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23 November 2007

I am VERY VERY ANGRY. I just checked the mail. We just got some kind of crap letter from some white power racist organization. With a pamphlet that condembs mixed race marriages. In other words-DISSING MY GRANDBUN.[More:]

It's illegal to poop on a letter and mail it back. I wish it wasn't.
I'm sorry, bunnyfire. How awful.
posted by occhiblu 23 November | 15:47
That's terrible, so sorry to hear that.
posted by mdonley 23 November | 15:48
It's legal to poop on a letter, put the poop and letter in a larger (preferably plastic) envelope and send it to the return address. Not that I've done that myself (I used pee).

Sometimes you get a little wake-up call that things you considered fixed are targets for those who wish to un-fix. I hate wake-up calls. My sympathies and shared outrage.
posted by wendell 23 November | 15:51
White power groups do mass mailings? Who knew.
posted by ThePinkSuperhero 23 November | 16:03
Wendell, would you like their address? ;-)
posted by bunnyfire 23 November | 16:08
It's no fun when the bigotry's directed at your own family, is it? I can sympathize.
posted by BoringPostcards 23 November | 17:18
How did they get your address?
posted by essexjan 23 November | 17:29
Jan, that's what I want to know. Definitely one mailing list I could do without.
posted by bunnyfire 23 November | 17:34
Did you maybe sign up for any anti-gay marriage organizations or mailing lists during the 2005-2006 election season? That would be my guess. (Since groups often trade mailing lists.)
posted by BoringPostcards 23 November | 17:37
IT'S NOT NICE TO DIS THE GRANDBUN.
posted by quonsar 23 November | 17:42
My husband is a local Republican officer. And he's a member of the NRA. (Since he's a Colorado native nothing really too surprising about that.) So, who knows.

This crap was mailed from Buffalo, NY so I can't even blame it on local crazies.
posted by bunnyfire 23 November | 17:47
(quonsar, you scamp. I came over here SPECIFICALLY to look for you.)
posted by bunnyfire 23 November | 17:48
Those Pigs!

posted by jason's_planet 23 November | 17:51
I pray that the head of that organization's daughter will wind up married to Dennis Rodman. Or even better his son will marry Rodman.
posted by jonmc 23 November | 19:47
As for these people: as long as there are rocks, people like these will crawl out from under them. Each generation there's less and less of them and they get more desperate sounding, which on a certain level is cause for optimism. It also amuses me how they promote themselves as representatives of the 'superior' white race. I can't speak for everyone, but this very white guy considers them an embarassment.

Also, I do believe that one thing we can do to keep these organizations in check is to get to their target audience (young, disenfranchised white males) before they do and fill them up with healthier ideas and address their concerns before these assholes poison them.
posted by jonmc 23 November | 19:53
And he's a member of the NRA.

I think you found your culprit.
posted by Miko 24 November | 00:48
This crap was mailed from Buffalo, NY so I can't even blame it on local crazies.


Oh lord... I apologize on behalf of Buffalo. Hand to god, most of us are screamingly liberal.
Shoot, my ex husband was Native and it wasn't until we went out of town that we ever got any negative comments.
I'm so sorry you're getting this shit in the mail.

So, um.. any chance they gave a real return address (as opposed to a PO box)? (I promise I won't go burn their house down. I will, however, give the address to a friend who is an ACLU and NYCLU member who writes for a local indie paper. Since the best shame is public shame.).
posted by kellydamnit 24 November | 01:31
Actually I read in a book of rotten neighbor anecdotes one woman's account about how her neighbors would steal her packages; denying it even when she saw they were using the stuff she'd ordered. One day she peed and shat in several containers, wrapped them securely, then sent them to herself. The thefts stopped after that.
posted by brujita 24 November | 02:15
When I read about this I seriously debated the legality of cleaning the catbox into a giant baggie and mailing the contents off to them.
posted by kellydamnit 24 November | 02:28
They have a p.o. box in Lockfort, I think the name of the town was.

Kellydamnit, I'm with ya on THAT. That was some seriously messed up stuff, there. What a massive lack of personal judgement they displayed, and what a massive price that other family paid for it...
posted by bunnyfire 24 November | 07:51
Lockport, I bet... Makes sense. The city of Lockport is very run down and poor (and I live in Buffalo, so when I say that, yeah, it means something), and the surrounding community is very rural and isolated. The primary hobby there seems to be, from what I can tell, drug addiction and hate crimes. It's a very "let's smoke some meth, tip a cow, and then make fun of the gays" kind of place.

The friends I have who grew up there moved out as soon as they could and will often tell horror stories. For some it involved a detour through rehab when still in high school. Sadly, not kidding.
(shoot, when my ex was in rehab that's where he went- they have the most places! That would also be where we got shit for being an interracial couple for the first time.)
posted by kellydamnit 24 November | 13:11
God bless the internet.

I googled the phone number on the letter and from that I found the name Karl Hand, and when I googled THAT I came across this :

posted by bunnyfire 24 November | 19:05
I've protested against him before. The last one they planned to demonstrate in front of city hall. Something like 100 protesters were there... and the nazis chickened out. Someone said they saw a car of them drive by, but they didn't dare show their faces.

He's scum.
posted by kellydamnit 24 November | 23:29
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