{"id":6158,"date":"2013-04-24T08:41:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2013-04-24T08:41:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T14:41:09","slug":"on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of-the-union-leonard-pitts-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of-the-union-leonard-pitts-jr\/","title":{"rendered":"On hate mail and the state of the Union &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United we were.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/04\/23\/3360622\/on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of.html\">On hate mail and the state of the Union &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWe stand together,\u201d I had written. \u201cWe stand defiant. And we stand with Boston.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>You disagreed.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cYour wrong pal we do not STAND TOGETHER. OH MY GOD we need a CIVIL WAR. The American people against the LIBERAL DEMACRAT SCUM that we have let allow SCUMBAGS like those that would BLOW UP people in BROAD DAYLIGHT to be here . . . WE NEED A CIVIL WAR. Those demacrats that happen to still be breathing after that CIVIL WAR will have a choice. BECOME NORMAL or you are LEAVING with the 11 million illegals that ARE GOING HOME . . . THIS IS SO CLOSE TO HAPPENING THAT EVERY LIBERAL IN THIS COUNTRY SHOULD START LOSING SLEEP . . . THERE IS A CLEAR REASON WHY WE ARE ARMED TO THE TEETH . . . \u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And you know, there was a time, not so long ago, I\u2019d have laughed off your semi-coherent, misspellings-riddled rant. But I don\u2019t laugh so much anymore, because you concretize a question I have been struggling with: Is America sustainable? Can a nation pulling so energetically in opposite directions survive? \u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Liberals] have nothing on the army of Hannitys, Coulters, Savages, Santorums, Limbaughs, Palins, Bachmanns, Malkins, Nugents, Trumps and Becks trolling the sewers of American disunion.<\/p>\n<p>Now, to them, we add you, my nameless countryman, advocating for war. War. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>[i}f it is really beyond us now even to stand shoulder to shoulder with stricken fellow citizens, then we have lost more than bombs could ever destroy. And secession has already occurred. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/2013\/04\/23\/3360622\/on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of.html\">On hate mail and the state of the Union &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United we were. On hate mail and the state of the Union &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr. &#8211; MiamiHerald.com \u201cWe stand together,\u201d I had written. \u201cWe stand defiant. And we stand with Boston.\u201d You disagreed. \u201cYour wrong pal we do not STAND TOGETHER. OH MY GOD we need a CIVIL WAR. The American people against the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/on-hate-mail-and-the-state-of-the-union-leonard-pitts-jr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On hate mail and the state of the Union &#8211; Leonard Pitts Jr.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}