FBI: Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's parents have received threats
Source: CNN
Hailey, Idaho (CNN) -- The FBI is investigating threats against the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, the latest development in a case that has put the spotlight on the circumstances surrounding his capture in Afghanistan and release by the Taliban.
"We are working jointly with our state and local partners and taking each threat seriously," FBI Special Agent William Facer told CNN in an e-mail on Saturday.
Facer declined to detail the nature and severity of the threats, and a military spokesperson for the Bergdahls declined to comment.
Bergdahl's parents have not been seen publicly since the announcement last week that the soldier had been freed from five years in captivity at the hands of the Taliban in exchange for the release of five detainees at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/07/us/sgt-bowe-bergdahl-controversy/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
The right wing hate machine ladies and gentleman.
annm4peace
(6,119 posts)they should be made to stop. They should have to pay for the FBI investigations.
It is sickening.
montanacowboy
(6,078 posts)it's like screaming Fire in a crowded theater
they have whipped up the insane fringe of their party and then sit back and watch the show
how far is this shit going to go?
KT2000
(20,567 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,138 posts)ALWAYS. Fucking assholes.
I was about to remark that probably everyone in the news on a given day ends up on the receiving end of threats, but the minute I read your subject line, I stopped short and replied here instead.
You are definitely right about the bigger picture.
There's no doubt quite an overlap between those who threaten and those assholes toting what they wish could be grenades or rocket launchers into public restaurants these days, and the media--Fox especially--is certainly doing its damnest to see something bad happen here.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I'm not surprised at this turn of events at all, it's so predictable. They have been betrayed by their political and social allies.
They may rethink their beliefs, but then again, maybe not. No matter if how they view this in the long run, no one deserves this kind of treatment.
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)bvf
(6,604 posts)Bowe's dad looks like a Muslim. Haven't heard anything since, but I need to go two full days without eating before I can safely catch up on them.
Fox, and some others can say Bowe's father might look like a taliban, but have you seen those idiots over at Duck Dynasty?
But to my way of thinking, the Duck Dynasty rock-and-roll wannabes have had their stupid faces out there long enough for people not to notice.
At least people who count themselves among the regular viewership of Duck Dynasty.
Historic NY
(37,449 posts)that get their marching orders.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)of a military family they professed to love just weeks ago....until Obama brought their son home.
The hate and hypocrisy are staggering, the fingerprints of Fox are all over this, will they escape justice again?
hopemountain
(3,919 posts)where credit is due for their part in contributing to the demonizing of this family?
i hope they at least have their underwear all knotted up in a wad. mean assholes.
sarge43
(28,940 posts)hopemountain
(3,919 posts)sakabatou
(42,134 posts)vlakitti
(401 posts)from the Fox-obsessed bizarre right and Congressional Republicans, I haven't seen the slightest evidence this goes beyond the predictable 26% that believes G.W. Bush was a wonderful president and also in alien invasions and anal probes. Vietnam and its horrors were enough for most people, and the veteran victims of that awful experience still clog the aisles of the VA.
This alleged scandal hasn't gotten any traction at all so far, and I'm optimistic it won't do better than BENGHAZI, which also ain't going anywhere. And by the way we need to state President Obama has done a fine job throughout this whole surrealistic episode and should get full-throated approval from all those who want an end to this nightmare series of goddamn and pointless wars.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)SunSeeker
(51,504 posts)Big_Mike
(509 posts)How can anyone hold the parents of a grown man responsible for the man's activities? This is insane as well as intolerable.
I personally have many questions regarding Bowe's actions in Afghanistan. I look forward to learning exactly what did happen as he explains it. I will then make a judgment regarding the suitable punishment for him.
But to threaten his mother and father? I have also read of people blaming his home town??? These crazies should have remained seat belted into the short bus for the insane.
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)What is WRONG with these blubber yuckers!!!!
arrrrrgh!
And how can McCain, a on-time prisoner himself, turn on another soldier who suffered a similar circumstance? What a complete piece of trash!
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)I'll tell you what is wrong. The obsessed, brainwashing idiots at FOX news is what's wrong. They have already tried this guy and his family, and found them all guilty. And now the far right loons are coming out, believing he and his family are guilty without a trial. I can only hope that the FBI tracks down and convicts these idiots for their death threats. And why can't we go after FOX for being the judge and jury? They hide behind freedom of speech? What about slander charges against FOX. These far right assholes need to be held accountable for their speech and actions. It's quite sickening.
riverbendviewgal
(4,252 posts)My white American brother who lives in N.E USA hates Obama because he is blsck. He wrote what this to me. He watches FOX cable news. He wrote me that he thought Sean Hannity should run for president. His latest rant was how wrong it was to exchange 5 terrorists for the sargent. He blames your president for EVERYTHING.
I feel so sorry for the sargent's parents. It is good the FBI is protecting them. There is need of a good investigation before accusations are made on their son.. those trying him on rumours are not really Americans.
