Man arrested for Michael Schiavo threat

[janx]

A man has been arrested and charged with offering a $250,000 award for killing Michael Schiavo.

Richard Alan Meywes was arrested in Fairview, North Carolina by the FBI and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office.

More at link:

http://www.baynews9.com/content/36/2005/3/25/75836.html

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. It's about time

one of these wackos that's been threatening people over this nonsense will pay for their actions.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. Yep, there's your sanctity of life at work right there folks.

[FredScuttle]

61. "Culture of Life"

Live as we tell you to or we'll kill you.

[Name removed]

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[FredScuttle]

75. welcome to DU

enjoy your stay, however short it may be.

Remind me again how Mr. Schiavo is killing his wife?

[Pirate Smile]

3. Have you seen this one also?

A man was arrested after trying to steal a weapon from a gun shop so he could "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo," authorities said.

Michael W. Mitchell, of Rockford, Ill., entered Randall's Firearms Inc. in Seminole just before 6 p.m. Thursday with a box cutter and tried to steal a gun, said Marianne Pasha, a spokeswoman for the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office.

Mitchell, 50, told deputies he wanted to "take some action and rescue Terri Schiavo" after he visited the Pinellas Park hospice where she lives, Pasha said.

This is what happens when the President makes the demands of radicals gain legitimacy.

http://www.oliverwillis.com/node/2193

[roguevalley]

8. These things should be EXTENSIVELY publicized. Damn this all.

[ashmanonar]

19. LOL

who the fuck robs a gun store with a boxcutter?

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

[Lucky Luciano]

28. LOLOLOL

I noticed that too!

[Cha]

23. "Sanctity of Life"?

Stupid idiot has the ultimate conflict of interest!

[Nothing Without Hope]

47. So do the people who blow up or shoot up abortion clinics.

Doesn't seem to bother THEM. They consider themselves warriors in a godly cause.

They are TERRORISTS.

[Pachamama]

59. Where is the Homeland Security Dept? Terrorists in our midst and they are

just standing by..... :eyes:

Oh! Silly me! They only do something when its brown non-christians from other countries doing stuff here on US soil, not white christian fundies who are anti-abortionists ready to kill a US citizen on US soil! That would be getting rid of their "Base".... :grr:

Note: It's the very same people who are driving this "movement" and threats against Michael Schiavo and the lawyers and Judges as the ones who have assasinated Abortion Providers and Clinics.....Hello?

[Nothing Without Hope]

77. Yes, they are reluctant to rein in their own monsters

After all, it was a lot of work to create them in the first place!

[Nothing Without Hope]

45. Of course, if he had just BOUGHT a gun to do the same thing

he would be out there right now stalking his victims. Or he could already have one. Just carry it under his coat or in a deep pocket or a bag, and who would know?

I wonder how many armed wackos are out there right now ready to open fire when they judge the time is right for them to do their godly duty. They've surely been incited by hate shows in the media and who knows what other authority figures.

This is TERRORISM.

[Endangered Specie]

57. Steal a gun from a GUN SHOP with a box cutter?!

That would have made a good Darwin award :eyes:.


Obviously this guy is a few cards shy of a full deck.

[reprobate]

69. Arrested? The fool is lucky to be alive!

In my experience, and of course there are exceptions, but from those I have known, gun store employees are usually ARMED!

The man is extremely fortunate not to have contracte a case of lead poisoning.

[Toots]

71. They still use lead in making bullets??

:shrug: I guess it is just a tough guy expression ehh..

[ashmanonar]

78. i'm fairly sure they do.

it's not like pencils, where graphite does the same job as lead. unless you're buying steel tipped bullets (which are armor piercing, and i believe illegal) bullets are made from lead, because of the ease of production and the dynamics of impact.

[jean]

4. Can we monitor the right wing audio culture and document any host

(esp radio) who says ANYTHING supporting this mentality and nail their butts? Is there any such thing as aiding and abetting these kinds of threats and 'hit jobs' by whipping up your listening audience?

[murielm99]

39. Yes there is such a thing.

Metzger (Nazi) is in jail for whipping up some of his skinhead followers to murder a black man. The Southern Poverty Law Center put him in jail.

I wish they would put Randall Terry in jail for something similar.

I think Pat Robertson should be considered culpable too, since he declared open season on judges.

Let us monitor the right wing audio culture. I would love to see some of their asses in jail.

[sandnsea]

63. Parent Television Council does

Over 90% of FCC complaints comes from that one group. We ought to make that a taxpayer issue as well. Anyway, they have people watching and listening to everything and filing coordinated complaints. We just don't have that level of organization. I'd hate to be as neurotic as they are, but some of the stuff these people say is horrible and we ought to be making complaints on it too. At the very least, we ought to learn from their organizing and do more than write emails and sign petitions.

