I am sadly disappointed by this.
Posted on 03/20/2003 9:11:39 PM PST by What Is Ain't
SPEARFISH, S.D. (AP) - A Sundance, Wyo., man is facing a felony charge after being accused of threatening Sen. Tom Daschle.
Raymond Douglas Howard, 58, has been charged with one count of threatening a constitutional officer. He also faces misdemeanor charges of making a threatening phone call and disorderly conduct.
On the morning of March 8, Spearfish Police Department officers responded to an anonymous 911 phone call in which a male voice stated, ''We're going to kill Senator Daschle today,'' according to documents filed in the case.
Dispatchers traced the call to a pay phone near a Spearfish restaurant, and police tracked footprints in the snow to a car that belonged to Howard in a parking lot across the street, according to the court documents filed in Lawrence County Court.
Police followed the footprints to a grocery store and inquired about Howard. Managers told police that Howard worked as a stocker there and had just returned from a break.
An officer questioned Howard and determined that the boot prints matched the boots that Howard was wearing. Howard denied both using the pay phone at all and making any threatening calls. But he said he did start walking to the restaurant to buy a newspaper, then turned around before reaching the restaurant because he realized he already had the publication.
But police said the footprints, which went to the pay phone, did not back up Howard's explanation and he was arrested.
Daschle, D-S.D., made a scheduled 1 p.m. appearance in Spearfish on March 8 and he later visited a trade show in Belle Fourche.
Howard is currently free on a $5,000 cash bond. An arraignment has been scheduled for March 25.
Daschle, who has been Senate majority leader and is now Senate minority leader, has acknowledged in past interviews that he receives numerous threats but he has declined to provide details. For the past several years, Daschle has traveled with Capitol Police agents when he visits South Dakota.
With what? Sunlight? Holding a mirror in front of him? A crucifix? Stake through the heart?? Wolfbane.....
Daschle is a traitor giving aid and comfort to an enemy at a time when 300,000 of our finest youngsters are laying their lives on the line. No other way to look at it. Why should a traitor be accorded the protections of a constitutional officer?? He should be stripped of his immunities and thrown to the wolves.
Criminy .... give the guy a medal .... it's wrong but I'm free to think it anyway.
Oh, I forgot - he's moving to France...........FRegards
And some of us used to get the USSS at our homes and businesses just for posting our feelings here!
Welcome to FR, dawg..........FRegards
That line works for the traffic blocking, vomit spewing, hygenically challenged antiwar protestors, it should work for this guy.
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