Atheist Progressive Makes Rape Threat About Conservative’s Teen Daughter

Posted on | July 10, 2014 | 143 Comments

Preston Smith (@common_alias) is an atheist progressive supporter of Hillary Clinton’s incipient 2016 presidential campaign. C. Steven Tucker (@CSteven) is a Chicago businessman, Tea Party activist and ObamaCare critic. Wednesday afternoon, Tucker sent out a Twitter message about calls to impeach President Obama. Smith responded with a sick comment — CC’d to Tucker’s wife Andrea — that appeared to be a rape threat directed at one of their teenage daughters:

Why? Beyond Smith’s perverse interpretation of an Old Testament passage, it seems Smith had devoted enough attention to his target to be able to locate Tucker’s wife’s account, showing her with the couple’s three children in the profile picture.

You can imagine how any parent would take alarm at such a comment. Tucker said he has reported Smith to law enforcement, but I’m afraid the Tuckers will be disappointed to learn that, from a legal standpoint, a comment like Smith’s is not be considered a “threat.” A threat, in the legal sense, requires that there be some reason for the target to fear that the person making the threat will actually carry it out.

In other words, if I say, “I’d like to beat Preston Smith to a bloody pulp,” that’s not a threat, legally. On the other hand, if I were to say, “I’ve got Preston Smith’s home address and I just booked my flight from Dulles to Miami tomorrow so that I can kill that vicious bastard with my bare hands” — well, the specificity of such a comment could be seen as a legitimate threat that might cause him to fear that an enraged redneck could show up at his front door with murderous intent.

The difference between these hypothetical scenarios may seem trivial legalistic hair-splitting to the layman. On the other hand, if I told you that Delta Flight 6224 left Dulles at 6:10 a.m., connnecting through Detroit via Flight 1829 to arrive at Miami International Airport before noon, you might believe I’d given it serious consideration. And if Steven Tucker posted a selfie of himself at O’Hare Airport boarding a non-stop flight to Miami, that could also be taken as indicating Preston Smith has reasonable cause to fear for his safety.

But these are just hypothetical scenarios, of course.

(Hat-tip: Big Fur Hat.)

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Category: Progressivism

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143 Responses to “Atheist Progressive Makes Rape Threat About Conservative’s Teen Daughter”

GoneWind
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:02 pm

That’s all you. You’re projecting.
Dennis Mahon
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:03 pm

Don’t blame me – I’m just holding up a mirror.
Dennis Mahon
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:04 pm

It was your claim that the Bible justifies rape – not me.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:10 pm

Looks like the same troll Wombat banned last night. I guess they never learn.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:23 pm

Words mean something, or language is useless. You hate taking things literally, when the context indicate it’s meant to be taken that way, because you hate the result. That you do so matters little. You simply want to live your life any old way you wish, no matter how destructive it is to yourself or others.

God will allow you to live the way you want, but there are consequences to idiocy. When you are warned and continue, then you are a fool.

“A fool’s mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.” Proverbs 18:7

” A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.” Proverbs 14:16

“Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.” Isaiah 59:7

“The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.” Proverbs 12:15

The wise man heeds the warning, but the fool goes on to destruction.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:24 pm

Frankly, I don’t have the faith to be a foolish as you.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:26 pm

And the man. you’re simply determined to pick and choose what you accept. Catholic School didn’t get through that thick skull obviously.
Quartermaster
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:28 pm

Under the Law a person could be put to death only upon the testimony of at least two people, and they did not have to male. Islam’s Sahria is a perversion of God’s Law.
Peter Nolan
July 10th, 2014 @ 8:48 pm

Give instruction to a wise man and he will be still wiser, Teach a righteous man and he will increase his learning. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
Proverbs 9:9-10
maniakmedic
July 10th, 2014 @ 9:08 pm

Zing!
Rob Crawford
July 10th, 2014 @ 9:26 pm

Why aren’t you actually gone, “Gone”?
Patrick Chester
July 10th, 2014 @ 10:33 pm

No, you’re a hateful little twit pretending your bigotry is enlightened.
Don’t bother with the “I was raised Catholic” bleat to pretend some sort of objectivity. I was raised Catholic and drifted away from the Church about two decades ago.
Unlike you, I don’t troll blogs where people who still believe visit and make sneering remarks about their faith. I’m just an agnostic, not some hipster atheist.
Evan3457
July 10th, 2014 @ 11:01 pm

There is one contemporary religion who DOES stone women to death for things like this, but you never mention it, or criticize it head on.

