It should come as no surprise to you that there are some people in this country who really want to kill the shit out of Nancy Pelosi. There are probably many different reasons: some want to kill her because she is a woman in Congress, some because she passed a bill ordering AIDS to be injected into all white people (she is black), and some simply believe that she is the gay mayor of San Francisco in France. Is it even news to report on any of these threats anymore, especially ones directed at Nancy Pelosi? Well today it is, because we’re still waiting for those Palin/Bachmann videos to pop up on the YouTubes, and the only other news is some revolution in one of those Eurasian Mexicos, Kriggyztan.
WASHINGTON — Law enforcement officials tell The Associated Press the FBI has arrested a northern California man for making threatening phone calls to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over health care reform.
Charges against the alleged caller have yet to be disclosed.
Several federal officials say the man made dozens of calls to Pelosi’s homes in California and Washington, as well as to her husband’s business office, reciting her home address and saying if she wanted to see it again, she would not support the health care overhaul bill that was recently enacted.
One official said the man is believed to have spoken directly with Pelosi at least once.
“Whoa, I didn’t think you’d actually pick up, uh, Madame Speaker! Keep on keepin’ on, is all I was gonna say… yeah wow, jesus, I’m going to jail.”
[AP]
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Wow, the lengths people will go to get free healthcare. We give prisoners free healthcare, right?
I had to laugh at this comment from zonk over at TPM:
I’ve got a transcript:
CALLER: I knows wheres yuse lives. I is smart with gunz.
PELOSI: Who is this?
CALLER: I is silence moronity. I am to get you.
PELOSI: Are you threatening me? Don’t make me angry, you wouldn’t like me when I’m angry.
CALLER: Yes. I is threatening. Beck on teevee, he say yuse Hitler. I get you.
PELOSI: I just kicked the [DELETED] out of nearly 200 [deleted] like you. You don’t want any of this, punk.
CALLER: MOM! The spoker is threatening me!
… the caller was then taken into protective custody..
Yeah, it’s a complete mystery where this idiot got the idea.
What the hell is wrong with these people? “Don’t you dare regulate my insurance company!” ??
Maybe he’ll meet some nice boys in jail.
Threatening President Obama or Rep. Wasserman-Schultz or a member of the C.B.C., I can see that. But messing with the Speaker? You’d have to have some serious balls (or, I guess, be a paranoid schizophrenic with a webcam).
This is actually is surprising news. Not the threats, no, but that the FBI actually arrested the creep, while they’ve been ignoring all the other teabag terrorists.
Conservatives really have to get their story together about whether or not it’s OK to kill grandmothers.
All hail, Gorgon Gif is back!
I actually feel bad for the guy. This craven manipulation of the gullible is so destructive. He was probably going to go loony in one way or another eventually, but I doubt he’d be in such serious hot water.
Threatening a politician should not be a crime. How else are we supposed to get our revenge?
This is how democracy (note the small d) is supposed to work. You elect people, send em to DC, then threaten to kill them and burn down their houses if they don’t do what you tell them. Works in Kyrgyzstan.
I gotta say, it takes a person with a lotta balls to threaten anybody whose last name ends in an “i”.
[re=550801]Dorje Chenpo[/re]: I know. And wait ’til the gubment unconstitutionally denies their oil and coal companies the rights to freely pollute Earth.
These nuts want to kill the original Sen. Mom In Tennis Shoes , too and also. (“Target on your back,” – direct quote from some guy who thinks he’s Ericksonoferick. Or something.)
[re=550813]Mr Blifil[/re]: Now don’t go all wobbly on us, Blifil.
Is Northern California the Alabama of the Pacific Northwest?
It may be time for a little chlorine in the gene pool, when we have people that actually believe that making a threat of physical violence against a member of Congress is a rational act.
[re=550817]germansteel[/re]:
I’m sayin’! Just because Madame Speaker must act with decorum doesn’t mean Uncle Sal, Cousin Vito, and Little Joey Bag-O Donuts from back on the block have to play it cool.
Seriously, this shows the intellectual heft of these shortbus wannabes. O hai, I think I’ll call up and threaten that c*** Pelosi dozens of times… surely the FBI won’t notice that.
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: No, Nothern California is the Orange County of Tijuana.
