ANOTHER EMAIL from Mr Gatlin
who has contacted the FBI because of threats he received from viewers of this
website
As I said before, The
personal information is to be considered private. Most people assume the best
but you continue to throw insults at me only because I sent a comment. I don't
mind my comment being used but my personal signature should have been for your
eyes only. Most sites will only accept comments with this information but do not
release it. As far as the threats I have turned them over to the FBI in Omaha,
and since I just retired from the TSA, they will work on them fast.
Thank you
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Reader Responses
Lisa,
Poor poor
Walter, he airs his ignorance in a public forum and then cries like a baby when
no one cowers before his might. You are right, how REPUBLICAN! He cries "foul"
because you posted his name but then he sends you his COMPLETE name! I am
surprised he did not include his blood type too. And just like a REPUBLICAN when
someone fights back he diverts his embarrassment and shame by insinuating that
his daughter is in jeopardy! I think her biggest threat is a dad who barks
loudly but can't back up what he says. And just like a REPUBLICAN he can't admit
defeat- he asks the government to fight for him. Lisa, please block his further
emails- he has more problems than any one on this site can possibly help him
with.
Richard Amburgey
(ps, I am NOT republican so you can post my name!)
I find everything about Mr Gatlin
quite funny, except the threats he claimed my viewers sent.
This has reached a new level since
Mr Gatlin said he has contacted the FBI.
I can imagine the FBI interviewing
Mr Gatlin.
FBI: How
did this begin?
Mr.
Gatlin: Well, I sent an email to Lisa Casey telling her what I thought of her
website and she posted it on her website with all my personal information and I
started getting threatening emails from her group!
FBI: How
did she get your personal information?
Mr.
Gatlin: It was in the email I sent her.
FBI: Was
it labeled as personal information?
Mr
Gatlin: No
FBI: Did
you ask her not to post your personal information?
Mr.
Gatlin: Well, I just assumed she would not post my business website, address and
phone numbers that are included in my email signature!!
FBI: Did
you ask Ms Casey to remove those items from her website?
Mr.
Gatlin: Yes
FBI: Did
she?
Mr.
Gatlin: Yes, except for my website and email address
FBI: Did
Ms Casey ever threaten you?
Mr.
Gatlin: No, but she insulted my intelligence!
FBI:
Please provide me with the threatening emails and I will investigate it further.
This is one of the reasons I post
nutty email in it's entirety, especially with their email address included -- I
make it a matter of public record, in case anything happens to me, like an FBI
investigation.
Email
Subject: trolls
Lisa dear
I have been involved in the fight against Bush (though not as prominently and
courageously as you)since and before he stole the election in 2000. It has been
an arduous, sometimes distressing, sometimes maddening preoccupation. I'm lucky
however, because I play music professionally and this gives me not only great
pleasure but takes me completely away from the despicable actions of the
Bush/Cheney administration so that (I hope) I am able to keep a more balanced
perspective than if I was involved unceasingly, as you and so many others are.
For the same reason, I also watch movies and here in Australia there is a great
movie review service
http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/ which I use to gauge whether or not
I might like to see a particular show.
While I've watched David and Margaret's TV show for many years I hadn't until
recently visited their website; when I did I was astounded to find that even
here, trolls leave messages in the comments section. Any movie that reveals the
iniquities of the Bush junta or the madness of our self-destructive society are
trashed so that Michael Moore, Al Gore and John Pilger attract disparaging,
ill-spelt and unreasonable criticism.
I find it extremely hard to deal with these people in a civil manner, given that
they will employ any tactic to denigrate and demean any point of view that is
not in lockstep with their destructive world-view. However, I constantly remind
myself that it is this quality that divides us; if I lower myself to their level
the cause that I adhere to which employs humaneness, empathy and social justice,
is lost.
Lisa, your
site has unfailingly represented those values over the years and so I know you
will understand when I say that publishing people's home address cannot become a
tactic of the liberal cause because it is practised by the worst of the right
wing sites, such as Michelle Malkin, to further their hate-filled objectives by
giving the stupidest people an opportunity to harrass and intimidate people in
their homes. One only had to witness the recent attacks on 12 year Grahame Frost
and his family. Also, Jesus' General did it once but after many weeks of debate
with his readers, he had to admit he made a mistake.
I know you will accept this suggestion in good humour with the knowlege that
your regular readers will view this misstep as a perfectly human reaction to an
act of provocative stupidity.
As always, Love to you and yours
waldo.
Hello Waldo,
It is always good to hear from you.
What disturbs me most about this is that Mr Gatlin claims he was threatened by
viewers of my website. I told him to contact the authorities and he said he
reported the threats to the FBI and would be taken care of quickly "because" he
is a retired TSA employee. I take him at his word and I fully expect to be
contacted by the FBI or TSA, although I have no knowledge of any threats against
Mr Gatlin.
When Mr Gatlin wrote me an nutty email and presented himself as the Republican
owner of an educational toy website, I thought -- "Wow, a grammatically
challenged Republican who owns a educational toy website, is calling me a liar!
A perfect fit for today's edition about another grammatically challenged
Republican!" The info Mr Gatlin sent me was presented as his business info, not
as his personal info.
I graciously removed the info he sent me when he emailed me "my little girl
lives here too" realizing Mr Gatlin sent me his HOME address & phone numbers
that he also uses for his
business.
Talk about leaving yourself and your family wide open!
Again a Democrat had to clean up the mess a Republican created.
It's hard work running a comedy website!
Thank you for your thoughtful email.
