Local Weasel Tries a Little Intimidation.
The message and front side of a bit of postcard intimidation. Note the addressee. I’ll give the mope this much-he didn’t actually use crayon.
After a long day at work yesterday, I got of the bus. On the way in the house I gathered the mail and put it on the kitchen table to sort. But first I had to fill the bird feeders for our hungry feathered guests, gather up dirty dishes around the kitchen, fill the sink to soak them, and crush pop cans for re-cycling. After a while I returned to sorting the mail. I almost missed a postcard. It was addressed to me and hand lettered. It read:
Dear patrick
We know what you think about God. Now here’s what God thins about you.
Eccl 10:2
A wise man’s heart inclines him to the right.
but a FOOLS heart to the left.
Since we know you, we throw in DOLT!
C.C.C.
All things considered a pretty sophomoric bit of drivel. The address side contained the return address Concerned Citizens Committee, McHenry, IL. I am 99% sure that there is to such organization. The whole thing would be totally laughable if not for one thing. It was not the religious message that counted, it was the non-to-subtle announcement that “we know where you live.” In other words it was meant as intimidation, an implied threat.
I don’t quake with fear from the antics of an anonymous alleged Christian. He may want me to know they know where I am, but he sure don’t want me to know who he is. The words that spring to mind are yellow, lily-livered weasel.
As far as I can tell, this missive must have been the result of a blog post about a week ago exposing the folly of a letter writer in the Northwest Herald for trying to justify America as a “Christian nation” by using quotes from Thomas Paine of all people. You can check out the post here.
I never replied to the original letter in the paper because I had expended my once in thirty day’s eligibility a few weeks earlier. Not did I engage in the online comments, a veritable cesspool of ignorance, bile, and hatred.
Still, I have a pretty good idea where the post card came from, if not the exact identity of genius behind it.
On May 20, I did reply to a Letter to the Editor accusing Democrats of being Communists. I also posted the original letter with my reply on my blog here. After my reply was printed in the paper a few days later, the predictable furor erupted in the on-line comments posted to the Northwest Herald’s web page. One particularly persistent commentator was identified as being from McHenry. In a series of comments he made clear that he knew what I looked like-big, fat and old as apparent by photos found either on my blog or on Facebook. He mentioned my employer’s business by name with note that potential clients not do business with him for employing a communist. And then he mentioned my daughter Maureen by name and took care to insult her. I don’t give a rat’s ass about being insulted or called names by these slugs, but I did take exception to the slur on my daughter.
I replied that he knew who I was, but that he remained cowardly cloaked in anonymity. I invited him, if he had the courage, to contact me personally to arrange a meeting. And I may have done my best Harry Truman imitation and inferred that I might rearrange his face for attacking my daughter. His reply was that she was “fair game” along with my employment and any one associating with me.
I am pretty certain this is the same prick as the post card writer. But since he has already dragged my family into it, I have to assume that the implied threat to me is a threat to them as well.
Since the chucklehead apparently looks for my stuff on line, I’m going to guess that the pond scum will read this. Sir, I reiterate my invitation for you to crawl out from under your rock and face me. If not, I don’t think I would have to search very long and hard to find out exactly which cretin you are. And I have absolutely no fear of facing you.