Lakin threatened with death, birthers pictured in crosshairs
By Jack Minor – -
Margaret Hemenway with the American Patriot Foundation said the organization which was created to support Lt. Col. Terry Lakin during his legal proceedings has received dozens of threatening letters, emails and phone calls since its inception.
Hemenway says many messages criticizing Lakin contain vulgarities and reveal a high level of hatred. She only occasionally responds to them with remarks like “your mother would be ashamed of you for using such language.” However she has said that she has received some comments that rose to a level of concern.
One letter postmarked Columbus, Ohio was investigated by the Postal authorities as it contained a direct threat against Lakin.
“This is to inform you that LTC Larkin (sic) is a F—— COWARD who should be put in front of a firing squad and shot. If I see his a– on the streets of Washington I will save the government the expense of a trial, I’ll dip a bullet in — and shoot him in the head. This — off deserves to die on the streets of America.”
Hemenway told the Gazette that postal authorities were unable to locate the sender, however authorities told her the letter was prosecutable. Among the hate mail was a header featuring the word birthers in the crosshairs and the words “load em’ up.”
“I get so tired of liberal members of the media calling us hate mongers for wanting to see proof of Obama’s eligibility. We have never advocated violence in any form. Those on the left exhibit the most hate-filled rhetoric I have ever seen.” She went on to say that since the conviction of Lakin “they seem to have become unglued. I believe they know things are coming to a head and they are beginning to realize they cannot suppress the truth much longer.”
The threats are part of a pattern against conservative organizations following the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona.
The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner had a history with Arizona law enforcement including a traffic stop just hours before the shooting. Loughner had an occult shrine in his backyard. He also stated his favorite books included Mein Kampf and the Communist Manifesto.
Attorney Judy Clarke is representing Loughner. Clarke has a history of representing nefarious figures including Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Zacarias Moussaoui who was a co-conspirator in the attacks on Sept. 11.
Several members of the media have continued to portray conservatives as responsible for Loughner’s actions.
Rush Limbaugh made the media reaction the entire subject of his show on Monday. Limbaugh asked “what if the shooter’s name had been Muhammad?” He pointed out that immediately following the shootings at Ft. Hood by Major Nidal Hasan, a muslim who shouted Allah Akbar as he opened fire on fellow soldiers. Hasan killed 13 and wounded 30 others before being stopped by an armed woman. Hasan is still awaiting trial for the shootings.
Limbaugh also pointed out heated the language Obama made since running for office. Statements have included saying if opponents brought a knife he would bring a gun, and talking about punishing enemies. Obama also compared the Republicans to terrorists saying they were “hostage takers” during the debate over tax cuts.
Following his remarks Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik blasted Limbaugh for defending conservatives from accusations they motivated Loughner. Limbaugh “attacks people, angers them against government, angers them against elected officials and that kind of behavior in my opinion is not without consequences.”
Dupnik had previously blamed Sarah Palin and other conservatives in the hours following the shooting.
The media’s attempt to blame conservatives appears to have prompted a death threat by one of the shooting victims in Arizona. The remark at a town hall meeting when tea party founder Trent Humphries objected to ABC News Christiane Amanpour ‘s attempt to start a discussion on gun control. Humphries objected saying the topic should be held off until after all of the funerals for the victims. J. Eric Fuller who was shot in the knee told Humphries “you’re dead.”
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Lakin is already a footnote.
Hemenway’s PayPal button must not be getting enough exercise.
Lt. Col. Lakin is already a hero.
@ Victoria
Not to the officers corps, of which I am a member.
Is the Greeley Gazette supposed to be a newspaper, or is it a Jack Minor run pro-Lakin blog?
Way to ignore all inconvenient stuff like facts and just regurgitate the ramblings of the deeply unpleasant and incapable of telling the truth Ducky Hemenway. I’d go so far as to say truth rolls off her like the water runs off her namesake.
Historian Dude….you are typical of the left. You were educated by the left…historian dude of course. You kow towed to the leftist history departments to get your degree at least…if you have one. Your opinions too are no more that a footnote in anycase, unless you are a real historian dude with publications. You spend a lot of time worrying on this website. Where do you find the time to read professional history? I, a policy analyst with decades of experience and reading too, would advise Victoria and others, to be quite suspicious of any self described historian, living near the university of northern colorado, who is “wasting” time monitoring the Greeley Gazette.
@ Linus
Actually, I was educated at the US Military Academy at West Point… and institution not know for its left leaning tendencies while teaching history.
That said, rather than respond further to the puerile and irrelevant well poisoning that constitutes your post, do you have anything substantive to say regarding the actual article?
The Birthers just HATE and can’t debate, where is there proof you might asked? Up where the sun don’t shine, HA, HA, show some proof birthers or people will continue to see you as dumb, stupid or racist, maybe all three. Can you blame them?
I think that those of us that are not on the “left” had better be very careful. I think that we are up against something that we may not fully comprehend.
For instance, to pick something very simple for an example:
We look at the debt. outstanding liabilities, and shrinking revenues of our collective financial situation, and think that everyone agrees that something must be done to prevent collapse, default, etc.
Then we look at the globe and the history book, and the total wealth production of the economy, and decide that spending must be cut.
This is NOT what the left sees. I don’t know what they see, but it’s not this.
Their response is that the system needs to be rejiggered to produce more free stuff. The more that the free stuff does not happen, the more they become convinced that they must get active and even violent to make it happen.
I am almost 48 and just figuring this out. It is a little scary, but now I understand why the left has been responsible for some of the greatest atrocities in history.
