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"Your group is very goofy"

by an SF IMC volunteer (sf [at] indymedia.org)
A smattering of the hatemail that we've received over the months. We thank each and every one of you from the bottom of our hearts, and look forward to more insightful commentary in the future. No, really.
goofy_postcard_to_sfimc.jpg
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] fucking liars
To: <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

you are a bunch of fucking liars


Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 16:13:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] Is this real
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

While doing a web search. I came upon your website. I
have a question. Does anyone really beleave the things
you say or is this just a joke site?


Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 14:49 -0700
From: Anonymous <anonymous [at] anonymizer.com>
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] $upport
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

I'd LIKE to support you. I'm awaiting delivery of my ordered IDF Merkava tank.
You won't remember a thing.


Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2003 13:33:27 -0700
From: xxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] Whatever
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

All that makes me want to say to you is: FUCK YOU, YOU COMMUNIST!!!!!!
That video about Bush is delusional and pathetic, that's why it's not on TV.
God you're an idiot! I'm from the Bay Area as well, and YOU are exactly
what's wrong with SF BA and the rest of the country who is anti-Bush. Go
back to Canada you PUSSIES!!!!!!! Why do you expect Bush to know everything
all at once? He's one man. What the hell would you have done? Probably
the same as Al Gore would have done, NOTHING!!! If he could do it by
himself then he'd be a one man government you ignorant FUCKS! Why not focus
some energy to helping us instead of damaging people's spirits and keeping
us from progress!

I hope this site gets shut down because you are a communist liberal bastard.
THANK GOD AL GORE WASN'T THERE! We?d still be bullshitting with the UN!
AHHH!!!!

4 more years! 4 more years! 4 more years!!!! YOU KNOW IT!!!! I bet it
eats you up inside.

Dammit, you're pathetic.

Yes, a republican.

Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2003 12:25:13 -0500
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] (no subject)
To: <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

Your reporting is garbage. More democrat traitorous crap.


Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 14:34:54 -0700
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] YOR GROUP
To: <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

THANK GOD YOUR GROUP IS A MINORITY!!!!!!!! HOW STUPID YOU ARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT LIKE RUBBER BULLETS????????????? DO NOT GET IN THE
WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GO USA, KILL ALL WHO GET IN YOUR WAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 15:04:45 -0500
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] War
To: <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

How are you so bold to try to hamper the war effort when 77% of the people in
America support it. What are you people smoking? You could not survive outside
of California, you'd be like a fish out of water.

[signed by someone in South Dakota]


Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 12:30:18 EDT
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] You have convinced me!
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

I'm switching, now I am a REPUBLICAN! I've turned in my 'liberal'
credentials, thanks to you protesters. You know it is not 1968 and this is
not the VietNam war. This is different - you guys love a tyrant, a killer,
OK we got your message. Thanks!


Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 05:03:57 -0500
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] do you enjoy looking like foolish assholes?
To: <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

Hello:

I just had to laugh after perusing your site yet again... You are the most
foolish looking assholes crying for attention I've seen in quite awhile...

Just remember, "death to towel heads"... LOL!



Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:28:23 EDT
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] questions that 80% of u.s. wants to ask YOU
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

your town acts as if pres. bush is the bad guy. what about hussein?! you are
marching to keep hussein in power. this is a man that killed over 200,000
nearly defenseless kurds. poison gas was used to kill children. we have the
photos of the children, dead, that were being loaded in the truck to get
away. mothers still holding their babies in their arms, dead on the ground.
200,000 kurds dead. then we move south to the rest of iraq. people tortured,
murdered, raped, family members forced to view their parents, children,
siblings being killed. for over two decades! thousands. and hussein's two
sons to continue this miserable existence after hussein's death. THAT is what
your group is marching for. you are either an extremely heartless or
uninformed group. extremely.


Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2003 22:10:24 EDT
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] girl's hair being grabbed by police
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

the photo of the girl in the green shirt "just" walking and being "grabbed"
by police for "no reason" is bogus. you have quite a lapse between the girl
walking with the group of people across the street, which is no where near
the police line, then all of a sudden the police are restraining her by the
police line. the girl must have walked out of the group of people and over to
the police and she did something for which she was restrained for. groups
such as yours lie to try and promote your cause. your type of reporting goes
over well with readers such as al-Jazeera's, but not here in the states,
except the brain-dead types that go to protests. tell them to get jobs. and
most people want california to slide off the continent. your concept of
reality is fried through drug abuse.
kim brockway
tinley park, il


Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 18:43:19 -0500
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] haerd [sic] about the latest gourmet ice cream? has pieces
of toast in it...called Iraqi Road... hope this brings you some cheer...
To: "'imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org'" <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>


Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2003 12:08:46 -0500 (EST)
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] anti war movement
To: "imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org" <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

Are you and your fellow anti-bush, self loathing Americans EVER going to WAKE UP
to the realities of this world? How many times do you need to read about Iraqi
cilvilians being shot at by IRAQI troops before you admit WHO poses the greatest
threat to Iraqi civilains? How many more pregnant women must be forced into
accompanying a homocide bomber before you speak out against the butchers who
perpetrate these crimes against humanity?

I understand some of you have never gotten over the election of 2000 but despite
attempts by the left to misrepresent what happened during the election, George
Bush won the election. He won it because, under the constitution of the US,
there is an institution called the Electoral College. Bush got the required
amount of EC votes. End of story.

So my friends, while it is well within your rights to act in an ignorant,
hateful and laughably misguided way, I must tell you that you have hurt the very
cause you seek to promote. Most Americans think your protests are a waste of
time and an infringement on OUR rights to be able to move about a city freely
and travel to and from our places of employment without unlawful interference.

I must thank you though. As a conservative leaning Independent voter, I
certainly appreciate the irrepairable harm you have down to the far left
socialists who are currently in control of the Democratic Party. Most Americans
support without hesitation your right to free speech. We also believe that in a
time of war it is not in our best interests to provide aid and or comfort to the
enemy. You disingenously claim to care about the Iraqi people and yet NO ONE
draws more strength formyour public show of ant americanism than the Iraqi
regime. The very same men who have straved hundreds of thousands of their own
children to death. The same regime who has made a sport out of public torture
of it's own citizens. The SAME regime that murdered it's own people with
chemical weapons.

Wile I realize SOME OF your actions are a result of either a lack of
understanding of geopolitics or World and US history, I also believe strongly
that your hatred for the President (and perhaps anyone who sees the
socialist-Liberal agenda for what it is - nonsense) so profound that you would
rather see many Iraqi civilians and American troops die than to see the war
effort go well and thus result in the re-election of President Bush.

If that isn't Un-AMERICAN, I don't know what is.

You should be ashamed of yourselves.

CJ Mosca
bOSTON, mASS


Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2003 21:02:04 EST
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] Human shield
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

Yah, the human shield thing should work. I can't think of anything more DENSE
than people who haven't seen what's going on in the world yet. These people
are so dense, nothing made yet could penetrate such ignorance.


Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 15:54:54 EST
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] (no subject)
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

I HOPE YOU ROT IN HELL ALONG WITH SADAM AND HIS GOONS.


Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 19:30:50 -0700
From: xxxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] (no subject)
To: <imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org>

Anti - war protesters are being advised not to travel to Montana this summer.
Pro-American groups have stated protesters will come to great bodily harm.



Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 19:11:49 EST
From: xxxx
Subject: [imc-sf-editorial] hello
To: imc-sf-editorial [at] indymedia.org

I hate your site you peacenik bastards u people are criminals saying that
"you support our troops when they shoot their officers"you guys are the nazis
not patriots like me you are a disgraceful and i think sites like yours should be a [???]

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by bov
Looks like a fair number of these were tapped out in the psych ward computer room - one of the ones for the criminally insane, I'd guess.

It's a scary country out there.

by a Hate Postcard? That's a first
The Missouri postcard is considered "hatemail"?

Being a tad sensitive I think.
by just a ploy to get donations
this is just indy's little hissy fit before they ask for more donations. but what do they spend "your" money on?
by cfo
rent (cheapest in town), internet connection (we have to share it), maybe an old computer
by Missurian
that's funny.
because after 911 i said SHOW ME what happened.
And they didn't.
And then i looked on the internet, and i found out what happened.
That's why they call it the show me state.
by ottilie
It's true. The box that sf.indymedia is run off of is pretty puny considering all the space-consuming comments and videos that people upload and download. They don't have much money, and a lot of the terminals they have in their shared space are pretty old.
by anti-capitalist
Since indymedia is anti-capitalist, nobody should be surprised at their lack of capital resources.
by south bay
all these faux patriots make me laugh. wave a flag in one hand and burn the constitiution in the other. even the germans are calling bush a nazi. imagine that for a minute.
by Abraham
A memorable collection of love mail from Compassionate Conservatives (CC). Good that Indymedia show'em off. I sure can sleep better tonight knowing how much "love" the CC have for the rest of the nation.
by goofy
This site IS goofy. Damn look at the anarchist thread. Lots of people come here for a good laugh, much to the chagrin of people who take this site way to seriously. I'm nominating this site for best humor site at next year's webbies.