[tanyev]

73. I believe the actual figure is more like 99.8%.

Outrageous.

[jean]

79. I've heard and read some of 'our' people tivo-ing the talking head shows

and I know Franken must tape O'Reilly's radio show...you're right - we probably don't have the magnitude of organization we would need. But I bet there is enough taping and tivo going on to catch some prime nuggets. I'd rejoice to hear of a lawsuit that addresses this rampant, 24/7 hate speech.

[Pirate Smile]

5. It looks like a bounty on Michael Schiavo and the Judge.

On March 23, the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office forwarded an email to the FBI in Tampa which purportedly offered a $250,000 bounty on "the head of Michael Schiavo." The email placed an additional $50,000 bounty for the elimination of a judge who recently denied a request to intervene in the Schiavo case.

[despairing optimist]

22. When the black boxes can't be fixed, fill up the pine ones

That may be a RW motto already.

[Pachamama]

60. Where's the FBI & Homeland Security Dept?

Welcome to Bush's America! Armed nutcases taking the law into their own hands as the Homeland Security Dept. worries about what terra-color code to throw up about brown non-christians from outside our country....

Ofcourse there is a "bounty" on Michael Schiavo and the Judge's....As Michael Schindler said tonite, its "Judicial Homicide" and "Judicial Tyranny" against Terri Schiavo, so it demands Justice....and their offical "Family Spokesman" is Mr. Abortion Clinic Provider Destroyer Randall Terry....Remember, he said that there would be "hell to pay"...

Unbelievable....Terrorist in our midst, yet this is the only arrest? I'd be rounding up the whole block out there standing infront of the hospice...You could rid this country of some of the biggest threats right there in one full swoop....

[Walt Starr]

6. It's pretty obvious, the religiously insane will not accept her death

and will react violently.

It's simply in their nature.

[shadowknows69]

65. gotta have blood for blood

when terri dies then Michael and several judges will become instant targets.

[caligirl]

7. GD on same with links to articles on Hal Turner etc.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3351133


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x3354158

[quaoar]

12. Hal Turner

should be charged with inciting a criminal act.

[caligirl]

16. i had called the Pinellas police and spoke to a

supervisor today Before the guy updated his web site with even more bad and even worse threats.

When I saw the new and even scarrior stuff I called thme back, this time they put me through to a detective and I left a detailed msg. Just in case. Then I found out the guy knows Sean hannity and was acaller into his show, Hal Fronm North Bergen, NJ. He really is a freak job gone wacko. I hope the police check with the FBI , they seem to be familiar with his activities.

[Rose Siding]

35. Did you see the last two entries?

First he said "Operation Extraction is a go"

Now the site reads "Web Site Updates Temporarily offline. I am traveling to do something important."

http://www.halturnershow.com/

I hope the police are still watching.

[bear425]

42. OMG, I just saw that! WTF? n/t

[caligirl]

48. The police got two calls from me today, one at around noon

and the other after I saw your replies on the site updates. So I left the info with a detective with my name and number. Maybe he took it all down after they got to him? His threats were still up when i called this afternoon.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

50. omg what IS he doing?

his website has NOTHING now except this:

Web Site Updates Temporarily offline.
I am traveling to do something important.

[ET Awful]

9. He should be charged with making terrorist threats.

He's threatening government officials, and civilians, that definitely falls within the descriptions of terrorism contained within sereral laws.

[jdj]

10. I've been searching for a link for this for 15 minutes.

It's not on CNN or Yahoo yet, big shock.

This is just the one they found too, not the ones that are plotting and planning right now.

Poor judge Greer, he got blindsided.

Randall Terry is saying all the bad stuff in the world comes from judges... I wouldn't want to be one.

I used to live in Fairview.

I posted a thread yesterday saying that Michael Schiavo may have to live like Salman Rushdie from here on out, a victim of religious persecution.

[janx]

30. This is so insane. The law is the law. People need to accept

that.

[katinmn]

11. Kick. Peggy Noonan and Scarborough should be covering this!

Keep fanning the flames, guys. You'll get your murder yet.

[WillyT]

13. Good !!! - Toss Him In Jail, Throw Away The Key !!!

Asshole!

:mad:

[LynneSin]

14. When this is all over with, Michael Schiavo would be smart...

..to leave the state of Florida all together. I hate to say it, the man has a target over his head and these nut jobs would go so far as to kill his family & children in order to exact revenge.

These fundamentalists are sick!

[Nothing Without Hope]

49. You think he would be safe under his own name anywhere in the US?

I don't. Not without a Witness Protection Program-like divestiture of his own identity. These people have been convinced by their government-encouraged pseudoreligious leaders and hate radio hosts that they are doing god's will. If they fall in the holy war, why, just like those Muslim suicide bombers, they will go to heaven as heroes blessed by their god forever.

