I was stunned late last night to find this message in my PM. I have no idea who this person is or what I may have said to him to generate this strange and disturbing message. Please read it and see what you think. I'll discuss more after the orange croissant.
THREAD STARTED BY PKRAKER TO GWENNEDD.
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Your attitude
pkraker
Fri Dec 26, 2014 at 12:37 AM PST
Read your bio. I c ur a proud socialist and that you can hate with the best, May I just say that I am glad you are not an American. As fast as we are now devolving, I hope we can turn it around and return to the motto E Pluribus Unum and that Americans re-adopt that attitude rather than to do nothing for our country that show how many bigots we are accumulating. But then, I am older now and suffered through the beginning of this mess during the 1960's. Born in 1950 and thrilled to say, "I got to live in America when it was still free. Ya should have been here then. It was wonderful."
I came from a very poor family who was lucky enough to have a father who, tho we seldom got along, pulled himself up by his bootstraps, took his position seriously, took advantage of our freedoms and died leaving each of his six children with a pretty nice nest-egg. He would have gone to jail these days if anyone cared enough to say anything about the welts I bore - often. I was hard-headed and demanded to "do it my way" even before I had earned that right. I am very proud of his dedication to his family, however. Something we seldom see here anymore now that the government has replaced most fathers. The "G" is our daddy now and is no better than a rich, moraless, absentee father who thinks his only duty to his children is to send in that check each month. Thank God my father was far superior to that. He included a good education and an honest history of this once fabulous country and fed and clothed us to the best of his ability. But the most important thing he did was be here with his children.
Unlike your ilk, I am not against their right to free speech or even the right to hate their own country. I am just wondering what positive thing they have done to improve it rather than t stand in the way of others who are trying to. With the federalization of our schools, about the only thing most kids learn is the art of sexual perversion, abortion, and how to become less dependent on themselves and more on anyone else who has a job and a pocket to pick.
Before my father died - just a couple of years before, he said, "I am glad I am getting old son." I am sad to say that I understand what he meant now. He got old, tired, and saw the futility of trying to assimilate Americans faster than Obama can drag every socialist and communist he can into the melting pot. Good Americans are about as obvious these days as a drop of wine would be in a gallon of water.
In closing may I say that I hope you are doing more for your own country than to keep up a steady rant akin to what we call a cry-baby. America has become too bankrupt to continue to pay for Europe's love of their failed policy of socialism. You need only see how well it works for Greece (as only a starting point in Europe) to see my point and it is spreading across Europe faster than Muslim Extremism. They've even lost their national pride. They have nothing worthwhile anymore. We are done rebuilding Europe over and over. We need China's charity just to make it ourselves now. Too many shots of socialism has killed off American capitalism so we are ALL screwed now.
The TEA party is a glimmer of hope but with our new disinterested news organizations (repeaters rather than reporters) its glimmer has the power of one candle light. Yet, as a good American, I will fight to my last breath to save us.
Have a good day. Just try paying for it by your own labor, if you can.
As I said above, I have never interacted with this person in any way before. I have never seen the avatar before and have never met this person IRL. And I don't know what I said or where, to warrant such a message. I'm just clueless as to why I received it.
I did message the person back:
Re: Your attitude
Gwennedd
Fri Dec 26, 2014 at 04:09 AM PST
Hello,
I have no idea who the hell you are or why you decided to single me out for an obviously Conservative rant. Would you care to explain why I received that message from you?
I gave the person 24 hours to respond...and nothing. So I decided to post a diary to make it public and see what you guys have to say about it, and what can be done.
I checked their profile and found that pkraker's been here since 2008, has posted no diaries, and has only made 3 comment since s/he registered:
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First, I should point out that as far as my political identity is concerned, I am a socialist..a democratic socialist. There is no such party as democrats in Canada, and I lean towards socialism a bit. However, I am on this site because I want to help democrats win elections and generally be better democrats. I believe strongly in democracy. I just wish to make my position clear.
That said, I was very disturbed by what seems to be a Conservative rant aimed specifically at me, for no reason that I could discern, except that they believe me to be a socialist. I'm very glad that for some reason, I decided to edit my profile a couple of days ago and hid my personal information.
So...what do any of you think I should do? Should I take this to the help desk? I hate to bother elfling with this. It's not a direct threat, but the fact that this lurker that seems to be Republican is on this site and slinking around in the background disturbs me quite a bit. Am I making too much of this and overdramatizing the whole thing? I welcome your suggestions, and ideas.