So What Exactly is a Death Threat

February 27, 2018, 04:06 PM

I read about celebrities receiving death threats but the examples they publish (when they publish any at all) usually entail wishing or praying for someones early expiration rather than what I would consider a true threat as in, "I am going to kill you." Others don't even allude to death, though are perhaps filled with vitriol.

I suspect we will soon reach the point where merely disagreeing with a leftist snowflake will be considered a death threat or criminally abusive.

God Bless and Protect our Beloved President, Donald John Trump.

February 27, 2018, 04:10 PM

12131

Wishing someone expiring early is not a death threat. But yes, I agree, with snowflakes, just glancing at them would be considered one.

February 27, 2018, 04:14 PM

JALLEN

I have gotten three.

Each implied death in the circumstances and context of the event, rather than the express statement, “I’m going to kill you.”

One fellow said if I didn’t “take care of that foreclosure, I’m going to come down there, cut off your dick and stick it up your ass.”

The FBI agents I told the story to agreed it was close enough for them.

Luckily, I have enough willpower to control the driving ambition that rages within me.

When you had the votes, we did things your way. Now, we have the votes and you will be doing things our way. This lesson in political reality from Lyndon B. Johnson

"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible." - Justice Janice Rogers Brown

February 27, 2018, 04:16 PM

Edmond

quote:
Originally posted by JALLEN:
One fellow said if I didn’t “take care of that foreclosure, I’m going to come down there, cut off your dick and stick it up your ass.”

But that doesn't necessarily end in death...

February 27, 2018, 04:22 PM

tatortodd

I would suspect in the case of celebrities really do attract some psycho. For example, John Hinckley Jr was stalking a celebrity (Jodie Foster) prior to his assassination attempt of Reagan. Twitter, Instagram, SnapChat, FB, etc. is a double edged sword for them as they have to make several posts per day to stay relevant, but the psychos have access back.

I also suspect that true psychopaths/sociopaths actually know the laws and skirt on edge of them with "wish you would die" when they post on social media. The unpublished stuff (phone calls to celebrities unpublished numbers from burner phones, rocks thrown thru windows, notes left after break-ins, etc) likely contain the nasty stuff.

Ego is the anesthesia that deadens the pain of stupidity

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