Thursday Afternoon, July 14, 2022
WHITE SUPREMACIST DEATH THREATS
AGAINST MRFF RISE TO A NEW LEVEL:
"I AM GOING TO MURDER MICHAEL
WEINSTEIN AND HIS SUPPORTERS"


Mikey Weinstein and all of us here at MRFF are no strangers to threats from white supremacist extremists, but over the last month these threats have risen to a new level, with one commenter in particular stating repeatedly and unambiguously on MRFF's website that they are going to murder Mikey and MRFF's supporters:
"Mikey Weinstein will be killed"

"I am going to murder Michael Weinstein
and his supporters "

"I am going to murder every MRFF member"
Mikey Weinstein – undeterred by threats, no matter how
overt and menacing – reacts in a new video and Op-Ed ...
MRFF OP-ED ON
DAILY KOS

#1 Trending Story on Daily Kos
Dark creepy image of hand on computer keyboard with text from some of the death threats superimposed over it
"I am going to murder Michael Weinstein
and his supporters"

By: MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein

Thursday, July 14, 2022
Mikey Weinstein
It’s a very different life when you wake up one morning and see that people are very publicly posting on the homepage of your organization’s website that they are going to murder you and those who support you as well as all those who happen to share your ethnicity, culture and/or religious faith.

I founded the Military Religious Freedom Foundation (MRFF) in the early 2000s and, in so doing, became a thing that is called a “public figure.”

Now, if you are a professional athlete or Hollywood entertainer, being one of these “public figure” creatures can, I assume, be really cool.

But if you do what I do as a civil rights advocate leading a large civil rights organization, it’s not quite that way. 

It’s far more lonely, dangerous, brutal, and expensive.

It’s taken many, many years for me to get used to being in the public eye, and not all of it is bad. But a lot of it sure as hell can be. The constant hate is almost indescribable.

I get it. 

As I’ve said many times before, my job as a national civil rights advocate is NOT to be the “pearl in the oyster.” Rather, my job is to be the IRRITANT in that oyster that causes the pearl to form. 

When you start being such an irritant to the powers that be, especially where we do it in the U.S. armed forces, the VA, and the Intelligence Agencies, there WILL be perpetual backlash and much of it is personal, ugly, and hurtful. This blowback comes with the territory, and we all here at MRFF accept that fact and do our best to acclimate to it.

But over the last few weeks, and especially since the gruesome bloodbath at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24 of this year, we have suddenly seen a new type of brazenly public hate attack. This new version is beyond what we’ve experienced in the past when such onslaughts of prejudice and bigotry usually arrived via phone, e-mail, or snail mail directly to me and some of our key MRFF staffers, or sometimes directly deployed at my residence.

Now the attacks are prominently posted on the MRFF website for everyone to experience (specific MRFF supporters named in these comments have been redacted):
Comment saying kill all Jews
Comment saying Mikey Weinstein will be killed
Two comments the first saying Michael Weinstein will be killed the second saying I am going to murder name redacted
Comment saying I am going to murder Michael Weinstein and his supporters
Comment saying I am going to rape and murder name redacted
Two comments the first saying I am going to murder Michael Weinstein the second saying Jews will also get anuddah Shoah
(The phrase “anudda Shoah,” or another holocaust in a mocking Yiddish accent, is an anti-Semitic slur that became popular among white supremacists in 2014 and increasingly thereafter. Read more here.)
Comment saying I am going to murder every MRFF member
Comment saying name redacted will be raped and killed
Comment saying I am going to murder and decapitate name redacted
In this post, the red commenter name is a link to a vile white supremacist extremist site called The Right Stuff:
Comment saying name redacted will be raped by niggers and then dead
I’m not going to deep dive/delve into the reflective and poetic analysis of what such heinous comments mean for the ramifications of American society or democratic polity. I’ll let you all do that for yourselves.

Those of us with rational and reasonable brains know very well that the United States of America is not what it used to be, even recently, and why. 

Innumerable opinion editorials and countless daily media news stories have detailed our rapid descent into the abyss of bigotry, prejudice, and hatred wrought mainly by far-right, extremist Christian nationalism all too well.

