Wingnutosphere harasses SCHIP family

Graeme Frost is a boy from a working-class family who - along with his younger sister Gemma - was critically injured a few years ago in a car accident. The Frosts relied on SCHIP - the government-funded children's health insurance program Bush seems intent on gutting. SCHIP saved their lives. Now Graeme, who is now 12, recorded the Democrats' weekly radio address last week.

This immediately incurred the wrath of right-wing terrorist website Free Republic, which promptly launched a harassment campaign against the boy and his family. Freepers promptly dug up as much personal information about the Frosts as they possibly could and posted it on online.

According to Freak Rethuglic, the Frost children go to private schools. Freepers claim this automatically makes them rich, because private schools cost money. What the Freepers don't tell you though is that the Frosts have scholarships that cover almost all their tuition. Even if they don't have scholarships, it still doesn't necessarily make them rich. Hell, even I went to a private school for several years, and do I look rich to you? If my folks could afford a private school, then you don't have to be swimming in dough to afford it.

Aren't Freepers always the ones who are praising private schools and complaining about how public school kids are nothing but gangbangers and stoners? I monitor that shitty little website, and it seems like almost everyone there who mentions having kids sends their kids to a private school.

So practice what you preach, Freepers. Or gag on piss.

It gets worse. Freepers dug up a marriage announcement in a newspaper from 15 years ago to determine that the Frost children's father, a woodworker, is self-employed. So they blamed him because the family didn't have health insurance and had to use SCHIP - when they should have really blamed insurers for making insurance too expensive. Yet the Freak Rethuglic thought police opposes state laws that would require big corporations to set aside some of their payroll for health insurance for workers. How's that for hypocrisy?

Then, of course, the Freepfucks promptly posted the Frosts' street address and offered all sorts of wild speculation about their economic standing - much of which contradicted itself. It makes about as much sense as, say, accusing an author who is known to earn money from book royalties of having no job (while failing to explain how said author could afford a new computer just a year ago).

Only a real bunch of scumbags like Freak Rethuglic would post personal information and ridiculous crap about a family all because they got coverage from SCHIP. Notice I said: like Freak Rethuglic - not limited to Freak Rethuglic. That wingnutosphere's a big operation, ya know. A contributor to RedState - a right-wing blog known for its frequent copyright infringement - expressed hope that SCHIP recipients "could die for all I care" and demanded hiring a private eye to investigate the Frosts to find out where they spend money. This contributor announced, "Then I'd do everything possible to destroy their lives with that info."

Michelle Malkin, an Ann Coulter-style loudmouth, admits on her website that she went to the Frosts' family business and interrogated a tenant in that building about his political beliefs. Then she scoped out the Frosts' home.

Congratulations, Malkin, you idiot, you just admitted to stalking - which is a criminal offense.

Graeme and Gemma Frost suffered permanent injuries in the auto accident of several years ago. Gemma suffered a brain injury. Only cowards and thugs harass injured children all because their parents used a government program to cover their medical bills. Free Republic and Michelle Malkin are cowards and thugs. Malkin and the Freepers have done stuff like this before, but this is the first time I can recall them going after 2 disabled children.

The government can spend money on a war on Iraq, yet conservatives get mad when the government spends money on injured children. But conservatives don't really know why they're mad anymore. They just are. So instead of arguing their point civilly, they resort to bullying and thuggery, like the big crybabies they are. Under their neatly pressed suits and blazers, conservatives really are ugly people.

At minimum, somebody has to make it so the wingnuts' thuggery doesn't pay. Right now, the media mostly just parrots their side, using the likes of Freak Rethuglic as sources. Then, when people start actually believing the wingnutosphere's lies, the wingnuts slap themselves on the back - and do the same thing to someone else later, because it worked so well the last time. The entire mainstream media - not just scattered sources - needs to be constantly on the lookout for the bullshit from right-wing blogs and debunk every last bit of it as quickly as possible.

Also, Michelle Malkin should be prosecuted for stalking. The Frosts have cause to go to the police right this very minute and file charges.

Somebody needs to stand up against the Far Right.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/10/8/105939/723;
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/10/dems-poster-chi.html)