Man arrested after posting threats to Obama

Jan 2009
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Reuters) – Authorities on Friday arrested a U.S. man on suspicion of threatening to kill President-elect Barack Obama based on statements he posted on a website about UFOs and aliens, the Justice Department said.

Steven Joseph Christopher, in three postings to alienearth.orghttp://www.alienearth.org, said he planned to assassinate Obama in Washington "as a sacrificial lamb," the department said in a statement.

"It's really nothing personal about the man. He speaks well ... . But I know it's for the country's own good that I do this," Christopher reportedly wrote.

"It's not because I'm racist that I will kill Barack, it's because I can no longer allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the American people submit to their evil ways."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090117/us_nm/us_usa_obama_threat
 
Jan 2009
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lols I really feel pity for that person,i've seen racists threatening presidents and terrorists attempting to kill them but this is the first case i've seen.instead of arresting him I think he needs some counseling and needs to spend time in a mental institution.
 
Jan 2009
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Well! Im not sure what to say about this... What I don't understand is what has he done wrong? Have I missed something here? I was all for Obama, he seems to be a nice guy and I am hoping he can sort everything out soon.... I though most people felt the same way
 
Jan 2009
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Well! Im not sure what to say about this... What I don't understand is what has he done wrong? Have I missed something here? I was all for Obama, he seems to be a nice guy and I am hoping he can sort everything out soon.... I though most people felt the same way

Did you not understand what the topic starter said? He said some guy got arrested for threatening to KILL Obama.. don't you think that's kind of wrong and one should get arrested for such an act?

Sure he hasn't committed it just yet, and I do disagree with the arrest, but at least they didn't hang him, he probably did this just to get attention from the media which is what he's getting right now. How can someone possibly just come up to Obama and plan to shoot him when I'm sure he has like 1 million security guards?
 
Jan 2009
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I think that guy was quite bored, and I actually thought it was a young fellow but a 40 something year old man, that shocked me. That guy is either really lonely and is craving attention and/or has some serious mental problems.

Also, I don't think that guy would have been able to pull it off as he said he never even shot a gun before, so he was obviously just craving for attention.
 
Jan 2009
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I have nothing against Obama or anything but death threatening letters is a little bit too much.
 
Jan 2009
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There is a clear line with what you can say. Never make a serious threat to kill someone, especially if there is a way that they can trace it back to you. It sounds like the man really needs help and I hope that he'll receive a little bit of it in the future.

The tone was quite frightening though. The phrasing didn't just sound like an empty threat. I've heard and read a lot of crazies talk about things like, but this just seems different. I doubt he could have pulled it off, but he really crossed the line.
 
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