Keep up the good work. You've surpassed theonion.com in my book.

by to debate coach
Hey debate coach, what type of logical fallacy is this:

"Hey Debate Coach, how about you go fuck yourself."


by explanatory values
quote:
=====================
"Hey Debate Coach, how about you go fuck yourself."
=====================

Fallacy: Personal Attack

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Also Known as: Ad Hominem Abusive.

Description of Personal Attack
A personal attack is committed when a person substitutes abusive remarks for EVIDENCE when attacking another person's claim or claims.

This line of "reasoning" is fallacious because THE ATTACK IS DIRECTED AT THE PERSON MAKING THE CLAIM, NOT THE CLAIM ITSELF.

The TRUTH VALUE of a claim is INDEPENDANT OF the PERSON MAKING THE CLAIM. After all, no matter how repugnant an individual might be, he or she can still make true claims.

Not all ad Hominems are fallacious. In some cases, an individual's characteristics can have a bearing on the question of the veracity of her claims. For example, IF someone is SHOWN [requires *actual* demonstration] to be a pathological liar, then what he says can be considered [**likely**] to be unreliable. HOWEVER, such attacks are weak, since *even pathological liars might speak the truth* on occasion.

In general, it is best to focus one's attention on the CONTENT of the claim and not on who made the claim. It is the CONTENT that DETERMINES the TRUTH VALUE of the claim and NOT THE characteristics of the PERSON making the claim.

Example of Personal Attack:

=====================
"Hey Debate Coach, how about you go fuck yourself."
=====================

Easy, huh?


Name That Fallacy(TM)
at the anti-Nazi Nizkor Project:
http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/
by Abraham
I get my laughs from watching "Geroeg W Bush Joke That is Not a Joke" on Letterman. I tell you Bush is a brilliant comedian. He'll do the nation good as a comedian. Wacky Bush. Hahhh Hahhhhhhhh.
by editor
C'mon. The site is Ludicrous. The only postings are INANE conspiracy theories and the mockeries they lead to.

The guy who said it was better entertainment then the Onion was right.

And I appreciate IMC existing. It certainly entertains me. It is sad that nothing of any import or merit ever gets discussed here but, oh well.
by Mike (King of all Trolls) (mkoat [at] netscape.net)
Watching the Marxist's tripe roll across these sites is very entertaining but sad. You poor, sad folks. I'd feel pity for you, but I'm a conservative...It would probably make your little heads spin :(
by a volunteer
The people that run this website may simply seem like innocuous, goofy conspiracy mongers, but don't be fooled.

These people are cold blooded killers and Fifth Column Leftists.

If you don't believe me, just ask Officer David Mobilio.
by These people are cold blooded killers and Fif
tell us a little more...
by here's more
since he's dead and all. He was shot in the back of the head by an indymedia activist. His name was Andy Mickel (McRae). After he shot the poor, unsuspecting officer Mobilio in the back, murdering him in cold blood, he posted his manifesto here on SF IMC. I can't seem to search for articles anymore around here, else I'd post it for you. Seems the "collective" has a lot of data on their server that they don't want YOU to see. Just do a google search though on "Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated" and see what turns up. Then read Mr. McRae's (may he get the chair and burn in hell) manifesto and pay real close attention to the end where he tells all the other killers and "activists" etc. to make sure to communicate with each other via indymedia. Yeah. Innocuous. Right.
by David Mobilio.....we know
here on SF IMC. I can't seem to search for articles anymore around here, else I'd post it for you. Seems the "collective" has a lot of data on their server that they don't want YOU to see.

yes that seems to be the case
by that's a bald faced lie
He was not an "indymedia activist." We never met the guy. He was just one of the people who post to the site, just like "Eric," "SmashTheLeft," "JoJo Gunn," or you, you f*cking *sshole. If that makes him an "indymedia activist," then so are you.
by that's ok, you can admit it
it is known that he was one of the "Indy Followers"

and that he most likely the actions taken where not ordered by the "collective" aka the "hive mind" if you will. you do not seem to have anything to worry about.
(am I right?........)
by we have no &quot;followers&quot;
We have people who read the site, a few of whom also post here, one of whom is you.
by that's ok, you can admit it
(repost)
and that he most likely the actions taken where not ordered by the "collective" aka the "hive mind" if you will. you do not seem to have anything to worry about.
(am I right?........)

but you seem so nervous...............
by you wish
If we were going to get in any trouble over this, it would have happened already. But we didn't, because we committed no crime. We're clean as a whistle and the cops know it. They now everything that goes on here, including the IPs of all the people who threatenus. So you'd better hope nothing untoward happens to us, or you're in for a world of hassle.

Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

Joke's on you.

by Indy admits to giving posters IP addresses to


"They now everything that goes on here, including the IPs of all the people" - SF,INDY-MEDIA
by Yasser
SO is there any other lurid indy followers we should know about?
by one of the editors
>Indy admits to giving posters IP addresses to

We did no such thing, as anyone who scrolls up the page can see for themselves. We don't give IPs to anybody. We don't even log IPs. They are ripped off on the way, somewhere between here and our ISP, by this device:

http://www.sfbg.com/nessie/24.html


>They (k)now everything that goes on here, including the IPs of all the people" - SF,INDY-MEDIA

That they do, but it's not though our collusion. Your government spies on you. If it doesn't bother you that government spies on you, you're either sick, evil or exceedingly stupid.

(BTW, sorry about the typo. My bad.)


>SO is there any other lurid indy followers we should know about?

Well, there's you, though "lurid" is the least of your faults.
by cp
Actually, it was flawed reporting of the major media that led people to think that the one confession that cop killer guy made was at sf.imc. Actually, if you look at the time that the newspapers report that Andrew McRae was arrested in New Hampshire, and then you look at the time of the posting on sf.imc, McCrae would have had to have made the posting *after* he went into custody, or about one hour before when he was barricaded in a hotelroom.

Actually, that confession was posted to at least 20 other sites, including other IMCs and some middle or right wing sites, and many of the confessions were dated earlier. The FBI was tipped off apparently by a man in Texas who had seen the confession somehow 3 or 4 days before the arrest. I suspect that someone in the New Hampshire area who was following the case was quick about searching the internet for a copy of the confession, and then he reposted it to several IMCs right about the time that McCrae was being arrested, and that McCrae was not the one to hit the 'publish' key. In any case, he sounds sort of insane and has no connection with sf.indymedia any more than you could pin the shooting on all white people or all New Hampshire residents or any other group that shares vague demographic characteristics with him.
by a volunteer
"He was not an "indymedia activist." We never met the guy. He was just one of the people who post to the site, just like "Eric," "SmashTheLeft," "JoJo Gunn," or you, you f*cking *sshole. If that makes him an "indymedia activist," then so are you."

I feel absolutely no kinship with you whatsoever. McRae did. Therein lies the difference.

I prefer to think of myself as an anti-indymedia activist.
by a volunteer
"Actually, it was flawed reporting of the major media that led people to think that the one confession that cop killer guy made was at sf.imc. Actually, if you look at the time that the newspapers report that Andrew McRae was arrested in New Hampshire, and then you look at the time of the posting on sf.imc, McCrae would have had to have made the posting *after* he went into custody, or about one hour before when he was barricaded in a hotelroom. "

Utter Bullsh*t

Time of reporting Mcrae arrested:

After a standoff at a Concord Holiday Inn, police and FBI agents Tuesday (November 26, 2002) arrested a 23-year-old Olympia, Wash., man for the Nov. 19 slaying of Red Bluff police officer Dave Mobilio.

The arrest came about 7 a.m. PST, just as mourners began assembling a massive funeral cortege for Mobilio in Red Bluff.

http://archive.redding.com/story.asp?StoryID={9FCDDBFD-0AD3-414C-8CD3-93DC747F9266}

Time of Post on SF IMC:

Proud and Insolent Youth Incorporated by Andrew McCrae Monday November 25, 2002 at 07:37 PM (PST)

http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/11/1545326.php

12 hours before Mcrae was arrested.

by just wondering
If true, this proves what?
by hahaha
Who funds your legal coverage, nessie? Which islamic fundamentalist groups?

by you'd think so, huh?
But, alas:

http://www.indybay.org/news/2002/09/146190.php
by artstar
Youv had your fun attacking innocent citizens and attacking cops havent you nestor?

