AP News - Man who threatened congressman gets 3-year prison sentence
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A man who left a voicemail message at an Ohio congressman's office mentioning a June shooting at a baseball practice for members of Congress has been sentenced to more than three years in prison.
Judge Michael Watson on Friday sentenced 69-year-old Stanley Hoff to 40 months in prison following Hoff's October guilty plea to threatening to assault and murder a United States official.
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good. until people are held accountable it will continue.
I have mixed feelings about this. If a neighbor threatened me, he probably would get a talking to by police and left alone. Hillary committed countless heinous federal crimes and hasn't served there days. This guy gets three years and he never actually did anything, other than to SAY he might do something. Words. In a way, it again elevates our politicians as being in a special class better than the rest of us.
i hate hillary as much as the next righteous thinking person, i suppose. but what did she every say in public like this to threaten anyone at all in the same manner?
seems like a tie-in to keep pushing a PUNISH HILLARY mantra even when she has nothing to be punished for centered around public threats like this.
It's not about Hillary. Its about the fact that if your neighbor threatened you, he wouldn't even get arrested much less 3 years in jail. Just as I don't believe in "hate" crimes, I don't believe in stiffer penalties for someone being a federal employee. Why does that make them special? I think probation and community service would be more than adequate unless this guy had a past history of actually following through on threats or actually tried to carry them out. I am sick and tired of our two-tier system where the rich and powerful get one standard and everyone else gets another.
if its not about her then don't bring her up.
and if some of my neighbors were getting constant calls threatening me and it didn't stop and something happened to them - what then?
the problem is we ignore people making these threats and one day they go shoot up a school and we go back and say "wow, how did we miss THAT sign?"
i guess i'm sick of people using any example they can to further their views even if it has nothing to do with the discussion at hand. you just need to get your hate in and go WELL WHAT ABOUT???
i think we can all do that and have at times but it does de-rail conversations. if there's a direct link between what hillary did and what we're talking about, she's fair game. if not, rabbit hole.