Blogger accused of threatening federal agent

[WeDidIt]

Blogger accused of threatening federal agent

Secret Service - The man seems to think "we are aiding . . . the 'illegal U.S. President' "
Saturday, April 18, 2009
BRYAN DENSON
The Oregonian Staff
A Springfield blogger is accused of threatening the life, limbs and lower alimentary canal of a Secret Service agent.

James T. Cuneo, 43, was indicted Thursday on charges of making a series of threats against Special Agent Ronald Brown in the course of his official duties.

This was strange turnabout for Brown, whose job in the agency's Presidential Protection Division is mainly to thwart threats against the commander in chief. For the first time in his 15-year career, Brown wrote in federal court papers, someone was repeatedly harassing him.

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You simply MUST read the rest of the article!

What a dumbass.

[AllieB]

1. What a lunatic.

These people are becoming more unhinged everyday. It's really scary.

[stillcool]

2. all this fomenting of rage...

that the Republican politicians/right wing media are doing. You'd think our government was advocating assassination.

[peace13]

3. Thank god they arrested him!

What will he threaten them with next the Comfy Chair! Too sad that the SS will arrest a citizen but let the murdering, thieving, resident in chief walk free. The blogger sounds like most of us here! Peace, kim

[MADem]

5. No he doesn't. You need to reread the DU rules--that kind of shit is proscribed.

Your use of "peace" in the context of your post is rather ironic. You can't have "peace" when you're threatening to electrocute people and shove stuff up their asses.

[peace13]

6. If you followed the rules here you wouldn't call out people as you do.

Call the DU police quick. Next, I was making a point that people have been pushed too far. Actually, I doubt the guy really meant that he would do that stuff, not like the * thugs during interrogations. Sorry for your mix up.

[MADem]

7. There is an important difference between POINT OUT and CALL OUT, dear

A call out is when I go elsewhere, say, to a different thread, or even start a new thread, and chit-chat about you in a nasty and gossipy way--behind your back, as it were. Pointing out your conduct TO YOU, directly--not gossiping about you to others-- which is here for all to see, is not a "call out."

[dionysus]

8. leave it to a resident obama hater to defend a guy threatening a secret service agent.

@ you

[dionysus]

9. "let the murdering, thieving, resident in chief walk free" you should definately be tombstoned

for that shit.

unless you meant bush... not obama...

it's hard to tell around here anymore

[MADem]

4. Jesus Christ on a Bicycle! Was that nitwit tombstoned from here recently?

He sounds like some of the overly belligerent "My Agenda" scolds who don't last long here:

On Oct. 16, Brown and Springfield police detectives dropped in on Cuneo to chat about threats he had allegedly made about Google executives on his Internet blog: walkndude.wordpress.com. (WordPress has taken the site offline for violation of its terms of service.)

"Cuneo was extremely belligerent, refused to answer questions and became increasingly threatening," Brown wrote in an arrest affidavit. "We left the driveway of Cuneo's residence without further incident."

Cuneo then began to phone the Secret Service office in Portland, threatening Brown and others, the government alleges. "Cuneo," Brown wrote, "seems to think that we are aiding and abetting the 'illegal U.S. President' and that he and others need to arrest us for not doing our job."

Brown says Cuneo phoned him in January and, with a colorful series of expletives, threatened him with physical harm, including execution by hanging, electric chair or firing squad. Those threats -- and Cuneo's history of violence -- concerned federal officials...On April 7, the Federal Protective Service served Cuneo with a letter warning him to knock off the threats or risk criminal prosecution.

The next morning, according to the government, Cuneo phoned Brown and said he was going to "shove the letter up your" derriere -- although derriere was not the word he chose. Later that day Cuneo phoned again to say that if any federal official set foot on his property again -- in Brown's words -- "it would not be fun."