Just checked out Bishkek on Google Earth. Looks a bit like Queens but with mountains where there would be water. Pretty revolting, at first glance, but “US ally” so the people better toe the line.
Hey Rush, Bill and Assity — we’re going to take your legions of stupid dipshits away from you if you don’t know how to instruct them in differentiating your factual statements from your hyperbolic crap. Please be sure to label any statements that are beyond credibility as such. While I realize this will seriously impair your ability to say hyperbolic crap, I also don’t give a shit.
Whatever libertards – what about Eric Cantor??!! HE’S been dealing with REAL threats!!!
Now, if the Speaker had an Ohio Class SSNB, loaded with MIRV’ed Tridents, handy — say, under her bed, or out submerged in the duck pond behind the house — she wouldn’t have to worry about things like this.
Just sayin’ . . . .
BREAKING NEWS-Eric Cantor to make statement that threats against Congresspeople will not be tolerated. Meanwhile, he will present the revelation that he also, has been threatened by telephone. Further research will prove that the “threatening” phone call was made by a telemarketer that inform Mr. Cantor that he would miss out on saving money on car insurance if he didn’t act now.
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: Eastern Oregon is, actually. The non-Bay Area parts of Northern California are basically Idaho with more pot.
…stupid wing-nuts, don’t they know they cant kill the un-dead?!
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: That would be Springfield, OR.
[re=550822]Aurelio[/re]: Thanks…I…needed that
…I see that the Rethuglicans haven’t fully grasped the idea of “Caller I.D.”!
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: Eastern Cali… Doesn’t matter if you’re north or south Too close to Arizona/Nevada…
[re=550817]germansteel[/re]: especially one with Baltimore roots. Has this person not seen ‘The Wire.’
We haven’t had any left wing nutters with guns since Squeaky Fromm–what’s up with that?
[re=550873]PAbitter[/re]: My guess is no. Probably watches nothing but Faux News, Cops, Colbert (which he thinks is straight), and tranny porn.
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: Northern California is more like the Arkansas of the Pacific Northwest.
[re=550874]Red Zeppelin[/re]: left wing nutters with guns …
Neilist? Neilist, are you out there?
I think Palin just found a nice husband for Bristol.
[re=550808]doxastic[/re]: I’m still laughing, and I have work to do, dammit.
[re=550825]nappyduggs[/re]: I know a guy in McKees Rocks, PA, too. I’ll loan him to yunz — as we say in the ‘burgh. I don’t think he usually gets involved in politics (except for judges) but if I tell him someone’s threatening an Italian grandmother, he’ll probably offer a discount.
[re=550825]nappyduggs[/re]: Oh I think Madam Speaker could take care of this twerp very easy. You can get further with a kind word and a stilleto heel than you can with just a kind word.
[re=550837]Neilist[/re]: You’re assuming she doesn’t…
[re=550811]predilectrix[/re]: Release the Kraken!
Eric Cantor was threatened by the God Enoch. Clearly being threatened by a deity is more an issue than being threatened by a mere mortal with a .38
The 4 stages of stupid.
1) Clown….your garden variety teabagger.
2) Douche…making veiled coded threats
3) Fuckhead….actually making death threats against elected officials or something equally illegal
3) Self Destruct….going Timothy McVeigh.
I’d like to know where in the US Constitution it says that you can not threaten a member of congress with bodily harm?
[re=550902]Radiotherapy[/re]: Sorry, Radio. But, as per the above, it’s no longer about “guns.” We’ve crossed the line between conventional warfare and . . . NUK-CLAR COMBAT! TOE-TO-TOE WITH THE RUSSKIS!
[re=550841]assistant/atlas[/re]: Hey! I’m moving back to the non-Bay Area parts of Northern California (Trinidad) after 5 years of the hell that is Northern Idaho. I NEED that pot. NoCal also has Redwood Trees and banana slugs, and isn’t generally known for its leaded waters and Aryan Nations strongholds.
[re=550975]Neilist[/re]: Makes sense actually, these teabaggers are toying with brinksmanship as to a Civil War over Obamacare (or Fear of a Black Planet or whatever), so let’s go backwards with Putin too, 60′s style newclear brinksmanship.
