I frequent a few conspiracy websites from time to time, some of them have some great content and are professionally maintained, some are no more than drama message boards with a few references to aliens or NWO and the rest lie somewhere in between. When I opened the front page of one of these sites to do some light reading about the end of the world in 2012 or the next alien invasion I was saw a post about this:
Man accused in Miss. of threat to president-elect - NPR
Steven Joseph Christopher, 42, was taken into custody by the Secret Service in Brookhaven, Miss., and charged with threatening to assassinate Obama for what he claimed was "the country's own good," federal prosecutors said. The criminal complaint was sealed until Christopher's appearance in federal court.
Now the scary part is that I have read comments left by this person (he goes by the handle "Stevie" and other variations) on no less than five separate websites. The way that he operates is to join a new board and gain trust of the members and then he moves on to declare that he is God and that the universe is inverted. After that he would make sexually offensive comments to some of the female discussion participants and threaten other members with physical violence if they came to the defense of those offended by his unwanted online advances.
The pattern would follow from site to site with him usually getting banned after a short while. Stevie got quite a few nasty feuds started between himself and members and even owners of some of the sites. There were youtube threats launched from multiple channels like these ones here and here.
I never participated in any of the discussions that he started or was involved in because I'm not into drama and I frequent these sites for reading material only (except during the election - I had some fun debunking some of the really crazy posts by way of response) but I was very aware of this guy because he was hard to miss. It just freaks me out that things turned out the way they did and he is on his way to jail. Someone who had become familiar through the internet went on to threaten soon to be President Obama.
Here are a few of his threats taken directly from the website that reported him:
"Yes, I have decided I will assassinate Barack Obama. It's really nothing personal about the man," "But I know it's for the country's own good that I do this."
"And I'll need a leak in the secret service to get a close up shot, somewhere close to the podium, since I've never fired a gun, so I need to an easy shot off," Christopher was quoted as saying. "Wattdysay fellas? Any help?"
And here is a video of his arrest:
Anyway, I just wanted to share the news and a little background that you might not get from a traditional news story. Have a great weekend.