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New Motherf–g Tone Update: ‘A Sense of Entitlement That Leads to Criminality’ UPDATE: Althouse Cyberstalker Says ‘Forced to Commit Identity Suicide’

Posted on | March 17, 2011 | 58 Comments

UPDATE 10:55 p.m.: The terroristic screed against University of Wisconsin law professor Ann Althouse was posted on a Web account of Madison resident Jim Shankman. In a Facebook status update about 9 p.m. this evening, Shankman wrote:

Because of a right-blogosphere campaign to silence me, I have been forced to commit Identity Suicide. I have never supported or advocated violence for any purpose other than self-defense against terror attacks by the armed wing of the American Right….

A “campaign to silence” you, Jim? And what was your obscenity-filled rant against Professor Althouse?

What’s that? You’ll have to speak up, Jim. We can’t hear you for all those crickets chirping. (Hat-tip: Sarah W.)

UPDATE 12:15 a.m ET Friday: The Underground Conservative has info on the Madison “housing cooperative” associated with Shankman.

Linked by Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit and Bryan Preston at PJ Tatler — thanks! One of the lessons here, by the way, goes back to the outing of anti-Palin blogger Jesse Griffin: You can blog anything you want, under any name you want, but if you think you can do attack-blogging anonymously, you’d better think twice. All it took was one e-mail tip that “Gryphen” was Griffin — a kindergarten teaching assistant — and as fast as you could say, “screen-cap those archives,” it was over.

Speaking of which: Just got off the phone with Dan Riehl, who just got off the phone with Shankman.

PREVIOUSLY (6:39 p.m. ET):

The quoted phrase in the headline is from Professor Glenn Reynolds, reacting to the terroristic screed that someone in Madison, Wisconsin, unleashed against Professor Ann Althouse.

By all means, please go read the whole thing and then tell me that the rhetoric of “workers’ rights” is not a discourse of hateful envy that poisons the souls of young people who succumb to its siren song.

We have seen this before in American history. The lesson is a bit too close to home — and a bit too fresh in memory – for me to let it pass unmentioned.  The privileged never surrender privilege willingly. They employ demagogic appeals to rally others to their self-interested “cause” by demonizing those who dare challenge them. And if someone gets hurt in the process, if some of those duped by the demagoguery decide to turn wrathful words into violent deeds . . .

Madison has become the Neshoba County, Mississippi, of this season. “Workers’ rights” is the Jim Crow of 2011 and government-employee unions are the new Klan.

Yeah. I wrote that. And put it on the Internet.

The New Tone: Because It’s Not ‘Hate’ When Liberals Do It!

UPDATE: Bryan Preston explains why it’s difficult for Althouse to bring this case to the police:

All it will take is one officer involved in the case who is a bit more of a union man than an police officer, and you have a potential problem.

Hmmm. Another parallel to Neshoba County, you see: Because the sheriff’s department there in 1964 included Klan members, the law protected the lawless and no one would protect the innocent. Maybe someone should bring in the U.S. Department of Justice and . . .

Oh, wait. Never mind. Bobby Kennedy, he ain’t.

UPDATE II: The Underground Conservative asserts that the author of the anti-Althouse manifesto is Jim Shankman. And I’d expect online research maestro Dan Riehl is going to have much, much more to tell us about Mr. Shankman.

UPDATE III: Linked by Dad29 — thanks! By the way, Dad29′s reference to Mississippi Burning reminds me of how much I hated that movie, which oversimplified the actual story to turn it into a moralistic melodrama. A native Atlantan of Alabama ancestry, I’ve spent my whole life under the stereotypical shadow of movies like Mississippi Burning and Deliverance. But if you complain about such media distortions, you’ll next be accused of being pro-lynching and here’s never an end to it.

UPDATE IV: Underground Conservative has a photo of Shankman and his friend, Anna Louise Ogden-Nussbaum. While I have not independently verified the ID of Shankman as the author of that screed, there is certainly evidence that Shankman and Odgen-Nussbaum are lefties. On March 11, Ogden-Nussbaum posted a thank-you on a Facebook link about calls for a “general strike” in Wisconsin.

UPDATE V: Death threats against a Republican state senator in Wisconsin.

UPDATE VI: Ogden-Nussaum’s leftist leanings can be seen in a December 2002 story in the Madison Capital Times about more than 500 local residents who signed a “Not in Our Name” ad against the Iraq war. Here is a January 2003 press release from “Not in Our Name” Madison. In case you didn’t know, “Not in Our Name” is an anti-war front group established by Clark Kissinger, ex-SDS national leader and member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, a Maoist sect.

