Bowling Green, Mo., man indicted for making threat to kill U.S. President

[progressiveGI]

Source: Quincy Herald Whig

A Bowling Green, Mo., man recently was indicted on federal charges of making a threat to kill the president of the United States, according to a press release from acting U.S. Attorney Michael W. Reap.

According to the indictment, Josh Randall McCallum, 32, mailed a letter on Aug. 3 in which he threatened to kill the president. At the time he mailed the letter, McCallum he was an inmate at the Northeast Missouri Correctional Center.

McCallum was indicted by a federal grand jury on Oct. 8 of one felony count of threatening the president of the United States. He is expected to appear in federal court later this week.

If convicted, this charge carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and/or fines up to $250,000


Read more: http://www.whig.com/story/news/Bowling-Green-man-indicted-101409

[Ian David]

1. If he's already in prison, he's not a "credible threat," is he?

Maybe he just prefers spending time in the courtroom to spending it in his cell?

[Tempest]

4. You don't know when he was to be released

It doesn't say and I couldn't find his docket.

If he was getting out in the next 2 years, then he is a credible threat.

[Ian David]

5. That's a good point. I hope he LIKES it in prison. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

2. Way to make the SS's job easy for them. He's already incarcerated.

And he left a paper trail.

What an idiot. Make an example of that nutjob. Seriously.

[Ilsa]

3. Maybe he wants his sentence extended for the health care benefits.

And room and board.

(This is a slam against the state of the economy, lack of available healthcare, etc, not a claim that prisoners have it easy.)

[krkaufman]

6. Bowling Green must be an unpleasant place.

On a train ride back up to Chicago from Quincy, a few years back, I had a conversation with 3 20-ish young "Christian" kids from Bowling Green in which they were laughing at the misfortune of one of their female friends, unlucky enough to have a brother whom they'd discovered to be gay. (their words/thoughts)