Right-wing blogger Owens wants Sen. Byrd to "do the right thing, and expire" before Senate health bill passes
December 21, 2009 2:02 pm ET by MMFA Staff
From Bob Owens' December 21 Confederate Yankee blog post, headlined "All I Want Is A Byrd Dropping For Christmas":
Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) has seen far better days, and is often little more than a warm body when he is helped into the Senate. Granted, lucidity and coherence is not a priority among Senate Democrats, but Byrd is an embarrassment even for a party that regular drafts the imaginary or dead to vote.
Robert Byrd has been around a very long time, and his many decades of service have made West Virginia a wonderful state in which to manufacture methamphetamine or frame the locals for murder. But it's time for Senator to do the right thing, and expire.
It isn't too much to ask for Byrd to step off for that great klavern in the sky before the Senate vote that may force this nation to accept government-rationed health care. Even a nice coma would do.
Without his frail, Gollum-like body being wheeled into the Senate's chambers to cast the deciding vote, the Senate cannot curse our children and grandchildren with crushing debt and rationed, substandard healthcare.
I suppose some will be shocked and appalled that I'd wish for the former kleagle to die on command. I'd remind them that the party wheeling in a near invalid to vote in favor of this unread monstrosity of a bill is the one that should feel shame.
We don't elect politicians for their bodies - we elect them for their minds.
That being said, I sure hope he doesn't run for election again - I think his body is in such bad shape that he's not able to participate in the way that West Virginia deserves to have their Senator do! But it's really offensive for someone to wish him dead now. How terrible to have one's political persuasion be so powerful that you'd wish someone dead!
And don't even try to convince us that he was joking above. Read his posting. He wasn't joking. Read the last paragraph. He wasn't joking. This poster deserves no credibility or legitimacy, and deserves everyone's scorn for this post!
One of the hardest things I had to deal with during my teaching career was attending the funerals of my students and former students who were 30+ years younger than I was at the time of their deaths. One never knows.
Bob Owens is typical of the species. No honor left in that crowd.
Sarcasm
Because that matters now, even after he's repudiated that membership decades ago!
End Sarcasm
They sure cheered when Ted Kennedy passed.
So Sad the neoconservative mind!
I posted the following on Mr. Owens' blog, which he removed.
Those of you who don't like what Mr. Owens had to say can do either or both of the following things:
1) Complain to help@mu.nu
2) Complain to Twitter, where he has linked his post.
I have done both.
Mr. Owens' comments would be considered an indirect form of cyberbullying, which may result in both civil or criminal penalties. Becuase the comments may be read almost anywhere in the world, they could be read by persons who live in a community where such speech would be considered a hate crime. The community where I live--Columbus, Ohio--does have a hate crimes ordinance.
I work for the Ohio Department of Public Safety, whose units include the State Highway Patrol. If such commentary were made about me, I would be immediately in contact with them and the Columbus Police without blinking an eye.
Not that I haven't consulted with my co-workers before on a blog posting. Three years ago, an Oklahoma City blogger named William Kerr, author of a blog called Passionate America, disclosed the identity of an underage Congressional page with whom former Florida Congressman Mark Foley had sexually explicit cyberchats.
The Highway Patrol was advised of the fact that I posted a picture of Kerr's pre-teen son on my blog, found through a simple Google search, with a commentary on how what Kerr did help prevent law enforcement officers like my co-workers from doing their job in apprehending child sex offenders.
Kerr thought I was threatening his family. At least that's what he told the Wall Street Journal. But you will note by doing a Google search, he no longer blogs. Whether I had something to do with it I don't know. But I achieved what I set out to do.
Mr. Owens needs to realize that freedom of speech comes with a cost, and wanting someone dead is something for which he should pay a high price, though nothing like he wants for Senator Byrd.
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