Nationalizing Death Threat Culture
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I’ve had my share of not particularly serious death threats and an endless amount of other hate mail when attacked by the fascists. A lot of fun…..But you know, all this hate mail is almost never from Rhode Island. It’s idiots from South Carolina, Nebraska, Louisiana, wherever. So you don’t take a lot of this that seriously. But it only takes one true idiot and when the death threats move from hinted to explicit, well, there’s plenty of reason to worry, especially with Tucker and his band of fascist friends encouraging violence against people they don’t like. And thus, you have a case like this:
A Texas man was arrested on Friday on a federal charge that he left a voice mail message threatening to kill a Boston doctor who provides care to gender nonconforming children, the authorities said.
The man, Matthew Jordan Lindner, 38, of Comfort, Texas, was charged with one count of transmitting interstate threats, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts. He is being held without bail pending a court hearing next week. If convicted, he could face up to five years in prison and three years of supervised release and a fine of up to $250,000.
Efforts to reach a lawyer for Mr. Lindner late Friday were unsuccessful.
According to federal prosecutors, false information began to spread online in August that doctors at Boston Children’s Hospital were providing hysterectomies and gender affirmation surgery to patients under the age of 18. The hospital does not perform those procedures on minors, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors said that on Aug. 31, Mr. Lindner called the Boston-based National LGBTQIA+ Health Education Center and left the threatening voice mail for one of the center’s doctors.
Repeatedly using profanity, Mr. Lindner said in the message, “you’re all gonna burn,” according to prosecutors, adding that there was “a group of people on their way to handle” the doctor. “You signed your own warrant,” Mr. Lindner allegedly said, again naming the doctor. “Castrating our children. You’ve woken up enough people. And upset enough of us. And you signed your own ticket.”
This is serious stuff. Someone is eventually going to die thanks to this kind of thing.