Letter to a Congresswoman

[wook77]

Dear Virginia Foxx (R-NC),

FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU. FUCK YOU.

FUCK YOU.
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"I also would like to point out that there was a bill -- the hate crimes bill that's called the Matthew Shepard bill is named after a very unfortunate incident that happened where a young man was killed, but we know that that young man was killed in the commitment of a robbery. It wasn't because he was gay. This -- the bill was named for him, hate crimes bill was named for him, but it's really a hoax that that continues to be used as an excuse for passing these bills."

According to Representative Steve Cohen, Matthew Shepard's mother was in the gallery at the time of Virginia Foxx's remarks.

In conclusion, FUCK YOU, Virginia Foxx, FUCK YOU.

her website.
How to contact her.

ETA: Please note that you can only send her an email if you're from her district. Otherwise - use the following:

1230 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515 map it
Phone: (202) 225-2071
Fax: (202) 225-2995



North Carolina District Offices

6000 Meadowbrook Mall, Suite 3
Clemmons, N.C. 27012 map it
Phone: (336) 778-0211
Fax: (336) 778-2290
Toll Free: 1(866) 677-8968


240 Hwy 105 Extension, Suite 200
Boone, N.C. 28607
Phone: (828) 265-0240
Fax: (828) 265-0390

ETA2: "Proof" that it's a hoax. Gee, cause gay panic and homophobia isn't at all related to being gay. Also - I regularly take my robbery victims out to the back 40, tie 'em to a fence post and then pistol whip 'em.

ETA3: Virginia Foxx's official statement (buried in a news article) -

Choice excerpt - "It has come to my attention that some people have been led to believe that I think the terrible crimes that led to Matthew Shepard's death in 1998 were a hoax," the e-mail reads. "The term 'hoax' was a poor choice of words used in the discussion of the hate crimes bill. Mr. Shepard's death was nothing less than a tragedy and those responsible for his death certainly deserved the punishment they received."

Nowhere in the released bits of the email are the words "I'm sorry" about any of it. Yet another non-apology.

Comments

[aoibhe.livejournal.com]

Oh fucking HELL NO. FUCK YOU tenfold, bitch.

Gonna copypasta this to my lj, as I have no coherency, just RAGE.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I srsly just lost most ability to speak over this. I can only think FUCK YOU over and over and over.

[lurkitty.livejournal.com]

I have no words.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I can only come up with FUCK YOU so I'm with you!

[why-me-why-not.livejournal.com]

That is so fucked.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I'm frothing mad. Like frothing frothing mad over this. Words fail. She's broken my brain.

[stitchesandlace.livejournal.com]

Just... urgh. I can't even believe someone would have the nerve to say something like that. "In the commitment of a robbery"... has this woman even read the story of what happened? Seen the reports? Maybe taken a look at the coroner's report?

If I had been in there, if I was his mother... the police would have had to drag me out to keep me from snapping her ignorant neck.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

YES! THAT RIGHT THERE!

I srsly would've been jumping over some railings and rushing her. Yet more proof that Matthew Shepard's mum is a classy lady. Much classier than these fucking cuntragdoucheweasels.

[coffeejunkii.livejournal.com]

...

"hoax"? seriously??

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Srsly. She went there. Like someone would actually pull this sort of hoax. a;lskdfasd;lfjas;dflj

[yaycoffee.livejournal.com]

That made me want to vomit. I am... flabbergasted. No words! No words for her amazing stupidity!

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Inorite?! GOD. I am just so beyond pissed and annoyed and upset over this. How do you fucking DARE to say this sort of shit@!?

[furiosity.livejournal.com]

Contact her? I want to shoot her in the head for being too fucking dumb to exist. tips plz.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

My tip? Do the following -

Get a big gun, kidnap her, tie her to a fencepost, pistol whip her, leave her there to die until a passerby sees her. Then tell everyone she was robbing you.

Or phone her. As soon as I get a good email, I'll be posting it and using it.

[secretsolitaire.livejournal.com]

OH NO SHE DID NOT.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Oh but she did!

[spacefragments.livejournal.com]

that's some hardcore denial.

his poor mother.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Inorite? The stuff that she has had to put up with. omg. what a strong beautiful woman that Matthew Shepard's mum is.

[ozma-katiebell.livejournal.com]

moar funny pictures

[wook77.livejournal.com]

You finally got me to LOL over this. Thank you!!!!

[karaz.livejournal.com]

(here via f.)

This is a story from ABC regarding the 'proof' that it wasn't a hate crime:

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/Story?id=277685&page=1

Yeah, you read that right. Foxx knows it wasn't a hate crime because the guys who beat Shepard said so. And besides, their daddies didn't love them enough so they had to become meth addicts which always causes you to brutally beat people and rob them. O.O And hey, Shepard did drugs too! People who do drugs deserve to be beaten... or something?

I just. I can't even see straight I'm so appalled. WTF, ABC and 20/20?? I've been forced to admit these sort of morons exist but I can't believe a supposedly credible news source attempted to validate them.

(Also, I am in NC - though this nut is not my rep, so I'm sure some intern will delete it faster than you can say hate crimes - and I've already written to her declaring my disgust.)

[kyuuketsukirui.livejournal.com]

Wow. Okay, I just read that story and even if everything the two guys are saying about it being a robbery is true, listen to what their lawyer says:

"Price now says that at the time of the crime she thought things would go easier for McKinney if his violence were seen as a panic reaction to an unwanted gay sexual advance."

Their lawyer thought that GAY PANIC would get them off. Their lawyer thought that GAY PEOPLE ARE SO FRIGHTENING IT IS REASONABLE TO MURDER THEM.

