Mississippi Thieving - a base response.

re: Mississippi Thieving and a base response.

One of the perils of our age and its instant access to news is the visceral, immediate, and unbalanced rage some items can evoke in the unsuspecting reader. It now appears that even normally lucid and reflective people can succumb to the most baseless forms of expression after being struck by an offending piece. Not a lame 'lipstick' on a ungulate type of debate- but a piece that really, and truly, offends the senses.

Waking up this morn' at 1:30am I came across this 'Hosemann' article which I saw as a Machiavellian machination beyond the pale because it clearly seeks to cut US democratic principles to their very core. And, I am now ashamed to admit; I quite simply lost it.

Below is a copy of the admittedly profane and unreasoned(?) email I sent to Mississippi's Secretary of State Mr. Hosemann.

My worry is, that by giving into my instinctively primal reaction to immediately start typing, that I went too far?

But, is there really such a thing as 'too far' anymore?

Does an outburst rife with frank profane expression have a place in our digital discourse? Especially when one feels as if their core beliefs have been affronted and 'digitally violated'?

Currently, I am conflicted on the matter- would appreciate feedback.

In the meantime, I think I will stop reading anymore news today.


Below is a copy of email sent via http://www.sos.state.ms.us/about_sos/staff_email_webform.asp?ID=479

"Mr. Hosemann,

Re: today's NYT article on your insistence on placing the names for the second senate race at the bottom of the ballot.

A pox on your in-bred myopic Republican hut you _ucking bespectacled _unt-turd.

Who do you think you are to flout the American Voting Rights Act? Mugabe?

It's people like you who give the US democratic system in general, and Mississippi in particular, a bad name.

Don't bother responding - I'm sure you are too busy trying to figure out how to _ist-_uck the underclass out of their rights at the polls this coming November.

If you have progeny, I shall pray they never contract your 'hyper-partisan' disease. And, while I wish you no physical ill will- it would be nice if you had psychic break and found yourself in a nut house full of disenfranchised Democrats!

Karma's a funny thing Mr. Hosemann, but don't worry about the impending night sweats - it's just your conscience trying to escape its sick, sad, prison.

Sincerely,
Upurass Upartisan"

p.s. Of course, I didn't sign my real name. But would it have mattered?

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