Utah Death Threats Against Officials
posted at 12:30 pm on February 16, 2011 by Jazz Shaw
Discovered at Lady Logician’s place, a story of new threats against elected officials in the state of Utah. As usual, somebody seems to be upset over immigration.
Two state lawmakers running immigration reform bills were e-mailed perceived death threats over the weekend and Utah Highway Patrol authorities confirmed Monday they are investigating the matter and taking it “very seriously.”
Reps. Stephen Sandstrom, R-Orem, and Chris Herrod, R-Provo, were the only two state lawmakers to receive the one-and-a-half page letter, confirmed top state law enforcement officials, who said they were too early in the investigation to determine the severity of the threat.
Certainly sounds like those nasty tea baggers are at it again. They’ve probably been watching too much Fox News or listening to Rush Limbaugh or something. Oh… wait.
The letter is signed the “United Front for Defense of Immigrants” and features the images of Che Guevara and, separately, a semiautomatic weapon with a banana clip. It isn’t directly addressed to Sandstrom or Herrod.
Instead, it is headed with the words, “In response to HB-70 (Communique III-2/11/11)” and references Arizona — the home of the nation’s first enforcement-only law that became the epicenter of the immigration debate.
The letter says: “A comprehensive immigration reform has never and will never be established in Utah through peaceful dialogs [sic], civil discourse, or the Mormon Church involvement. It will be established as any other revolutionary changes always have been … by pen and gun, by word and bullet, by tongue and teeth.”…
So who exactly is this United Front for Immigration Reform? (Not to be confused with the People’s Front of Judea or the Judean People’s Front… Splitters!) Ladies Logic digs further and finds an apparent connection between them and Casa Aztlan of the “Aztlan” Movement. Why the Aztecs would be interested in “retaking” Utah, given that they never lived that far north, is not clear.
Yep. Sounds like the evil tea baggers to me. When, oh when, will these people ever be stopped?
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Is it wrong to want a rumble with these turds?
TexasDan on February 16, 2011 at 12:32 PM
WE’RE the People’s Front of Judea?!? I thought we were the Popular Front.
teke184 on February 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM
I bet Jimmy Carter thinks:
MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD: OKAY.
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/carter-says-egyptian-military-likely-to-obey-will-1256980.html
CASA AZTLAN: OKAY.
They are just looking to reclaim their homeland after all.
TEA PARTY: THREAT to America and it’s “progress”.
PappyD61 on February 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM
Silly Rabbit,
Aztecs don’t drink tea.
CrazyGene on February 16, 2011 at 12:34 PM
It doesn’t matter. All hate groups are categorized as “right” wing groups.
I heard the guy who puts the “Hate in America” list together for the Southern Poverty Law Center on the radio and he said ALL hate groups in the US are right wing.
When the radio host asked him about groups like The New Black Panthers and some the Eco Terror groups he said no they are “right wing” too because the “Left Wing” is unable to hate.
The guy hung up after the radio host started laughing at him…
Caper29 on February 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM
We are the Peoples Popular Front of Judea.
Do not say Jehova.
Odie1941 on February 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Yes, because there would be no sport in it.
Hannibal Smith on February 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM
Napolitano was right!
portlandon on February 16, 2011 at 12:37 PM
So who exactly is this United Front for Immigration Reform? (Not to be confused with the People’s Front of Judea or the Judean People’s Front… Splitters!) Ladies Logic digs further and finds an apparent connection between them and Casa Aztlan of the “Aztlan” Movement.
Why the Aztecs would be interested in “retaking” Utah, given that they never lived that far north, is not clear.
Thank you Jazz for another opportunity to talk about the positives of the PAPPY PLAN. :-)
1. Seal the border.
Eliminates the immigration that these Aztlan groups talk about. Also helps to save Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc.
2. 10% across the board federal spending cuts.
Who could argue that it’s “FAIR”?
These two steps are a great start in correcting the American Fiscal Firestorm about to overtake us.
PappyD61 on February 16, 2011 at 12:38 PM
Don’t they know not to bring a banana to a gunfight?
UltimateBob on February 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM
You know, I was always taught that it’s best to make threats verbally, without witnesses and only after checking for cameras or recording devices.
