Health Care Opponet Charged With Threat To Kill Senator Patty Murray

The hysteria among the far right - and even some Republicans that I know - over health care reform is out of control and sadly devoid from objective facts. One of the underlying rants is that they don't want to pay for health care for "others" yet are unable to grasp that they already are paying - just in a inefficient and non-cost effective manner. With many family members and friends in the medical field, I have heard all to often that by not covering preventive care, the USA's system puts off treatment until it is often catastrophic and ungodly expense. In addition, because of all the write offs that hospitals must make for the uninsured who cannot pay for service, all the rest of us are getting billed at multiple times the real cost to cover these same write offs. Believe me, those who are ranting and raving are already paying. It's just that Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are failing to tell them very important facts. One GOP friend who I spoke with thanked for making him realize he'd been denied important details. While some can be reasoned with, others are not and are increasingly threatening violence. Here are highlights on a threat against Patty Murray, a U.S. Senator (pictured above) via the Seattle Times:
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A 63-year-old Yakima County man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Patty Murray over her support of the National Health Care Reform Act. The FBI and local police arrested Charles Alan Wilson at his Selah home early Tuesday. Wilson was scheduled to make an appearance in U.S. District Court in Yakima, and he will then be transported to Seattle, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office.
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According to the charges, staffers in Murray's office in the Jackson Building in downtown Seattle had become concerned over a series of phone calls by an unknown man over the past several months. The calls came from a blocked number, and often were made in the evenings or on weekends.
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Usually, according to a staffer identified by the initials "M.G.," the calls were merely vulgar and harassing. But on March 22, "the caller began to make overt threats to kill and/or injure Senator Murray," according to the complaint signed by FBI Agent Carolyn Woodbury. In that message, a man the FBI says it has identified as Wilson stated, "I hope you realize there's a target on your back now ... Kill the [expletive] senator! I'll donate the lead."
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In several other vulgar and profanity-laced messages left over the next week, the caller repeatedly threatened the Democratic senator's life and said he "hopes somebody kills" President Obama as well, according to portions of transcripts in the complaint.
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The complaint notes the timing of the threats against Murray corresponded to the passage of the health-care bill, and in several of the messages the caller "expressed his strong disapproval for the health-care reform legislation, and the fact that Senator Murray voted in support of the bill." The FBI said Wilson possesses a concealed-weapons permit and has a .38-caliber revolver registered to him.

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I cannot help but wonder how many of these violence prone right wingers meanwhile consider themselves to be "Godly Christians." I just do not understand the mindset.