Ask and you shall receive.

Sen. Graham has a request.

I wish we could hold people accountable for their actions, but under free speech, you can’t.

Actually, we definitely hold people accountable for the things they say and their actions.  For instance, there are likely many people who will not consider joining Terry Jones' Dove World Outreach Center because of his speeches.  Lots of people probably avoid him in public.  He has certainly been excoriated in the media and in public discourse for his actions.  The problem is that he doesn't care.  What the senator is really lamenting is that some people don't care what others think of them.  That might be lamentable but I don't know what the cure for it could possibly be.

Attn: "I'm all bark"

A little overstatement.

According to the criminal complaint, Windels allegedly sent an email threat to State Sen. Robert Cowles (R-Green Bay) March 9. Later that evening, she allegedly sent another email to 15 Republican legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau).

The subject line of the second email was: "Atten: Death Threat!!!! Bomb!!!" In that email, she purportedly wrote, "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."

"I hope you have a good time in hell," 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 "putting a nice little bullet in your head."

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

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

So in 2011 if you disagree with a politician's policy position and you'd like to express it then a death threat is appropriate.  Not that you are actually threatening mind you.  Just expressing displeasure.  How is the subject of the displeasure supposed to know this, though?  Perhaps we should rethink civility.  If we define death threats as civil then overnight we will have a much more civil discourse.

Post-Inaugural Post

When in the course of human events, well one human's events, it becomes obvious that far too many people are addicted to simplistic arguments that serve no purpose other than stroking their own egos then one, me, must start a blog.

Inaugural post.

This isn't the exciting one.