Those tea partiers are just regular folks and when people accuse them of inciting violence they’re liar, right? Maybe not.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Washington state man, Charles Alan Wilson, with repeatedly making threatening calls to Sen. Patty Murray’s Seattle office, threatening to kill her because of her support for the health care bill.
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In one message, according to court documents, he said, “I hope you realize, there’s a target on your back now. There are many people out there who want you dead. … Kill the —-ing senator. I’ll donate the lead.” In another, he describes himself as “a senior citizen on Social Security and Medicare” and says, “I want to thank you so much, very, very much, for signing my death warrant.”
Just in case you don’t believe it was related to the health care reform legislation and the fear-mongering conservatives, the FBI caught Wilson by pretending to be representatives from an anti-reform group.
FBI agents checked the office phone records against the times the voicemails were received, leading to Wilson’s number in Selah, Wash. As an additional check, an agent posing as a volunteer from a fictitious group opposed to the bill, called Patients United Now, called Wilson on April 1st and talked to him for 14 minutes. He said he “hated” the law and that he had repeatedly called Murray’s office to complain, referring to her with a phrase, “Sneaker Shoes Murray,” also often used on the voicemails.
He obviously felt free to share his feelings with the anti-reform group, didn’t he?