisâ??she sent the emails using the name and email address of Lisa Patterson, a woman who she allegedly sent threatening text messages to in October 2010.

Granted, as new details about wrongdoers trickle out, itâ??s only natural that some outlets will catch wind of them sooner than others. But thereâ??s reason to suspect thereâ??s more to the mediaâ??s delinquency hereâ??in a March 19 post on Newsradio 620â??s website, George Mitchell publicizes an email exchange with Sentinel managing editor George Stanley on the paperâ??s lack of coverage of the protestorsâ?? less-savory antics:

Stanley responded, â??Both sides are demonizing each other with deliberate, dishonest propagandaâ?¦.You reap what you sow.â??

I asked, â??Are you suggesting that the behavior of Walker supporters is comparable to that of his opponents?â?? He replied, â??I donâ??t â??suggestâ?? like you, George. I didnâ??t say a word about behavior or go to your links. I prefer honesty to bullshit.â??

I replied, â??You use the word â??propagandaâ?? and say â??both sidesâ?? are guilty. Death threats. Nails in the driveway. Obscene graffiti. The list goes on and on. This amazing and unwarranted conclusion apparently is how the MJS rationalizes not covering the story.â??

I asked Stanley if I could quote him, as I wanted to submit an op-ed to the paper. He said, â??No, youâ??re just full of shit, thatâ??s all Iâ??m saying.â??

Yeahâ?¦I mean, itâ??s not as if we just had a prolonged media circus about alleged right-wing incitement of violence, prompting the President of the United States to call on all Americans to strive for greater civility or anythingâ?¦and itâ??s not like the fact that a woman who told politicians their families were going to die is entrusted with the education of small children has much relevance to a debate about the condition of Wisconsinâ??s education systemâ?¦

This case tells us a great deal about the Left. First, the fact that Sarah Palin might as well have personally driven Jared Loughner to Gabrielle Giffordsâ?? doorstop, yet we havenâ??t heard a peep from the civility police about this, or numerous other stories of left-wing civility to come out of Wisconsin, speaks to their utter insincerity about the state of American public discourse. Second, while the average teacher isnâ??t a nut like Windels, the nationâ??s public schools have a higher share of refuseâ??political and otherwiseâ??than many are willing to admitâ??as Megan Fox wrote on March 8, â??the public school system, which is about the same size as the Catholic Church in America with a school in every parish, has more sexual abuse cases in ten years than the Catholic Church has had in fifty.â??

Why? Because Americaâ??s educational establishment sees teaching as a vehicle for ideological indoctrination rather than a sacred duty to raise the next generation of virtuous, independent, well-adjusted citizens, and because union rules insulate their members from accountability.

Anti-Republican anger of a less murderous sort is still high in Wisconsin, and I still have doubts that my home stateâ??s conservative leaders are making their case as effectively as they could be (a case Morrissey sees reason to believe the American people are receptive to). But they canâ??t give upâ??from fiscal solvency to the quality of our schools, this fight simply has too much at stake.

http://www...to-kill-wisconsin-republicans/

asdasdfasdfasdfasdfa
Member Tue Apr 05 07:34:39
"Left-Wing KINDERGARTEN Teacher Threatens to Kill Wisconsin Republicans"

Anti-republican yes, but why left-wing? How does the blogger came to this conclusion?

Aeros
Member Tue Apr 05 08:47:09
And more to the point, who CARES what some retarded Kindergarten teacher in Wisconsin thinks? The Tea Party had plenty of signs just like that incidentally.

What is if the Right Wing in America and its desperation to portraying itself as some sort of victim?

Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 09:24:19

LOL

And they used to call me a hack. :)

Pissflaps McGee
Member Tue Apr 05 10:34:44
"who CARES what some retarded Kindergarten teacher in Wisconsin thinks? "

Other Wisconsinites, I imagine.

CrownRoyal
Member Tue Apr 05 10:44:42
And Hot Rod.

so what
Member Tue Apr 05 11:48:16
Used to call you? People still do. And you still are a hack, HR.

tumbleweed
the wanderer Tue Apr 05 11:52:01
"Right-Wing Politicians Drive KINDERGARTEN Teacher Into Murderous Rage"

kargen
Member Tue Apr 05 11:52:35
"The Tea Party had plenty of signs just like that incidentally."