That way the recipient knows that the threat is for real. Also, you can deny you ever said such a thing if a complaint is filed.
myrenovations on February 16, 2011 at 12:39 PM
When did the tea baggers turn evil? A picture is worth a thousand words and turn back the clocks to the Washington Mall after the tea baggers left. NOT ONE SCRAP OF WASTE WAS ON THE MALL. Now look what it looked like after The Progressives got through. It says it all.
mixplix on February 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM
We are the Peoples Popular Front of Judea.
Do not say Jehova.
Odie1941 on February 16, 2011 at 12:36 PM
Al-ways look on the briiight si-ide of life!….
annoyinglittletwerp on February 16, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Isn’t pointing out Mexican terrorists using banana clips stereotyping?
andycanuck on February 16, 2011 at 12:44 PM
File this under: Things that wont be spoken of on NPR
DJ Rick on February 16, 2011 at 12:44 PM
Sometimes having an unfair advantage is actually very fun.
Utahns I am quite sure can take care of turds like this.
Badger40 on February 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM
Aren’t you just loving the new civility?
rbj on February 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM
I sure hope to goodness these officials have security and a gun for protection! There are some really really nasty critters around.
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letget on February 16, 2011 at 12:45 PM
So when do we start protesting Mexico’s immigration policies?
capejasmine on February 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM
Wow, your teacher was G.Gordon Liddy?
Bat Chain Puller on February 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM
So when do we start protesting Mexico’s immigration policies?
capejasmine on February 16, 2011 at 12:46 PM
gryphon202 on February 16, 2011 at 12:48 PM
Round up all guys wearing polo shirts and khakis, grannies over age 73, and blond kids with American flags on their shirts; this threat against our liberty must be stopped NOW.
Bishop on February 16, 2011 at 12:49 PM
That’s just common sense, bud. My father has warned me that “anything recorded once can be played forever” – like in front of a jury.
Dark-Star on February 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM
Che, the heart throb of the radical metro-sexual Left.
Che: “Is that a banana in your clip, or are you just excited to see Che?”
Hening on February 16, 2011 at 12:52 PM
I’d like to know what retard built the M4 shown in the caption photo? It has a revolver grip attached and a scope that probably weighs more than the gun; who would do such a thing to such a fine weapon?
Bishop on February 16, 2011 at 12:53 PM
Same retard who thinks bananas can be used as ammunition.
UltimateBob on February 16, 2011 at 12:56 PM
For those of you that might not be familiar with this movement to retake the U.S……here’s a link for a little primer on it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=aztlan&rlz=1R2ADFA_enUS392&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=
PappyD61 on February 16, 2011 at 12:57 PM
Bananas make fine alternative projectiles for “Potato” guns.
You didn’t hear that from me.
Bishop on February 16, 2011 at 12:58 PM
It was probably a reporter who was looking for an example of an AK-47 to use in a publication.
The Journalist’s Guide To Firearms Identification
teke184 on February 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM
/me stones Odie.
The Monster on February 16, 2011 at 12:59 PM
OK, NO ONE is to stone ANYONE until I blow this whistle. Even, and I want to make this ABSOLUTELY CLEAR, even if they DO say Jehova!
teke184 on February 16, 2011 at 1:01 PM
Best Immigration Reform Yet!
Simply require that businesses pay illegal immigrants MORE than legal workers doing similar work.
1. It give the appearance of being compassionate.
2. It will price their labor out of the market.
OR
1. Offer a reward to anyone, including illegal aliens who turn in employers who hire illegal aliens without engaging in due diligence to prevent hiring illegal aliens.
2. Make it illegal to rent housing to people who are not in the country legally. The penalty? They have to refund all the rent. Yup, 100%.
.
There is a symbiotic relationship between illegal aliens and those that enable them. It is in their best interests to keep their mouths shut. I say use economics to set them at each others throats.
The Rock on February 16, 2011 at 1:05 PM
Hey, you Aztlan dreamers….bring it.
pseudonominus on February 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM
How and when is Obama going to apologize to the Aztecs? This week he is supposed to apologize to the Cherokee for the Trail of Tears and the next week he is supposed to introduce legislation to fund reparations for our sin of slavery.
