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The chickenshits at Lowlife Gutless Fascists have crossed a line with me.
They have attacked a dear friend of mine.
Guess what: They have angered this kestrel.
My talons are out, and I am on the wing.
Live Game Feeding - and action items - below the fold.
Rosemarie Jackowski is an advocacy journalist living in Vermont. On March 20, 2003, her 66th birthday, she was arrested for participating in a peaceful protest against the war.
Again, I want to thank the Daily Kos community for the AWESOME response to this diary. Rosemarie is getting a lot of press right now.
I'll be very direct: I would take a bullet for this lady. I love her to death. She is a doll.
I remember once, she and I were having a semi-heated discussion in email about He Who Must Not Be Named.
Suddenly in my email, I found a picture done in MS Paint of a small cottage on the seashore with gulls wheeling in a cloud-laced sky overhead.
The note accompanying it said, "While debating you, I did this to calm you down."
It worked.
Maybe she oughta send me another painting now, because I am wicked pissed.
A hat tip to Karmafishfor alerting me to this situation.
APis now covering Rosemarie's story, and among the attention the coverage has attracted are bloggers who claim fealty to the party of family values and civility, of high-handed morality and civil discourse.
Hypocritical bastards.
I wll make no pretenses here. I have no interest whatsoever in being civil to these dirtbags.
Fuck them.
NOTE:The LGF comments reproduced below are VILE. I have been occasionally peeking in on the right-wing blogs for a while now, but some of this stuff is as bad as I've seen it get. Some of it is on an outrage level on par with what you'd find on the WN sites. There are also some links to Iraq war photos in here that some may not wish to view. I thought it best not to post them directly.
If this is something you don't want to deal with, scroll rapidly down to the picture of the sunrise, or use your browser's text finder and search out the phrase, "very big yawn" and it will carry you past this material. There you will find the action items referred to above the fold.
Let us begin.
#3 MandyManners 12/18/2006 09:44AM PST
Where's a reindeer? Maybe we can get her run over by one.
Ar ar ar. So funny I forgot to laugh.
#10 rcris5 12/18/2006 09:48AM PST
Vermont, great white bastion...no blacks, browns and certainly no Jooos allowed.
(here I redacted my narration from last night....)
12 republic 12/18/2006 09:48AM PST
Thank goodness she is a "former school teacher", although there are plenty of moonbats still to go around.
What the leftist kook moonbats are trying to teach my daughters, in their school, with absolutely no luck, I might add, is beyond me.
This comment speaks for itself.
#14 goodbye_natalie 12/18/2006 09:48AM PST
Nothing that a good Peterbilt couldn't overcome...treat the loony tune like Wily Coyote and watch the moonbats howl.
#25 troonbop 12/18/2006 09:51AM PST
I wish that retired navy guy could figure out a moe dignified way to "get some". Sure she's a younger woman, but she'll probably just get him to spring for bail and then she'll break his heart.
Yes, I am a lonely man with issues.
I see why.
#18 blutonazi98 12/18/2006 09:49AM PST
i think the 73 year old captain is trying to get into a pair of 69 year old pants
Andrew Schoerke. Military veteran and a married man. His wife's name is Nancy.
I guess this asshole is doing his best to live up to his screen name - a bully and a fascist.
#24 FrogMarch 12/18/2006 09:50AM PST
Leftists like to hide behind Grandma and small children.
Cindy is just middle-aged. Bye cindy.
I'm not hiding behind anyone.
#35 locutus 12/18/2006 09:56AM PST
She’s not a loony toon by any means, said Andrew Schoerke, 73, a retired U.S. Navy captain who was arrested with her.
Of course, they have to stand her up against a retired Navy captain so they can imply "see, even this hard-boiled old guy who still wears a crew-cut and salutes the American flag every morning agrees with the Peace Grandma." It gives her instant "street-cred" with every veteran, past, present or future.
Hey Locutus: Rosemarie Jackowski is a retired Air Force officer. I'm so sorry if that fact that indicates she has all the cred she needs on her own shoots down your line of "reasoning".
If you and your ilk are capable of anything resembling "reasoning." Which I doubt.
#36 Colorado Mike 12/18/2006 09:58AM PST
Shows the difference between my home town in Colo and Vermont. We had a moon bat protest here at a local park (near a major throughfare on the east side of town) They were told by the cops to not even step into the street (or think about blocking traffic) One of them did and the cops teargassed the whole lot... Heh, heh, heh.
I'm going to stop interjecting comments of my own here. I might say something I'll regret later.