I wonder why, you brave atheist, you?
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Finrod Felagund
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:15 am

As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.

Proverbs 26:11
Funeral guy
July 11th, 2014 @ 1:33 am

You actually used the word “dude”? Unless you’re 15 or under you’re obviously a complete tool.
K-Bob
July 11th, 2014 @ 1:39 am

They’re out in force tonight.

I had to come here to get away from them for a while.
TroubleAtTheMine
July 11th, 2014 @ 1:42 am

Atheist progressives are the best proof that I’ve ever seen that there are no morals or even ethics without belief in God. I mean, look at the article you are trolling – it’s about a proggie going stalker rapist on some conservative’s daughter! And you don’t even notice the ethical issue there! All you’re concerned about is trolling bible believers. Why aren’t you off trolling the pedophile pervert Preston Smith?
Wombat_socho
July 11th, 2014 @ 6:30 am

*smack*
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 6:32 am

Interesting that no matter the situation, the Bible has something germane to say.
Wombat_socho
July 11th, 2014 @ 6:34 am

Because I can’t stay up 24×7 expunging these idiots.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 6:37 am

Caffeine. Drink moar caffeine. Lots moar. 🙂
ThePaganTemple
July 11th, 2014 @ 10:41 am

Quartermaster, I think the guy’s point is you shouldn’t condemn women for committing adultery. It’s not a death penalty offense, in other words. I agree with him on that.

By the same token, we might all be missing on a lot of context that has faded from memory now,. Things that would have not been necessary to mention at the time because everybody knew the context, unlike today.

Fort example, I read once where somebody explained that the reason God commanded the Israelites to kill all the Canaanites was due to the prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases among them, which of course was incurable at that particular time in history. It was considered a divine curse that had to be eradicated.

A person who isn’t in the know about this might read these passages and assume this to be proof that God is an insane, hateful and bigoted Hitlerian type of savage entity.

Which is why you need to read everything with an eye to the context of the times.
SchmibleBible
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:23 am

Oh, it’s so much enlightened when you put it that way! LOL! They’re still advocating putting people to death for adultery. Yeah, we need to take that literally! Proves math smart people aren’t actually that smart. It’s like classical musicians: they can read a chart, but ask them to improvise, and it’s like a deer in headlights. In other words you can process, and regurgitate information, but there’s not a hell of a lot of critical thinking, or free thought in that thick skull of yours. And are you telling me that you really take a passage like that seriously? Even the Catholic Church is cherry picking the Bible these days.
GoneWindy
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:25 am

So says an actual anti-semitie, and white supremacist:

http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/mahon-brothers/default.html?LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=mahon_bros

Jailbird. They let you guys use computers in federal prison?
SchmibleBible
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:27 am

Because they’re such smug, sanctimonious bastards, and deserve it.
Schmible
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:29 am

I’m not an atheist.
Schmible
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:33 am

Oh, he can’t look at it rationally because if he does the entire house of cards collapses, and all the critics are right. It’s the same with all the nonsense about not eating pork, or having clean plates. It was part of the times. No one takes such nonsense seriously anymore. If there was such a supreme entity he really gives a toss about eating pig, or making sure the house is spotless before a sedar? It’s absurd.

Always enjoyed George Carlin’s breakdown of the ten commandments:
GoneWindy
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:36 am

No, you’re an idiot because you think I’m an antisemite for criticizing a biblical passage. And you’re a racist for opposing Obamacare. See how that works? It’s even worse when you actually are an antisemite, and white supremacist, Dennis:
http://archive.adl.org/learn/ext_us/mahon-brothers/default.html?LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=2&item=mahon_bros
Schmible
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:37 am

Yeah, it’s so much less “perverse” when you put it that way! LOL! This is comical.
Dennis Mahon
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:40 am

You can ask the owner of this blog – he has access to the ip address I’m posting from.
Finrod Felagund
July 11th, 2014 @ 11:50 am

Go die in a fire, idiot leftist troll. Oh wait, you will eventually anyways.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:06 pm

You’ve been played for a fool and don’t even realize it. But, then, you are a fool and don’t realize it.
ThePaganTemple
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm

You should try to see the reasoning. These laws were originally handed down orally at the start of the Iron Age. In other words, following the collapse of the Bronze Age.

