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Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 08:49 AM Aug 2014

San Diego man receives death threaths for taking in Guatemalan refugee family

From the article:

Mark Lane owns Poppa's Fresh Fish Company in Logan Heights. He told 10News he does not have a position on the immigration crisis but he felt compelled to take a stand against the city of Murrieta when his 5-year-old son asked him why the buses carrying undocumented women and children were blocked.

"He asked me why the people were mad at the buses and I was like, it's 2014 … why do I have to explain to my 5-year-old why people are mad at the buses when really they're mad at the people inside of the buses 'cause they're brown," said Lane.


-snip-

"Now, we're getting death threats," said Lane. "They're going to kill me. They're going to kill my family."

He added, "They think it's OK for them to now threaten my life. They put my kids and my wife's picture on their hate sites, not even the mafia does that."


I am so proud of these "patriots"!! We must protect our borders from these dangerous immigrants!1!!11

Gack! These people have no hearts at all.


-JB


http://www.10news.com/news/local-businessman-says-he-is-getting-death-threats-for-hosting-family-of-immigrants-08042014
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San Diego man receives death threaths for taking in Guatemalan refugee family (Original Post) Joanie Baloney Aug 2014 OP
Same pieces of sub-human waste that send hate mail to Emroy MindPilot Aug 2014 #1
Except for the fact my brain would explode Joanie Baloney Aug 2014 #2
Death threats have become the common currency of MineralMan Aug 2014 #3
Hear, hear! Joanie Baloney Aug 2014 #4
They should be investigating. MineralMan Aug 2014 #5
Us vs. Them standard divide and conquer brainwashing sponsored by your valerief Aug 2014 #6
Got that right. The lying, deflecting MSM are the main reason this happens. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #8
Fascism. Period. Fred Sanders Aug 2014 #7
Death threats for showing compassion, sickening behavior. n/t Jefferson23 Aug 2014 #9
Hatriots VA_Jill Aug 2014 #10
Willing to bet every one of those onecaliberal Aug 2014 #11
Of course libodem Aug 2014 #13
Definitely because you know onecaliberal Aug 2014 #16
My home is open, too libodem Aug 2014 #12
Kudos! Joanie Baloney Aug 2014 #15
The same spineless jelly fish that mail out talcum filled envelopes. lpbk2713 Aug 2014 #14
I know this guy, a big old teddy bear that gives all sorts of people breaks - haele Aug 2014 #17
Awesome! Joanie Baloney Aug 2014 #18
hopefully this leads to some arrests. police should be able to work with the ISPs and websites on Takket Aug 2014 #19
 

MindPilot

(12,693 posts)
1. Same pieces of sub-human waste that send hate mail to Emroy
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:08 AM
Aug 2014

There are times I wish I was a believer and that Jesus is real. And then Jesus would come down and go all Billy Jack on these soulless thugs. Actually I just wish Billy Jack was real.

Will the karma train every come back around to visit some of their own upon the more despicable among us?

Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)
2. Except for the fact my brain would explode
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:23 AM
Aug 2014

I would love to be inside the head of one of these hate-filled nut-jobs when they go through the "thought" process while deciding to attack these people. "Man, I hate brown people. Look, Flo...there's a report that some guy is taking in one of them im'grant families. Right here in town!! Let's egg his business. No, no...I got it. Let's use Facebook and scare the guy! Yeah...that'll show 'im!!"

Idjits.




-JB

MineralMan

(146,320 posts)
3. Death threats have become the common currency of
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:49 AM
Aug 2014

every controversial issue. They appear whenever someone shows any respect for humanity, and they come from people who have no respect for society. They are the products of sociopaths and psychopaths.

Internet "anonymity" is the mechanism that enables these horrid people to vent their pathological hatred. Such threats should be aggressively prosecuted. Internet "anonymity" is a myth. The sources of those threats can be discovered and should be. Every direct death threat should be met with an arrest and prosecution for terroristic threats. That's the law. Let's enforce it.

Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)
4. Hear, hear!
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 09:58 AM
Aug 2014

Hopefully, they are investigating as we speak. Hiding behind anonymity is a coward's M.O.

-JB

MineralMan

(146,320 posts)
5. They should be investigating.
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 10:00 AM
Aug 2014

Sadly, the "common wisdom" says that people who make such threats rarely act on them. So, few are actively investigated, unless they threaten the President or other important persons.

libodem

(19,288 posts)
13. Of course
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:51 AM
Aug 2014

Especially if a coyote raped a teenager, on the way here, and got her pregnant. Then it would be God's will to deny her an abortion. RIght?

Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)
15. Kudos!
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 01:06 PM
Aug 2014

I kept my eyes peeled for news of foster families needed for the refugees, but until now, I hadn't seen any. Border Angels are a good group. I have a feeling the refugees' movements are too fluid right now to have a firm grasp of who needs what/where.

-JB

lpbk2713

(42,763 posts)
14. The same spineless jelly fish that mail out talcum filled envelopes.
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 11:54 AM
Aug 2014



... from their Mommy's basement.

Say "BOO!" to their face and they would go into cardiac arrest.

haele

(12,663 posts)
17. I know this guy, a big old teddy bear that gives all sorts of people breaks -
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:27 PM
Aug 2014

Runs a pretty tight business (he's a fishmonger who sells out of his store and at the farmer's markets). He's had his ups and downs, but he's a good and fair guy in the long run.

Internet trolls suck. Along with all those hypocritical summer patriots and bible thumpers who talk a lot, act totally opposite from the position they claim to follow, and parade around as if that makes them better than someone who actually acts consistent to what he says and what he believes.

(Bible Thumpers = people who use the Bible as a weapon against "those others" they don't like or are afraid of.)

Haele

Joanie Baloney

(1,357 posts)
18. Awesome!
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:31 PM
Aug 2014

I had never heard of him or his business before. Maybe I should swing by and boost his sales a bit!

Thanks for the info.

-JB

Takket

(21,600 posts)
19. hopefully this leads to some arrests. police should be able to work with the ISPs and websites on
Tue Aug 5, 2014, 06:40 PM
Aug 2014

tracking thus un-American dirtbags

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