Category Politics

Michelle Malkin: threats in the Blogosphere

Jenny Marie Hatch

Michelle Has a message for the technoblogging elites: Go Here (Strong Language alert)
These past ten months I have had to seriously think about this topic of threats and being harmed by what I say. I have also had to question how much of our life I put on this blog, and how much of my time will be devoted to blogging endeavors.
I decided long ago that I would not take counsel from my fears, in any sphere of my life. And have attempted to walk the talk each day fearless of what life might send my way in terms of being attacked for my lifestyle, political views, and activism.
Malkin has some good insights, and I completely agree with her that we have to be fearless.
She Said:

“My response to this and other endless slurs and threats–most empty, some serious–has been two-fold:

1) Report the serious threats to law enforcement.

2) Keep blogging.

As I have said before: “There is a time to be tolerant and there is a time to draw lines. If you don’t draw those lines, bullies will be emboldened.”

That is my unsolicited advice to those now cowering in the face of anonymous commenters and assorted nutballs who will never go away.

Keep blogging. Don’t cut and run.”

I agree with her in theory, but after you have been attacked, sometimes it is important to just take a break, simply because you are ill and need to physically heal, and also need some space to recharge your freedom loving batteries. It might also be important to take stock of your life and decide if this is the cause that you are willing to put it all on the line for. Knowing deep in your heart that at any time and in any place you could be murdered or maimed for your political views.
Last week before the Gathering of Eagles event, I had some nightmares. My subconcious was dealing with my fears in a very real way during my dreams, and I felt some panic and fear. I also wondered if this was going to be a solo demonstration, and if I would be physically attacked by those on the other side. I figured even if I was hit I would probably live and would only die if I was shot by someone up on the hill. No Fear, No Fear….
On the thursday before the rally my visiting teachers came to visit, and I shared with them some of what I was planning to do with the Gathering of Eagles, and mentioned that I was having nightmares etc and then asked if they would pray for me. I joked that I was not afraid of getting hurt, just as long as I did not get shot. Ben was playing with the two little daughters of my friend and I did not realize that he was listening to our conversation. When I walked in the door after the anti war rally the first thing he said to me in a tone of excited exclamation was “You did not get shot!”. I wondered then how much my little guy had worried for his mom.
When Dale Lanham and I walked in the door after the bake sale, Paul jokingly said “you didn’t get shot! or arrested!!” He was only half joking. He had been really concerned that if we got too in your face with the Daily Camera people, they might call the police.
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Here is a picture of me shortly after some toxic chemical was thrown in my face. I have struggled with my health for months since this attack. I reported it to the police, but they did not believe my story, and could not comprehend why someone would want to kill a blogging mother. I have released myself from the need to get justice around this attack, but it did change my life and my outlook on Freedom.
When one is attacked for political reasons, it can be truly devastating. You may feel guilt for putting your children in an unsafe situation, and you might feel damaged emotionally, because the bottom line is that it just feels terrible to be hurt for your beliefs.
That being said, after the attack, a freedom of expression and life comes into ones heart. At least for me, life after attack has felt liberating. I have absolutely no fear of death. I walked to deaths door, knocked on it, I think Jesus even opened the door, told me it was not my time, and I walked back into life completely changed. I also had a near death experience after the birth of my fourth child, and while similar elements were involved in terms of a change in perspective, life after the attack was the most liberating for me as a blogger.
It recharged my liberty loving batteries. It filled me with a purpose and a focus that has never waned. I feel absolutely fearless. I should qualify that by saying that in my concious moments I feel fearless, in my subconcious some fear has shown up in my dreams, as my mind has tried to reconcile things.
Life after attack has motivated me to make some changes in our day to day life. I bought the puppy I had been promising my children. I enjoy sunsets, sunrises, and flowers much more, and if I feel like dancing or singing, I do it.
I cut people out of my life who were making me ill just being in contact with them, and I invited others into my life who brought joy to my heart.
I joined a choir and I am enjoying performance again.
I have absolute faith and confidence that if my life is in the balance again, because of another attack, that Heavenly Father will preserve my life and protect me from evil. And I trust that if it is my time to die, that I will be welcomed home safely into the arms of my Savior.
It sounds like the blogger Michelle wrote about has decided that she cannot live with those fears of being attacked. I wish I had the ability to communicate to her that when you are attacked for your heart felt views, it can be the life changing, empowerment moment that gives you the courage to live one more day, year, lifetime, to its fullest.
I know my words sometimes convey this grandiose, majestic, over the top view of life, politics, freedom, and slavery. But it is difficult for me to harness my words, pull them back into a restrained elitist moderated voice. I have decided that the granduer of this cause of freedom is no delusion. I spend quality time talking to the Master of the Universe every day. I know he is listening. Some days, during quiet moments of prayer, in conversation with my Father in Heaven, the very specific guidance I have felt from his Holy Spirit showing me in word pictures what to write, what to say, what to do, has let me know in a very real and specific way that He is interested in what I am doing with this blog.
When one feels that the work they are doing every day is blessed by Heaven, that God himself takes an interest in what is said, what is written, and what is done, then yeah, one can understand why satanic forces, people, and ideas would have a major problem with one freedom loving momma in Colorado.
And, yes, Michelle Malkin is profoundly right that we bloggers cannot allow threats, real or imagined to compel us to stop. Peace through strength is my mantra. Some very evil forces in our world need to be confronted again and again and again, boldly, in full view of the public, and fearlessly by those who love freedom.
If we don’t do it, who will?
Jenny Hatch