You want to provide some examples? There were some comparing President Obama to Hitler and plenty of signs accusing him of being socialist or not constitutionally eligable to be president, but I didn't see any that actually called for his sudden death.

tumbleweed
the wanderer Tue Apr 05 12:02:29
"We Came Unarmed (This Time)"

"WARNING: If Brown can't stop it, a Browning can"

Aeros
Member Tue Apr 05 12:28:14
If the 1st Amendment does not work, we always have the 2nd Amendment.

kargen
Member Tue Apr 05 15:32:34
Some clever slogans.

So where are the actual examples though.

You know, a link to a photo of the signs?

Not saying they don't exist. You just claimed there was "plenty" so I assumed you would be able to show one.

tumbleweed
the wanderer Tue Apr 05 16:16:39
http://2.b...arW0/s1600/tea_party_signs.jpg

http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tea-party-sign-armed.jpg

http://kaystreet.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/unarmedthistime.jpg

http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nweQSRDkBhs/TI5soEoZkGI/AAAAAAAAANk/vgKhjLDIYDk/1_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg

http://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG950435.jpg

NeverWoods
Member Tue Apr 05 16:36:19
You gave kargen links, really?
He deserves no damn links.

kargen
Member Tue Apr 05 16:43:43
I do so deserve links!

So it turns out there are major fuck-ups on both sides (or all three/four/whatever sides). I hadn't seen those signs, now I have and the people weilding them are as moronic as those in Wisconson with simular signs.

Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 16:47:42

Tumblweed, where is the sign that is directed at politicians that states,

"Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."

Clitoral Hood
The Bloody Scourge Tue Apr 05 16:49:46
please point out how 1 person is equivalent to many people.

tumbleweed
the wanderer Tue Apr 05 16:50:07
where is _any_ sign that says that?

sorry, i don't have access to every letter some crackpot writes to someone

Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 16:51:23

Evidently The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel does.

Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 16:52:41

But as we have seen you do have access to the signs that crackpots bring to peaceful demonstrations.

Game, set, match.

Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 16:55:25

The point is, there are crackpots on both sides, but it is the union thugs that show up at Tea Party demonstration and beat people up.

Or do you need to see that video again?

Hellfire
Member Tue Apr 05 17:37:50
Way to pick as biased of a source as possible Hot Rod.

On their front page:

Why You Better Pray that God is Not Dead â?? Dennis Prager Diagnoses America's Disease

The Obama Administration Finally Reverses A Dangerously Dumb Decision: No Circus Trial In New York

Van Jones, the Media's Favorite Communist, Embraces Economic Terrorism

...

Regardless of your horribly biased source, I think we can all agree these actions have no place in our society and I fully support prosecuting the woman to the fullest extent of the law.

Hot Rod
Member Tue Apr 05 18:11:37

HF, I don't see any of those stories on their front page.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/

Firestorm Phoenix
Member Tue Apr 05 20:26:52
"And they used to call me a hack. :)"

- What do you mean "used to"?

Chris Dodd
Member Wed Apr 06 06:15:30
^exactly what I was thinking lol

CrownRoyal
Member Wed Apr 06 06:51:49
Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg line -

"I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too"