@ Daniel J Swanson
The only indisputably true comment from your post is this:
It should come as no surprise then that your straw man bears little relationship to what “the left” actual says or believes, since you admit you don’t really know. It is exactly this sort of willful and gratuitous mischaracterization of the political opposition that accounts for so much of the current polarization in debate. The sad thing is that it renders the energy you spend on politics not merely impotent, but ultimately irrelevant.
Hint: It has nothing to do with “free stuff.” It has everything to do with social justice.
As to your gratuitous assignment of blame for “some of the greatest atrocities in history” to the left, I am not normally one to play the tu quoque game. But even your qualification of “some” acknowledges that it is not “all.”
So perhaps you should put that one back in your pants for another day and another thread.
@ Daniel J. Swanson…
What shrinking financial sitation? Yes, the debt levels are troublesome, but companies are growing and profitable and certainly individuals are doing extremely well financially over the last 18 months. Looks at 401k assets, your mutual funds, your IRAs and Roths, your 529 plans. Unless people got scared and bailed at the bottom, things have been really, really good.
I must actually give kudos to Greeley Gazette for letting non birthers post. This is the only birther site that does not seem to censor. and yes, I do consider this a “birther” site.
HistorianDude, if you are an officer in the military I’ll eat my hat. I spent 20 years defending my country and in all that time I’ve never seen an officer (except of course Murtha) who so thoroughly didn’t get the whole issue. My guess is that you’re a shill for the left who thinks it’s his duty to obfuscate what the majority in this country consider an important issue.
@ Retired Military
Start eating. I am USMA Class of 1978.
Oh please, cross hairs weren’t a threat when republicans did it and its not a threat when liberals do it. Get a life. Obama showed us a legal certificate of live birth. What more do you people want?
Update: Governor Abercrombie (Hawaii) now states there is no birth certificate in Hawaii. The point is not to lament on the birthplace. They are all crooked in DC. When McCain was questioned, he provided a long form birth certificate. The point is why has $2 million been spent to cover up? By the way, the computer generated certificate on the web could not get my kid into little league. I sure “hope” for “change”.
@ Mule4pelosie
You have been misled. He has not said this.
You have been misled. To this moment, McCain has never released any birth certificate at all… let alone a “long form.”
You have been misled. President Obama has spent no significant amount of money on this issue. Most of the Birther lawsuits never even included him as a plaintiff.
You have been misled. That COLB would get your son into little league… and a passport to boot.
Fact:
Barack Obama has not and continues to refuse to provide his Birth Certificate to his employers, the American people.
HistorianDude’s claims and opinion is irrelevant.
@ John Washington
Fact.
Barack Obama publicly released his birth certificate more than 2 and one half years ago. In so doing he has provided more proof of his eligibility for the presidency than any other President or Presidential candidate in all of American History.
The entire Birther movement is irrelevant.
For those making the lame excuse and distraction of show us the truth, it would be important to note that the proof of eligiblity is on the illegal communist marxist muslim usurping fraud and Jihadist in our White House.
Obamamao Se Tung has refused to release his records as required by our Constitution. All other legitmate Presidents have provided their documentation to be eligible to be POTUS. I can not believe how dumbed down a portion of America has become.
The Obot sheep for which there is no hope. They are the Zombies and Android Kool-aid Drinkers that voted for this fraud and Jihadist. They remind me of the followers of Jim Jones the cult leader who lead everyone who followed him to Guyana to kill themselves and their children.
These Obots are so dumbed down they would jump off a cliff for this fraud and usurper.
If Historian Dude was in the service at all I would think he was possibly in charge of the latrines.
And Montana is anything but Montana. It is an insult to the state for this Communist to use that
post name.
I have to laugh when I see others post that Obama has shown us his B.C. He has posted a forgery,
& now his overgrown 70 yr old scumbag buddy Abercrombie can’t find one. This is like a bad skit
from Saturday Night Life. These frauds have lied so much they spend most of their time trying to lie
and keep a lid on this massive coverup. If Obamamao was in the clear he would release his
documents. He can’t release them because he is a fraud and usurper.
‘BEING A LIBERAL IS A MENTAL DISEASE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO CURE”.
I am always amused at “True Patriots” who preach sedition and disloyalty. Their hypocrisy is so intense that irony is lost to them. So too is the tiniest grasp on reality.
That single sentence makes seven accusations… not one of which has the tiniest piece of support or evidence. It is in fact the bloviation of sad littel man so blinded by his own hate and bigotry that he no longer even realizes how stupid he sounds.
The irony here is that, as true patriots know, in this country we are innocent until proven guilty. So no, TP, the burden of proof is entirely on the Birthers who after more than 2 and 1/2 years of trying have never been able to defend a single of their accusations with evidence.
So of course… “True patriot” covers for his inadequacy with a lie:
In actuality, no other president has ever so much as provided the tiniest shred of documentation of their eligibility. When Obama released his birth certificate in June of 2008, that single act was more proof of eligibility than any other President in all of US History.
In point of fact, “True Patriot,” at 22 years of age I was in charge of nuclear weapons. This is more responsibility than you will ever see in your entire disloyal life, and I was barely out of my teens at the time. The Birther phenomenon is populated by men and women like you, so impotent and ineffectual at their own lives that they can find no satisfaction in anything other than whining about their betters.
But since your very UserID is a lie, why should you be expected to get even that one fact right?
The first two of eleven state “Birther bills” came up for committee votes yesterday; Arizona and Montana.
Both failed to advance.
Two down, nine to go.