![]() ![]() Second, set up the drumbeat of innuendo and accusation and hysteria. Namely, find the racial, religious enemy in your midst. You can understand my unease, being a professor of history and having to teach about the Nazi mentality. The Nazi cant: racial/ethnic/religious profiling.ĭangerous territory, Connie. I believe I spot, as well, a squad of men in brown shirts with swastikas on their arm patches. Am I mistaken, but is that not a contingent of the Klan I see there? The Klan about to burn a cross in the front yard of the “male of Muslim descent who is the most extremely liberal senator in Congress (in other words an extremist) and in his 40s”? United States Senator Barack Obama, right? I sit here dumbfounded, watching Paquin’s parade. The 40ish man of Muslim descent. Paquin has yanked the Bible, God, Jesus Christ–the whole Christian kit and kaboodle–aboard his vicious bandwagon. Notice, what started as the goose-stepping throb of Muslim male extremism has swelled into a screaming biblical banshee. “According to the Book of Revelations the Anti-Christ will be a man in his 40s of Muslim descent.” (I’ll let the local clergy correct Paquin’s biblical scholarship, wherever he picked up this nonsense.) He calls down the Book of Revelation upon us cowering sinners. There’s of course lots of stuff you can read. Pull out your Faulkner and re-read Go Down Moses. (I believe you told me you were an English Lit. I know where ethnic, gender, and religious profiling winds up. Yes, slave-holders, going back to the mid-17th century. My ancestors were Maryland and Virginia planters. I have, as well, a personal reason for fearing Paquin’s drumbeat. Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ![]() (I was a professor of American history at Rutgers for decades.) I’ve heard this chant before. By the third column we’ve got a facetious acknowdgement of a “pattern,” and a backhanded approval of ethnic, gender and religious “profiling.”īy now the historian in me has become mighty uneasy. Kind of hypnotic, whipping up passions–extremely dangerous passions. It begins with a dozen or so (actually, thirteen) references to “Muslim male extremists.” Notice the drumbeat quality. Starting at the beginning, let’s parse it. What trend? The trend of Paquin’s letter. Borrowing from the title you conferred on Paquin’s letter, I am indeed uneasy about this trend. My quarrel, rather, is with you as editor–that you actually printed this letter. My guess is he stitched together two or three texts to create this Frankenstein you titled “Uneasy About This Trend.”) I’ll leave it to others to refute him. Paquin didn’t write this diatribe I’ll betcha he lifted it verbatim from some loony site on the Intenet. A few times I even told myself I really should send you a note of congratulation on a particularly well-stated editorial. I’ve admired your insistence on ferreting out the truth. This may surprise you, but it’s the truth. “Through coordinated efforts with the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office, New York State Police, Clinton County Sheriff’s Office, Plattsburgh Police Department and other local law enforcement, the suspect, identified as Eugene Burdash, was apprehended without incident and there is no further threat,” the Malone Police Department wrote on Facebook.Corporal Khan, US Army (Photo courtesy of Tom Gugiluzza-Smith) Separate Facebook accounts appear to show him making threats online since at least 2018. Most of his posts and threats carried reference to “Nephilim,” a word he has tattooed on his neck, referring to beings in the Hebrew Bible said to be hybrids of humans and angels.īurdash claims to be a veteran on Facebook. In posts filled with slurs and threats, Burdash appears to have posted stock photos of guns, images of the Oklahoma City bombing attack and photos of himself holding a large knife. ![]() “It is something that we should really think about how it affects all the young folks,” Ellis said. She also acknowledged the impact on all the children in the Malone schools that were locked down. “We were just stepping towards having people go home when we learned that the individual was in custody.”Įllis estimated the lockdown lasted around an hour between 10 and 11 a.m., but said she wasn’t looking at the clock much.ĭumas herself was at the State Police barracks until Burdash was arrested.Īndre said he didn’t have a count of the charges exactly on Thursday morning, but said Burdash was going to be charged with “at least” three counts of making terroristic threats and aggravated harassment.Įllis said she hopes the stress and concern of the frightening event did not hurt Dumas and her family. “A quick response of the police in terms of securing that individual and having them in custody kept the lockdown from having to go past locking the doors,” Ellis said.
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