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Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 03:53:50 Oh, Good: Left-Wing KINDERGARTEN Teacher Threatens to Kill Wisconsin Republicans by Calvin Freiburger Posted on April 2 2011 9:00 am Hailing from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Calvin Freiburger is a political science major at Hillsdale College. He also writes for the Hillsdale Forum and his personal website, Calvin Freiburger Online. The fireworks in Wisconsin over Gov. Scott Walkerâ??s efforts to rein in government employee unions arenâ??t over yet. Unions have declared war on any Wisconsin businesses that wonâ??t publicly oppose Walker, and the budget repair bill has been blocked by an activist judge, turning next weekâ??s state Supreme Court election into a proxy battle on the issue. Oh, and weâ??re not done with the onslaught of violence and vitriol on behalf of the unions and the educational establishment, either. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Wisconsin resident Katherine Windels is now facing felony charges for death threats she made against state Republican lawmakers: The subject line of the second email was: â??Atten: Death Threat!!!! Bomb!!!â?? In that email, she purportedly wrote, â??Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.â?? â??I hope you have a good time in hell,â?? she allegedly wrote in the lengthy email in which she purportedly listed scenarios in which the legislators and their families would die, including bombings and by â??putting a nice little bullet in your head.â?? According to the criminal complaint, Windels told investigators â??I sent out emails that I was disgusted and very upset by what they were doing.â?? Asked if she intended to follow through on any of her threats, Windels told the investigators â??No,â?? according to the complaint. At Hot Air, Ed Morrissey reveals two key details about the story that the Sentinel left out: first, Windels is a pre-school and kindergarten teacher, and second, this isnâ??t the first time sheâ??s done something like thisâ??she sent the emails using the name and email address of Lisa Patterson, a woman who she allegedly sent threatening text messages to in October 2010. Granted, as new details about wrongdoers trickle out, itâ??s only natural that some outlets will catch wind of them sooner than others. But thereâ??s reason to suspect thereâ??s more to the mediaâ??s delinquency hereâ??in a March 19 post on Newsradio 620â??s website, George Mitchell publicizes an email exchange with Sentinel managing editor George Stanley on the paperâ??s lack of coverage of the protestorsâ?? less-savory antics: Stanley responded, â??Both sides are demonizing each other with deliberate, dishonest propagandaâ?¦.You reap what you sow.â?? I asked, â??Are you suggesting that the behavior of Walker supporters is comparable to that of his opponents?â?? He replied, â??I donâ??t â??suggestâ?? like you, George. I didnâ??t say a word about behavior or go to your links. I prefer honesty to bullshit.â?? I replied, â??You use the word â??propagandaâ?? and say â??both sidesâ?? are guilty. Death threats. Nails in the driveway. Obscene graffiti. The list goes on and on. This amazing and unwarranted conclusion apparently is how the MJS rationalizes not covering the story.â?? I asked Stanley if I could quote him, as I wanted to submit an op-ed to the paper. He said, â??No, youâ??re just full of shit, thatâ??s all Iâ??m saying.â?? Yeahâ?¦I mean, itâ??s not as if we just had a prolonged media circus about alleged right-wing incitement of violence, prompting the President of the United States to call on all Americans to strive for greater civility or anythingâ?¦and itâ??s not like the fact that a woman who told politicians their families were going to die is entrusted with the education of small children has much relevance to a debate about the condition of Wisconsinâ??s education systemâ?¦ This case tells us a great deal about the Left. First, the fact that Sarah Palin might as well have personally driven Jared Loughner to Gabrielle Giffordsâ?? doorstop, yet we havenâ??t heard a peep from the civility police about this, or numerous other stories of left-wing civility to come out of Wisconsin, speaks to their utter insincerity about the state of American public discourse. Second, while the average teacher isnâ??t a nut like Windels, the nationâ??s public schools have a higher share of refuseâ??political and otherwiseâ??than many are willing to admitâ??as Megan Fox wrote on March 8, â??the public school system, which is about the same size as the Catholic Church in America with a school in every parish, has more sexual abuse cases in ten years than the Catholic Church has had in fifty.â?? Why? Because Americaâ??s educational establishment sees teaching as a vehicle for ideological indoctrination rather than a sacred duty to raise the next generation of virtuous, independent, well-adjusted citizens, and because union rules insulate their members from accountability. Anti-Republican anger of a less murderous sort is still high in Wisconsin, and I still have doubts that my home stateâ??s conservative leaders are making their case as effectively as they could be (a case Morrissey sees reason to believe the American people are receptive to). But they canâ??t give upâ??from fiscal solvency to the quality of our schools, this fight simply has too much at stake. http://www...to-kill-wisconsin-republicans/