Anti War Traitors and Whiners

Jenny Marie Hatch

I get email updates from the Commies at ANSWER and this morning an op ed that appeared in the San Francisco paper showed up. It was such a big fat whine fest, I thought I would share a couple lines from it:
“This resurgence of the anti-war movement, and the breadth of its makeup, signifies a sharp turn by the public against the war. But just as tens of thousands were marching in these major city demonstrations, the corporate mass media were fine-tuning their atrocious coverage and providing huge undercounts. As we all know, mass demonstrations have a major ripple effect. Many who are not there learn about the actions and seeing a vibrant anti-war movement feel that they too can be a part of it. A number of major media outlets across the country made tens of thousands of people disappear from the demonstrations and provided often hostile, misleading and false coverage.”
Now, from what I have studied these past few days since the Gathering of Eagles counter demonstration, the ANSWER dude is right in the sense that their was ATROCIOUS coverage and huge undercounts. But that bogus coverage was mostly in regards to the Gathering of Eagles demo that happened in DC on March 17th.
I have read most of the articles, editorials, and after action reports linked on Free Republic regarding the Anti War Rally and truth in the Media, and I don’t know what the hippies are complaining about.
Go to this link and scoll down to get a sense of the coverage and non-coverage of these events.
I am thrilled that the Gathering of Eagles is organzing and planning to meet the street demonstrators in the streets of America. I have long felt that these vermin, with their communist ties, sympathies, and money should have been banned and prevented from polluting Americas Streets, Press, and Schools back in the beginning when certain Patriots in our country said it was a mistake to allow a political force that has as its goal the enslavement of all people’s of the world to collectivism allowed to function as a legitimate political party.
They are not a party, they are not legitimate, and they should be confronted and stamped out as the Anti-Freedom revolution they always were.
The only way to deal with them is to pull them out of their little rat holes, expose them to the light of day, and let the people of America see just who they are and just what they want to accomplish in our society.
The absolute fact that the Gathering of Eagles was not covered in the Press lets me know that we have to use New Media to confront and expose.
Here is a response I wrote on a thread at Free Republic. The writer of the article Daniel Halper, posted his thread here:

“Not one soldier, out of around the 15 that I spoke with, regretted joining the army, nor were they worried that America would lose.

What did bother these individuals was the growing animosity at home towards their mission.

They explained to me that the insurgents witness the American media’s coverage of coalitions like ANSWER and it instills them with hope.

Becker’s aim to incite a transformation has arguably led to more violence and more American lives lost.”

ANY group that is directly responsible for giving aid and comfort to the enemy, no matter what their affiliation or political goals should be exposed as the traitors that they are, charged with treason, and then slammed away in the darkest dungeon in America.

The fact that these anti-war socialists wrap themselves in free speech, and desecrate our streets and war memorials with their smelly treasonous affiliations should compel every warm blooded american patriot to confront them boldly and fearlessly on those same Americans streets and shout them down with LOUD Conservative heckling.

It is the only way to deal with them. Fighting fire with fire is an old Biliblcal injunction and it is time to get out the blow torches to help our troops, not just with their morale, but in a real and vibrant visible way so that the insurgents will have absolutely no confusion about how the silent majority in American feel about the War, Our President, and The important and necessary work our troops are doing.