UPDATE VII: More info: Shankman and Ogden-Nussbaum are evidently co-proprietors of a Web site called “Free University of the General Strike.” The concept of the “general strike” (and the allied concept of “direct action”) are associated with anarcho-syndicalism, the chief U.S. proponents of which were the IWW.

So it seems that what we’ve got here is a couple of 21st-century Wobblies.

The mind reels . . .

UPDATE VIII: If this terroristic screed results in criminal charges against Ogden-Nussbaum, she could beat the rap with an insanity plea. Madison Capital Times, Aug. 30, 2004:

Anna Ogden-Nussbaum took part in one of the protests that produced many arrests. She rode her bicycle in a “Critical Mass ride” opposing the Republican National Convention and was detained with more than 200 others, her mother, Jenie Ogden, said in Madison this morning.
Ogden said that her daughter, who turned 21 when while being held in a lockup in lower Manhattan, was charged with disorderly conduct and parading without a permit.

“Your honor, my client cannot be held responsible for her actions. She was clearly experiencing an acute episode of Post-Traumatic Bush Derangement Syndrome . . .”

UPDATE IX: Ogden-Nussbaum’s mother is also a kook lefty. Anna’s lawyer can use this as evidence of hereditary moonbatitis.

Linked by The Lonely Conservative and at Piece of Work in Progress — thanks! Memeorandum has more, including the Volokh Conspiracy.


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  • Joe

    http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/03/17/031711-news-hillary-2-2/

    Sorry to go off topic, but…

    With all the stuff in Wisconsin, Japan, and of course your on going dispute with Little Miss Attila, I missed this gem.

  • Anonymous

    I try not to worry about stuff I miss, given that the commenters will invariably call attention to anything genuinely important that escapes my notice.

    Thanks, Joe!

  • Anonymous

    Bayonets!

  • MrPaulRevere

    From the weirdo’s screed: “We are hard-drinking, weed-smoking, rude, obnoxious, auto-didactic, uppity fuckingTOWNIES.” Where I come from we call such people TRASH. And more likely than not they are white trash.

  • Anonymous

    And more likely than not they are white trash.

    The parallels to 1964 just keep stacking up, don’t they?

  • Mikey NTH

    One of the commenters at Althouse had a picture of the vile creep with his girlfriend.

    http://twitpic.com/4agxp8
    If that isn’t your classic hipster douchebag wanna-be anarchist then I’ve never seen one. Mommy and daddy need to cut off his allowance.

  • http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com The Underground Conservative
  • JeffS

    “New civility”, my achin’, dyin’ ass.

  • http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com The Underground Conservative

    For some reason, the words “Jim Shankman” disappeared. Click on the period to get to the link.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ediv-Seventen/100002191628900 Ediv Seventen

    Must be thinking inversely to Trumka.
    Here is his headline http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2011/03/union-equates-lavish-benefits-black-civil-rights (Union Equates Lavish Benefits to Black Civil Rights)

    Not a bad deal.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    That anorexic POS. Please tell me we can get an address!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    That anorexic POS. Please tell me we can get an address!

  • David R. Graham

    These aren’t public employee union thugs. Nor are they Americans. These are drug-infested cheats-idlers-squatters-trust fund “anarchists” aligned with CPA fronts. It’s a reach, but this places these middle-class descendants of Weather Underground, who were upper-class mostly, as the modern KKK. Left meets right, terrorists of the world unite. Ayers and Duke, Wright and Robb, are on the same team with Chavez, Gaddafi, Obama, Odinga, Moslem Brotherhood and Khamenei. A stretch, but note the origins and parallels and who’s not attacking whom these days. It’s a fit. Stacey is right to ID the KKK facet.

  • David R. Graham

    These aren’t public employee union thugs. Nor are they Americans. These are drug-infested cheats-idlers-squatters-trust fund “anarchists” aligned with CPA fronts. It’s a reach, but this places these middle-class descendants of Weather Underground, who were upper-class mostly, as the modern KKK. Left meets right, terrorists of the world unite. Ayers and Duke, Wright and Robb, are on the same team with Chavez, Gaddafi, Obama, Odinga, Moslem Brotherhood and Khamenei. A stretch, but note the origins and parallels and who’s not attacking whom these days. It’s a fit. Stacey is right to ID the KKK facet.

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  • http://pointofagun.blogspot.com/ Dave C

    Never trust a woman with a hyphenated last name.

  • MrPaulRevere

    I wonder if Barrett Brown is helping this odious crew, they sound like his type of people.

  • http://theundergroundconservative.wordpress.com The Underground Conservative

    We actually have one on the hippie commune they are associated with. It’s called Nottingham Cooperative. Google it.