Later,
Lisa
This is an email
written by AHNC viewer, Alan Charles to Mr. Gatlin
Sir,
Like most Bush supporters who have written Lisa at her site,
you want to have things both ways; you want to be able to write
whatever you want without allowing anyone to respond in disagreement.
I supported and voted for George Bush in the 2000 election, however,
I changed parties August 15, 2003 and wrote him and told he was the reason.
I didn't vote for Al Gore because I saw him as an extension of the Clinton
presidency
and I thought Clinton was an embarrassment to the office. George Bush ran as
a compassionate conservative who was going to unite the country, but
it seems his compassion and his conservatism were forgotten
and the only "uniting" I've seen is against him.
If you don't like what Lisa is doing, go post on a rightwing website if you can.
Most I've visited don't allow readers to post; it's mostly liberal websites that
allow that.
I was a registered Republican 40 years until changing parties in 2003. What
bothers me most
is what the right wing has done to my Grand Old Party. I no longer recognize the
party I grew up with.
To take a several billion dollar surplus as Mr. Bush assumed upon taking office,
and driving it to
an almost equal deficit before 9/11, can not be considered conservative in
anybody's book.
To begin gutting and cutting military pay and benefits upon assuming office long
before 9/11
can not be considered compassionate in anybody's book.
To hand out 5 tax cuts to the wealthiest 1% of American taxpayers while fighting
2 wars is just foolhardy.
You write that all Lisa does is post cartoons. Perhaps you have not been reading
her site long because
she also intersperses fact-filled links about the hijinks of this administration
amongst those cartoons.
There is a plethora of information contradicting almost everything this
administration is telling us
available to anyone willing to use google. Sadly, I find almost all Bush
supporters unwilling
to face the truth of that information because it contradicts what they believe
to be true.
As a Vietnam veteran who served during the 1968 TET offensive, I am saddened
each time I realize
that only about a dozen or so elected representatives have ever served in
combat, yet these are the people
making the decisions to support this president's desires to send our brightest
and best into an unnecessary war.
I fully supported America going to Afghanistan in search of Osama bin Laden,
however, I began writing Mr. Bush
almost every day when he began his runup to his war in Iraq pleading with him to
seek calmer counsel than
what he was receiving from the hawks in his administration. It has now been
proven to my satisfaction
his mind was made up to attack long before he began talking about it in
television addresses.
Perhaps one day you will learn how badly you have been deceived by this man and
his administration.
If that day ever comes, you too, may join with many others of us who now despise
what he is doing
to our American way of life. America is in crisis right now, with major
challenges facing us, but
until we can stop all the shouting at, shouting down, demeaning and demonizing
of those
who hold different ideas of how things ought to be, we will accomplish nothing.
In the meantime, I will suggest that you not visit websites to post your
comments unless you realize
that many of us have grown weary of your vision of America and will challenge
your ideas.
Do feel free to write and challenge what I believe. I may not change your
position, but
at least you will have a better picture of what we reforming Republicans
believe.
Alan Charles
former Republican
veteran, 1968 TET offensive
very concerned citizen
And this is Mr
Gatlin's response to Mr. Charles
Let me have
your phone number and address and see if you like it!
And this is Mr
Charles responding to Mr Gatlin
See ... now
this sir, sounds like a threat worthy of FBI surveillance.
Would you like me to forward this to them so they can check you out?
Have you forgotten that as recently as last week Republicans posted addresses
and phone numbers of the families of the two children who spoke up for the SCHIP?
I stand by my statements below. You want it both ways, but you cannot write what
you want
without someone wanting to dispute you. As I said below, I post on a lot of
websites and
none of them I am aware of require you put your address and phone number to
post. The only places I am aware of that require that are letters to the editor.
I still believe you should either not visits sites like Lisa's or just not post
there.
Alan Charles
This is my email
to Mr Charles
My Gallant Alan!
What Democratic website wouldn't publish a grammatically challenged blathering
email sent by the Republican owner of an educational website? Am I the only to
see the irony here?
Once I realized this troublemaker sent me his HOME address and phone numbers,
which he uses for his business, I removed them.
Once again a Democrat cleaning up after a Republican. ...wink...
Big hug Alan.
Later,
Lisa
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I'm thankful I have the ability to have friends on
all sides of the political spectrum. My friends and I have political debates and
we learn from each other. We don't engage in hateful diatribes. We often use
humor to make our political points. I guess that's why we're friends. And that
is why I've always liked Bill Clinton, he has the ability to keep the lines of
communication open, without personally attacking anyone with made-up junk and
often using humor to make his point.
Here's a great example of Bill
Clinton's humor in August 1993, right before the Republican convention, when
Papa Bush's campaign was in full personal attack mode and admittedly so.
Mr. Bush,
or at least his campaign, plans to go after not only Gov. Bill Clinton of
Arkansas but also the Democratic nominee's wife, Hillary. A senior strategist
said: "No sleaze, but maybe some draft-dodging, a lot about his record as
Governor, and plenty about Hillary.
She's more than fair game."...Responding to the attacks on Mrs. Clinton
here, he said,
"You'd think he was running for First Lady." And with scorn: "They
haven't had anything positive to say about themselves. If I were the
Republicans, I'd be more worried about what I could do for America than how I
could bad-mouth Bill Clinton and Al Gore and Hillary Clinton and Tipper Gore."
Fair game? Isn't that the name of
Valerie Plame Wilson's new book?
I miss having an intelligent
president who really cared about America.
"Lisa, Congrats on your sweep! As George Bush might
have said, 'Lucky me, I hit the trifecta.' Seriously, I'm glad to be able to
salute you and all the great laughs you provide." - Daniel Kurtzman, About.com
Guide to Political Humor.
