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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:33PM
No, I used it correctly. Not a single original thought. Not one. That smug "you-used-literally-wrong" has been done to death as well. You are a puppet of the media, and it has manipulated you into thinking you aren't.
(Score: 3, Funny) by aristarchus on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:50PM
Doubling down, eh? Well, I guess you have to, not a lot of other options at this point. First let me say that I said nothing about thoughts. I was talking about facts. You know, those things that do not go away or change no matter what you think of them. And secondly, of course I have no original thoughts! I have been around for almost two and a half millenia, so I quite literally have seen it all before. Of course, that means that what currently passes for " media" in this rather recent nation called "America" is hardly the source of any of my non-original thoughts.
You know, as well, and more to the point, just because you have forced a pedantic response that has been repeatedly necessary does not mean that you did not literally misuse "literally". So it's your bad, still.
Puppet? Hm, could be. I could be a bot, set loose upon the internets just to say bad true things about republicans at the behest of the Illuminati. But I am not, i assure you. And thank you very much for being concerned, but I can also assure you that I have not been manipulated in any way. I hope the same is true of you, literally, my dear AC! Happy Holidays! (Ouch! That has got to burn!)
(Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 19 2015, @10:14PM
I have been around for almost two and a half millenia
Ah, so you're mentally ill?
By the by, you misspelled "millennia". Thought you'd like to know, since you seem to pride yourself on the correct use of words.
you have forced a pedantic response that has been repeatedly necessary does not mean that you did not literally misuse "literally"
"I was just pretending to be retarded! t. Aristarchus"
Don't worry, buddy. This year I'll get you a dictionary for Christmas.
Happy Holidays!
Thanks, I'm Jewish, so I appreciate you being considerate of my religion.
(Score: 2) by jasassin on Sunday December 20 2015, @07:23AM
Bots don't start sentences with the word "and".
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(Score: 3, Touché) by aristarchus on Sunday December 20 2015, @07:41AM
Upgrades, Biatch! (I imagine you think that bots never say "biatch!", either? Interesting.)