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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuy Who Staged Anti-Muslim Hate Rally Now Wants You To Give Him $10 Million ‘For Protection’
Source: Addicting Info
We all saw it coming, but 10 million?!
According to Jon Ritzheimer, he doesnt fear for his own safety (because hes a tough guy) but his family has been put in harms way by his actions, and therefore he humbly asks that Fox News watchin, Muslim-hatin America lovers please give him $10 million so he can fortify his house. Given the price tag, this involves coating the entire thing with diamond-embedded gold you know, to keep out the moslems.
But dont worry, skeptics and cynics, he swears he needs it!
I know this seems like an absurd amount of money and Id like to explain that. The money will go towards fortifying my house and getting what ever is necessary to make them feel safe again. I refuse to profit from this and any additional funds will go to Childrens Hospital. You have my word on that! And should I decide to run for John McCains seat in the Senate that is up for grabs this election, money will go towards starting my campaign as well. I would be running as an Independent Free Man who refuses to be labeled left or right.
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/01/guy-who-staged-anti-muslim-hate-rally-now-wants-you-to-give-him-10-million-for-protection/
Gee, that didn't take long!
Coventina
(27,162 posts)demmiblue
(36,875 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)inanna
(3,547 posts)Cerridwen
(13,260 posts)I'll donate an old roll of duct tape for the front of his "fuck Islam" t-shirt and his mouth.
It won't shut him up but he might have to think a bit before falsely yelling fire in a crowded country.
It'd be less expensive and a whole lot easier to use for someone with his obvious mental capabilities as well.
Tree-Hugger
(3,370 posts)Give those bootstraps an extra yank. Work at McDonald's if you need extra cash. If you just try harder and you really, really want it, you'll make all that money on your own.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)another day in your life but will be able to travel the world and live it up at the same time.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)imagine this guy managing to get McCain's seat.
arcane1
(38,613 posts)nolabear
(41,990 posts)One of these days these grifters won't be the latest "rage" and the media will yawn. And we will yawn. And the world will turn one more time.
Meanwhile...
TlalocW
(15,388 posts)There are people out there who have beliefs and who "have beliefs" that they use to make money, and they're all over the scale from 100% believing and have some sort of business based on it because they truly want to help people (very rare) to 0% believing but know that if they can get people riled up about it, they can bank some coin. Pat Robertson and other televangelists of course. I think the non-Monty Python Terry Jones, the preacher who keeps trying to drum up publicity for his Koran burnings probably wanted in on the hate-money but found the field pretty crowded so he went with something that he hoped would bring in the dollars. And I think it's increasing especially since that pizzeria got a million bucks raised for it on a GoFund campaign... more and more scam artists are going to be crawling out of the woodwork, and you'll notice that all these people are right-wingers because they know that their crazier-than-they-are fellow conservatives are more than wiling to send them a couple bucks to keep guns in the hands of Jesus so he can shoot at gay weddings to show the Muslims they mean business or whatever. It's just a matter of finding an issue or incident that will net a lot of them.
TlalocW
MineralMan
(146,325 posts)See this:
http://www.gofundme.com/vxaqn4
Sorry, Charlie...No Hating Bozo Campaigns Allowed
Ut was there and now it ain't.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)although DU'ers are dog lovers.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Capt. Obvious
(9,002 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Doesn't sound like he's an "Independent Free Man," shackled as he is to a government-issued currency.
demmiblue
(36,875 posts)Either way, I hope he doesn't get a bit, a nugget or a dime!
yuiyoshida
(41,835 posts)Meh... baka tare.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)how long it would take for this guy to start grifting.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Considering how his group was treated, I'm not sure why this guy is so fearful. I have a pretty good idea, but nothing proven.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2015/06/01/when-250-anti-muslim-protesters-turned-up-with-guns-this-phoenix-mosque-invited-them-in-for-evening-prayers-video/
You probably heard about the counter-demonstration, but did you hear about what the president of the Islamic center did when the gun-toting knuckleheads showed up?