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Mitchell and Webb Situation (by PlusPlus1)

Agreed.  I will stop communicating directly with you unless I find a tip that I think you’d like to do a story on (and that would be anonymously through a different email).  If you want to follow what I’m thinking about this stuff my blog is pomos4logocentrism.tumblr.com(for now, ill let you know if it changes).  Thanks for your reporting.
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On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Dan Riehl <dsriehl@gmail.com> wrote:

I don’t hate, or hate you, Jim. Hopefully this story is played out and we can move on. Thanks for the insights. Dan

——- Original Message ——-From: Free University of the General StrikeTo: Dan RiehlSent: Saturday, March 19, 2011 2:55 PMSubject: Re: communique from jim shankman
So all the stuff I’m talking about with regard to serious actions is publicly available knowledge.  Really, I’m just trying to share best practices and information with the right so that everyone can decide what they are seriously down with (because I don’t think that hurting each other is something that most people want to do - although I did notice several people on your comment section talking about how someone should do terrorist actions in Madison - see the comments from ActsNow and Jimbo Hoffa with tons of “likes”).
I’m just going to share hashtags and links with quick explanations (this because I’m sick of people pretending that these are just my ideas or that I’m trying to MAKE them happen instead of just trying to inform people that they will happen if we continue not to listen to each other).  When people tell me to name names, they need to know that I don’t HAVE any important names.  I could theoretically name people who have expressed willingness to attend an event in which we hit wiffle balls into Ann Althouse’s lawn and then line up to ask for them back, but who cares?
so, if you want to know about general strike stuff and how far people are willing to go when doing one, follow #generalstrike #blackmonday #UKDOR #USDOR and a few others.  I did not make up calling for a general strike, I just know about it.  The SCFL has passed a general strike resolution, although they may be wavering on it.  SCFL is the biggest union in Wisconsin and represents basically all union labor in South Central Wisconsin.  The IWW has always supported general strike type actions and is growing in a huge way since this started.  There are tons of other groups that are part of this (I think a relatively prominent labor leader in South Carolina has called for sympathy strikes), but I’m really more about teaching people to fish than fishing for them.  Look here and go from there.  In the UK, the chance of a public sector general strike already has the coalition scared shitless.
if you want to know about major, worldwide protest movements and how militant they can be follow #wiunion #wearwi #union #ohunion #inunion #libya #opesr #blackmonday #anon #ukuncut #usuncut.  If you want to know about LEOs and the military at these protests start with the videos - 
To the best of my knowledge the two biggest ones currently being planned are by anon which will be against the Federal Reserve on the 28th at all of their branches and by UnCut which will be against international banks on the 26th at all of their regional headquarters (give or take, some are at branches).  These are public knowledge.  
As for Catholicism, it isn’t just Catholics who believe in the central message of the Bible.  If you look for the most concordant, best theologically supported messages and through the actual lives of the church fathers, you see these ones always sticking out.  John 3:16 - the core belief that we profess faith to, and Matthew 19:21 - what we should do about it.  If you follow #cutscostlives you will see JUST HOW MAINSTREAM opposition to austerity measures are within the Christian and charity communities.  I’ve seen Oxfam Unicef, United Way, Catholic Charities and several others all with anti-cuts advocacy messages. It does really crack me up that the GOP can get on the wrong side of the Catholic church and NARAL at the exact same time on the exact same issue and still think it is a winning one.
As far as my parents go, who cares who my parents are past how they raised me?  Seems pretty anti-american to try to harass an adult’s parents because he authored and distributed a document.  I’m a big boy, hate me.  I will say this, my parents were pretty involved with the conservative intellectual community and that’s a big reason that I feel like I know what your team is up to.  See, I know all about stuff like Straussian training, the shit you have to go through to get something published in Cato, the kinds of thinking that happen at academically-focused conservative institutions like AEI, Claremont, Hillsdale, Occidental, and Ave Maria.  I also know about the weird message discipline stuff where you get voted off the island for any transgression.  And because I’ve always been part of the radical free speech community, I also know how quickly conservative messages get formed by the idea factories and then transmitted in culturally appropriate form from (say Althouse or Instapundit or whatever) to you guys to Fox to Freep and then to Stormfront, VNN and the militia newsletters.
As for me trying to get my name out - this is THE EXACT OPPOSITE of what I’m trying to do.  The less about me personally and the more about ideas this is, the better I feel.  You can verify, I’d hope, that I have made all of my ideas open-source, free for any distribution with or without attribution to me, freely available to edit.  What I want is for people to go to the site associated with this email addy and just learn about the things through the links and texts that are provided.  Or for people to actually read the links that I retweet or post on the facebook.
And for radical, revolutionary, conservatives talking main force - my whole message has always been THIS WILL BE MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN YOU THINK.  You really don’t want to try to commit a terrorist action against the city of madison or her people.  I promise you.  Just read a little bit of military theory or history about partisan fighting.  It is damn near impossible to remove dedicated, militant people from the streets of their own city.  What I’m saying is that destroying the protests through generalized hippy-punching is not an option.  You guys need to calm the hell down.

Dan Riehl

Okay, thank you. Stay in touch. I’ll be writing this up. - Dan

Thank you. I assume you’d prefer to not identify them?

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I literally read that email for the first time now.  I don’t even know which faction these are coming out of.  Like I said, I am a relative moderate among the more militant types within the movement.  I’m just not plugged into the industrial sabotage/beating up scabs community.  If you want to find out who originated it, I’d suggest trying to find out where in Madison it came from and who was around then.  But keep in mind, these threats have been coming from a bunch of different sources.  What my message is is that people are getting ready for serious actions.  Stuff that makes my letter to Althouse look like a childish prank, which in a sense it is.  All of us are against SB11, and everyone is willing to go as far as their comfort zone allows to make sure it doesn’t happen.  There are a lot of veterans and law enforcement officers at these rallies.  People are hearing it said that 9/11 first responders are not real Americans and they aren’t ok with that.  People are not down with threats coming out of the militia movement and private security types.  I am personally not ok with anonymous threats from people who read lies about me on the internet.  I really want both sides to take a look at how far this really has to go, and whether some of us who are serious about taking our country back regardless of their supposed political allegiances can agree to turn our efforts against the apparatus of big government, big media, and wall street before running around beating each other up in the streets.  
What I’m saying to the right is - there’s demos going on, get to them.  There are 50 state rallies against the federal reserve!  Be there!

Jim - Some have speculated that you may have also penned the email referenced in the item below. They’ve felt there were stylistic similarities. For my part, I am making no assumptions. Would you care to comment on the issue? Was it, in fact, you? And if not, do you have a reaction to the email? I imagine you saw it in the press. Thank you Dan http://www.620wtmj.com/news/local/117732923.html 

Among the threats the Justice Department is investigationg is one that was emailed to Republican Senators Wednesday night.  Newsradio 620 WTMJ has obtained that email.

The following is the unedited email:

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain
to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it
will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit
that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for
more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.

WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in
the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me
have decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and the people that
support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing
with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand
for it any longer. So, this is how it’s going to happen: I as well as many
others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of public records.
We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a
nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn’t leave
it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the
message to you since you are so “high” on Koch and have decided that you are
now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a
demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed
in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent.
This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won’t
tell you all of them because that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are
not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided
to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’s
necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making
them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families
and themselves then We Will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) you. Please
understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked
everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel
that it’s worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives
of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and
say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!
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I did not post this email.  I have never authored a death threat against anyone as far as I can recall.  I was one of the people holding up peace signs when people had grothmann surrounded (I have pics of myself there

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