…reciting her home address and saying if she wanted to see it again, she would not support the health care overhaul bill that was recently enacted.
It’s like a National Lampoon bit. Repeal health care reform or we’ll shoot your dog!
They should put him in the grinny bin with the guy who made the Cantor threat YouTube. That will end his threatening career, because the fucker will tear out and eat his tongue.
[re=551005]imissopus[/re]: They shot the dog anyway, though.
When will the Democrats stop this shameful political ploy of being threatened with physical violence by unhinged wingnuts who (PURELY COINCIDENTALLY) get all their news from right-wing radio?
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: Parts of it are (with, as noted, more pot in some of those parts). I’ll be curious as to where ThreatBoi lived.
[re=550813]Mr Blifil[/re]: yes totally exactly.
Take that Tom Coburn!
This insane (and he might really be insane) Teabagger has been living in federally subsidized housing in San Francisco for over ten years!
“Keep yur socailist mitts off me heathcare, Nancy, or I’ll kill yu!”
[re=550915]Jukesgrrl[/re]: Lissen, they’s good ol’ boys down here in Cocke County (yes) Tenn. who’d do someone in for $50 and gas money, if they were only on the sane side of things.
[re=551005]imissopus[/re]: Best National Lampoon Cover Ever.
[re=550822]Aurelio[/re]: Actually it turns out my concerns have been vindicated.
[re=551047]Mr Blifil[/re]: Tomorrow Glenn Beck will issue a fatwa on this woman.
[re=550813]Mr Blifil[/re]: Yes. Vindicated, you are.
[re=551037]MarSF[/re]: Rank hypocrisy has by some twist of the fabric of space-time, become a strength, not the weakness a rational person might expect. Stupid people believing Rush/Fox/Palin’s lies because it makes them feel good about their miserable lives and their tiny angry brains, all completely understandable. People getting government help, even for decades harboring a complete inability to see how others could need it also, wtf? I hate to say it, but medicare, ss, etc, need to hire some high powered PR firms to explain the situation to the dolts among us. What’s next, the families of the dead coal miners will send money off so another republican idiot president can criminally yank the teeth out of mining oversight?
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: Lake County (in NorCal) is the “south” of Northern California – crackers, white trash, teen pregnancies, meth labs, crime, murder, tacky tattoos, motorcycles, poors. The rest is, you know, wineyards, rich hippies, gays, foodies, all that librul shit that real ‘Murkins love to hate.
Glen Beck’s rant about how we should slit the throats of those who piss on the Constitution has nothing to do with this.
Plus, Nancy Pelosi’s name is in fact an anagram for “Peoples Republic,” so it was all right to threaten her anyway.
Actually, I’m kind of happy to see the becktards hatin’ on Nancy, because it saves us the trouble.
I know we’re supposed to be on the same team and all, but I’ll never forgive her for not impeaching. Never.
In California jails the prisoners are served these tiny microwaved bean burritos that seem to get hotter after they’re shoved through the slot in your door. They always burn your mouth and come with an apple and a tiny container of party punch. You eat it three feet from some homeless guy sitting on a stainless steel toilet shitting his guts out or maybe even vomiting. If you don’t get bail, which I doubt this guy is going to get, you have to stay there breathing dried skin flakes and eating endless servings of bean burritos. There is no volleyball. You’re in your cell all day every day except for about fifteen minutes. Then months and months later (sometimes years) you go on trial and from what I hear prison is like heaven in comparison to your average jail.
I only was in jail for four days. Anyone who can tolerate more than two weeks of jail without trying to hang themselves is a complete pussy. It’s intolerable.
Such courage from these radical FoxNews watchers. After all, these two ladies from Congress are just so physically intimidating – a real test of manhood.
SKOALREBELLLLLLLLLLLLLL!!!???!!
[re=550823]Cape Clod[/re]: No, that would be Eastern Washington. Spend a day in Yakima, I dare you.
[re=550801]Dorje Chenpo[/re]: “Don’t you dare regulate my insurance company!” — This guy had an insurance company? I think not.
Ten to one he was on disability…
[re=550841]assistant/atlas[/re]: The non-coastal areas of *all* of California are basically Idaho with more pot.
Surprising news.I feel bad for the guy.
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