NY man sentenced for political Facebook threats

[n2doc]

Source: AP

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A man who admitted making death threats on Facebook against the top Democrats in Congress and other high-ranking officeholders was sentenced Wednesday to 15 months in prison at a court session that focused on his alcoholism.

Lawrence Mulqueen, 50, told the federal judge the postings would not have appeared "if I'd had the opportunity to review them after sobering up."

Mulqueen admitted in May that he had threatened the lives of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, U.S. Rep. Nita Lowey and members of the Congressional Black Caucus.

"I cannot wait to start killing the scum," he wrote under a pseudonym on Facebook. The federal complaint also attributed various racist and obscene rants to Mulqueen.

Read more: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/ny-man-gets-prison-facebook-politician-threats

[alcibiades_mystery]

1. Probably six months would have been sufficient

But I'm not starting a protest movement on his behalf.

[Snake Plissken]

2. 15 months for bagging while drunk

friend don't let friends bag, especially when they're drunk.

[Shrike47]

3. I thought those were typical Freeper posts.

[dballance]

4. Probably not the alcohol rehab he had in mind. /nt

[otohara]

5. He Had The Guns of Course - Swords

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Knives...

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2013/02/21/nanuet-man-accused-of-threatening-cuomo-bloomberg/

Bloomberg threat makes me think it was all about GUNz

[savalez]

6. Remember when drunk dialing was the only thing to worry about? n/t

[KG]

7. here, hold mah and watch me type this...

[Politicalboi]

8. Excuses, excuses

I wouldn't fall for that. It's what drunks ALWAYS say. Fuck them. They get drunk just so they can do these things then later claim they were drunk and didn't know what they were doing. Judge should have given him 15 years to pull his bootstraps up and get his shit together.

[Diclotican]

9. n2doc

n2doc

If you threatened to kill public figures - like top leaders of the Democratic party in Congress and in the Senate - that be sober or drunk - it should be consequences out of it.. You can not claim you was drunk and had no clue about what you was writing on facebook...

Alcoholism is maybe a illness but it is no excuse for treating to kill other people who he disagree with.. It could have been the fellow next door - or the fellow down the road who got the death treat - and I guess it would be the same reaction from the court.. But this was about people in public offices - and they do have the same right to be safe, as Joe Doe who live next door..

Hopefully this "gentleman" now can be given some help with his alcoholism, when he are in prison - and maybe get out with a possibility of staying sober for the next of his life... If I had that problem - I would have sobered up after 15 months in any prison in the US..

Diclotican