Arrest Warrant Issued for Deb Frisch
Gateway Pundit reports that an arrest warrant has been issued for Deb Frisch for failing to appear in court. (The news was originally reported at TalkLeft, whose host has been a loyal and helpful friend to Jeff Goldstein during this saga.) Apparently Jeff G. had accused Frisch of violating the restraining order, and obtained a contempt citation. Frisch has repeatedly failed to make mandatory court appearances to contest the citation.
And here I thought the whole thing was over.
This is good news and the judge should be commended for doing his job.
Let’s hope the woman is taken off the streets where she can get punishment.
Christoph (9824e6) — 12/6/2006 @ 9:52 pmDeborah Frisch update: Wanted…
Arrest Warrant Issued for Deb Frisch Patterico Gateway Pundit reports that an arrest warrant has been issued for Deb Frisch for failing to appear in court. (The news was originally reported at TalkLeft, whose host has been a loyal and…
Bill's Bites (72c8fd) — 12/6/2006 @ 11:26 pmPatt, it won’t be over even when Deb is getting the mental help she requires. There’s an unbelievable amount of polarization and hatred these days. Republicans aren’t as animated, vocal and crazy about it, though that will probably come if the WOT is badly harmed in the future.
A siginificant number of democrats out there are very vocally angry at the “right” in general. A person, just for being a conservative or a republican or a Bush voter, is automatically a target.
While obviously there are cool heads on both sides, there’s enough anger on the left and perhaps there will be on the right to cause some serious problems in our society.
anyway, it isn’t over when Deb is locked up or fined. Deb’s case is more relevant then I believe the media at large realizes. Political bigotry needs to be discussed.
Dustin (ea244e) — 12/6/2006 @ 11:50 pmThis isn’t political bigotry. This is a sick woman making threats toward a child.
Michael Moore never does that.
Chrsitoph (9824e6) — 12/7/2006 @ 12:49 amI hope she gets psychological help more than I hope she gets punished.
When is Jeff Goldstein’s web site going back to normal? I don’t go there anymore because I’m not a fan of web sites being taken over by blizzards of guest bloggers. Is he going back to normal in the new year?
LoafingOaf (71415b) — 12/7/2006 @ 1:18 amThats awesome that he got a restraining order in his local jurisdiction against someone in Oregon, and then got a contempt citation there too.
actus (10527e) — 12/7/2006 @ 4:53 amMerry Frischmas…
Well, gang, I have not gotten my feet under me enough this morning to check out the reaction to yesterday’s Frischmas festival in Colorado, but I have been told that there is quite a little blogstorm around the web.
Teh Squeaky Wheel (baeec7) — 12/7/2006 @ 6:13 amHere is what I know. Since it …
Loafing:
Jeff’s back to posting at Protein Wisdom (and so is the dancing armadillo). One suspects that this might be related to the court case, but it’s hard to say….
Lurking Observer (ea88e8) — 12/7/2006 @ 7:33 amDustin:
Yeah, it’s not like some rightwinger sent death threats to someone like Keith Olbermann or anything.
Geek, Esq. (7fb9f3) — 12/7/2006 @ 8:19 amYeah, Hitler was a right winger. Don’t forget that. That alone abosolves Deb from any guilt. Are you repugs claiming she is worse than Hitler or something? This is a modern day lynching by a right-wing fascist nation.
Geek, 2 (022fa6) — 12/7/2006 @ 9:16 amGeek, of course plenty of those on the right are dangerous and crazy. Abortion Clinics have security for a reason.
But haven’t you seen a major change in discourse, in the way people come out and expect political agreement (agreement to be angry?)
I think this is currrently much more visible on the left, and probably will become more visible on the right in the next several years. I think it’s something we haven’t seen for quite a while.
And while Deb is clearly mentally off, she’s knows what she did was wrong (that’s why she used different monikers, to hide her identity from shameful acts), if she knew what she was wrong, she’s an immoral person.
And she’s clearly motivated by politcal bigotry more than anything else.
Anyway, while I see a lot more political bigotry from the left, that doesn’t mean the left are all bigots or that the right lack any. It’s more a result Bush v Gore than anything else.
Dustin (ea244e) — 12/7/2006 @ 9:26 amYeah, Hitler was a right winger first described as such by Stalin. Most of the world is right winger when compared to Stalin.
And congratulations are in order, Geek, 2. You invoked Godwin’s law first.
Good job.
David R. Block (5f4d65) — 12/7/2006 @ 9:27 amWhat did she do wrong except exercise her free speech? Ooops, guess I jsut guessed it.