(Note from morning pre-posting review: And I wasn't kidding. I read some of my own stuff and I was scared of me.)
"These people are fucking sick..." - Lady Kestrel
#50 Terp Mole 12/18/2006 10:11AM PST
Lex-Nex search
Associated Press State & Local Wire
April 13, 1999
Bennington women complaining about child support system
Several Bennington County women are complaining the state child support office has turned itself into a "deadbeat dad protection agency" that is ignoring their needs.
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The agency has "morphed itself into a deadbeat dad protection agency," said Rosemarie Jackowski who said she was owed nearly $250,000 in back child support for her now 30-year-old daughter.
Shakedown granny.
#54 goodbye_natalie 12/18/2006 10:17AM PST
Where does the left dreg up these fossils? So what, we've got crazy Aunt Rosemarie out dancing the waltz in the middle of the street holding a sign? Probably looks like a scene out of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
Call out the psychiatric clinic and get the old woman off the streets before she hurts herself.
I know I said I wasn't gonna interject anymore, but:
#58 TotallySirius 12/18/2006 10:20AM PST
Well,one problem is that there isn't jack shit to do in Vermont....ever hear any stories about the Burlington nightlife?
The boredom causes dain bramage.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! You don't get out much yourself, do you? hehehehehehehehe
74 shortboard surfer 12/18/2006 11:26AM PST
Will she toss a fully-loaded Depends over the White House fence?
Okay. I have to stop. I cannot read this shit anymore:
99 Terp Mole 12/18/2006 12:25PM PST
Mandy(lacks)Manners @ #80: WTF? Do you actually think a father should just get to walk away no matter how long after the CS is owed?
Since when did Vermont taxpayers become liable for $250K (nice round number that) for this peacenik spreading her hippie legs in 1969?
Maybe she should find the trucker or carney who knocked her up and take him to court.
UPDATE: My reaction to this comment was to punch a wall, slightly injuring my hand. Apparently, our colleagues at LGF took it another way:
#148 Terp Mole 12/19/2006 09:51AM PST
Remember those bruised knuckles I talked about? (3+ / 0-)
Recommended by:possum, Allogenes, Lady Kestrel
I owe them to Terp Mole and his hippie legs
Excellent! Terp Mole is handicapped and bruises easily. Should make a fine police report.
But thanks for documenting the assault threat, mouthbreather... consider the police report filed.
That'll put me on the Group W Bench fer sure.....assaulting the wall.
Some of these people seem to think Rosemarie has a problem.
They are correct. Rosemarie indeed has a problem.
Let me show you what Rosemarie's problem is.
(WARNING: Graphic images)
Rosemarie's problem is this.
And this.
Come to think of it, I myself have a problem with this,
And this.
Did my government do this?
And what of this?
At this point, the anger is getting the better of me. It is now 9:27 pm Eastern, Monday, 18 December 2006.
I am going to stop writing now. I will finish this diary when I get up in the morning, and will post it after I get my kids on the school bus. But before I close for the night, I want to share with you the third of three emails I sent to the LGF admins today:
Hey, what's wrong with you cowardly little punks? Why haven't you responded to me?
(REDACTED)
Cowards (REDACTED) Every one of you.
And you'll prove that by not responding to this.
Pshaw.
Hey, how'd the election work out for you?
Asswipes.
Good night. (and good luck...)
(very big yawn)
Okay, I'm back.
First thing I'm going to do is some heavy review and redactions on what I wrote, in beer-fueled anger, last night. Then, I'm going to ask for your help.
Rosemarie has not, as of this writing, found an attorney.
Some additional background and commentary on this matter can be found here. (hat tip: vtpeace)
A legal defense fund has been established, and is being jointly administered in Bennington by Nancy Schoerke and kossack vtpeace. Details are here, in the comment thread.
A blog for discussion of this issue and updates relevant to the situation has been created, and can be found here.
Another thing we'd like to do is hand-deliver a big old stack of letters to Governor Douglas' office in Montpelier, asking him to pardon or grant clemency to Rosemarie.
He will probably refuse, but we can ask. The boots are on the ground to get this done. Please, write a letter, enclose a check if you can, and send it to the address in the comment thread linked above. vtpeace is working on getting paypal going, but she's having trouple with it and I can't help her. If anyone's conversant with that, she could use some assistance.
If you'd like to post your letter in the comment thread, please do so. That would be a great thing.
All forms of assistance - from financial to moral support to prayers - are appreciated, and thank you.