    I’d love to see about 1,000 Tea Party protesters outside that commune. I can almost smell the patchouli, the body odor and the wacky weed from here.

  • http://24Ahead.com 24AheadDotCom

    Hey, RSM:

    I’ve left thousands of comments on hundreds of sites since 2002, and the only time I had to contact authorities about a reply I received was due to a reply on Althouse’s blog. Her commenters openly set out to get me to stop posting comments there, culminating in that. In the past the comments at her site had been somewhat OK, but that all changed when Althouse decided to pander to the barely-sane tea parties types.

    Your buddy Instapundit also told me to “STFU”… while hiding behind a pseudonym like a little girl (I was able to get his IP address).

    So, please don’t tell me about the new tone or civility: teaparty types are the most vile, most idiotic people I’ve ever seen online and off. What’s described in the post is bad, but TPers aren’t much better.

    P.S. Because the above points out facts about TPers, expect them to respond with lies about me. They aren’t capable of making an argument; they don’t even know what an argument is. So, they lie and smear. Ask them why they’re following someone who joined with Soros to give millions to the ACLU.

  • Steph

    How many sites are you copying and pasting this on?

    Um, everyone knows the identity of Instapundit. Are you the last to know?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1385852725 Richard Mcenroe

    “Because of a right-blogosphere campaign to silence me, I have been forced to commit Identity Suicide. ”

    Shorter form: Oh shit! They found me!

  • Anamika

    I remember you from The Next Right blog (when it was active). The authors were highly civil and their rhetoric wasn’t heated like (unlike most rightwing blogs). I was surprised to see “tea party” hatred you describe above in the comment sections even at such a place. You were unfairly attacked as was anyone who didn’t agree with the tea party line 100%. It was unfortunate to see that once wonderful blog die a slow death.

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  • Mikey NTH

    In Re: Update VII: His screed demanded money be given to the IWW so yes, you have a wobblie. And one who isn’t very bright because his name was on the site the screed was written.

    How clandestine.

    In Re: lonewhacko – the ‘new tone’ is a reference to Obama’s call for civility after Rep. Giffords was shot. It isn’t a tea party saying at all.

  • johnl

    STFU lonewacko was a ritual like “a magazine called ‘reason’”, “Virginia Postrel”, or “STEVE SMITH”. That all of your opponents are supposedly vile idiots and unable to construct arguments is the ultimate proof of the intellectual triumph of knownothingism.

  • melanerpes

    Found a mother lode of crap by Shankman. Enjoy.

  • melanerpes

    And here’s Shankman’s lady friend’s contributions.

  • melanerpes

    You can contact Jim Shankman at genstrikeu@hushmail.com.

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  • Malclave

    Yeah, yeah, I’ve seen you whine about this on another blog.

    So you’ve been trolling conservative blogs for years, and in that time you’ve seen ONE comment of concern?

    Try reading left-wing blogs with an open mind. Of course, you have to be fast, because lefties are quick to send things down the memory hole.

  • Malclave

    So you’ve found one blog that was almost at the depths of the average lefty site?

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    I’m sure he was just trying to promote harmony among all people, like http://www.blackpowercartel.com/ does.

  • K~Bob

    Can’t someone screencap his stuff and provide a safe link? Why give him hits?

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  • http://thecampofthesaints.org Bob Belvedere

    One might call them ‘Chaotics’.

  • Robert

    Has this clown been arrested yet and if not, why not?

  • Anonymous

    I don’t remember where I saw it, but recently someone posted video of a critical mass ride in Spain,I believe, where a driver lost it and barreled through the crowd. I sincerely hope he was never identified or caught.

  • Anonymous

    Wait….. he’s a kindergarten teaching assistant? Lord, how creepy is that? Is that where the near-violent lefties are hiding? In rooms full of 5 year olds? Yikes

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  • mojo

    “What are you going to do? Shoot us?”

    Well, it is worth considering, I’d say.

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  • mojo

    The hyphenated name says it all.

  • nettle

    “Free University of the General Strike.” – They have a “class” on the Irish Revolution which is probably the Easter Rising. The aftermath of which was horrendous. No food, no clothes, no shoes, best land taken by the elites which left the regular person nowhere to go but emigrate. It was pure misery for the “commoner” for decades. Yet the occultist Yates, from his wealth Fabian Socialist Movement in London decided it was romantic therefore it was…As for his fantasies about Maud Gonne – they were just that…

    Methinks this pair believe themselves to be one of the romantic couples revised in the history books of lore. The reality was much more painful.

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