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Authorities looking into threat against Texas Sen. Ted Cruz
The Hill ^ | 10/18/2013 | Alexander Bolton

Posted on 10/18/2013 5:56:17 PM PDT by markomalley

Law enforcement officials are investigating a threat against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who was vaulted into national prominence with his push to defund ObamaCare.

A person identifying himself as Troy Gilmore Jr., posted on Twitter Friday morning: “Take down Ted Cruz, at his home” and listed Cruz’s home address in Houston.

“What goes around comes around CRUZ!!” the person wrote.

The author of the threat uses the Twitter handle @ArmyVet54 and identifies himself as having served in the U.S. Army and Navy. Sean Rushton, Cruz’s spokesman, said, “We’re aware of it and have alerted the proper authorities.”

“I can’t comment further on security matters,” he said.

At about 5:30 pm on Friday, @ArmyVet54 posted another apparent threat, urging that Cruz “needs tobe [sic] taught a street wise [sic] lesson”.

The person posted Cruz's home address several other times this month and repeatedly used threatening language.

The apparent threats are not directed at any audience in particular because @ArmyVet54 does not have any Twitter followers. But a search of Cruz’s name on Twitter can find them.

The Capitol Police takes all threats to members of Congress seriously.

“We are looking into that matter,” said Officer Shennell Antrobus, a spokesman for the Capitol Police.

Donte Jamar Sims, a 22-year-old man living in North Carolina, was sentenced to six months in prison in May after he threatened over Twitter to kill President Obama during the 2012 Democratic National Convention.

In June, a judge sentenced Jarvis Britton, a 26-year old Alabama man, to a yearlong prison term after he threatened Obama over Twitter.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
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To: cripplecreek

yes so tolerant and “open minded” ..... in a pigs eye


41 posted on 10/18/2013 8:48:42 PM PDT by Farnsworth (One Big Assed Mistake America)
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To: HollyB

Don’t mess with Texas...


42 posted on 10/18/2013 8:56:43 PM PDT by 444Flyer (How long O LORD?)
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To: kcvl

uhh Evelyn your stupid is showing... “They only know a few words, Impeach Obama is their most used one.” let me point out “impeach Obama” is two words.

And sadly I do think this is right. “Someday, Texas will be a blue state again”

Texas needs to get their immigration policy set and enforced soon or the nuts looking for work and lower taxes (but bringing the crap they are escaping from) will turn that state blue.


43 posted on 10/18/2013 9:01:21 PM PDT by cableguymn (The founding fathers would be shooting by now..)
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To: markomalley

I worry about Cruz, Lee and Palin. I can see the government doing something then framing a “right wing nut”.


44 posted on 10/18/2013 9:02:41 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (".....Barrack, and the horse Mohammed rode in on.")
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks markomalley.

Left Wing Activists are posting Ted Cruz’s home address online encouraging harassment!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3080720/posts

MoveOn Petitions: Arrest Boehner, Cantor for sedition
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3080417/posts


45 posted on 10/18/2013 10:01:14 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
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To: Viennacon; markomalley

The left is morphing into a liberal fascist
movement whose thugs are cultivated and encouraged by the Obama administration and its thug in chief. This is a purposefully led evolution, not one wherein these thugs “just happen “ to be this way.

America has a difficult time realizing that we have a radical fascist culture poisoning our government and it is Obama’s task to bring this thuggish political criminal culture to fruition so that we have rioting and insurrection. There is nothing Obama would like more than to declare martial law and suspend all elections, virtually every federal department is armed and prepared to violate the People and the Constitution.

Even now,after all the jumped up, purposeful idiocy of the so called president, America cannot face the fact that it has elected a fascist, and the halls of patriot academe suggest that he be called a “coercive utopian.”

There will be a battle royal before we are shot of these thugs from the White Hut, and their little apparatchik thug operatives from ACORN and Obamacare “navigators”. Obama is preparing for his final Putsh in which he will subjugate the military and Congress and meanwhile, the MSM fiddles on like Nero in Rome. Obama is fast becomeing a dictator rather than a president of the Republic, a position for which he was legally, culturally, and personally unqualified: the so called president, a lying, slick talking Uncle Tom whose main purpose in life is to sell out and betray the American People and the Constitution.

Ted Cruz is a serious threat to these fascists and he needs our support and encouragement.

This is a very good read:

http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html


46 posted on 10/19/2013 1:09:08 AM PDT by Candor7 (Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: markomalley

They should have him in custody by morning if all this NSA ability to snoop and identify is for real.


47 posted on 10/19/2013 1:16:56 AM PDT by VideoDoctor
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To: Conspiracy Guy
A person identifying himself as Troy Gilmore Jr., posted on Twitter Friday morning: “Take down Ted Cruz, at his home” and listed Cruz’s home address in Houston.

I’m sure Holder has the FBI focused like a laser on this threat. Neither Holder or the resident will rest until this person is brought to justice and given a job as an ObamaCare Navigator.

It would appear that Holder has an alias; he's also known as Troy Gilmore Jr....

48 posted on 10/19/2013 4:51:00 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: markomalley

Little to be concerned about...a liberal is a terrorist wthout balls.

A good liberal is a terrorist without balls or a head.


49 posted on 10/19/2013 5:11:34 AM PDT by Anton.Rutter
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Impeach him now. We can no longer wait.


50 posted on 10/19/2013 6:32:35 AM PDT by bergmeid (Resist we much!)
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To: markomalley
"urging that Cruz “needs tobe [sic] taught a street wise [sic] lesson”. "

Yeah, by some faceless heyboard coward with poor impulse control.

Better lawyer up, moron.

51 posted on 10/19/2013 9:53:42 AM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males----the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization.))
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To: markomalley
"authorities"

LOL...they're probably responsible for the threat.

52 posted on 10/19/2013 10:33:58 AM PDT by Tula Git (There IS a coup in America and it's on track and almost complete.)
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To: backwoods-engineer
Mark this, liberals, commies, and democrats: one hundred heads. If the commies
come to count coup on Ted Cruz, one hundred heads will be counted in return.


Sorry, the page you were looking for in this blog does not exist.
53 posted on 10/19/2013 10:51:30 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: Hardraade

Has anyone posted Troy’s address?


54 posted on 10/19/2013 11:33:11 AM PDT by snippy_about_it
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To: kcvl

He’s right about TX having a lot of thus far disorganized liberals, millions of them.


55 posted on 10/19/2013 11:41:48 AM PDT by Theodore R. (The grand pooh-bahs have spoken: "It's Jebbie's turn!" to LOSE!)
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To: snippy_about_it

Troy Gilmore, Jr.

A cook, who believes his job in the kitchen, at a prison in Florida, and being employed as a security guard, makes him law enforcement - he even has threats on his linked in page:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/troy-gilmore-jr/65/981/a1a


56 posted on 10/19/2013 11:46:23 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51. Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: markomalley

I doubt anyone will “look into” it very hard. The communist extremists on the left own ALL of America now.


57 posted on 10/19/2013 11:55:07 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hold on to your sombrero! Here comes amnesty! The GOP is on a roll!)
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To: jacknhoo

Thanks for the link. The boy sounds like he does have “issues”. He should be closely watched by law enforcement.


58 posted on 10/19/2013 12:00:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Hold on to your sombrero! Here comes amnesty! The GOP is on a roll!)
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To: markomalley

Hate to be obvious but have they questioned Harry Reid yet?


60 posted on 10/19/2013 12:31:59 PM PDT by BlackSeal
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