Woman Gets 8 months for Hate Note

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.

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  1. 61 Alchemist Oct 25th, 2007 at 1:27 pm

    IB - “How about rats, they’re nocturnal?”
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    Yeah, rats should work. they can catch rabies too :D
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    Sb - “Yeah! They think it’s a joke! And you know their parents would rather have the lawsuit money than their rotten child anyway.”
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    Tell me about it, miserable bastards!
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    Although… half a mil for a rugrat? When you think about it…

  2. 62 Starbuckaneer Oct 25th, 2007 at 1:28 pm

    If I were ever cursed with one of those things and couldn’t get rid of it, I would sell it and buy a purse.

  3. 63 Starbuckaneer Oct 25th, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    I saw it on a Lifetime Original Movie (the women are victims network)… it would totally work. Half a million bucks tax-free.

  4. 64 Alchemist Oct 25th, 2007 at 1:48 pm

    It’d cut down juvenile crime too!
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    …as would raising the abortion limit to 520 weeks! C’mon, it makes sense!

  5. 65 Etay Oct 25th, 2007 at 2:32 pm

    Racism at its penultimately worst.

  6. 66 I love eruptions in heaven Oct 25th, 2007 at 2:45 pm

    @Iron bess.
    A battle between all leaders of all country’s? come on, we all know holland would win that, I mean, we got friggin Harry Potter.

  7. 67 PacificPam Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

    Wait…Wasn’t Harry Potter english?

  8. 68 Wench Nikkiee Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:23 pm

    Booty Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:28 am
    “I think that woman sending that is digusting, and she should be given a custodial sentence - why didn’t she just change jobs?”
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    I agree! I don’t know about now, (havn’t heard a lot of the past complaints about light sentencing here lately), but 8 mnths would have been considered a long sentence for someone with kids here in the past. Lot of women who deserved to have the book thrown at them got very short sentences (month-two months) by pleading their parenthood! One in particular I remember was a mother of 4 selling hard drugs to 13-14yo school kids. Can’t remember her exact sentence, but there was public outrage over its leniency! Do the crime don’t bitch about doing the time IMHO! :p

  9. 69 Wench Nikkiee Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:27 pm

    Hate is by far the ugliest of all human emotion!

  10. 70 Noodly0ne Oct 25th, 2007 at 3:57 pm

    Too true.

  11. 71 Alchemist Oct 25th, 2007 at 4:46 pm

    “Hate is by far the ugliest of all human emotion!”
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    Shock can be pretty gross too.
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    …especially if it’s the kinda shock you get from a Number 59 Bus bouncing over you.

  12. 72 ۞ Oct 25th, 2007 at 5:15 pm

    Fear is the smelliest human emotion.

  13. 73 Noodly0ne Oct 25th, 2007 at 6:11 pm

    And arguably the grossest. Depending on how much fear.

  14. 74 Iron Bess Oct 26th, 2007 at 7:06 am

    @ I love eruptions from Heaven - @Iron bess.A battle between all leaders of all country’s? come on, we all know holland would win that, I mean, we got friggin Harry Potter.
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    Harry Potter is a wanker, we have first grade school girls in Canada who could steal his wand, and tie his testicles into a knot.
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    By the way, British folk, help me out, what is a wanker?

  15. 75 Alchemist Oct 26th, 2007 at 9:21 am

    IB
    “By the way, British folk, help me out, what is a wanker?”
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    Someone who wanks :D - colloquialism for “pud-puller”, “bishop-basher”,”tosser” - wanking is masturbating.

  16. 76 B Nov 13th, 2007 at 9:22 pm

    At first I thought that sounded a bit harsh. However, then I thought, “If someone threatened my kids, I’d kill them with my bare hands.” So I’m okay with it.

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