9/11 truther issues death threats to Jewish schoolchildren

[Underseer]

http://www.salon.com/2015/02/28/doz...e_grade_school_kids_madness_of_a_911_truther/

This is insane even by conspiracy nut standards.

Asshole.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The article's timeline is confusing. Did they actually stop an attempt on a school or just think that they did?

From his writings, he just sounded like a big mouth. They arrested him at a ski resort, not a school.

 

[Keith&Co.]

I guess i'm overpaid.
I just don't get where my dissatisfaction with my wages is fixed by or justifies shooting up a school. The chain of steps there eludes me...

 

[Playball40]

The article's timeline is confusing. Did they actually stop an attempt on a school or just think that they did?

From his writings, he just sounded like a big mouth. They arrested him at a ski resort, not a school.

I heard this on NPR last week. They did find the guns (ones he recently retrieved) and was progressively getting more detailed and unstable. There's good reason to think he may have carried out his threats.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The article's timeline is confusing. Did they actually stop an attempt on a school or just think that they did?

From his writings, he just sounded like a big mouth. They arrested him at a ski resort, not a school.

I heard this on NPR last week. They did find the guns (ones he recently retrieved) and was progressively getting more detailed and unstable. There's good reason to think he may have carried out his threats.

I can appreciate that. This idea what he stated were actual "threats" though is questionable. That people were being quoted as saying it stopped a shooting on Monday is what confused me. There didn't seem to be evidence that he actually intended to shoot up a school.

But despite a free speech argument, you really can only get away with saying you want to kill school children so many times.

 

[dismal]

But despite a free speech argument, you really can only get away with saying you want to kill school children so many times.

Not sure this is true in a criminal sense. I seem to recall non-specific threats are protected by free speech. I will see if I can dig something up.

The mental health system is likely where this guy ends up.

eta:

There is a current case that is actually testing the issue on online threats:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonis_v._United_States

In the ACLUs brief I found the following, which I would think highlights the relevant question:

In scrutinizing the statute, the Court reiterated its holding in Watts that the First Amendment “permits a state to ban a true threat.” Id. at 359 (internal quotation marks omitted). It then defined “true threats” as “those
statements where the speaker means to communicate a serious expression of an intent to commit an act of unlawful violence to a particular individual or group of individuals.” Id. The Court explained that “[t]he speaker need not actually intend to carry out the threat,” because “a prohibition on true threats ‘protect individuals from the fear of violence’ and ‘from the disruption that fear engenders,’