No more silence people, the anti war folks are on the run, getting more desperate, more in your face, and it is time to stamp them out in American Politics. They have the blood of our soldiers on their hands and it is time for them to be held accountable. If our justice department is not willing to confront their free speech, then I suggest we do it on the streets.

You may think I am calling for a blood bath. Nope, Dale Lanham and I confronted with . a non-violent bake sale And we conservatives have hundreds of similar non-violent steps we can take to confront the anti war hippies and the media to get the message out to the troops and those they are fighting that we are no longer going to sit idly by.

Jenny Hatch

Organizer of the Denver Gathering of Eagles event on March 17th
Jenny Hatch

Gathering of Eagles Bake Sale

Jenny Marie Hatch

UPDATE: March 22, 2007
Dale’s first movie of our Bake Sale: Go Here
And my video rebuttal to Jeffs Puff Piece on the Denver Anti War Rally: Go Here.
Dale took seven clips of our bake sale, which included us talking to people passing by as well as Jeff Cushings editor in the Daily Camera Building.
Dale is going to edit the footage to make a short synopsis of our bake sale for Daily Camera Intern Jeff Cushing.
This morning I emailed a letter to Jeff Cushing. It is the first time I have contacted him and as of tonight, he has not yet responded. Here is the letter:
Hi Jeff,
My name is Jenny Hatch and I was at the anti war rally in Denver on Saturday. You took some video of me and two of the people who attended our Gathering of Eagles to Counter Demonstrate the hippies on saturday.
We fully expected you to include some tape of us in that video and were sadly disapointed when it did not appear in your video that turned up on the Daily Camera Web site.
Yesterday Dale Lanham, who took the photos of you interviewing me, and I held a bake sale in your behalf. We were told by your online editor that the Daily Camera did not have the time or the resources to include any more footage in that tape. So Dale and I went to bat for YOU and held a bake sale to earn some money to help you out. We made $23.00 on the streets of Boulder yesterday, just for YOU! So you can have the money to do an honest job reporting.
See, we are concerned about you and the direction you are heading as a young journalist. If you get in the habit now of only telling one side of a story, that is not going to cut it in 21st century journalism in America.
Problem is the internet makes it possible for people to learn that you are not telling the whole story, and so in a matter of minutes, your one sided puff pieces that twist and focus all attention on one aspect of a story are going to be exposed as the propaganda that they are.
Now, we have a couple of cookies left over (actually that is a lie, Ben and I ate half of them today) and would like to send them to you as a form of nourishment as you do this important work of learning balance in journalism. And we fully expect you to put that tape of the Eagles up on the Internet. If the daily camera decides it just can’t host it because of resource issues, we expect you to put that 25 or so minutes of tape up on You Tube, and I would be happy to host it on my blog as well. We want you to include your questions in the tape so that the viewers can get the full experience of what it is like to be interviewed by a Daily Camera intern.
We also would like to pay you for your time, as I said, We earned $23.00 just for you! The good citizens of Boulder have generously helped in this important cause, and we want you to know that you are not alone.
Now, just a word to the wise, if you decide to ignore our request that you give equal time in your reporting, and you go on only telling one side of the story in your journalistic endeavors, please know that your career will probably be short lived in this new media environment. We are deeply concerned about the money and time you have already spent working towards your journalism degree going to waste, and what it might mean for your future. If you choose to not tell the whole story, and try to make things right, and if you decide not to take our “tip” to help fund this important work, I just want you to know that I plan to invest that $23.00 in Halliburton Stock, in your name, as a future financial cushion for you to fall back on.
The thing is, we are going to be fighting this war on terror for many years to come, and any American Defense Industry stock is a good investment.
We’ve got your back Jeff! The Eagles are here for you!
Have a great day and I look forward to hearing from you and getting your address so I can send you the money and cookies.
Jenny Hatch
Original Post:
This morning Dale Lanham and I went to the Daily Camera Building in Boulder to hold a bake sale. We earned $23.00 for the cause of helping Camera Intern Jeff Cushing learn balance in journalism. I took a couple of pictures of Dale with our cookies and literature:
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We began our sale by setting up our shop in front of the Daily Camera Building. Quite a few people stopped by, curious to know what was going on, and cookie sales were ongoing. We handed out a few cookies to a couple homeless people, and one person explained to Dale and I that he was a Vietnam Vet who had served at Tet, and then worked for the New York Fire Department for 27 years. He was in New York when 9-11 happened, working as a fireman, and when we explained to him who we were and what we were doing, he started to cry. Meeting him made the whole enterprise worth it.
Several people laughed after we explained what we were doing, a couple of people looked indignant or were angy, and we had a couple of Daily Camera employees who were really curious to know what we were doing.
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After we finished our selling we decided to go into the Daily Camera building and talk to the editor Jennifer Falor about what had happened with her intern. She was very gracious and kind. We offered the rest of the cookies as well as the $23.00 to her to give to Jeff, but she said he works out of the building, and anyway, she could not accept gifts for him. However, she did give me his email, and I plan to send him the money, the rest of the cookies, as well as copies of our videos and literature, so he can know how hard Dale and I went to bat for him because of his lack of resources. As it was explained to us, he had neither the time or the money to do a complete job, so we decided to help him out with the money angle.
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And we still expect him to put that tape up on the internet.