Geek, 2 (022fa6) — 12/7/2006 @ 9:28 amjust a guess, maybe she didn’t appear because she’s contesting colorado jurisdiction.
assistant devil's advocate (d30294) — 12/7/2006 @ 10:07 amgoldstein sounds like a moderate fellow. i know some people, you threaten their kids, they’ll have you whacked.
Sigh,
we are no longer a nation of laws, but a nation governed by the ideals of the members. That is, f you have the correct idealism, you are absolved from your crime as you are poltically responsible in the eyes of someone.
In addition: Doesn’t doesn’t it seem a tad juvenile to excuse bad behavior with the two pronged butterknife thrust of “The philosophical opposite do it too!” and “The philosophical opposite did worse at some indefinite point in the past.”
I guess moral and behavioral absolutes are uncomfortable as they might convict us of those things, if not now, in the the future.
MunDane (1b070b) — 12/7/2006 @ 10:41 amDustin:
I don’t recall things on the right being much different when Clinton was President. The big difference is that there weren’t very many blogs back then.
Geek, Esq. (7fb9f3) — 12/7/2006 @ 11:30 amGeek:
If there weren’t very many blogs existing when Mr Clinton was president, on what do you base your assertion that the right was behaving in the same manner then as the left is today?
When I read some leftist sites, and seem to find only commenters who know one adjective, I get the impression that even though we mean ol’ righties didn’t like President Clinton very much, we’d have expressed ourselves a little bit better.
Dana (3e4784) — 12/7/2006 @ 11:45 amGeek, I just don’t recall that many republicans threatening liberal public speakers in college, calling Clinton a terrorist, and generally hating Clinton supporters. Not like what we see today.
OBVIOUSLY politics have always led to heated disagreement. These days, part of many “liberal’s” identity is that they hate the president and his supporters. Quite different from the frustration with Clinton policies. Most Republicans sais thing like, “he’d be fun to hang out with, but lacks leadership qualities like ethics and impulse control” Clinton supporters were not assumed to be stupid, rather they were holding different views/priorities.
I’m not blaming anybody, I’m identifying a change in society. This could be (and largely is) due to Bush’s inability to connect with people who don’t already agree with him.
Dustin (ea244e) — 12/7/2006 @ 12:15 pmDustin, I call revisionism. The right hated Clinton. Do libs hate Bush more? Maybe by a few shades of gray, but consider 2000 and the war and you’ll see that part of it is simply circumstantial. Clinton presided over a great economy and his corruption and sexual indiscretion were just of a smaller scale than the issues as a whole that we are dealing with today (note absence of blame/credit for such circumstances)
I just don’t know. On the one hand, we’re not actually shooting each other like the Hatfields and McCoys. On the other, by virtue of being overheated, political debate in its current state is well nigh useless. I am one of those who really thinks most people are not far apart on most issues, absent the divisive rhetoric. We are all quite alike in our basic preferences.
The allegations of treason and “objective pro-terrorism” are ridiculous. Libs are blinkered too, on a whole range of issues. IMO our society has been idiocized by TV, and secondarily by PC culture.
***throw up hands***
bartender, ‘nother manhattan…
biwah (2dcf66) — 12/7/2006 @ 1:15 pmDustin…except that you’re right about the threats against conservative speakers. WTF is up with that? It may be too much lib dominance of educational culture for too long, but it’s facile to simply say PC led to chair-throwing. That is youth and stupidity more than it’s liberal politics.
biwah (2dcf66) — 12/7/2006 @ 1:20 pmAh, the groves of academe – where common sense is banned and free speech is free only to the looney left!
And to think I originally wanted to be a professor of history back when I was young and REALLY foolish. Can you imagine the size of the ulcer I would have by now?
Gayle Miller (1288b1) — 12/7/2006 @ 1:42 pmHow many Americans has Bushco burned up in paramilitary assalts? How many American 4 year olds have been assalted by stormtroopers and deported back to Cuba? How many American women with children shot dead because of their beliefs?
I miss the good old days of Clintonian civil liberty utopia.
G (022fa6) — 12/7/2006 @ 1:54 pmG, you add to the steady drumbeat of strawman arguments that has supplanted 98% of the political discourse in this country.
biwah (2dcf66) — 12/7/2006 @ 1:57 pmDeb Frisch due for the slammer…
I’m glad that this is fiend is now about to be sent where she’s long overdue, that being in a mental institution. Frisch had first been arrested in August, but since then has defied restraining orders and even missed a court date, so now, an arrest w…
Tel-Chai Nation (59ce3a) — 12/7/2006 @ 2:49 pm