America is being consumed with hatred stirred by FOX News.
bonniebgood
(940 posts)Afghanistan Taliban treated their POW son better than the American Taliban republicans . At least the Afghanistan Taliban never threaten the parents. This will never stop until the media is held accountable for inciting violence against the public and calling it news. Chris Matthews should be ashamed of himself and be fired for joining Faux new criminal hatred and calling it hardball questions.
randys1
(16,286 posts)any wonder he may have wondered off one night, surrounded by people maybe in his platoon who think like these idiots, who knows why he did what he did but I can assure you if it was any of the fox news people over there they would be dead at the hands of their own troops.
This country is on the brink, one more fucking day of this shit and I am going to lose my mind...
freshwest
(53,661 posts)riverwalker
(8,694 posts)All of FOX, Jake Tapper, anyone who repeated the "he left a note so we know he deserted" false meme (also known as a LIE), is responsible, as are the guys spreading it. That includes any "journalist" who repeated it without doing five minutes of independent research.
The "platoon" members who betray and turned their backs on another soldier for a free trip to NYC Faux studios to be treated as celebrities ("Woo woo I met Megyn Kelly!" make me sick.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)nations media would call them out, but the American media thrives on hate and lies.
Death threats are free speech to these animals.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)A few conservatives kindly pointed out that the entry about the Republican Clown College was not fair and balanced. So, in the interest of fairness and balance, here's a little light hearted conservative-made humor poking fun at liberals -- a "Liberal Hunting Permit."
No Bag Limit - Tagging Not Required. May be used while under the influence of alcohol. May be used to Hunt Liberals at Gay Pride Parades, Democrat Conventions, Union Rallys, Handgun Control Meetings, News Media Association, Lesbian Luncheons, and Hollywood Functions. MAY HUNT DAY OR NIGHT WITH OR WITHOUT DOGS
http://boingboing.net/2009/05/05/liberal-hunting-perm.html
Having seen these on bumpers for over twenty years in several states, the joke is a bit stale with me.
The Wizard
(12,532 posts)That is the language of a cult, and in this case a toxic death cult on a par with al Qaeda.
The Pox propaganda network is a hate fueled terrorist abetting anti American organization of scumbags.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Because rather than uplifting men and giving them solutions to better their situation, they focus on controlling women in the most extreme manner, as if that is going to empower them.
It does not really do so, leaving them to be more discontented and get more radical in thier focus, no more than Fox and the other conservative media empower their listeners or viewers in the case of radio pundits.
Blaming a group, deflecting the effect of one's own actions in making one unhappy, or in this case, endlessly demonizing, is irresponsible and it serves to allow an unjust status quo to go unchallenged instead.
I think the GOP or some of its branches should be designated a hate group for their attacks on gays women, minorities, immigrants, the poor, elderly and disabled as well as the working people of America.
Just sayin'
Sorry, that is a horrendous run-on sentence, but I have to do some other things. Thanks for the thoughtful reply.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Deborah Weiss
Bergdahl showed all the symptoms of having an actual, living conscience, poor kid--a fatal flaw in the cartoon version of America we're obliged to inhabit nowadays. Certainly, his devout Presbyterian father has behaved the way one would expect a Christian of the Calvinist persuasion to behave (I used to teach adult Sunday School at a Presbyterian church in rural Illinois, so believe me, I know Presbyterians): attempting to act with integrity, kindness, self-effacement and decency, living the imitation of Christ which is the challenge Christian souls are supposed to at least try to meet.
Which leads to this observation: one of the ways in which we can confirm that Republicans don't actually believe in God is that after lynching this boy, none of them has publicly resigned from office, weeping and contrite and praying for mercy from the Almighty. None of them has given up his riches and gone to work in a soup kitchen in the desperate hope that there's still time for redemption after what he's done to the Bergdahl family. None of them is gazing in terror at the clear summer sky, anticipating the thunderbolt that a wrathful Christian God might reasonably decide to wield.
On the contrary: they're all clearly enjoying the hell out of this soul murder, which has played out just the way their operatives (those experts at working the refs and rolling the press) said it would. Moreover, they're all doubling down, including--or perhaps especially--the vile McCain, who has now issued a deranged statement accusing some members of the press (not his friends, mind you, but some of the outliers, like Tapper) of lying by reporting things he said in the past that aren't the same as the things he's saying now.
These awful, hateful, horrid men destroyed the kid and his family without so much as a twitch of Christian conscience. And what makes it worst is they did it all for a mind-blowingly trivial reason: to deprive the president of what would have been a pretty nice photo-op in an election year.
That's all. That's it. That's what was worth taking this boy and his mother and father and flaying them in public, humiliating them, exposing them to death threats and to the monstrous raw id (with its insatiable capacity for scalding rage) that is the Republican base. It's an election year, and that Rose Garden photo op might have played well in the boonies. It might even have been good for a fraction of a point or two in the polls. And so they unleashed their hate machine and ruined the kid's life.
It's beyond anything. I've rarely been so disgusted. I'll certainly remember it from now on, whenever I see one of these so-and-so's putting on that pious jowly Republican holy face and Gawd-blessing America.
I don't know if that is a real person's name, but it's a comment from a piece by Esquire's Charles Pierce.
to DUer DonViego:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=5065070
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Oh. My. God. So true
lib87
(535 posts)Practically all the major news outlets including CNN and local news reported the 'he was a traitor' idea all week.
Lazy journalism & cheap propaganda.