What would you do if comments like this started arriving in your in-box?
As I talked to Johnson in his office, an alert flashed on one of his two giant computer monitors. An angry screed targeting him on another website concluded: “I think a visit to Mr. Johnson’s home might be warranted. Anybody got his address?”
Would you move to a gated community? Or, laugh it off because there’s no such thing as a lone wolf?
Charles Johnson is not laughing – he’s moving, or, more accurately, has already moved into a gated community. And…
The man who once decried vitriol spread on liberal websites now says: “The kinds of hate mail and the kinds of attacks I am getting from the right wing are way beyond anything I got when I was criticizing the left or even radical Islam.”
Read that last part again – way beyond anything I got when I was criticizing the left or even radical Islam. I think Mr. Johnson’s decision to move was a wise one.