In response to Brattleboro, VT's ballot measure calling for the arrest of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, patriotic Americans across the country called their contacts within terrorist cells around the world and requested that they attack and kill several thousand wackjobs in Vermont. These brave men and women also asked that the terrorists cut off the heads of the Brattleboro selectmen, video tape it, and post it on the internet.
Do you think I'm being facetious? Yeah, just a bit. But seriously, via yahoo, A.P. reporter John Curran has the story of the many responses that town of Brattleboro officials have received in the wake of their ballot measure and subsequent story on the Drudge Report.
The petition prompted Brent Caflisch to go to his computer in Rosemount, Minn. "Maybe the terrorists will do us all a favor and attack your town next, our country would be much safer with several thousand dead wackjobs in Vermont," he wrote.
It went on to say terrorists could kidnap the three Select Board members who voted in favor, "cut their heads off, video tape it and put it on the internet."
Caflisch, who confirmed sending the e-mail, said Tuesday he did it out of disgust after reading about the measure on The Drudge Report.
A few messages were positive ("Arrest Bush and Cheney? You go, Brattleboro!" wrote one man) but most were critical.
"Be American, not a sniffeling liberal town that sleeps under the shield of safety provided to you by your President," said another e-mail. "Vacation to VT CANCELLED!"
Indeed, here we have right wing Americans, in desperate adulation of their Dear Leader, calling for the death of their fellow Americans because they have a different political viewpoint.
This is the Amerika of the 21st Century. God Bless Us (not really everyone though, just those who reside in the spiritual nuc-u-luh bliss of our Dear Leader.)