Karmic paybacks are a bitch

[WolverineDG]

as Michelle Malkin just found out.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1005533


dg

[Patsy Stone]

1. I saw, and I love that.

Does that make me a bad person? :hi:

[RevCheesehead]

2. Bwahahaha!!!

:evilgrin:

Oh, and Pats - no, it doesn't. O8)

[crispini]

3. Bwahahahahaha!

Ok, that made me feel better. Thanks! :hi:

[Berry Cool]

4. Oh great, now a martyr has been made for the right.

Just what we needed...and from HER, too...*sigh*

Sadly, most people aren't going to pay attention to the fact that she started this mess. What they will pay attention to is that she is the last victim of it, and the one with the biggest megaphone. And the child who suffered from it all.

What ever happened to taking the moral high ground?

[RevCheesehead]

6. Do you honestly think anyone pays attention to her?

And yes, anyone with half a brain is gonna ask about the full story, and find out that she was the first poo-slinger.

As to the moral high ground:
1-a. I ain't in that group; please don't hold me accountable for the actions of a different website.
1-b. Hell, don't hold me accountable for someone else's actions at all.
2. Politics has NO moral high ground.
3. John Kerry took that route with the Swiftboats - and look where it got him.

[CC]

7. When she spews hate into the public consciousness

and go out of her way to make other people's private info available she should expect that hers would also be published. I knew someone somewhere was going to find her info and put it up, she should of known it would happen once she started it. I do not know if I would believe her on moving her kids school unless it was something preplanned. I would find it surprising if the kid was in public school with all the hatred mom spews about and I doubt anyone published her child's school info. I take any thing she says with a grain a salt on the victim part since the only thing besides hate she spews is her and the right wings victimization. It has already been proved over and over that taking the high road doesn't work when it comes to these people. That is brought home to me each time I have to explain the damn Swift boat lies to some none news searching person that based their vote on it. Like I did once again yesterday.:banghead: The up side, I live in a red county in a blue state and damn if there isn't a whole lot of buyers remorse going around here. I'm starting to enjoy the I told you so part.


Now I need my first cup of coffee.:hi:

[WolverineDG]

8. I refuse to take the moral highground

against those who have no morals. I didn't publish (or even look for) her info, I didn't do anything else but sit back & watch Karma at work. I learned a long time ago that whatever paybacks Karma/God have in store for assholes is far worse than anything I could have planned, even if most times, the paybacks don't come so quickly.

dg

[CC]

5. I knew someone somewhere would find

and publish the info. And good for them. Sometimes a taste of their own medicine is only fair.

[Berry Cool]

9. Warning: unpopular statements to follow...

1. Yes. I do honestly feel people pay attention to Michelle Malkin. Not everyone, but a lot of people. To say no one pays attention to her is like saying nobody watches Keith's show.

2. Yes, anyone with half a brain is gonna ask about the full story, and find out that she was the first poo-slinger. But not all will agree that that made it OK to sling poo back.

3. I am holding no one accountable for the behavior of anyone else--just for approving the behavior.

4. If politics has no moral high ground, there is no hope of ever having a moral government.

5. John Kerry's response when he was Swiftboated was to do nothing. I am not an advocate of doing nothing. I am an advocate of acting in self-defense without playing dirty or stooping to the level of an opponent. At least when it comes to something like this.

6. Yes, she should have known what might happen if she did what she did. But that doesn't make it right.

7. Whether or not she is a credible victim should not be an issue if it is only going to be used as a means of assuaging guilt on the part of those who either violated her privacy or approve of those who did. She may not be an entirely credible victim, but neither may the accuser in the Duke lacrosse rape case. Both may be crying wolf; both may be telling the truth. I don't think a rush to judgment is called for in either case.

8. What difference does it make whether a child is in public or private school? It's possible to be stalked either way. And I think anyone who justifies the stalking of children based on the actions of their parents is reprehensible.

9. "Taking the high road doesn't work"? Doesn't "work" to do what? To change the mind of a person like Malkin? Is taking the high road only worth doing when it changes people around to your way of thinking, or when it is done with people who have morals themselves? Isn't it worth doing in and of itself? Isn't it sometimes MORE important to do against people with no morals? And...does everyone now think that because Malkin has suffered this, that it will "work" to make her learn anything? Don't count on it. Now she has an excuse to play the martyr...great. Just great.

10. I guess I'm missing something here. Now that both sides are behaving the exact same way, what makes her the "asshole" and those who oppose her "the good guys" again? I am starting to lose sight of that. I'm starting to think all that has been lost in a battle of "us" vs. "them." I thought those who opposed Malkin did so because they thought believing as she does makes life worse. Well, I fail to see how stalking her child makes life better.

11. Don't lay this one on "Karma" or "God." PEOPLE did this. PEOPLE took this revenge. It was not karma, God or fate. People did it. People are responsible.

12. I don't see what makes all this "fair." All it does is make "even." But it's like nuclear escalation. Where does it end? When does someone finally stand up and say "No more. It's one thing to laugh and poke fun at people we disagree with...but to invade their privacy and put their children at risk goes too far? Even when they do the same to us?"

Someone's got to stop the war. That's all I'm saying. I despise everything Malkin stands for, but I cannot justify people doing unto her what she did unto others and consider it "karmic payback." It's nothing of the kind. It's people, seeking to do the same kind of harm that she did. And I fail to see how it makes them any better than her. Or how it makes those who approve of it any better than her.

[CC]

10. Hi Berry

and I do understand where you are coming from. Once I thought the same. Sometimes I still do on somethings. I would never say it is ok to stalk a child but nothing I read beyond MM mentioned the child. With the right wing hate mongers (aka pundits) I take everything they say with a large grain of salt. Maybe because they lie so often they wouldn't know the truth if it kicked them in the head. As far as her address being made public, this is the net, she of all people should of known once she refused to take down the student addresses hers would be found and published. I wouldn't have looked or put it up had I known it, but there are a lot of crazies out there and she waved a red flag at a bull. I will not feel sorry for someone that knew better or should of known better. Now the child is a different matter and makes Michelle's lack of understanding that much worse. To me she decided that pushing buttons was worth the risk to herself and family. I don't say God or Karma got anyone but I do say that you get what you give, no more no less and I have said that a lot. If you spew hate you end up hated and she of all people knows that. So no I can't feel sorry for her, the kid maybe if it is all true on schools etc. but not the women that didn't care about the safety of other people's kids.

:hug:Berry and :hi:

[Berry Cool]

11. I still don't believe kids deserve to suffer for the sins of their parents

or that all RWers should automatically be disbelieved no matter what they say. Or that it's OK to do something to someone because "she should have known this would happen" or "you reap what you sow."

There's times when we all have to, or should say, "This is where it ends." Sadly, in this case, no one did.