This is significant. Most people today don’t understand how highly advanced Bronze Age Civilization really was. No, there wasn’t a high level of technical achievement (though this too was probably more advanced than most might believe), but it was very civilized, with high levels of cultural achievement.

When it fell, at the onset of the Iron Age, that is when times became very savage and brutal, Rape became commonplace, for just one example.Life in general became very cheap.

Those old laws were a way of trying to reestablish some semblance of sanity and control in the middle of what amounted to overall world chaos.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:07 pm

He is going to spend eternity in a fire. When Christ says “depart” his outlook won’t be so smug and sanctimonious.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:10 pm

Under the law adultery was a capital offense. That does not mean it should continue. He picks and chooses what he wants to take from scripture in an effort to make God look like a fool. Alas, he is simply playing the part of a preening fool.
I have pointed out one of the bare principles of hermeneutics. He didn’t want to listen, which is the point because he wants to troll. What scripture says as a whole is both beyond his ability, but also beyond his desire.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:13 pm

I don’t cherry pick the Bible and couldn’t care less if some preening fool wants to troll and play games. You’ve simply become a reprobate in the biblical sense and are not interested in what scripture says as a whole.
Islamists are advocating putting Adulterers to death. Islamists are, and if leftists get supreme power you’ll be acting Stalin and Mao all over again.
Finrod Felagund
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm

Precisely.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:14 pm

Anything is comical to a sociopath like yourself.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:15 pm

Windy is far too stupid to see that he’s being played.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:17 pm

It’s looking like he able to post from more than one ip. You may have to disallow unregistered posters. Hate that, but it looks like all you’re able to do under the current regime is swat Hornets instead of killing the nest.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:32 pm

“Wisdom” is not the primary purpose of Scripture.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:33 pm

Might as well be. The end result will be the same for you.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:38 pm

“19 And so we have the prophetic word confirmed,[a] which you do well to heed as a light that shines in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts; 20 knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of any private interpretation,[b] 21 for prophecy never came by the will of man, but holy men of God[c] spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit.” 2 Peter 2:19-21.
Your god is something you created in that infinite space between your ears.
K-Bob
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm

It’s not worth the headache to make folks register, and that cuts way back on page views. Only a few clowns do the IP switcheroo anyway, and locking their IP each time slows them down enough to make them work harder than any committed troll can muster the energy.

The exception of course are the deranged, cyberstalkers, but even they have to sleep.

Blocking all of their IPs might end up blocking everyone at the public library in their hometown, but no real loss there.

The worst troll management problems happen when you get a Drudge link (or Bretibart or whatever). Then it’s an endless parade of geniuses that think they are the first one to come up with the same “clever,” one-liner, Bill Maher-style comment on the obvious.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:46 pm

The primary purpose of scripture is salvation history – God’s dealings with men. The was given, as Paul expressed, to teach. It teaches two things, the standard of holiness, and the consequences of that standard is breached. IN our age the temporal consequences are held in abeyance, but the temporal consequences was to model what would happen if a person did not accept God’s provision for sin in this life. Death will be the eternal consequence of sin, and death in the sense that God is talking about eternally is eternal separation from God. Since there are only two destinations in eternity, the consequences are ghastly if sin is not abandoned and God’s way to avoid that destination is not accepted.
I think God realized that there would be people that would not like what He was teaching. The only problem is He didn’t, and doesn’t, care what puny men think of Him. He had the power to create the cosmos and will have no problem dealing with someone that has only the slightest inkling of what that took, yet spits in His face.
Hate to say it, but the world is headed to chaos. It’s what Satan wants, and God is allowing evil to gain power so it will stand up and teach men what happens when they go their own way. then, He will appear to the entire population of the earth and come and crush that evil and rule himself. And, he will rule with a rod of iron.
K-Bob
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm

Duuuude!
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:47 pm

So what! I don’t live for the approval of anyone here, much less of a biblical fool such as yourself.
Quartermaster
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:49 pm

In all of your posts, I have yet to see what you claim. Logic and reason are two things all of your idiotic ramblings here lack. You are a sociopath and that is what has led you to troll here.
K-Bob
July 11th, 2014 @ 12:50 pm

Logic and reason have to be employed to make that happen. Your flames look more like random scribblings from a roomful of choomers.