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?
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>
>
> Brett Schaefer
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> Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom
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> 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.
>
>
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