SC.Charlie on February 16, 2011 at 1:07 PM
LoL… Banana clip… WTF?!
liquidflorian on February 16, 2011 at 1:15 PM
I live in Provo, and it is a weird, muddy situation here- the people are almost all conservative to a man, but there are a gabillion illegal immigrants. People have this cognitive dissonance between their conservative instincts that say kick them all out, and their religious instincts that say love your neighbor and turn the other cheek. Lots of my neighbors are probably illegal. My son tells me that the Mexican kids hang out in gangs at the high school and speak Spanish among themselves. Whenever law makers try to curb illegal immigrants in any way, everyone goes crazy.
Kristamatic on February 16, 2011 at 1:18 PM
A significant majority of the intolerance, and political hatred and violence in our country comes from the left, and the few sane folks on the left refuse to address it because they suspect that it provides them a political advantage.
slickwillie2001 on February 16, 2011 at 1:20 PM
LOL – Kudos on that. I needed a good laugh.
“JEHOVAH!”
jrlingreenbay on February 16, 2011 at 1:25 PM
“You shot him!”
“Well, I had to shoot him didn’t I? He was coming at me with a banana”
Trafalgar on February 16, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Romani ite domum!
Wait, we’re being overrun by Romans?!
John Deaux on February 16, 2011 at 1:26 PM
Why haven’t they rounded up everyone associated with “United Front for Immigration Reform” and interrogated them over this?
Why aren’t their emails being subpoenaed?
Why the hell are we so tolerant of violent threats from leftists?!
Crawford on February 16, 2011 at 1:35 PM
Bananas, by the way, tend to be mildly radioactive due to the Potassium-40 in them. So I suppose that banana clip could be considered a WMD…
mojo on February 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM
What morons, none of the land that they want to make into the North Republic is in Utah. Maybe Utah (and probably Oregon) is in the North Replubic crap phase 2.
OK serious question, the Aztecs want their slice of American Pie and the Islamodingdongs want their slice. So when do these two groups realize they are incompatible?
ORconservative on February 16, 2011 at 1:41 PM
And the decent, naturalized Americans of Mexican birth that I work with still do not understand why I want the border closed. The irony is that if my friends were still in Mexico along with these Aztlan knuckleheads, they would be fighting with each other in their long-standing tribalist tradition.
pugwriter on February 16, 2011 at 1:44 PM
Perhaps you missed the nuance in the memo. Civility is to be imposed only upon conservatives.
Vashta.Nerada on February 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM
Actually, the SPLC does list the black panthers as a hate group. The page they have on Black Separatism is down for some reason, but Google has a cached copy from just 2 days ago.
Having said that, the group is ridiculously biased to the left. A lot of the groups they list do engage in hate-speech, but they completely ignore equally hateful statements from the other side. They have nothing on Mecha, for example. Or any leftist groups other than a few token black separatists. I don’t see any category for eco-terror. And not a word about unions, no matter how hateful their rhetoric is.. not even when they send organized mobs after bankers’ families.
RINO in Name Only on February 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM
Hmm, that was actually the original link – but it seems to work now.
RINO in Name Only on February 16, 2011 at 1:46 PM
Without illegals, who’ll pick the banana clips?
rogerb on February 16, 2011 at 1:47 PM
Now that’s funny, and so true.
kam582 on February 16, 2011 at 2:03 PM
On a slight tangent, but speaking to the same hypocrisy, the NYT dares to run editorial complaining about a Republican’s Dangerous Threats to a federal judge while continuing to print anti-Thomas, anti-Scalia, and anti-conservative judge diatribes in general, one of the most recent examples leading James Taranto to ask: What if Justice Scalia sued the New York Times for libel?
Hypocrites living in their own little bubble!
Drained Brain on February 16, 2011 at 2:11 PM
This reminds me of the Detroit would-be mosque bomber. The media was getting all cranked up about the story. They were very excited about the expected “violent teabagger” angle. It was then revealed that the guy, Roger Stockham, was a Bush-hating left wing psycho. That story disappeared in micro seconds. It got buried. There hasn’t been a word about it in the national media since.
The difference with this story, of course, is that it will never be nationally reported in the first place. Gotta control the masses with the right messages, doncha know.
Django on February 16, 2011 at 2:24 PM
Caper 29 said:
What radio station was that? Who was the host? What day?