We are reaping the whirlwind that the Bush cartel has sown.

[bamademo]

15. Just Now Mentioned on CNN--Anderson Cooper

[karlrschneider]

18. Also by the lady sitting in for Olbermann a couple minutes ago

...
:eyes:

[bluestateguy]

17. Now I fully expect the USA Patriot Act will be used

And I want him kept in jail through the 2008 election so that there's one less Republican vote for the Bush heir apparent.

[short bus president]

20. haven't heard word one of this on my local news, here in NC...

the wackjobs are frothing, and more are gonna get violent over this thing.

[DemoTex]

21. Buncombe County (Asheville)! A mountain neighbor.

The hills are alive,
With the sounds of freepers.

Dumb sombitch probably has a 1993 Dodge Ram pickup with a Dixie flag, a Jesus fish, and a Bu$h/Cheney 2000 on the bumper and back window. His Dodge probably also sports a "We Still Pray" sticker, a "Dodge" boy pissing on a Ford, and that same Dodge boy kneeling at the cross of Jesus. He probably lives in a dilapidated single-wide in the French Broad river's flood plain with a rusting roto-tiller standing in the shards of 2001's garden. He hasn't ever had a bank account and $250 left over at the end of the month would be a major windfall. Kind of makes you proud to be from the most religiously intensive area (upstate SC and the NC mountains) of the whole bound-for-hell USA!

[caligirl]

25. don't be to hard on this area, remember you have Charleston

And Beautiful Beautiful Beaufort By the Sea. Remember the Big Chill.

Couldn't wait to leave there after a week.

[CottonBear]

34. Ah, Beaufort,,,the second oldest city in SC.

We go there 2 times a year to Hunting Island State Park. If I didn't live here in Athens, I would move to Beaufort. It is a gem.

Anyone watching CNN now? Boortz, boone, Weldon and Franks battling now...
Boortz and Barney are the only sane guests. The Schindler's lawyer is insane.

[caligirl]

41. We liked Fripp Island, but not the sand Fleas.

[CottonBear]

52. It's the natural world complete w/ biting insects that I love!

Anyone can visit a sanitized "Disney World" version of nature but I prefer the real thing. I remember my last visit to Hunting Island just before Christmas: the sound of the ocean, no condos or hotels, no golf courses, just raw nature and the night sky filled with stars (it was 25 degrees outside)!

[DemoTex]

36. Well, it's in my will: "You Can't Always Get What You Want."

It must be played or I shall haunt. Certainly, one of my all-time favorite films, as was The Great Santini (another from the SC low country). My favorite scene in The Big Chill was William Hurt in that smoking old Porsche 911T Targa dumping his pill collection on the seat, while driving, to sort and take.


Silverfish 1973 Porsche 911T

[caligirl]

44. It was filmed at HQ at MCAS Beaufort, before we got there. Officers

Club used too, the back room woth the side door was happy hour and meeting room. We were there in the mid 80's. Favorite restaurant the Gatsby.

[jokerman93]

24. We're in Wonderland now folks.

NeoAmerikan christo-freeper hitmen are plotting to revenge and rescue an animated corpse on behalf of the "culture uh' life" and bring on the reign of God in this U.S. of A.

MSM is going straight to video now. Pass the popcorn.

:crazy:

[caligirl]

26. Bush the annointed one, put in office for the Crusades.

[Technowitch]

27. Gotta love the 'Culture of Life'

"We had to kill a bunch of people to save one woman with no brain, no awareness, and no hope of recovery."

Ah, the sweet smell of irony...

[leesa]

29. Shame on our government and the Bush psychos for stirring this up.

Bunch of sick terrorists.

[VirginiaDem]

31. This is where our polarization has inevitably led us. At some

point, somebody's going to get killed. We've had polarized politics in the past and people have gotten killed; it's almost amazing it hasn't happened yet considering the rage you'll find amongst the Freepers on a daily basis.

I fully expect one of these brave public servants to get it over this. And then the MSM will go nuts trying to figure out the "warning signs" and "how could this happen in America?"

I'm not aiming for morbid fascination here but rather looking the elephant-in-the-room in the eyes and stating the obvious.

[NYC]

43. Think about that. They have the House, the Senate,

and the presidency, yet they are in a rage.

[Zhade]

64. Well, of course - liberals still live.

If they could, they'd ship us to the gas chambers.

[Wabbajack]

32. Like Abortion Doctors

I fear Mr. Schiavo will have to wear a bulletproof vest.

Even money someone shoots through his window and ends up hitting one of his kids.... :(

[Cheney Killed Bambi]

33. Man arrested in N.C. on charges of threatening Michael Schiavo

A man arrested in Buncombe County Friday was charged with threatening the husband of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman at the center of the right-to-die case gripping the country.

