The New York Times reports:
A woman who sent her Arab-American boss a threatening note that warned ”Remember 9/11” and ”You and your kids will pay” was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a federal halfway house.
Kia Reid, who described herself as Christian, donned gloves to craft the note from magazine clippings and then left it in Nina Timani’s office, prosecutors said.
I’m surprised by the harsh sentence, but maybe this will curb some of the hate speech we see. You can read the full article here.
Well, she was a christians. christians are mean, duh!
From the full article ‘The Philadelphia woman was arrested in October 2006 after an FBI informant recorded her discussing the note.’
@ Alchemist, didn’t you know, not using sperm to make more christians is punishable by smiting.
Ooohhh, busted!
SP - “Alchemist, didn’t you know, not using sperm to make more christians is punishable by smiting.”
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Perhaps it was the bit that dribbled out afterwards?
Not wasting an opportunity…or anything else?
Maybe she used her own brain matter? She’s obviously not using it for anything else…
But would it have been sticky enough? It would seem that a basic knowledge of how to treat people wasn’t able to stick there.
8 MONTHS should be 8 YEARS.
may her evilness be covered with tagletelli and her vital organs be the filling of ravioli….
Perhaps they had something like a hidden camera? Perhaps she bragged about it to all of her xian friends at church one day? Perhaps she somehow managed to lick the envelope with her own saliva. In my experience xian fundies don’t really seem all that smart…let alone nice.
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When some idiot goes around threatening a person and their family because of their ethnic or religious background, I think they deserve to get a little time in the Big House.
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As for the Hat Campaign, good plan. My suggestion is that anyone who proclaims themselves to be a fundamentalist should immediately get a Dunce Cap and made to go and sit in the corner with a bunch of library books on science, history, geography and math.
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People who fight to have ID taught in the schools should be made to wear a Burka infested with weasels.
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I like the idea of leaders having to fight it out amongst themselves, but why limit it to religions? Can you imagine what the leaders of countries would start to look like if they had to personally fight to win a war? Things may not change all that much on the intelligence side of things, but Bush and Blair would have to be seriously buffed out and experts on hand to hand combat. The world would start electing a lot more politicians who looked like Arnold.
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So, current politics would be determined by survival of the fittest. Throw all the world leaders on a deserted island for six months, whoever is still alive and king (or queen) of the castle wins and gets to rule the planet.
”I came forward for my kids,” she said. ”I have found my inner peace by helping spread tolerance to people of other faiths,” she said.
I know shes been through alot, what with the hate mail and all, but I think shes found the wrong kind of peace. Tolerance is not good, it is nothing but a temporary fix. Helping spread acceptance would have been a much better thing to say. Maybe she just used the wrong word, but something about that sentence gets me thinking…..
lol @ Iron Bess - I love the weasel infested burka idea, but won’t the lack of daylight be rather harsh on the weasels?
Jennyanydots…
“but won’t the lack of daylight be rather harsh on the weasels?”
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yeah, your average Weasel needs a good 10 hours of daylight to flourish. Now a Pole-cat you could get away with…
Or a possum. They’re nocturnal… you just have to find a live one.
“… you just have to find a live one.”
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Road-kill? Ya - we have the same problem with children.
Hm.. in my neighborhood we have an old lady who walks her “special” son (who is 30-something, I think) in his wheelchair, in the middle of the road, DIRECTLY into oncoming traffic. The speed limit is 35 and you can’t see around the corner because the road curves so much… I can’t even count how many times I’ve almost hit them. There’s a freakin’ sidewalk.
Little boys on bicycles that jump out in front of my car, however… I have to really try to not hit them… on purpose…
I almost killed a bum the other day. It was fun!
We have a lot of zebra crossing here. Just once I’d love to run down that 14 year old kid that waits until I’m five feet away before stepping onto the crossing.
Smug git! A set of 225s across the legs would soon knock the smile off his face.
Yeah! They think it’s a joke! And you know their parents would rather have the lawsuit money than their rotten child anyway.
You’re right guys, maybe that would be too cruel to the weasels. How about rats, they’re nocturnal?