But I just wanted to let you all see, reflect, and cogitate on EXACTLY what this precipitous fall looks like to one guy, his family, his civil rights foundation, and all who support us.

How would it make YOU feel to be told in a very public manner that you and yours have been specifically and deliberately targeted for murder?

What can we do, you may ask?

There is one thing above all others: 

VOTE TO STOP THIS DISASTER IN NOVEMBER ’22 TO PROTECT OUR CHERISHED AMERICAN DEMOCRACY!

WHILE WE STILL HAVE ONE.
MRFF's Inbox
“Sarasota National Cemetery”

From: (name withheld)
Date: July 2, 2022 at 7:34:12 AM PDT
To: mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org
Subject: Sarasota National Cemetery

Dear Mikey,

Thank you for your work.I am a Jew living in Sarasota and the daughter of a World War 11 veteran buried at Arlington National Cemetery.

Wreaths Across America places wreaths on gravesites here. How can I build on what’s been done and fight to have this practice stopped unless people opt in? Needing to opt out is discriminatory and insulting.

Thank you for helping me find the best way to stop this practice.

Sincerely, (name withheld)

To see response from
MRFF Senior Research Director Chris Rodda:
“Dialogue Concerning Socialism
and Military Religious Freedom”

From: (name withheld)
Subject: Dialogue Concerning Socialism and Military Religious Freedom
Date: June 30, 2022 at 12:55:03 AM MDT
To: mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org

Dear Mr. Weinstein,

Hello, and I hope this email finds you well. I am not sure how your schedule of communications accommodates requests such as this but I thought I would give it a try. 

I have some concerns about the current state of military religious freedom; the philosophies that protect and even encourage certain viewpoints that on the surface in modern society appear to be meaningless debate and inconsequential for a organization which has secular function (the government of the U.S. of A.), but in reality give rise to the opening of our military and military industrial complex to critical subversion.

This is the premise of my argument: If you trace the evolution of American freedoms and the true spirit of freedom, you will know without a doubt that the principles which make this country free are enshrined in the Bill of Rights and the Declaration of Independence, the latter a document reasonably understood to be grandfathered in because without it there would be no Bill of Rights. These two enumerations of freedoms that were intended quite clearly to be eternally preserved are based on English Common Law, which in turn has its origins in 11th to 12th century Roman Catholicism. Regardless of how people would want to believe the origins of freedom are and the legalistic and technical debates that could arise from that statement, Christianity is literally the birth of freedom. Now, please don’t consider that a provocation because I am not addressing that point, only using it as a preface to the matter of concern (in other words I care not to debate the truth for I know it and should it be argued I simply understand that the one arguing is basing their opinion on a lack of fact). That said, to the main point, then.

[…]

To read full email and see responses from
MRFF Founder and President Mikey Weinstein,
MRFF Advisory Board Members Mike Farrell and
James Currie, MRFF Board Member John Compere,
and MRFF supporter Mike Challman:
“Hoes mad”

From: (name withheld)
Subject: Hoes mad
Date: June 29, 2022 at 4:03:08 PM MDT
To: mikey@militaryreligiousfreedom.org

Dear hoes,

It is a glorious week. Donald Trump’s last card has been played, and then Supreme Court of the United States has effectively become a diocese. Indeed, as you Jews scramble the Jew-alarm over “muh post-Roe theocracy!”, you must truly realize that this will become a reality.

The church is going to conquer the state. The rule of Christ should be eternal, and yet we have major obstacles to that presented. It is argued by Jews that abortion is fundamental to practicing their religion, and
this simple fact is irreconcilable to the Christian state we have planned for the future (quite near future!). “Muh separation of church and state” is a cope of the highest order from atheists and Jews, and it quite evidently from your point of view is not working.

Here is the fix. If you lay down your arms against Christians and accept Christ, the rule of the Church will be pretty comfortable for you. Otherwise, you are probably going to experience discomfort. Either way, the laws of the state deserve to reflect those of the Church.

(name withheld)

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MRFF Advisory Board Member Mike Farrell,
MRFF Board Member John Compere, and MRFF supporters Rabbi Joel Schwartzman and Mike Challman:
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