Christmas trees going back up at Sea-Tac

And just as quickly, it's all over.

Port of Seattle staff will be reinstalling holiday trees later today at Sea-Tac Airport, after having removed them late last week under threat of a federal lawsuit to be filed by the Central Organization for Jewish Education Lubavitch. Port officials received word from Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky late this afternoon that his organization will not file a lawsuit at this time over the placement of a menorah at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Given that, the holiday trees will be replaced as quickly as possible.

But it didn't happen before a nasty little cyber-pogrom happened in the KING-5 comment threads. (Props to Josh Feit at Slog for catching that. You expect that sort of thing at LGF or whatever, not on a television station's thread. To their credit, KING closed the thread.)

There were also reportedly tons of threats made against rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky and some Jewish organizations unaffiliated with Chabad-Lubavitch. This is what happens when demagogues like The Worst Person in the World spew their poison for years. A certain number of morons are going to buy into it, and use the sanction of the right wing noise machine as justification for their bigotry.

So thanks, hate-mongers, for reminding me why progressives must oppose you politically at every opportunity. People who would make threats over Christmas trees are neither Christian nor credible.