Newsgroups: bit.listserv.politics
Date:         Fri, 13 Nov 1992 12:59:00 EST
From:         "Carl A. Lahetta" <U952020@RUTADMIN.BITNET>
Subject:      RE: I'M Gonna GetchYA Sucker!

Here is a copy of a letter I sent to my brother.  It is about how I am being
harassed for being in a group that sponsored a talk on women in the workforce.

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Date:    Fri, 13 Nov 92 12:53 EST

Mike,
   What an exciting week I've had so far.  First, I started working part-time
at Lord & Taylor, second, I'm receiving harassing phone calls and faxes and
worried about the safety of Suzanne and myself.  The Women In Communication
group that I am in was having a speaker on this past Wed. night.  The topic
was "Women In The Workforce: Occupational and Economic Equity?" and a prof.
from Rutgers was the speaker.  The event was taking place at Seton Hall Univ.
To prepare for the event I sent out a few press releases and mailed out letters
to some members of WICI.  On the day of the event I get a phone call from a
male who lambasts me for being in WICI and how could I support such a thing,
women get all the breaks blah blah blah and he called me a leftists and so
on.  Well I hung up on this person in the middle of their tirade and passed
it off.  Then a few minutes later someone came over and said I received a
fax.  Someone sent a one page fax to me, it was my press release with all kinds
of stuff on it such as, "this is hogwash", and a threat.  The person wrote that
anyone attending the event was going to get "shell bombed - WARM Will Prevail
(White Angry Racists Males)".  I immediately asked the person next door to do
an activity report on the fax machine to find out where this fax was sent from.
Then I called the RUPD.
   The RUPD came and asked me all kinds of questions and took a copy of the fax
and activity report.  I then called Seton Hall security to notify them and they
said to still have the event.  I had to call Suzanne and tell her not to go
home, this was at the top of the press release:
            Women In Communications, Inc.
            ********************************, NJ ***** (My address)

What if this person was a whacko and decided to take a drive to find out
where the WICI office was and found out it was a residence?  So Suzanne stayed
at Tricia's and I went to work at Lord & Taylor, the RUPD said not to break
our normal routine except for Suzanne not to be home.
   When I got home at night Suzanne cam home.  After talking to mom and then
calling the RUPD I called the Westfield police to notify them of the situation
and asked them to patrol the neighborhood at least a couple of times at night.
Now today I recieved another fax, an article about how women and minorities
are getting ahead in US News & Workd Report.  It came from the same place as
the first fax, so I sent the RUPD a copy along with another activity report.
   So, now we have to be careful and watchout.  What kills me is that just
because our grp has a speaker on a given subject doesn't mean that we agree
100% with the speaker, but we want to hear what the perosn has to say about a
certain topic.  So that's the latest news, Carl persecuted and harassed for
being in a group that had a speaker on women in the workforce.  What is
happening to our society?


Carl---+
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