Friday, January 09, 2009

Man Arrested for Threatening Obama Online

This is heartening. Secret Service raided the home of a man who made threats online against Obama. Thank you Secret Service. Keep up the good work. It's good to see they're taking online threats seriously. I hope they're watching freerepublic.com, a hotbed of Obama hate. 
Wired: A Southern California man was charged Thursday with threatening a presidential candidate, for posting a racist note to a Yahoo message board in October expressing displeasure over Barack Obama's candidacy, and predicting "he will have a 50 cal in the head soon."
Walter Edward Bagdasarian, 47, was found with an arsenal of six weapons when Secret Service agents raided his La Mesa home in November, according to court records (.pdf). He had three handguns and three rifles, including a 30.06 with a telescopic sight and a Remington .50 caliber muzzle-loading rifle. read the rest.

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