Bill, you perfectly captured my exact thoughts and feelings. Thank you. Best, -Michael On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:00 AM, William Drake <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hi > > Since I’m in Europe six hours ahead of you EST folks maybe I can clarify > before you all wake up and reengage. Brett, Milton was merely conveying > what someone called him yesterday. If you’re really not aware, the > Heritage/Cruz campaign has fired up the fanatical alt right, so when some > of us sent tweets simply noting the GAO responses etc. we started getting > hate tweets. One NCUC member told me yesterday he’d been threatened with > violence and had to block people. When I looked at some of their tweet > streams I was pretty taken aback since I don’t interact with this side of > American culture. Rapid xenophobia, people saying Obama wants to give the > Internet to “the muslims,” the dictators, the UN, whatever, and the > Internet is ours and foreigners can go fuck themselves, etc etc. I didn’t > see any evidence any of them had a clue what the IANA is. > > Nobody is saying you guys endorse this stuff, but there’s no way around > the fact that these are the people who have rallied to your cause. It’s > not a pleasant turn of events, and no matter the outcome of the transition > these folks are going to part of the landscape going forward. Maybe Cruz > continues to wind them up with his eye on the next election, who knows, but > they’re here now. > > Thanks > > Bill > > On Sep 14, 2016, at 00:24, Schaefer, Brett <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > Really Milton? I've been trying to stay out of this pissing match. But > this is absurd: > > "And if you don’t like epithets, you should see the kinds of names > (“dipshit” is a relatively tame example) one gets called by these people > when you attempt to counter these distortions." > > Can't we just accept that reasonable people can have different opinions > and avoid insults and innuendo? > __________ > > > > Brett Schaefer > Jay Kingham Senior Research Fellow in International Regulatory Affairs > Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom > Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy > The Heritage Foundation > 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE > Washington, DC 20002 > 202-608-6097 > heritage.org > > On Sep 13, 2016, at 6:04 PM, Mueller, Milton L <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > And if you don’t like epithets, you should see the kinds of names > (“dipshit” is a relatively tame example) one gets called by these people > when you attempt to counter these distortions. > > > ************************************************ > William J. Drake > International Fellow & Lecturer > Media Change & Innovation Division, IPMZ > University of Zurich, Switzerland > [log in to unmask] (direct), [log in to unmask] (lists), > www.williamdrake.org > ************************************************ > >