Florida man sentenced for threat to kill Obama

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news/international/index/Florida_man_sentenced_for_threat_to_kill_Obama.html?cid=7936946

Dec 18, 2009

MIAMI (Reuters) - A federal court judge sentenced a Florida man to three years in prison on Friday for threatening to kill President Barack Obama in an e-mail that said "the blood of Obama will run down the streets."

Nathan Wine, 21, admitted to the judge in Tampa in August that he sent the threatening e-mail to the U.S. Army Recruiting Command on November 5, 2008, the day after Obama won the U.S. presidential election.

Wine, who had faced up to five years in prison, acknowledged in his guilty plea that he had meant the e-mail as a death threat, although he did not reveal a motive.

In his poorly spelled e-mail message, Wine said he would "not mind going behind bars for being a trigger man on this tyrant."

"I will not rest until this tyrant of America is gunned down," he said. "The blood of Obama will run down the streets of D.C."

[Kahuna]

1. K&R!

:applause:

[pleah]

2. K&R

[pnorman]

3. Silly joke lands victim in prison

Burning Bush' comment draws prison term
Man plans to appeal
Friday, December 6, 2002 Posted: 2:59 PM EST (1959 GMT)

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) -- A man who made a remark about a "burning Bush" during the president's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.

Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon was convicted in September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free speech.

Humphreys said he got into a barroom discussion in nearby Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police Humphreys talked about a "burning Bush" and the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.

"I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," Humphreys testified during his trial. "I had said that before and I thought it was funny."

http://www.holysmoke.org/kh/kh582.htm

[CurtEastPoint]

4. Sad man...

[aikoaiko]

5. Say stupid shit - win stupid prizes

[lpbk2713]

6. He's a brainless tool.

Faux and Limbaugh and all the other RW Media Hatemongers should be held accountable and share the blame.