Charles Johnson (of Little Green Footballs) Got Threats After Breaking With Right

[Ian David]

Prominent blogger Charles Johnson announced last month on his blog, Little Green Footballs, that he had "parted ways with the right." He gave a list of reasons, including "support for fascists ... support for bigotry ... hatred, and white supremacism ... support for anti-science bad craziness" and "support for conspiracy theories and hate speech.

Some conservative readers were apparently not pleased with Johnson's critique. In a profile of Johnson, the LA Times reports that the blogger moved into a gated community partly due to violent right-wing threats.

As I talked to Johnson in his office, an alert flashed on one of his two giant computer monitors. An angry screed targeting him on another website concluded: "I think a visit to Mr. Johnson's home might be warranted. Anybody got his address?"


Such veiled threats are at least one reason why Johnson, 56, relocated not long ago. He remains in the Los Angeles area, but now is in a gated community.



More:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/08/charles-johnson-got-threa_n_416145.html

[NWHarkness]

1. I think someone wrote a book with a similar theme

Oh yeah, it was Mary Shelley.

[Cirque du So-What]

2. Mary Shelley would get death threats from fundies nowadays

for writing a novel in which a man of science plays God - nevermind that the mad scientist dies at the hands of his own creation. Subtleties are lost on the right, who latch onto the first thing they encounter and then see no further.

Johnson can afford to move into a gated community in no small part due to the success of his open-air asylum, so like Dr. Frankenstein, this is a dilemma of his own making. Let him hire Blackwater to protect him & his family from the rattlesnakes he tried to domesticate.

[Scurrilous]

3. K & R

:thumbsup: