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It’s about time the DOJ started holding these law-breakers to account. Ignoring these vile offenses will only lead to more of them. And ultimately lead some unstable person, to think they can get away with their harmful and violent threats.
Afterall, no FBI agent has knocked on their door yet …
Aug 5, 2022
(CNN) — A man was sentenced Thursday to more than three years in federal prison for sending threatening emails to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert.
Thomas Patrick Connally Jr., 56, was sentenced in US District Court in Maryland to 37 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release. He had been arrested by authorities in West Virginia and charged last year with threats against a federal official and interstate communication containing a threat to harm.
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"Everyone has the right to disagree, but you do not have the right to threaten a federal official's life," US Attorney for the District of Maryland Erek L. Barron said in a statement. "Threats like these will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
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People who resort to fear, intimidation, and violent threats — to enforce their personal and political agendas — generally are not open to rational and reasoned debates.
Typically such hotheads only understand a few things:
1) Whoever is stoking their inner rage with baseless conspiracy theories.
and 2) Having to do the time, for their free-wheeling crimes.
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Many elected officials are facing this same contagion of rage — from faceless cowards, hiding behind a screen. Many volunteer election workers too. Some having to endure the rage and threats that even reach their doorstep.
And many will think twice — and decline the calls to public service the next time around.
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The DOJ must act to prosecute those threatening such violence “to the fullest extent of the law." That is if we want to end this scourge of lawless behavior — that the former president encourages every chance he gets.
We wouldn’t let wildfire arsonists to continue lighting random blazes. So why do we let these verbal wildfires rage on, as if they are simply harmless outbursts — that will “sooner or later simply burn themselves out” ?
Guess what they won’t … Near as I can tell, this epidemic of threatening speech and behavior has only gotten worse, ever since a certain amoral leader, starting egging it on. Even promising to pay the offenders legal bills, should they get caught.
The DOJ should take them up on that offer. And charge the hell out of them. You know remind the weak-minded that crime doesn’t pay. In fact it can be damn expensive — just ask Thomas Patrick Connally Jr. if those threats that he made, seem “worth it” now?
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