Edwards netroots coordinator Melissa McEwan resigns...

John Edwards' netroots coordinator, Melissa McEwan has tendered her resignation. It should be noted that threats from certain self-proclaimed Christians figured prominently in her decision to leave her job as a part-time web consultant.

I'm reposting Melissa's announcement in full because I'm afraid that her blog, Shakespeare's Sister, may be hit by the same malicious denial of service attacks that have been plaguing Amanda Marcotte's Pandagon all day. It's ironic that women who speak out against patriarchal and misogynist threads in organized religion get pummeled with graphic rape threats...
http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2007/02/edwards_netroot.html

A woman cannot even speak out in this country without being sexually threatened...

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...and that seems OK with a lot of people. It makes me want to scream when I see the damage being done to everything decent by these vicious, jackbooted purported upholders of righteousness.

I just can't stand it anymore.

I'm serious as a heart attack. What are verbal threats from fundy brownshirts now could easily turn to political pogroms later.

If you are against the Right to bear arms, isn't it time to re-examine that position?

Regardless of what you conclude after that re-examination, I would recommend that you get to know your neighbors and learn to trust them, whether they are liberals or not. Do enough community work in your own neighborhood that you are known as a decent guy/gal. Then if some fundy-fascist starts trying to whip up hysteria against evil-bisexual-vegan-anarchists (or whatever) your neighbors might at least pause and say, "Now wait a minute, s/he's not so bad..."

And if the neighbor-solidarity fails, and you have a shotgun in the hallway (and a 1911 in your nightstand, and a carbine in your basement, and 5,000 rounds for each), then you can at least die with dignity when your door is kicked-in. With some combination of neighbor-solidarity and arms, you may even do better than that baseline...

-app

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yeah, yeah, I know...

I've owned & used guns my whole life. I live in the country & don't know of any unarmed neighbors anywhere near me. No Colt 1911 in the night stand, though. (It's a Ruger .357.) Also a Remington 742 deer rifle, a .22 mag pistol, a couple of shotguns...the usual sort of thing you'd find in any home around here.

When you look at the things they do, and say and their actions, you say to yourself, how in the world were these people raised in the United States. I just cannot believe what we are coming to.

of the people in the U.S., it's the few that think they have guidance from God about how this country should be ran. They'll go to any lengths to deliver their means.

About bloggers and Democratic politics:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/16/obama/index.html

and I agree with Salon, who rightly reported of the firing......although many are supporting Edwards in this at their own peril of their lust!

as Salon reported the rumors of the firing, we noticed something disturbing: Instead of the blogosphere joining the search for truth, we encountered a decision to close ranks. The bloggers had never been fired; Salon was wrong; everyone move along, there's nothing to see here; please return to your stations. It started to look as though protecting the Democrats, the Edwards campaign and the role of bloggers in the new political firmament -- or some combination of all three -- was much more important. Only Steve Gilliard at the News Blog defended Salon and confirmed he too knew the bloggers had been fired -- and only in a comments section on his blog. "Anyone who thinks they weren't fired are dead wrong," wrote Gilliard. "I spend much of my day communicating with other bloggers ... I had been told they were fired when the Salon piece ran. Then the negotiations began and a LOT of people held their fire ... I have multiple sources on this, but because of who they are, I won't name them."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/02/16/obama/index.html

And so the Bloggers were hired, fired, re-hired, and then they resigned. Edwards didn't have a harsh word for Donohue, but publicly reprimanded his hired bloggers....gets written up in Newsweek as having taken a stand that he didn't really take......and we are played for fools.

Great! :eyes:

If Donahue's going to point fingers at Edwards' people and make demands based on what they have written, then the vulgar attacks by his internet soldiers are a clear demonstration of his 'leadership'. Donahue is poisonous and there needs to be demands for him to resign.

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Don't hold your breath. Donahue is doing exactly what the people who pay his salary want him to do.

Thanks to the way the Edwards campaign rolled over, I bet Donahue got a raise.

(edited for dumb typo)