Anti-government activist faces felony harassment
Grant Rodgers
3:37 p.m. CDT April 12, 2016
In an online video titled “The End of America and the World,” Christopher Bruce ... rails against state child protection workers tasked with investigating abuse, comparing them to agents of Nazi Germany ...
Beginning in February of last year, prosecutors claim the Carroll resident's anger grew more sinister, morphing into illegal threats likely influenced by a growing strain of extreme anti-government ideology ...
In March 2015, Bruce, 55, pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor harassment charges after he repeatedly phoned Des Moines-based employees of the Iowa Department of Human Services he met through a child custody case. He called the two women "sluts" and other slurs and continued calling after a detective warned him to stop, according to criminal complaints.
Bruce told one of the women in a voice mail, "I really hope you are enjoying your life, because it is about done with," according to another complaint. He was angry at the DHS employee because he believed she spurred a state effort to remove his child ...
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-and-courts/2016/04/12/anti-government-activist-faces-felony-harassment/82913408/
