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Friday 21 January 2011
Hey, Glenn Beck, Stop Inciting Death Threats Against Professor Piven

Frances Fox Piven is a distinguished professor of political science and sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

At 78, she has taught several generations of students about how and why poor people don’t get a fair shake in the United States and how to increase their organizational power and encourage voter registration.

Such scholarship, evidently, is too much for Glenn Beck, who several months ago started to wage a nasty campaign against her.

He’s falsely accused her of being “an enemy of the Constitution” and an advocate of “violent revolution” and has listed her as one of the nine most dangerous people in the world.

Since he started to air these attacks, Piven has begun receiving death threats.

“I got e-mails that said, ‘Die You Cunt,’ and ‘May cancer find you soon,’ ” she tells The Progressive. “And people are posting my address on the Internet with their messages that are really crude and ugly and violent.”

According to the Center for Constitutional Rights, several death threats against her have been posted on Beck’s website.

Here are a few:

“Be very careful what you ask for honey…A few well placed marksmen with high powered rifles…”

“Maybe they should burst through the front door of the arrogant elitist and slit the cow’s throat.”

“Somebody tell Frances I have 5,000 rounds ready.”

“We should blow up Piven’s office and home.”

“Let’s go string her up.”

“Snap her little chicken neck. This pinko filth needs a long dirt nap.”

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  1. mamatigerlily reblogged this from lady-moriarty
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    I need to go headdesk something specifically Glen Beck’s desk with his head, since he doesn’t seem to be using it for...
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    This is horrifying.
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  7. thewetmale reblogged this from lippykid and added:
    So i guess we should be somewhat glad that our own right wing bullies chose not to tell their readers what to do,...
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  11. jesuisrob reblogged this from greenstate and added:
    Good ol’ FOX and Beck; doing what they do best….
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  13. thebergeronprocess reblogged this from ambergerchild and added:
    This guy still has a job. Meanwhile, the only man who apologized for any violent rhetoric he might’ve used is fired. No...
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  20. femmenoire reblogged this from arathesane and added:
    Her work on working class activists is an amazing teaching tool. Not surprised right-wing terrorists don’t respect it.
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