There’s part of me that wants to say Doug’s tale of a visit from the FBI over his writing is something that never happened. But if you look at our political climate today it’s easy to see that someone or someones might have taken his words on burning down all schools just a little too literally. Doug Wilson gets an FBI visit. Oh joy! How exciting! I only get those when my neighbors update their security clearances.

Here’s the passage in the very first November posting that Doug made showing off his sheer awfulness for fun. His ‘No Quarter November’ in a piece titled ‘Burn All the Schools’ Someone must have taken him seriously, though I have a very hard time imagining the FBI wasting man hours on something so silly:

Probably not the right thing to say there, Doug. I know we live in a society that has free speech, but there are consequences to that same free speech, natural consequences. I mean I could say anything myself, I could say things about his sexuality but the natural consequence might just be getting sued for damaging his reputation, no matter how thin-skinned and suspicious his masculinity might be. Words have consequences.

Here’s the thing. They may have actually thought you were advocating violence against schools. Sarcasm and humor do not always read well. Add in some Olympic levels of Word Saladteering and it looks likely they couldn’t figure out that was was merely another lame attempt at a cheap laugh. Again, words have consequences.

Oh my sweet My Little Phony, I feel it’s rather likely that someone did not understand your humor and reported you. True. But to say some ‘Low Budge Adversary’ is rather ill informed. One of the quickest and best ways to get something or someone investigated is to turn them over to a government regulatory agency. That is regardless of financial health. All they have to do claim you think they might just shoot up or burn down a public institution, owned by you and me courtesy of our taxes. Again, words have consequences.

If you’d simply say what you mean without any attempts as cleverness and stop saying disreputable things you would not have this problem.

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