Jenny Hatch

Video Reponse to Jeff Cushings Coverage of the Denver Anti War Rally

Jenny Marie Hatch

I made a ten minute video to respond to the parts of the Anti-War Rally that Jeff Cushing left out of his Daily Camera Video. The video was published this morning on the Daily Camera Web Site. It was so one sided, I had to laugh as I watched it. Here is the first of three clips rebutting Jeffs Movie. (I did one take and the file was 250 MB – so had to cut it into three pieces)


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Freedom of the Press Cookies. I chose a red star to depict our American Press because they are about as left as our Communist Friends who had no free press in the various societies where Government controlled what the masses heard. Fortunately as citizen journalists we can publish our own take on things on the internet and do not have to read and watch only one side of the story. These cookies will be sold at a bake sale tomorow in front of the daily comrade/camera building, one of the most socialized presses in America. “Training our interns in the worst that journalism has to offer its readers”.
Dale is bringing up a bunch of cookies, and plans to make a movie of our Bake Sale. I’ll also take my camera and see what footage we can get. Hey, anything to help out a struggling intern!
Cushing Rebuttal #2

And the final clip:
Cushing rebuttal #3

Jenny Hatch
Quick links:
Cushing Rebuttal #1 (Yes, for the curious I was sitting in my pajamas while I made this movie – we bloggers have a certain stereotype to uphold!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TG-xtHNSAmg
Cushing Rebuttal #2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oromd_uZvJA
Cushing Rebuttal #3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdXXu7_aCW4

PBS Frontline: News War

Jenny Marie Hatch

I watched the documentary News War on PBS the other night. I know, I know, I vowed never to watch them again, but I had heard about this show on the Conservative Blogs and I wanted to watch what they were saying about the internet and blogging in particular.


I decided to comment on a clip from John Carroll (Click here for the whole interview), and was amazed that not only did he completely miss the point of Blogging and the self correcting mechanisms that are in place, but he was so absolutely depressed, contemplating the loss of his gatekeeper roll, and completely at a loss to know what to think and what to do.
THE NEWS:
His big question…
Who is going to pay for it?
With video phones at every event in the world (Including Sadaams Hanging), I think we can safely say that citizen journalists have got things covered in terms of men and women on the “street”. As for the ability of the average dolt to figure out what those You Tube videos mean, for John C, he figures that unless some socialist with a journalism degree from Harvard is analyzing and spoon feeding the context of that news to us plebians who make up the great unwashed masses of America and the world, we just don’t have the brains to figure it out for ourselves.
He really does not understand the power of the web, or the fact that newspapers were not serving the Capitalist and Conservative half of the population in America for decades. The fact that the publishing world collectively promotes Marxism is indisputable. Except for a few journals, magazines, a little big of conservative press, and the Conservative Chronicle, for decades the socialists in our society ruled the day.
In the video I talk about Cleon Skousens book The Naked Communist. Here is a link to the complete list, of which I outlined just a few points related to the press and student activism.
I have an idea for John and his reporter friends, editors, and editorialists. As print media winds down, we the people are still going to have a need for newspapers.
You know… to line our bird cages, help train our puppies, and to use to start fires when camping. Because of this great need, I would like to suggest that John start a new American Paper.
He could call it something catchy…like Pravda, and all the die hards in the journalism world who are in deep shock and mourning that the newspapers are dying, could write for it, and they could make it a non-profit, and sell it to people who need that paper to use as a pooper scooper for their dogs.
Happy Trails!
Jenny Hatch