asdasdfasdfasdfasdfa Member	Tue Apr 05 07:34:39 "Left-Wing KINDERGARTEN Teacher Threatens to Kill Wisconsin Republicans" Anti-republican yes, but why left-wing? How does the blogger came to this conclusion?
Aeros Member	Tue Apr 05 08:47:09 And more to the point, who CARES what some retarded Kindergarten teacher in Wisconsin thinks? The Tea Party had plenty of signs just like that incidentally. What is if the Right Wing in America and its desperation to portraying itself as some sort of victim?
Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 09:24:19 LOL And they used to call me a hack. :)
Pissflaps McGee Member	Tue Apr 05 10:34:44 "who CARES what some retarded Kindergarten teacher in Wisconsin thinks? " Other Wisconsinites, I imagine.
CrownRoyal Member	Tue Apr 05 10:44:42 And Hot Rod.
so what Member	Tue Apr 05 11:48:16 Used to call you? People still do. And you still are a hack, HR.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Tue Apr 05 11:52:01 "Right-Wing Politicians Drive KINDERGARTEN Teacher Into Murderous Rage"
kargen Member	Tue Apr 05 11:52:35 "The Tea Party had plenty of signs just like that incidentally." You want to provide some examples? There were some comparing President Obama to Hitler and plenty of signs accusing him of being socialist or not constitutionally eligable to be president, but I didn't see any that actually called for his sudden death.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Tue Apr 05 12:02:29 "We Came Unarmed (This Time)" "WARNING: If Brown can't stop it, a Browning can"
Aeros Member	Tue Apr 05 12:28:14 If the 1st Amendment does not work, we always have the 2nd Amendment.
kargen Member	Tue Apr 05 15:32:34 Some clever slogans. So where are the actual examples though. You know, a link to a photo of the signs? Not saying they don't exist. You just claimed there was "plenty" so I assumed you would be able to show one.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Tue Apr 05 16:16:39 http://2.b...arW0/s1600/tea_party_signs.jpg http://www.thecontrarianmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/tea-party-sign-armed.jpg http://kaystreet.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/unarmedthistime.jpg http://lh4.ggpht.com/_nweQSRDkBhs/TI5soEoZkGI/AAAAAAAAANk/vgKhjLDIYDk/1_thumb%5B3%5D.jpg http://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/IMG950435.jpg
NeverWoods Member	Tue Apr 05 16:36:19 You gave kargen links, really? He deserves no damn links.
kargen Member	Tue Apr 05 16:43:43 I do so deserve links! So it turns out there are major fuck-ups on both sides (or all three/four/whatever sides). I hadn't seen those signs, now I have and the people weilding them are as moronic as those in Wisconson with simular signs.
Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 16:47:42 Tumblweed, where is the sign that is directed at politicians that states, "Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your families will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks."
Clitoral Hood The Bloody Scourge	Tue Apr 05 16:49:46 please point out how 1 person is equivalent to many people.
tumbleweed the wanderer	Tue Apr 05 16:50:07 where is _any_ sign that says that? sorry, i don't have access to every letter some crackpot writes to someone
Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 16:51:23 Evidently The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel does.
Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 16:52:41 But as we have seen you do have access to the signs that crackpots bring to peaceful demonstrations. Game, set, match.
Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 16:55:25 The point is, there are crackpots on both sides, but it is the union thugs that show up at Tea Party demonstration and beat people up. Or do you need to see that video again?
Hellfire Member	Tue Apr 05 17:37:50 Way to pick as biased of a source as possible Hot Rod. On their front page: Why You Better Pray that God is Not Dead â?? Dennis Prager Diagnoses America's Disease The Obama Administration Finally Reverses A Dangerously Dumb Decision: No Circus Trial In New York Van Jones, the Media's Favorite Communist, Embraces Economic Terrorism ... Regardless of your horribly biased source, I think we can all agree these actions have no place in our society and I fully support prosecuting the woman to the fullest extent of the law.
Hot Rod Member	Tue Apr 05 18:11:37 HF, I don't see any of those stories on their front page. http://www.jsonline.com/news/
Firestorm Phoenix Member	Tue Apr 05 20:26:52 "And they used to call me a hack. :)" - What do you mean "used to"?
Chris Dodd Member	Wed Apr 06 06:15:30 ^exactly what I was thinking lol
CrownRoyal Member	Wed Apr 06 06:51:49 Reminds me of Mitch Hedberg line - "I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too"
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