Conservative in NOVA on February 16, 2011 at 2:25 PM
The New Era of Civility
Good Lt on February 16, 2011 at 2:26 PM
LOL, thank you – I was having the same thought when I read the org name.
Midas on February 16, 2011 at 2:27 PM
Well, they have brought it. And now Southern California and the Central Valley are colonies of Mexico. And many other parts of the US are as well. Bring it? They’ve brought it. And won.
Django on February 16, 2011 at 2:29 PM
“Excuse me, but did you know you have a banana clip in your ear?”
“What?”
“I said, you have a banana clip in your ear!”
“Huh?”
“YOU HAVE A BANANA CLIP IN YOUR EAR!”
“Sorry, I can’t hear you. I have a banana clip in my ear.”
ronsfi on February 16, 2011 at 2:46 PM
And the immigration groups are demanding that the LDS church take a stand.
The problem is the laws that govern immigration have nothing to do with right and wrong, they are secular and up to the population of the country to decided and the people’s elected officials.
It is just not the business of the Church to tell the government what to do.
Our church takes political stands on very few issues. And mostly family type moral issues. I think it is really doubtful our leaders would say more than “treat people right, and have compassion for everyone”.
So now they are trying to get Mexico and other big immigration countries and getting them to stop giving visas to Mormons because the Church says it doesn’t having any business telling people how to vote or the government what to do.
There is a lot of liberal blackmail going on in Utah.
petunia on February 16, 2011 at 3:13 PM
It’s not a “banana clip“, it’s a banana magazine, damnit! :P
Kenosha Kid on February 16, 2011 at 3:27 PM
It was Mike McConnell’s radio show (700WLW in Cleveland) before he went to WGN in Chicago. However, I listened to it on XM Radio.
It was last year I believe just before Mike jumped ship for Chicago around the time that the SPLC published their annually “Hate in America” list.
Caper29 on February 16, 2011 at 3:33 PM
Hey I found a podcast of it here.
My memory of the conversion was a little off. But the point is the same….
Caper29 on February 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM
IDK why Hispanics think they have some sort of birthright to parts of the US anyway.
Hispanics, Latinos, Mexicans whatever you want to call anyone coming from S of the border, are nothing but a mixture of Caucasian & Indian genetics & it means nothing.
I guess if you really want to get down to who’s got 1st dibs on anything, you oughta just give it all to Native Americans-no partial ‘breeds’ of anykind.
How many people can really claim such a thing?
So let’s just leave it how it is & suppress foreign invasions like always.
Badger40 on February 16, 2011 at 3:50 PM
Check. ‘Mexicans’ have just as little claim to the Southwestern USA as our American natives have on states of Mexico. The Spaniards that settled in what is now Mexico have no claim at all.
They need to let it go.
slickwillie2001 on February 16, 2011 at 3:55 PM
It goes beyond that.
Although a full-blooded Aztec from south of the border might be more closely related to one of the Luiseno or Gabrieleno peoples of SoCal, they are not Luiseno or Gabrieleno themselves.
I don’t have any claim to my cousin’s house just because we’re related. Neither do they.
JadeNYU on February 16, 2011 at 4:35 PM
Felix Hernandex, white courtesy phone please. Felix Hernandez…
iconoclast on February 16, 2011 at 4:40 PM
If Mexico does pull that off, then it will be making the choice for the LDS Church… and it won’t go the way Mexico wants it.
Mexico by way of Illegal immigrants is fighting a proxy war. You don’t want to tick off the neutrals in a war to fighting against you… that just doesn’t make sense.
Chaz706 on February 16, 2011 at 4:57 PM
Why the Aztecs would be interested in “retaking” Utah, given that they never lived that far north, is not clear.
Up to the Idaho border and westwards was Mexico until 1848. That’s close enough for Aztlan.
IDK why Hispanics think they have some sort of birthright to parts of the US anyway.
Because we wanted to purchase the chunk-o-land from Mexico called the “Mexican Cession,” and when they refused, we waged war until they said Uncle and then we forced them to sell it to us for $15 million and the assumption of some of their debts. In 1848.
That’s where the cries of “theft” come from, as in, “nos robaron la tierra.”
Which, they can have it back but it’s only right that we return it in the same shape as in 1848: remove all the roads, factories, mines, universities, hospitals, dams, power plants, gas lines, etc. that we’ve built since.
