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Brad Miller: Death Threat Probably Won't Be Prosecuted

Rep. Brad Miller (D-NC) appeared on MSNBC this afternoon, and talked about the death threat that we'd reported his office received last week over the health care bill. He expressed doubt that it would result in prosecution -- and said that other members of Congress have gotten similar calls:

We've gotten a lot of calls, and I think what I got is not different from what a lot of members of Congress have gotten. A caller said that if I voted for the health care plan, that it -- it could cost me my life. And my staff member was taken aback by that and asked him to repeat it, and he did. And then my staff member asked him point blank, 'is that a threat?' And the guy said, 'There are a lot of angry people out here.' And that's probably equivocal enough that it's not gonna result in a criminal prosecution. And I think a lot of members of Congress have gotten calls that are that creepy and that menacing. And sometimes it's gone beyond that -- the Longworth House Office Building was shut down for several hours a couple weeks ago, because of a bomb threat.

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Why the Fruibats Froth and why their right wing corporate sponsors sent out the Stoßtrupp hooligans

The Bush Great Recesssion is ending....thanks to Big Government


It ain't rocket science and the Baggers aren't rocket scientists God knows


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    I play by Kleefeld Rulz
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    I think this is bad precedent. These people should be prosecuted. Let them understand they can bloviate all they want outside the events but once they come in with guns or threaten death they go to jail. Congress members should demand police presence and tell police to act on the violence.

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    I suspect that phone calls like this are just troglodyte drunk-dialing. I used to own a liberal small-town newspaper in a very conservative area and we frequently got threatening calls on the answering machine with time stamps between midnight and 4:00 A.M. It happened a lot when we were criticizing the Bush administration over the war in Iraq.

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