"I still don't buy the whole 'death threat' thing - I have read somewhere that the sheriff's office where Natalie Maines lives has never heard from them concerning it."
Since it is indeed a pretend death threat, let's be complete and make it from an enraged white male, a European-American skinhead gun nut, southern white supremacist from the far religious right, clamoring for a theocracy, and maybe even a return to the good ol' days of slavery.
Did I forget anything?
yes...beer bellied