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04/22/2004 Archived Entry: "The crazies are coming out early."
The crazies are coming out early.
This is the sort of thing that makes me fear for the coming election season. Some people think that they've got carte blanche to threaten people whose shoes they are not worthy of shining.
A man has been charged with sending an e-mail threatening presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry.Robert V. Ruppert, 53, of Las Vegas was scheduled to be arraigned May 3. He was arrested April 13 and ordered detained pending trial.
A federal indictment released Tuesday charges Ruppert with making a threat to the candidate and states he ‘‘did knowingly and willfully threaten to kill, kidnap and inflict bodily harm upon Senator John Kerry."
The e-mail was sent to CNN newsman Wolf Blitzer and the White House, according to court documents.
Replies: 6 people speak up
emails taken all the personallity in life threatening threats.
Posted by IXLNXS @ 04/22/2004 03:20 AM NY
i just hope this wasn't planned/orchestrated to make people more likely to assume an actual attempt on Kerry's life down the road "must have been done by a random crazy person". i think an assassination attempt on Kerry could happen if it looks like he has a good chance of winning (even if some voting machines are able to be tampered with to try to prevent that)
Posted by tinhead @ 04/22/2004 09:27 AM NY
I'm afraid once Kerry gets some real traction vs. Bush, the right-wing media hate machine will whip up the nuts in a dangerous way again (aka Oklahoma City bombing).
Posted by Blue Demon @ 04/22/2004 09:41 AM NY
Another tinny thought is that it is a prep to make things look fair and balanced and innocent if someone does a fake attempt on Bush to help him gain the sympathy vote.
Posted by LML @ 04/22/2004 09:41 AM NY
worked in taiwan....
yeah, email takes all the personality out of death threats,
whatever happened to the note stuck to your door with a bowie knife?
Posted by justin @ 04/22/2004 12:49 PM NY
I am sure more of this will happen on both sides. Sad but true :-(
Posted by Robin Hacker @ 04/22/2004 01:20 PM NY
