Another Pyscho Arrested for Online Threats Against Obama

The Secret Service is really taking online threats seriously. This makes at least two arrests in one month. Here's the other. Blogger Lynn Sweet got this one from the Justice department:

Jackson, Miss - Steven Joseph Christopher was arrested by agents of the United States Secret Service today for making threats against President-Elect Barack Obama, U.S. Attorney Dunn Lampton announced. Christopher, who is from Wisconsin, was arrested in Brookhaven, Miss. Christopher made threats against President-Elect Barack Obama on an internet chat forum on Jan. 11, 15 and 16, 2009.

"Threats against the President-Elect will be taken very seriously," said U.S. Attorney Lampton. "Use of internet chat rooms to express those threats is as much a crime as uttering the words. Threats of this nature will be pursued swiftly and vigorously."

According to an Affidavit filed by Special Agent Kelly Adcox with the United States Secret Service, Christopher posted the following on the Web site www.alien-earth.org on Jan. 11, 2009:

ok we have 6 days until my Presidential Assasination. Read more at Lynn Sweet's blog.

Hate crime experts and law enforcement are keeping tabs on other miserable human beings.

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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