Judge Lefkow was subject to death threats from members of a white supremacist group after she ruled against them in a civil lawsuit. When two of her family were murdered at her home, many of these far right yahoos cheered loudly, believing one of their number had carried out the deed, even though the actual murderer turned out not to be connected with the group. It’s all documented by Orcinus – http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/ – which you should read for more background for this story.

When read in conjunction with another post from the same poster, in which he approvingly quotes another unnamed right-wing blogger calling for the editors of Newsweek to be hanged, you should begin to see the pattern. I can only come away with the impression that the poster is more on the side of a bunch of neo-Nazi would-be murderers than those responsibly for upholding the law.

This sort of eliminationist rhetoric may be protected by America’s first amendment, but I cannot support any private website who willingly provides a platform for this sort of speech.

It’s only the last few months the site has gone really badly downhill.

I looked at the site today, and it seems to be overrun by the hardcore religious right; something like a dozen new posters have popped up within a week, all posting liberals-waging-war-on-Christians or Newsweek-editors-must-be-hung-for-treason freeping.

What would need to happen for me to consider contributing again would either be for a lot of the recent arrivals to be booted, of for the politics section to be spun off into a separate site which anyone to the left of the Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler can steer well clear of.