The hate mail campaign against climate scientists

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Apparently the FBI is powerless to do anything because of the "near total tolerance of freedom-of-speech in America", but I didn't realise the freedom-of-speech extended to death threats delivered via mail, in fact I thought it was a federal offence?

This semi-organised campaign (people like Marc Morano of Climate Depot routinely publish email addresses of climate scientists online) extends to Australia too, and a lesser extent the UK, Clive Hamilton wrote an article about it a few months back. Apparently there are spikes in abusive correspondence whenever certain scientists are mentioned by people like Glenn Beck and rush Limbaugh so the is some degree of spontaneity in the attacks, and while some actively encourage it by publishing email addresses etc, even those leaders of the "sceptic" movement who make pretenses about being "honest brokers" don't do anything to discourage their followers from engaging such reprehensible behaviour, so don't the have some degree of culpability in this too?

US climate scientists receive hate mail barrage in wake of UEA scandal

Vitriolic campaign targets American scientists following leak of climate unit emails
NSFW - rough language

• Read the hate emails sent to climate scientists

• Hacked email climate scientists receive death threats

 

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NSFW - Rough language

• Read the hate emails sent to climate scientists

none of those are actually threats

 

[theprestige]

none of those are actually threats

Seriously.

I mean, how many high school lit. teachers who celebrated Holden Caulfield's disillusionment with "The Man", would be hypocritically shocked, shocked by the similar expressions found in these emails.

On the other hand, having an inbox full of stream-of-consciousness Catcher in the Rye rants might reasonably be considered cruel and unusual punishment.

 

[The Man]

Say what? “disillusionment with "The Man"? I ain’t never heard of this Holden Caulfield dude. OK, so maybe we might have met at a party long ago, but I was pretty drunk and messed up back then. I can’t believe that he would still hold that one ‘incident’ against me after all these years, some people.

Heck, who doesn’t hate climate scientists? Sending all those e-mails back and fourth proclaiming how they have duped us all. They just give a bad name to conspirators. That we just can’t keep everything ‘in house’, until we have to blow up that house (or buildings) of course.

 

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[The Man]

Those examples aren't, no, but they have been made. From the Clive Hamilton article:

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A simple request for an offering.

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What was the other alternative?

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They should put that on ancestry.com (with a head on a stake symbol instead of a leaf). Unless of course the “revolution” never happens, then the leaf would still work (goats like leafs).