Man: Obama threat for apocalyptic attention
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Wisconsin man pleaded guilty to threatening to assassinate Barack Obama in January, but said he was just trying to get word out about the apocalypse.
Forty-two-year-old Steven Joseph Christopher told U.S. District Judge Henry Wingate on Friday that he is the second coming of Christ, and wanted people to know that much of the world will be destroyed in 2012.
According to the indictment, the message reported Jan. 11 by the administrator of a Web site called “Alien Earth” asked readers to donate a gun and bus fare from Mississippi to Washington. Wingate scheduled sentencing Nov. 6; Christopher could get up to five years in prison.
Prosecutors told Wingate last month that a psychologist had found Christopher mentally incompetent, but the judge ruled otherwise.
Aug 31, 2009 at 1:49 p.m.
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Somebody better call Glenn Beck. He has been insisting for months that Obama was going to destroy the world, not some 42 year old guy named Steve.
Aug 31, 2009 at 12:09 a.m.
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thumbs up snazzy
Aug 30, 2009 at 10 p.m.
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Hey janesvillesucks,
Osama=Bush
Cheney=Satan
Carl Rove=Angel Of Death
Time to get over your crushing loss in November already and start working together...like the people listed above did...lol.
Aug 30, 2009 at 10:27 a.m.
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From Mississippi, huh? Favre relative?
Aug 30, 2009 at 10:22 a.m.
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janesvillesucks = janesvilledork
Aug 29, 2009 at 11:17 p.m.
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I think this guy has posted more than a few times on the Gazette blogs.
Aug 29, 2009 at 8:33 p.m.
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Imagine - a man from Wisconsin who's more whacked out than most Mississippians. I wonder what they think of us now?
Aug 29, 2009 at 7:06 p.m.
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since when did judges become capable of diagnosing mental disorders? This guy needs serious mental health treatment. He is probably an undiagnosed shcizophrenic
Aug 29, 2009 at 6:41 p.m.
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I would take 2005 over again any day compared to any year between 1939 and 1944.
Aug 29, 2009 at 6:25 p.m.
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There is a good christian for ya.
Aug 29, 2009 at 6:25 p.m.
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If we all knew our Bibles, we would know that The Coming would have started in 2005 with a whole bunch of wild devastation above and beyond what we could ever imagine.
Aug 29, 2009 at 6:24 p.m.
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Couldn't they make it AFTER Christmas? Wouldn't want to miss that!
Aug 29, 2009 at 5:31 p.m.
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janesvillian.. hope your not going by the mayan calendar
Aug 29, 2009 at 4:38 p.m.
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Oh for crying out loud...
Aug 29, 2009 at 4:26 p.m.
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December 21, 2012. Make sure your seat belt is on for the ride.
Aug 29, 2009 at 3:08 p.m.
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I'm marking my calendar.
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