That was March 10, 2011 and 620WTMJ NewsRadio produced the email sent to the Republican Senators.
A 26 year old woman by the name of Katherine R. Windels has been charged with sending those emails and according to the criminal complaint (found here- PDF)that threat was sent to 15 Republican lawmakers on Wednesday, March 9, 2011, at 10:18 p.m.
Reminder of what was in the email (page #'s 3-4 of criminal complaint):
Please put your things in order because you will be killed and your familes will also be killed due to your actions in the last 8 weeks. Please explain to them that this is because if we get rid of you and your families then it will save the rights of 300,000 people and also be able to close the deficit that you have created. I hope you have a good time in hell. Read below for more information on possible scenarios in which you will die.
WE want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in the past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me have decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and the people that support the dictator have to die. We have tried many other ways of dealing with your corruption but you have taken things too far and we will not stand for it any longer. So, this is how it's going to happen: I as well as many others know where you and your family live, it's a matter of public records. We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, we decided that we wouldn't leave it there. We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message to you since you are so "high" on Koch and have decided that you are now going to single handedly make this a dictatorship instead of a demorcratic process. So we have also built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around the areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, your car, the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them because that's just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to figure out why this is happening to you we have decided to make it perfectly clear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it's necessary to strip the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to feed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves then We Will "get rid of" (in which I mean kill) you. Please understand that this does not include the heroic Rep. Senator that risked everything to go aganist what you and your goonies wanted him to do. We feel that it's worth our lives to do this, because we would be saving the lives of 300,000 people. Please make your peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we will not wait any longer. YOU WILL DIE!!!!
Also according to the complaint,(Page #'s 2-3) that was the second email sent, the first going to Republican State Senator Robert Cowles, two hours earlier than the one that went out to the other 15 lawmakers.
That email was worded quite differently, see below:
I want to make this perfectly clear. Because of your actions today and in t=e past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me =ave decided that we’ve had enough. We feel that you and your republica= dictators have to die. This is how it’s going to happen: I as well as=many others know where you and your family live, it’s a matter of publ=c records. We have all planned to assult you by arriving at your house and=putting a nice little bullet in your head. However, this isn’t enough.=We also have decided that this may not be enough to send the message. So w= have built several bombs that we have placed in various locations around =he areas in which we know that you frequent. This includes, your house, yo=r car, the state capitol, and well I won’t tell you all of them becaus= that’s just no fun. Since we know that you are not smart enough to fi=ure out why this is happening to you we have decided to make it perfectly =lear to you. If you and your goonies feel that it’s necessary to strip=the rights of 300,000 people and ruin their lives, making them unable to f=ed, clothe, and provide the necessities to their families and themselves t=en We will “get rid of” (in which I mean kill) the 8 of you. Ple=se understand that this does not include the heroic Senator that risked ev=rything to go against what you and your goonies wanted him to do. The 8 in=ludes the 7 senators and the dictator. We feel that it’s worth our liv=s because we would be saving the lives of 300,000 people. Please make your=peace with God as soon as possible and say goodbye to your loved ones we w=ll not wait any longer. Goodbye ASSHOLE!!!!
Windels has been charged with 2 counts of "bomb threat" and 2 counts of "computer message- threaten/injury or harm."
Via JSOnline, if convicted, each felony count carries a maximum penalty of three years and six months in prison and a $10,000 fine, and each misdemeanor count carries a maximum penalty of 90 days in prison and a $1,000 fine.
Since the news of Windels being charged was reported, bloggers did some good research to find out more about Windels and some interesting information has come to light.
The Underground Conservative dug quickly and found:
She is a 2010 graduate of Madison Area Technical College with an Associate’s Degree in Early Childhood Education, which would fit, since on her PeekYou profile she lists Wexford Head Start as one of her work experiences. She also lists a place called The Red Caboose; a Google search turns up a Red Caboose in Madison for Toddler, Preschool and School Age programs.
Hot Air discovers that Windels was investigated by Madison police officers last fall over text messages, which implies a pattern of threatening behavior.
Morrissey also poses a very interesting question regarding the fact that Windels has been charged, but not arrested.
I’d say it demonstrates precisely that the case hadn’t been taken seriously by law enforcement or the prosecutors. Why would a terrorist suspect not be arrested in a felony case? Do police really think that someone unstable enough to send death threats doesn’t represent a threat to her community, at least enough to book her? I wonder how her victims feel about that — and I wonder how the DA’s office and police department would handle Windels if she turned out to be a deranged Tea Party supporter rather than a deranged lefty.
Gateway Pundit discovers that the Dane County DA’s office dragged its feet on even issuing charges in the case.
Via Hot Air, video below of the news account on this story.
Seriously?
A woman threatens to kill 16 lawmakers with the use of bombs and threatens to kill their families, admits to doing so and the brilliant officials in charge of this case did not consider her as an imminent threat?
Dane County District Attorney Ismael Ozanne filed the charges Thursday. He says "it's odd" law enforcement never took Windels into custody.
That goes way beyond "odd".
Here is something else that is a bit odd... doing a Google news search for "Wisconsin teacher death threats" as keywords lists, at this time, Fox Nation, CBS and CNN as major news outlets that have reported this.
Where are NYT, Washington Post, ABC News, NBC News, etc.... what is taking them so long? They trying to figure out what spin to give this news?
When you look at the Memeorandum threads on this story (memeorandum provides the most talked about/blogged about political news stories and is constantly updated) you see JSOnline, WKOW, Gateway Pundit, Underground Conservative and the discussions list over a dozen bloggers reporting, but no other major news outlet and also absent and completely silent are the liberal blogs.
I guess they haven't been notified by the mother-ship on how to spin the story either.
[Update] I do see one liberal story on this and the spin they are trying is that conservative bloggers are reporting much more about this than they did about MLK day backpack bomb arrest and they even provide Memeorandum thread snapshots to supposedly prove the point.
Problem with that line of attack is that the snapshot No more mister nice blog provides is just 6 hours after the Seattle Times story and today's story thread is a day after the initial news broke, hence more time for the thread to gather steam.
MLK Bomber story
Initial Seattle Times story "Originally published March 9, 2011 at 11:06 AM"
Memeorandum thread liberal blogger links "March 9, 2011, 5:35 PM"
Wisconsin teacher charged but not arrested in bomb/death threats against lawamakers
JSOnline story dated March 31, 2011, first comment made was at 5:10pm, so the story had to be before that.
Memeorandum thread shown by liberal blogger time "April 1, 2011, 10:00 AM"
Guess in this case he really should have waited for the mother-ship to tell him the "official" spin.
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