Posted on 06/29/2018 5:03:56 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A California man was arrested Friday by FBI agents on charges of threatening to kill Federal Communications Commission chairmanr Ajit Pai over Pai's role in the Trump administration's repeal of net neutrality protections.
The Justice Department said in a press release that Markara Man, 33, of Norwalk, California made three threatening emails to accounts operated by Pai last December around the time the FCC voted to repeal net neutrality rules passed during the Obama administration.
The first email blamed Pai for the suicide of a child Man apparently linked to the repeal of net neutrality, while the subsequent emails contained threats against Pai's life and pictures of Pai's family.
"Man is charged with a threatening to murder a member of the immediate family of a U.S. official with the intent to intimidate or interfere with such official while engaged in the performance of official duties, or with the intent to retaliate against such official on account of the performance of official duties. If convicted, Man faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison," the press release states.
In the press release, the Justice Department notes that Man confessed to sending the email threats in a meeting with FBI agents last month, which he said were meant to "scare" the FCC chair but not reflect intended violence.
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It's not just lack of "civility", the Democratic Party is now a terrorist organization.
They got so worked up over repealing net neutrality yet not a single one of them could tell you what it was or the benefits of it. All they knew was that Obama’s FCC enacted it, therefore it was automatically good, and Trump’s FCC was going to repeal it which made it automatically bad.
Leftardism strikes again!
The media’s been whipping up this violent hysteria for a while now - baseball field shootings, attacks while mowing the lawn and now this. Jim Acosta should also be arrested for collusion.
And exactly what, in the real world, changed from before the obola’s regulations, to when they existed, to now, when they don’t? I for one, haven’t seen any difference at all - in part because the regs didn’t have time to dig in and do their dirty work.
Look! Up in the liberal firmament! Is it a Byrd? Is it a Plame? No, it’s Markara Man!
Wow, its a Miracle, Finally someone arrested.
#TheyAreComingForYouNext
#SummerOfDemocratHate
#NaziDemocrats
MSM has so totally misrepresented the truth about NN that guys like one are everywhere. The snowflakes are fit to be tied yet they have no clue.
Protections? Sure.
Conservatives need to take the lesson of the attack on Rand Paul, the Scalise shooting, and targetted harassment in blue areas of Trump officials.... etc.
Just like it is smart to stay out of bad, high crime areas of town, it is smart to avoid radical blue areas.
That’s kind of tough in DC which is 95 percent demonrat.
Maybe Washington needs a Green Zone where Repubs will be safe.
How can we encourage Hollywood to do the same and start making real threats??
The threats were made in December. He was arrested at the end of June, a good six months later...this after he had confessed to the FBI a month before his arrest. Way to be prompt and on the ball, Federal Bureau of Investigation. I’m a law and order supporter, but, truly, turtles amble faster than this reaction by the feds.
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