e e cummings-style liberal meanness

Four businesses who advertise on the local radio station which carries Rush Limbaugh, Fox News, and other conservative talk shows have received a letter from some ignorant jerk who apparently feels that people with whom he disagrees should be "shot or assaulted." Computer-generated in lower-case letters with no punctuation, the messages say that the advertisers "will reap hate" if they continue to "sow hate." They are signed, "i promise."

The police say, "Even if the sender has no means to carry out the threat, the letters still constitute a crime. Conviction on making criminal threats, whether through the mail, verbally, or e-mails is punishable by a one-year term in jail or state prison. . ." and hopefully a semester of English 101 at the University of East Anglia. After all, he may never have heard of e e cummings, and is merely illiterate as well as a criminal pervert.