What was that? You want us to leave it there?
Now that’s just plain looting, is what that is.
dicentra63 on February 16, 2011 at 5:00 PM
Communism only makes a louder voice when it lies and can get away with it. The entire “Casa Aztlan” nonsense is just that: communism lying about who and what it is.
Marxist-Cultism uses these identity politics issues that can never be resolved (sex, gender, race, ethnicity, “rich/poor” and “war/peace”) to any specific point because it “agitates” human beings emotionally, at least those who are psychologically afflicted negatively about those areas in their lives and the lives of others.
So of course Communism latches onto those areas (“it’s unfair,” and “woe, the unfairness”) because they’re reliable areas of emotional agitation among the mostly unstable populations.
Lourdes on February 16, 2011 at 5:04 PM
The Indian Wars…
the reason history is encouraged so often to be rewritten is because it accommodates Communist needs to emphasize “the unfairness” of yadda-yadda-yadda blah-blah-blah…
The Aztecs from mostly Mexico were not welcome in most if any parts of North America and were at continued war by various attempts to invade the North for a long time in past history.
North American tribes didn’t want them here, the Aztecs wanted what others had (whatever, thus, they were invasive), and the Aztecs were repeatedly fought off by Northern tribes. Among the dirty habits of the Aztecs were eating their enemies.
Lourdes on February 16, 2011 at 5:07 PM
= Narco Terrorists.
It’s not like they’re even trying to be covert there.
Lourdes on February 16, 2011 at 5:11 PM
…interesting synchronicity…
Glenn Beck is showing a video clip of a “Teachers Union” in Mexico rioting in Mexico, attacking Mexican riot control, so-called.
Lourdes on February 16, 2011 at 5:16 PM
Actually, it’s Asian that later “became” “Native” with Spanish-Nee Grow later added in.
Original people that “gave rise to” “native” in South and Central America have Asian ancestry. Landed in Peru, spread from there, with some walking over by way of Land Bridge in North at a different time.
From Asia, originally, SouthCentral Asia.
Lourdes on February 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Casa Aztlan
1620 W. 18TH ST.
Chicago, Illinois 60608
“Aztlan” as far northeast as Illinois.
This past year I came across a non-profit organization determined to recreate the pedestrian passable migratory route that the various indigenous tribes used once upon a time, passing from Mexico through Arizona, Utah, Idaho, and Canada. It’s mission statement is to encourage people to be able to walk from Mexico all the way into Canada, or to walk any portion of the trek. And the foundation gets government tax subsidized grants. Given Michelle Obama’s “Move” agenda, not to mention that political immigration agenda, the foundation would be receiving even more tax funds.
maverick muse on February 16, 2011 at 5:59 PM
Lourdes on February 16, 2011 at 5:24 PM
Mormon myth places Semitic submarines landing in Chile.
maverick muse on February 16, 2011 at 6:04 PM
Well, at least they weren’t called monkeys with banana clips.
Amendment X on February 16, 2011 at 6:29 PM
maverick muse on February 16, 2011 at 6:04 PM
There is another myth that places intelligence in maverick muse. But I have never seen anything to justify the myth so I just refuse to believe it.
Mormon Doc on February 16, 2011 at 7:59 PM
These threads are always instructive as they give the opportunity to the willfully misinformed to spew their venom against people that are not their enemy. No matter how tangential the story, if there is even a theoretical connection with Mormons these rejects can’t wait to jump in with their extensive knowledge on a doctrine they know next to nothing about.
Do yourself a favor, if you really want to know something about Mormons visit http://www.lds.org.
Mormon Doc on February 16, 2011 at 8:07 PM
We are all immigrants or descendants of immigrants here, we legal
Americans citizens. And that goes for Native Americans as well. They just got here sooner.
Sherman1864 on February 16, 2011 at 8:17 PM
Exactly. If these stupid activist want the LDS support, pressuring the Church is the wrong way to go about it. The majority of the members of the Church will end up supporting the other team.
As a Mormon myself, I can only say that the LDS Church kinds put themselves in this mess since they want to have it both ways. They want people to obey the law of the land but at the same time they don’t want to upset a large population of LDS people who are illegals in America.
Conservative Samizdat on February 16, 2011 at 11:23 PM