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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: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Saturday December 19 2015, @09:35PM
Bias vs extremism? You brand Fox as extremist, but all the rest of MSM is merely biased? Uhhhh - yeah. That "biased" MSM bears equal responsibility with the Democratic party, Republican party, and Fox for polarizing politics.
Far more than half of Americans believe that their party is "good", and the opposing party is "evil".
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 20 2015, @02:23AM
Of course that looks unfair to you. Your extremism has a lot of overlap with fox's extremism so it doesn't look like its unyielding to you, it looks just right.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 20 2015, @03:10AM
Back up and read. I've stated that both Fox and the rest of the MSM are extreme. It's the other side that is arguing that the progressive media are NOT extreme. So, what you're accusing me of, applies as much and more so to those who can't recognize that our media is mostly biased toward socialism today.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday December 20 2015, @04:24AM
> I've stated that both Fox and the rest of the MSM are extreme.
Fallacy of false balance.
You've got a couple of nits to pick with fox, but anyone who uses the term "MSM" and excludes the most popular news channel from that list is clearly so far in Fox's corner that their perspective is too distorted to see clearly.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday December 20 2015, @05:15AM
You're projecting there. You are perfectly happy with the left-leaning MSM, so any disagreement with that MSM has to be extremism.
“I have become friends with many school shooters” - Tampon Tim Walz