Ethics

DI Receives Threats

By Ed Brayton

The Discovery Institute has apparently received some threatening emails, including at least one death threat.

An employee at the Discovery Institute, a conservative think tank based in downtown Seattle, received threatening e-mails last week, according to an SPD incident report.

The employee, identified in the officer's narrative as the Institute's Vice-President, Steven Buri, says in the report that they occasionally receive e-mails from people who disagree with the think tank's theories and call the staff "stupid." Three e-mails this week, however, were turned over to the police after Buri became alarmed by a specific line: "You've been warned asshole. Shut the fuck up or die."

And rightfully so. I hope they find out who sent them and prosecute that person to the fullest extent of the law. Death threats are never justified against anyone just because you disagree with them.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on April 18, 2009 (boomark / email).