Peter Daou was a forced child soldier in Lebanon.
The levels that some have stooped to in order to attack him because he's a Clinton supporter are stunningly hateful. Here's his answer to those creeps:
MAR 22 2016
Over the course of the past year, I have been subjected to some of the most aggressive trolling and personal attacks of my 15 year political career. Virtually all of it stems from my advocacy for Hillary Clinton.
In recent months, those vicious attacks on my character have taken a very dark turn.
And I intend to deal with it through legal means.
First, some background: My mother is American, my father was Lebanese. I grew up in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war and as the son of a Christian father, I was required to undergo military training by the Lebanese Forces. The mandatory training began when I was in high school and lasted for three years. It took place after school hours and during the summer. My schoolmates were also conscripted.
Even though I am a U.S. citizen by birth, I was forbidden from leaving Lebanon without written permission from the military. My father ultimately secured a waiver and I moved to my mother’s home city of New York. I’ve only been back to Beirut a handful of times since. The last visit was in the early nineties. I still find the memories traumatic.
As a child, I survived some of the most brutal urban warfare of the 20th century. I witnessed terrible things, bodies torn to shreds, car-bombed buildings, jets falling out of the sky. I lost friends and relatives. I spent countless nights in dank, candle-lit bunkers with missiles raining down from the sky.
I was a few hundred yards away from the American embassy when a car bomb demolished it and I saw blood dripping down its shattered facade. I had many close brushes with death, as did my family.
http://peterdaou.com/2016/03/why-i-plan-to-pursue-defamation-action/
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they are in the minority - are every bit as frightening as Trump supporters are. 
that if one supports Hillary in any way-shape-or-form, one is a vile and despicable person, an oligarch or someone who lacks the intellectual wherewithal to "get" how great and frigging fantastic Bernie is. That leads to the ad hominem attacks on Hillary supporters.
The only revolutionary thing about the "revolution" is its inability to handle any different point of view from anyone. It reminds me of GW Bush "either your wit us or your wit terrists" (misspelling intentional -- don't respond with it should be "you're"
