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From today's New York Times:
Lt. Christopher Paul Hasson, 49, was arrested Friday on gun and drug charges, but prosecutors said in the filing that the charges were just the proverbial tip of the iceberg.
The filing argued that Lieutenant Hasson should be held until he is tried, describing him as a domestic terrorist who intended to murder innocent civilians on a scale rarely seen in this country.
Prosecutors quoted a letter that he drafted to friends in 2017 and that the authorities found on his computer. In it, Lieutenant Hasson, who works as an acquisitions officer at Coast Guard headquarters in Washington, wrote: I am dreaming of a way to kill almost every last person on the earth. I think a plague would be most successful but how do I acquire the needed / Spanish flu, botulism, anthrax not sure yet but will find something.
In the last month, prosecutors said, the lieutenant used his work computer to draw up a list of prominent figures he called traitors and wanted to kill, including many well-known anchors and hosts on the CNN and MSNBC news networks and a number of Democratic elected officials. The list included, among others, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Maxine Waters, Senator Richard Blumenthal, whom he referred to as Sen blumen jew, and many of the senators running for president in 2020.
He had recently performed internet searches seeking information about whether senators and Supreme Court justices receive Secret Service protection, the court filing said.
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ProudMNDemocrat
(16,786 posts)Any violence or threat of violence perpetrated by a Trump supporter, Trump needs to be held accountable. Like the guy in Florida with all the Trump and MAGA stickers on his van?
Aristus
(66,389 posts)When do we invade?
bdamomma
(63,881 posts)base is in a frenzy, and of course tRump will deny it. This is his 36% minority base or as he calls them "my people". Fuck that.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Doesn't it seem odd that someone as extreme as this guy could rise to the rank of Lieutenant in the Coast Guard Headquarters in Washington D.C.? Is there a right wing "deep state" cell within the Coast Guard waiting to take over the country? We need a statement from our government on this...
Cyrano
(15,041 posts)It's unknown at this time whether or not this was a lone lunatic.
nykym
(3,063 posts)foot soldier for the SMALL FINGERED VULGRIAN.
I just love that nickname for him!
ffr
(22,670 posts)Same dog whistle, just a different day.
Cyrano
(15,041 posts)In 1919, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes established the fact that freedom of speech guaranteed in the first amendment to the Constitution is not an absolute freedom. His decision stated that freedom of speech does not allow someone to yell fire in a crowded theater if there is no fire.
IMO, rarely a day goes past in which Fox doesn't, to one degree or another, yell fire in a crowded theater.
Andy823
(11,495 posts)How many more of this insane trump followers are out there? As long as trump is in office, there will be more incidents like this because they follow his example.
Harker
(14,024 posts)WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)Very sick.