Left v. right violence - The Tucson shooting - Twitter death threats to Sarah Palin

Twitter threats, Part 1
Twitter threats, Part 2
The Christy family

Sarah Palin

Twitter death threats to Sarah Palin

After the Tucson shooting of Jan 2011, there was a tidal wave of hatred directed at Sarah Palin. There is no evidence that the shooter was interested in Sarah Palin. The shooter was a 9/11 truther who was atheist, anti-war, hated Bush, and burnt the American flag. He never showed the slightest interest in Sarah Palin or the Tea Party. There is nothing to connect Sarah Palin to the shooting.

This did not stop the hatred and fury, which is well captured on Twitter. People below felt free to express in public that they wanted Palin dead, raped, or both. One even wants her children dead.

I am not really a Palin fan. She's all right, and I would prefer her to that idiot Obama, absolutely. But she's hardly my dream President. My dream President would be Victor Davis Hanson.

But this is not about Palin. This is about a blood libel, and the crawthumping hypocrisy of the left.

Joking about raping Palin and her daughters
Mocking Palin's disabled child
More death threats against Palin on Facebook.
I tend to agree with Johnathan Pearce. I'm not a big Palin fan. But I can't stand the people who hate her: "It got me thinking about why certain politicians, even if they espouse views which are not necessarily all that outrageous or objectionable, provoke feelings of such hatred in some quarters. ... There is .. something quite useful about Sarah Palin in this regard. Although I do not agree with all her views, at least as far as I know what they are, I usually find that the sort of people who say they hate or despise her are nobs of the first rank. So it is a sort of useful marker: if I find myself talking to someone and her name comes up and the reaction is as described, I can usually pigeonhole that person as someone to be avoided."

Twitter death threats - Part 1 (not collected by me)

Twitter users wish death on Sarah Palin after the Tucson shooting, Jan 2011.
Of course there is no evidence that the shooter was interested in Sarah Palin.
And Sarah Palin - unlike these scum - has never called for political violence.

The video:
- This video was originally posted by Newswatcher89.
- The above is my edit at my YouTube channel. You can download it as a WMV file.
- Search for more copies on YouTube and Vimeo and Google Video search.
The tweets:
- Screenshots (and here)
- Links to the Twitter users
- N.B. There were two innocents caught in the original Twitter net:
  - Moriah Jovan is innocent - she was not issuing a threat, but commenting on the violent rhetoric. She is in fact conservative / libertarian.
  - John Book is innocent - he was not issuing a threat, but just reporting this pathetic story.
- Also, if you are not familiar with Twitter syntax, note that when you see @someuser in the body of a tweet (not the header), then someuser is not the author of the tweet, but rather someone to whom the tweet was addressed (perhaps against their will). For example, do not blame "exiledsurfer" for this (original here).

Lauren Bendik issued the above public comment about Sarah Palin.
She was upset that it was included in the above video.
So she got YouTube to take the video down on grounds of "privacy"!
Disgusting.

She makes an apology: "im sorry and i regret what i wrote."
She should also apologise for getting the video pulled.

Before It's News points out other Twitter users who do not apologise, like Stephen Patten.

Adam Fine does not apologise. Instead he complains about the video: "It really is funny yet pathetic that someone went through all the trouble to gather so many posts about wishing for palin's death".
That's not what's funny and pathetic here, Adam.

Tweet complains that Palin never gets any death threats.

Twitter death threats - Part 2 (collected by me)

I was interested in whether the above compilation was repeatable. It is.

You can search Twitter at any time and you will find fresh death threats.

Here's a new search, turning up a variety of people who advocate violence, death and rape against Sarah Palin. Why? Who knows. None of them seem to use logic. But I agree with this comment that: "These tweets prove there's no shortage of 'Jared Loughners' out there."

From here.

Shawn and Craig Christy

As Twitter shows, Sarah Palin has received a lot of death threats and rape threats. The most disturbing stalkers may be the Christy family.

Incredibly, when Shawn Christy of Pennsylvania started threatening to rape and kill Sarah Palin, his parents supported him, and his father Craig Christy also started making death threats. Both were arrested by the FBI in Aug 2011.

Palin was granted a protective order (and here) against stalker Shawn Christy of Pennsylvania in 2010.
In 2011 she also got a restraining order against his father Craig Christy.

Shawn Christy (right) with his parents Craig Christy and Karen Christy.
From The Republican & Herald, Pennsylvania.
"Shawn said he sent Palin receipts for a gun but that it wasn't intended as a threat. Rather, he said he sent a receipt from when he sold a gun to a gun shop in Tamaqua in April, letting Palin know that he wasn't going to shoot her." Oh, how reassuring!

Incredibly, Shawn Christy's father Craig Christy actually supports the stalking.
From facebook (and here).

Shawn Christy's mother Karen Christy also supports the stalking.
From facebook.

Shawn Christy and his father Craig Christy were both arrested by the FBI in Aug 2011 and will be sent to Alaska to face charges of stalking and making threats.
The above is a message alleged to have been sent to Palin's lawyer by Shawn Christy.
Extract from the FBI arrest affidavit.

The FBI arrest affidavit also claims that the father Craig Christy made threats.

More claims from the FBI arrest affidavit.

Shawn Christy. From here.

The Valdez airport video

Sarah and Todd Palin react calmly to creepy stalker weirdo at Valdez airport, Alaska, August 17, 2010.
The stalker himself filmed this and put it on the Internet.
Sarah Palin asks: "What's your name?" He replies (note he is already filming her): "What's YOUR name? You look familiar." Talk about creepy!
They photograph him in case he is dangerous.
Copy of video here.
The Palins need better security. It only takes one Jared Loughner to get through.

Since the guy above declined to give his real name or show his face, I thought I would fix that.
He is John Pierce or "Hawk Pierce".
He runs the "Bahama Hawks" shop and "Little Chicks" coffee bar, both at 205 North Harbor Drive, Valdez, Alaska (see street view).
He hates Palin, and actually thought the above video made him look good.
Other Palin haters also thought it made him look good.

An unending stream of death threats

You can search Twitter at any time for terms like:

"shoot palin"
"kill palin"
"die palin"
"palin cunt" (a particularly productive search)

and you will find fresh death threats.

Actor Orlando Jones thinks it is funny to crack this joke about killing Sarah Palin.
Would a white man joking about killing a black woman be equally funny?
He is unapologetic.

Twitter death threats to Republicans.
Collected by this user Sept 2011.

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