Posted on 04/15/2023 8:12:26 PM PDT by Kazan
An Orange County man has been sentenced to one year in prison for threatening the ultra-woke Merriam-Webster dictionary online.
Jeremy Hanson, 35, was angrily responding to definition changes for words like “girl,” “woman,” and “female.”
Prosecutors had argued that Hanson has a history of “threatening communications, nearly all of which were motivated by … biases based upon race, gender, gender identity, and/or sexual orientation.”
Hanson also allegedly sent angry messages to the American Civil Liberties Union, Amnesty International, Land O’ Lakes Inc., Hasbro, a nonbinary rabbi and others.
Prosecutors also argued that they wanted to make an example of him and use his sentencing as a “deterrent to others at a time when violent rhetoric is becoming more common,” according to a report from the Orange County Register.
The “threats” Hanson made were sent through the “contact” form on Merriam-Webster’s website.
“It is absolutely sickening that Merriam-Webster now tells blatant lies and promotes anti-science propaganda,” Hanson wrote, according to prosecutors. “There is no such thing as ‘gender identity.’ The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot.”
The messages were sent between October 2 and October 8.
During the sentencing hearing, Judge Mark Mastroianni in U.S District Court in Springfield said that Merriam-Webster management was “fearful that Hanson would come to their office and cause harm.”
Hanson pleaded guilty last year to “interstate transmission of threatening communications in connection with threats,” against the Massachusetts-based dictionary publisher.
Hanson was sentenced Thursday in a federal court in Massachusetts. According to the Orange County Register, he was additionally sentenced to “30 days of home confinement, three years of probation and mental health treatment.”
Don’t go woke, go broke...
Orange County man bad
Death threats are crossing the line a little bit, but if this were a pro-abortion or trans activist saying the same things, would they get a prison sentence?
Misread that as “Orange Man Gets One Year In Prison”.
Whew.
It actually worked and they stopped calling me.
>> but if this were a pro-abortion or trans activist...
Biden DOJ Recommends No Jail Time for Trans Vandal of Catholic Church: ‘F-— Catholics’
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/4145917/posts
Yeah, really....
Also, for decades I have heard that people being threatened by others have no recourse until the other actually does something, for example, in the case of a woman being threatened by a former significant other, police are unable to do anything until the ex makes a move.
So how did this guy get a year in jail?
They would say the phrase "hunted down and shot" was a common phrase and that actually meant being held responsible and not literally meaning they were going to go out and shoot someone
Antifa and BLM can threaten violence, arson, and even murder, and it’s just “the voice of the oppressed.”
Land O’ Lakes? Was he upset that they changed the butter cartons so you can’t fold it to make the Indian maiden’s knees become her breasts?
“The imbecile who wrote this entry should be hunted down and shot.”
That’s protected speech under the 1st Amendment, not a criminal threat. He will probably get the charge dismissed if he appeals to a high enough level.
Yup…still same…my daughter has dvro on soon to be ex. He has violated it pretty much every day including Sunday and police will do nothing. Even when he blocked her car during child visitation exchange at police dept parking area and prevented her from exiting. The only thing they will respond to is her beaten body in the police parking lot. Still, even in that event I don’t think they will arrest him. One officer actually advised him to ignore the temporary restraining order before the dvro was granted. He stated that to court as his justification and pissed off the judge. Hence he was served with dvro. Judge told him their black robes trump the officer’s opinion.
Answer: Justice is no longer blind.
Case in point: Trump et al.
How is an Orange County Calif man tried by a Massuchusetts court for his posts on the internet? Pretty sick crap going on here.
Hope he does and prevails.
LOL
After I posted I checked my freezer to see if I had LoL butter in it (I did) and see how they changed the package. (I knew they had but forgot how) Sho nuff, as your pic shows, no Indian maiden at all.
Now I’m not a Native activist but I do like redneck origami so it kind of chafes my hide too.
“He will probably get the charge dismissed if he appeals to a high enough level.”
In what court can he appeal his guilty plea?
I’ll say!
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