‘YOU WILL DIE!!!!’: Read the Shocking E-Mail Sent to Wis. GOP Senators

[NCJim]

The Blaze:

The following is a shocking, scary e-mail sent to Wisconsin GOP senators last night at around 9:30 pm, shortly after the Senate passed an anti-union bill. Not only does the e-mail threaten the senators with death, but it also vows “your familes [sic] will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.”

Local station WTMJ in Milwaukee obtained the e-mail, and has redacted the sender’s name pending an investigation by the police (emphasis added and spelling and grammar mistakes have not been corrected):

From: XXXX
Sent: Wed 3/9/2011 9:18 PM
To: Sen.Kapanke; Sen.Darling; Sen.Cowles; Sen.Ellis; Sen.Fitzgerald; Sen.Galloway; Sen.Grothman; Sen.Harsdorf; Sen.Hopper; Sen.Kedzie; Sen.Lasee; Sen.Lazich; Sen.Leibham; Sen.Moulton; Sen.Olsen
Subject: Atten: Death threat!!!! Bomb!!!!

Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes
will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks.

[clearvision]

Hmmmm. Strangely formatted email to heve been actually sent. Almost seems like someone typed it in and printed it without sending. The to addresses being the senators names seems strange.

[Argyle58]

Hmmmm. Strangely formatted email to heve been actually sent. Almost seems like someone typed it in and printed it without sending. The to addresses being the senators names seems strange.

 

I also found the continued use of the word "please" throughout the e-mail strange. Not the kind of language that you would expect from a serious threat.

[Valin]

Two from Power Line

 

Death Threats In Wisconsin

John Hinderaker

3/10/11

 

It is not unusual for public officials to receive death threats; on the contrary. But law enforcement officers consider some threats much more credible than others. In Wisconsin, several Republican legislators, including Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, have received multiple death threats. These threats are more worrisome than most, given the long history of union violence and the threatening nature of the mobs the unions have repeatedly mobilized in Madison.

 

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Wisconsin's Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into multiple death threats against several Republican legislators, including Senator Fitzgerald. This is part of an email that Fitzgerald received:

 

This is how it's going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records. We have all planned to assault [sic] you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, this isn't enough. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message. So we have built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent...

 

This threat is made more credible, according to Fitzgerald's spokesman, by the fact that Democratic Party activists have "actually gone so far as to go up to [Fitzgerald's] house and bang on the windows at 6 a.m. demanding that he come out."

(Snip)

 

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Mob Scene in Madison

John Hinderaker

3/10/11

 

Last night, a mob seized control of Wisconsin's state Capitol. The Capitol was supposed to be secured, but the mob was let in through the ground-floor window of a Democratic legislator. The mob was vulgar and threatening, as usual. Ann Althouse's husband Meade shot this video on the scene:

 

 

 

Remind me again about the violent tea party?

[Pepper]

NCJim, Valin, Argyle

 

The pictures of the protesters are classic. The majority are probably bused in dim bulbs.

 

Did you see Michael Moore's call for high schoolers to walk out tomorrow?