Theres a huge cyber trail of your silly incompetent old ass calling for the death of him or her or them or those.

You know you inspired that poor boy to kill that Police Officer and you've scrubbed sfimc clean of all evidence of your influence over that poor soul.

But what about all the other poor souls you've mind fucked nestor?

What are they gonna tattle up ? ? ? ?

Oh the awful threats against your useless life. Youve straw manned so much bullshit at yourself to lend importance and credibility to your mountain of contrived dribble that when you exit the room its hilfuckinglarious to watch your 'homies' giggle at your back.

"If someone does me in"

"If I do you in"

Grow a nut nestor and "Leave them, leave them kids alone" Because "All in all your just another drone in the hive"
by just wondering
Are you trying to tell us that Nestor Makhno and nessie are the same person? Nestor's picture is on the front page. Does this mean we finally know what nessie looks like?
by a volunteer (Eric)
"All I’ll have to do is show them what you said on the server."

Really? What was it that I said? How do you know it was ME that said that?

That's the great thing about indymedia. No one can put a face with any of the written words, can they nessie? Complete anonymity. No one can prove a thing and there can be no reprisals. Like Bart Simpson says, "I didn't do it, no one saw me do it, you can't prove anything."

No, nessie. You haven't broken any laws. Calling for the heads of police officers to be placed on pikes, etc. ad nauseam, well, you've got freedom of speech and a right to your opinion. It's a great country in that regard.

But you do have a responsibility to your readers, your neighbors, and to yourself. Words are daggers.

And if your words, or similar words from someone like you, inspired McRae to kill, then we should all hang our heads in shame.

by It’s not just them, either.
http://www.elvesontheedge.com/santaknows.htm

You'd better watch out,
you'd better not cry,
you'd better not pout;
I'm telling you why.
Santa Claus is tapping your phone.

He's bugging your room,
he's reading your mail,
he's keeping a file
and running a tail.
Santa Claus is tapping your phone.

He hears you in the bedroom,
Surveills you out of doors,
and if that doesn't get the goods,
he'll use provocateurs.
Santa Claus is tapping your phone.

So, you mustn't assume
that you are secure.
On Christmas Eve,
he'll kick in your door.
Santa Claus is tapping your phone.

by pointer
Click here:

http://www.politechbot.com/p-04994.html
by Phillip K. Orwell
http://www.btinternet.com/~psycho_social/Vol3/JPSS-CS2.html

(snip)

If, in the present confusion and insecurity about the search for evidence of weapons of mass destruction, we conclude that failure to locate them -- whatever the truth of the matter -- encourages us to be generally complacent, then we shall be colluding with very dark forces at work if we conclude that a course of extreme vigilance signifies paranoia.

(snip)
by Eric
Cuckoo, deluded, and cozened.
by cp
oh, to keep harping on the timing of the Andrew McCrae arrest, the confession post on sf.indymedia was 7:40pm pacific time on the 25th. the arrest, as you point out, was 10am eastern time or 7am pacific time 12 hours later, but the news article said that this occurred after a long standoff, and that the FBI arrived at the motel at 1am or 2am eastern time, or 11pm pacific time. This seems awfully fast for someone to read sf.indymedia, call the FBI, and for the FBI to then use deductive processes to discover the location where he was located.

If you combine this with the additional facts that were noted in later articles in the SF Chronicle that sf.indymedia *was not* the first site where the confession was made, but rather, a man in Texas had had the confession appear in his email about 3 days earlier and then called the FBI, this makes it clear that nutty andrew mccrae did not primarily make a confession on sf.indymedia.
q.e.d.
I absolutely do believe that YOU are under surveillance and have freely stated as much.

I don't believe they give a flip about me. The Attorney General and I have a common interest, that being keeping potential terrorists and criminals at bay. They're just doing the job the good citizens of California pay them to do. Can't say they're doing the best job what with all that economic strife going on out there, and politicians getting ousted and all that, but at least they're hearts are in the right place.

None of this makes you any less deluded though.
by Eric
Good. I hope it does. I've got nothing to hide. I'm not afraid. Only people that are inciting chaos, murder, or revolution have anything to fear. People that call "the system" the enemy. People like you nessie.

See, the Constitution that I once swore "to protect and defend against all enemies, foreign AND domestic", calls for the forceful thwarting of traitorous enemies of the people.
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