More from the Barry Bonds Death Squad

By Nicholas Stix On June 16, I posted a death threat that came either from a racist black thug, or a white frat boy imitating one, in response to my essay, "Barry Bonds, Racist." It went as follows, In a message dated 6/16/2005 8:48:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Subject: Yo u should read this dude niko@family.risingmoons.com writes: "SHiIIIT quitcthya bitchin shutchya mouf lickety split and listen All I can say is that yo ass is a fucking faggot and bonds is the shit why give the bambino props for eating shitty food that just means he was anotha fuckin dumb white cracka like yo'self and im gonna have my niggas knockin down ya do with a 357 in ya face if u don’t shutchya mouth b4 it gets chilly in ya place" I checked out "niko's" Web site, "family.risingmoons.com," only to get an "HTTP 404 Not Found" error message (which I have since gotten on later attempts). risingmoons.com was likewise a dead-end. And so I wrote back to my would-be assassin, less than an hour later, What a surprise -- that a racist coward would use a phony address. Three days later, he responded. In a message dated 6/19/2005 5:00:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, niko@family.risingmoons.com writes: Re: Yo u should read this dude "wow nice comeback why dont u go fuck ya sister u fuckin hick ass white redneck texan isn't that wutchyall crackaz do? thot so beeeiiiatttchh" Alright, so unlike the previous death threat I'd gotten from an apparently black writer, the e-mail address wasn't a phony, even if the URL was. Or perhaps it was shut down after complaints about death threats emanating from it, or because the wannabe assassin hadn't paid his bills. And yet, somehow I don't think I owe my wannabe killer an apology. Note that my article on Bonds was pretty much a softball toss for me. What might some good old country hardball have elicited? 'I'll kill you, and then dig you up, and kill you all over again,' a la the late, now coal-shoveling, Khalid Muhammad? The correspondence, as copied straight off of my e-mail, follows below. Re: Yo u should read this dude In a message dated 6/19/2005 5:00:05 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, niko@family.risingmoons.com writes: wow nice comeback why dont u go fuck ya sister u fuckin hick ass white redneck texan isn't that wutchyall crackaz do? thot so beeeiiiatttchh -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: Add1dda@aol.com [mailto:Add1dda@aol.com] Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:55 PM To: niko@family.risingmoons.com Subject: Re: Yo u should read this dude Re: Yo u should read this dude In a message dated 6/16/2005 8:48:45 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, niko@family.risingmoons.com writes: SHiIIIT quitcthya bitchin shutchya mouf lickety split and listen All I can say is that yo ass is a fucking faggot and bonds is the shit why give the bambino props for eating shitty food that just means he was anotha fuckin dumb white cracka like yo'self and im gonna have my niggas knockin down ya do with a 357 in ya face if u don’t shutchya mouth b4 it gets chilly in ya place What a surprise -- that a racist coward would use a phony address.