Glenn Beck Campaign Leads to Death Threats For 78 Year Old New York Professor

[kpete]

Glenn Beck Campaign Leads to Death Threats For New York Professor

Frances Fox Piven is a 78-year-old professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, who Fox News host Glenn Beck has declared "an enemy of the Constitution." Logically, to a certain type of Beck-worshipping nut, that means she should die, according to a report from The Progressive. Just a sampling from Beck's website: "Be very careful what you ask for honey... A few well placed marksmen with high powered rifles... Maybe they should burst through the front door of the arrogant elitist and slit the cow's throat... Somebody tell Frances I have 5,000 rounds ready." Not that it's ever a good time to threaten political violence, but uh... Now?

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More from The Progressive:
http://www.progressive.org/mc012111.html

*****The Center for Constitutional Rights just sent a letter to Roger Ailes, president of Fox News, urging him "to intervene and bring a stop to ...the reckless endangering of the safety of Professor Piven."

((((The letter, signed by executive director Vincent Warren and legal director William Quigley, concludes: "Professor Piven's life could be at stake."

the rest:
http://www.progressive.org/mc012111.html

[chelsea0011]

1. Letters? Where are the warrants?

[LiberalEsto]

2. This is outrageous

Beck belongs in a padded cell so he can rant to himself to his little slimy heart's content and nobody else has to hear that shit.

[Frustratedlady]

3. Have they been able to figure out why Beck is targeting her?

I understand it has been going on for quite a while.

Shows how brave he is...to pick on an elderly woman. She has more brains than he could ever dream of having.

[The Magistrate]

6. Several Decades Ago, Ma'am

She observed, along with her late husband, that if poor people actually applied for every item of assistance programs they were eligible for, and actually voted at something near a hundred percent rate, the result could be revolutionary.

[Frustratedlady]

9. So? That's enough to get you killed?

I was surprised that she wasn't frightened by these threats in the inteview I saw. I would be scared to death to be living by myself and know those creeps were watching my activities.

This is just too bizarre.

[The Magistrate]

10. More Than Enough, Ma'am, In Beck-Land

These people just go in the direction their Leader points them.

Beck is promoting a strain of right extremism so virulent even conservatives forty years ago denounced it and distanced themselves from it.

[Swamp Rat]

4. Sounds like a death threat to me.

Ain't that against the law anymore? :shrug:

[somone]

5. If this isn't proof that Glenn Beck is evil scum

then I don't know what is

[FiveGoodMen]

7. His followers are evil scum, too

And there are millions of them.

No Glenn Beck fan should ever be regarded as human.

[provis99]

8. all this hate because she supports poor people and labor unions.

I hate conservatives; they are all evil.

[Submariner]

11. A Special kind of MURDER

Beck's ego feels he can fire up some unbalanced teabagger to actually murder Piven. I imagine he would get quite a power thrill out of taking a life, and knowing law enforcement could not touch him on free speech grounds. He would get away with it.

[jtrockville]

12. Is the FBI investigating?

[RandySF]

13. David Gergen says let's not overreact

Nothing is ever the Right's fault.

[felix_numinous]

14. The only reason Glenn Beck is not tagged as a terrorist

is because he is white. If a Muslim man or a Black man, or Latino man were saying these exact things, they'd be hauled off in cuffs.

Glenn Beck, and anyone calling for the murder of American citizens for any reason, is a domestic terrorist. This is the message that has to be clear.

[fatbuckel]

16. Second that!

[tomp]

15. file fucking charges! nt

[Heywood J]

17. I guess it takes a big man

to anonymously threaten a 78-year old widow with home invasion and murder.

A sane country would have him prosecuted for incitement and the others for death threats.

[neverforget]

18. It's okay because the left is just as bad.

:sarcasm:

[Karenina]

19. There really should be a law...

or SOMETHING. This is some seriously sick shit.

[Tsiyu]

20. ...

http://esupport.fcc.gov/complaints.htm

[bobthedrummer]

21. Does anyone doubt that BECK is following the tactics of propaganda found in the Third Reich?

Why not, since there are no limits to anything, by those that called our Constitution "a goddamn piece of paper", in this privatized New American Century.

What BECK does is more than propaganda-it's another example of what some DUer's call "stochastic terrorism"--styistically much like a US 21st century version of Volkischer Beobachter.

Rumsfeld's Roadmap to Propaganda (The National Security Archive/Electronic Briefing Book 177)

Secret Pentagon "roadmap" calls for "boundaries" between "information operations" abroad and at home but provides no actual limits as long as US doesn't "target" Americans
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB177/index.htm

I learned at college by reading the work from Piven, Mills, Braverman and a lot of others-I learned a lot by having a cup of coffee with Michael Parenti and talking with Ray McGovern at my alma mater, but I learned the most about the character of NAZIS from my elementary school GI Bill teachers, including one who was a fluent German speaking MP guard that assisted Allied interrogaters at Nuremberg.

What else can we expect from a neo-nazi TeaBag backed RW POS like BECK from the propaganda/agitprop darkside world called on by the "unaccountable" war criminals that made their move to dominance during the BUSH/CHENEY era?

[Kurovski]

22. K&R. (nt)

[bobthedrummer]

23. "N _ _ _!" n/t