Richard Alan Meywes was arrested in Fairview by the FBI and the Buncombe County Sheriff's Office, the FBI said in a prepared statement.

Meywes is accused of sending an e-mail putting a $250,000 bounty "on the head of Michael Schiavo" and another $50,000 to eliminate a judge who denied a request to intervene in the Schiavo case, the FBI said. The FBI did not immediately identify the judge.

http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050325/APN/503251053&cachetime=5

[Zynx]

37. Soliciting murder of a judge...that's real smart

He's going to jail for life.

[NNN0LHI]

38. Watch Boosh give this terrorist a presidential pardon n/t

[johnnyrocket]

40. Damn activist cops! Leave that guy alone!

[sescob]

46. MSNBC just mentioned this n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

51. Could they WANT to declare MARTIAL LAW???

If people start shooting, the government can declare martial law, in which case normal rules are suspended and they have far more power, especially with the Patriot Act.

Think about it. Could this hate-incitement be a means to an end: empowerment via martial law? That would also TERRIFY the populace, which they have been shown to desire.

[Daydream_Believer]

53. He's thinking, "Jeb would pardon the killer."

Guarantee it.

:scared:

[fleabert]

54. That's awful! (I thought it said 'arrested for Shiavo THREAD' at first

glance!) LOL.

but, seriously, this is horrible, these people are crazy!

on edit: okay after reading the whole thread, I am freaked, there is some shit about to be stirred in FL. Hope that Turner guy is under heavy watch. I WISH it was a joke thread about too many Shiavo threads... this is perverse.

[janx]

55. A FREEPER'S reaction:

To: doug from upland
forgive my "challenged Christianity" at this point, but I would like to see a Papal annulment followed by two sharpshooters who do NOT kill but merely sever the spinal cord at the neck...

At services tonight all I could see was Terri../
159 posted on 03/25/2005 8:53:14 PM MST by DollyCali (Terri... we care!)
< Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies | Report Abuse >

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1370990/posts?page=157#157

[Endangered Specie]

58. They should call Free Republic The Ministry of Love,

or The Ministry of Peace.

A regular Room 101 that place is.

</1984>

[Hans Delbrook]

76. Yes, let's see if that post ends up in Peggy Noonan's column!

I have that event scheduled for the week after hell freezes over. (Of course that will actually happen when that ice bitch mAnn Coulter finally shows up there.)

[kevinmc]

56. Tom Delay and "The Bush" Base ---- Hail Jeebus

[Borgnine]

62. I have a feeling that this whole mess is going to end badly.

I fear that Michael Schiavo's days are numbered. The nuts are out in full force and won't accept this as over until Mr. Schiavo is dead.

It's not going to end with Mrs. Schiavo's death. It's going to end with Michael's. Goddamn these religious nuts, and damn the Republicans for stirring them up.

[Amaya]

66. the glorious irony

gotta give it to these whack jobs, they sure know how to put on a show.

[Paula Sims]

67. I'm not a lawyer nor do I play one on TV but . .

. . .isn't solicitation for murder a felony? Perhaps even a Class III felony? Oh sorry, there I go with my details again!

In today's Chicago Tribune they had an article about the 20 year old Rockford man who wanted to get a gun and kill Michael. According to the paper, the home schooled kid was a loner who, when he was among friends, was always preaching and reading the Bible. Interestingly, the boy's father came out against his son's actions, saying 'Two wrongs don't make a right'. At least he's honest. (note: in this day and age, THOUSANDS of wrongs think of themselves as right. Sorry, couldn't help myself there).

Paula

[janx]

72. And what about the kids whose parents are raising them

to disobey the law--the little ones getting handcuffed and taken to juvenile hall? It makes one wonder what they will be like in ten years or so...

[wishlist]

68. Fairview Man Charged in Schiavo Bounty Plot

From the Asheville N.C. Citizen- Times today:

"A man accused of placing a bounty on the head of Michael Schiavo and on a judge who recently denied a request to reinsert Terri Schiavo’s feeding tube was arrested Friday in Buncombe County.

Richard Alan Meywes of Fairview was charged in a federal complaint in the Middle District of Florida, according to a news release from the FBI in Tampa, Fla. He is charged with murder for hire and the transmission of interstate threatening communications."


http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050326/NEWS01/50325019/1001


Thanks to the right wing and media frenzy for creating this out of control situation.

[AFSCME girl]

70. This whole situation has..

become an absolute three-ring circus. I hope, too, that Michael Schiavo retains security/protection for a long time to come - he's gonna need it.

I read an article, this morning, about someone trying to get into this hospice to see their grandfather, who was minutes from passing on. Because of all of the security she had to clear, etc., she missed her grandfather by about one minute.