Earlier in the month, a very odd email was sent to a long list of people. Including, the entire Alameda City Council, Alameda County Republican Party, Alameda’s three newspapers (Journal, Sun and Times-Star), Alameda City Attorney, City Clerk, City Manager, most of the school board, St. Philip Neri School and Parish, The Bishop of the Oakland Archdiocese, Alameda Republican Federated, 2 members of the AUSD Staff, 1 hospital staffer, 1 frequent Don Roberts letter writer, and what one must assume are 4 or 5 random friends….oh, and the Prime Minister of Canada.
The email began with a link to an article in the Merced Sun Star about a teacher using the War in
I’m only going to run the first paragraph, you can read the whole, incredible letter at the
Here’s where I would take each so-called member of the City Council and Board of Education, and line them each up against a brick wall, and let the Army use the wall and the “dummies” as target practice.
That’s right, the in the first paragraph, the writer suggests lining up the City Council and School Board and shooting them. Not incredibly appropriate, in fact I can say that I know of at least one recipient who was a little concerned that the writer might be dangerous, so if it was suppose to be funny, it wasn’t.
So here’s my question, why in the world would the
I am a fan of the Sun, I like the people there, I enjoy their paper, but I can’t figure out what might have been going through their minds on this one. Immediately after the letter, they printed:
Editor’s Note: The Alameda Sun is an ardent supporter of the First Amendment.
Which is all fine and dandy, except that as a private newspaper, the First Amendment has nothing to do with anything, and they as a paper make decisions each and every day that decides who’s voices will and won’t get coverage in a specific week.
This has been gnawing at me since it ran. I mean, this wasn’t even a letter just sent to the
Letters that begin with “we should kill the city council and school board” should be dumped where they belong, the trash. I was really disappointed to see it getting exposure it didn’t deserve do to a complete lack of public decorum.
It would have probably been more appropriate if he had said that there weren’t enough lamp posts in all of Alameda to hang these traitors. You must be new around here. These type of right-wing nut jobs are given free rein in Alameda to threaten whoever they wish. Why did the Sun publish the letter? Because they could. Makes the rest of us aware of what lurks just under the surface in the minds of some Alamedans. Would similar comments against conservative elements have brought the police to the door? It does make one think.
the letter was signed and the name was familiar. Does anybody know if the guy was visited by the police. It’s not too late. They could charge him with TERRORISM and send him to Gitmo.