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A Puyallup, Washington man, Scott A. Orton, has been charged after making online death threats towards a biotechnology company involved with Planned Parenthood, such as "Kill StemExpress employees. I'll pay you for it" posted on a Fox Nation comment section:
A Washington man who allegedly threatened executives of a California biotech company that processed fetal tissue from Planned Parenthood faces prosecution in one of the rarest sorts of criminal cases – for violence threatened online.
The indictment stated that Scott A Orton, 57, had a record of online menacing of local journalists, city council members, fellow commenters and even FBI agents, dating back to at least 2009. The rare prosecution comes in the wake of a mass shooting in a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Orton was arrested by federal agents in December for making an interstate threat to kill an executive of StemExpress.
The California firm was thrust into the spotlight when anti-abortion activists attacked the company's fetal tissue procurement practices and released highly edited, secretly filmed videos from inside Planned Parenthood. Orton's alleged comments threatened to hang a StemExpress executive with piano wire, on the Fox News website.
Two legal, registered guns were seized from Orton's home just days before three people were killed and nine injured by a shooter at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic.
PDFs of the Criminal Complaint and the Indictment.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:19PM
Fox News is an entertainment channel.
when and where have they ever advertised themselves as anything but a news channel?
(Score: 3, Informative) by edIII on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:27PM
I seem to recall that they made the legal argument one time when somebody was trying to hold them accountable to facts. They're not accountable, because the entire channel is intended to be entertainment.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:34PM
yeah, that's what we call "on paper only" because the rest of the time they claim to be a news channel.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by digitalaudiorock on Saturday December 19 2015, @11:08PM
Absolutely. What's more, and notion that anything in any (supposedly) left-leaning mainstream media is even in the same universe as Fox News is laughable. Fox is pure propaganda to a degree I just don't see anywhere else.
The closest thing I can even think of think of was the failed Air America Radio. To be honest, I think that failed because people on the left (certainly the ones I know) have no interest in that BS preaching to the choir crap, purely intended to convince you of things you already believe in. I sure don't have any interest in that.
I'd have to say my favorite news source is NPR...I'm sure someone will chime in on how they're far to the left or some such BS. This country has shifted so far right it doesn't even remember what the fucking left is.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 19 2015, @11:28PM
To be honest, I think that failed because people on the left (certainly the ones I know) have no interest in that BS preaching to the choir crap, purely intended to convince you of things you already believe in.
So what you're saying is sites like Buzzfeed are just a figment of my imagination? Sounds great.
I'd have to say my favorite news source is NPR...I'm sure someone will chime in on how they're far to the left or some such BS. This country has shifted so far right it doesn't even remember what the fucking left is.
I think you've forgotten to give some evidence for that statement. Whoops!
(Score: 2) by digitalaudiorock on Sunday December 20 2015, @03:16PM
Evidence that the countries moved to the right? If you need that you're blind. Where are all the candidates like Walter Modale?...that's right there aren't any...just like a modern day Ronald Regan wouldn't stand a chance and would probably be branded a RINO in the current batshit crazy environment.
Any what's the the growing number of AC posts here?