If that is not proof right there that hate crime laws are necessary, I don't know what is.

[the_rainbow_jen]

I... wow. Appalled doesn't even begin to touch it.

The super cynical side of me can't help but think this is newsmedia attempting to capitalize on something that will cause more anger, more hate in America. Because people aren't freaked enough about H1N1, we'll add something so outrageously inflammatory that people will seethe for weeks.

But yeah, my brain cannot compute this. Not even close.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

I don't think the newsmedia made her say this. I think these sorts of comments should be put out there and good for the media covering it instead of more things about "bo's trainer revealed and tells all" andcwhatever inane bullshit they're covering.

[freckles42.livejournal.com]

The real question is, is she a Holocaust apologist/denier?

I'm sorry, that's probably taking it a step too far, but FEJWKLEW:FJWIO:DS WHAT. WHAT THE FUCK.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Probably. Honestly, I think she believes the world is flat and that dinosaurs are a hoax too.

[chaeldub.livejournal.com]

That woman thing just made my shit list. Seriously! Someone call Obama and give him the heads up... He needs to gon down there and explain exactly what a Hate crime is then smack that bitch upside the head for being an ignorant mole.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Dude. Totally. She wants to get all old testament about gays, then I say she lives the old testament lifestyle.

[tray-la-la.livejournal.com]

that is appalling. just really, really deplorable and irresponsible and hateful and stupidity personified.

when i see stuff like this i think, "take a good hard look people! these are your elected officials!" but then i feel even more disgusted because i imagine thousands of her constituents are probably sitting around their television sets nodding their heads and muttering "i knew it!" to one another.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Between her and michelle Bachman, I doubt the sanity of the republican voters.

I hate people.

[mr-mercutio.livejournal.com]

Here via a link from F, and fucking fuck fuck... God DAMN I'm so angry right now. I'm going to pass this on and link back to here, if you don't mind. I hope this bitch gets smacked in the face with a fact-checker.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Sure! Link back! The more response we can get, the better it'll be. I'm trying to find a direct email but no luck so far. Her office is definitely getting a call from me tomorrow.

[ciel-vert.livejournal.com]

What a cunt.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

word.

[maple-mahogany.livejournal.com]

I've heard arguments articulated against hate crimes bills, but ...hoax. jfc.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

This just breaks my brain and my heart. God, so fucking wrong on so many levels. I hate people right now.

[kath-ballantyne.livejournal.com]

*fumes*
I can't even form words now

[wook77.livejournal.com]

The only words that want to form for me are "fuck" and "you" so I completely understand.

[mindabbles.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this and the information on contacting her. What a cruel person.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Definitely a cruel person. Now she's released a statement saying it was "a poor choice of words". Oh fuck that on a stick too.

[mel06.livejournal.com]

Foxx FTF. Can't deal with this shit. Though as I told f, overall, the US is making progress. The Shepard Act passed with flying colors through the house and is expected to do the same through the senate. We're a few steps closer to marriage equality in Maine, New Hampshire, New York, and DC. Overall, tolerance is growing. She's an old bitch who's got too much sand in her cunt, and she'll probably be dead in ten years anyway. By the time my generation is old enough to be eligible to run for congress and the presidency here in the states (just about 8 years), LGBT rights won't even be an issue anymore. Or so I pray. All we can do for now is hope, vote, and donate money to the HRC and GLSEN.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

See, I don't want to wait. I'm tired of waiting. I'm tired of hearing about how, if we're all just patient enough, that shit will end. It won't. It hasn't for a wide variety of groups and it won't for this one, either.

I want people to realize that their words have impact and calling someone's death a 'hoax' is ridiculously insensitive at best and horribly cunty at worst.

I want her on her knees to Judy Shepard and I want the words "I'm Sorry" to come out of her mouth but I'm doubting that. Instead, she just says "poor choice of words" and thinks that's acceptable.

[vanseedee.livejournal.com]

...

The sad, sad, sad thing about this is, that I'm convinced she a) believes that utter pile of dung, and b) there will be others who believe that utter pile of dung because she said so. At the moment I can't bring myself to be angry because I imagine how his family and friends must feel. And on a bigger scale how everyone feels who was/is/will be affected in any way.

I sincerely hope this will have consequences for her. Saying something like this is both insulting and stupid. Both should be punished.

What stinks most in that pile of crap is when she calls murdering a person 'a very unfortunate incident'. It's disgusting. I have no words.

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm certain she does, too. That's the part that scares me - that there are these people who are all going "yep, she's right! We don't bash them queers! We didn't kill no queers! We're good people unlike them queers!" and that's the part that just aksldfjka;lsdfj;lds

I want major major consequences for her.

[kaalee.livejournal.com]

Wow. That was... *boggles*

How classy. Turn it into something else completely. I wonder what she sprinkled on her cornflakes this morning...

[wook77.livejournal.com]

Exactly! Matthew Shepard was robbed so it had nothing to do with him being gay! Also - that lady in San Francisco was raped, it had nothing to do with her being a lesbian! The trans person in Colorado was murdered, it had nothing to do with being trans!

Fuck all that. Seriously. Does she not get how sexuality played into this? He says that Matthew put his hand on his leg and that set off the rage.

[jehnt.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I think these people live in their own fantasy world that is totally and completely different from my reality. It makes me want to tear them limb-from-limb. Violently. (How you could do that nonviolently I don't know, but I thought I'd make it clear.)

[sugareey.livejournal.com]

WTF.


Son of a bitch. Seriously. That's bullshit.