Feds accuse Eugene man of threatening to blow up Planned Parenthood

[depakid]

Source: The Oregonian

Federal authorities have accused a Eugene man of threatening to bomb a Planned Parenthood clinic after a series of phone threats last year to then-University of Oregon president David Frohnmayer, a Masonic Lodge and a local doctor. Gregory Paul Freeman, 56, was charged Monday by criminal information with threatening to damage or destroy the Planned Parenthood clinic on Eugene's Danebo Avenue last Dec. 30.

Eugene police began looking into a series of strange phone threats on Oct. 1, 2008, when an officer stopped by the home of David and Lynn Frohnmayer to listen to an anti-Semitic threat left on their phone. David Frohnmayer, 69, is a familiar figure in Oregon politics and public service. He served three terms in the state House of Representatives and was attorney general from 1981 to 1991. He also served as the dean of the University of Oregon School of Law before taking over as the university's 15th president in July 1994. He announced his retirement last spring.

Police checked phone records and found that the Oct. 1 threat left on the Frohnmayers' answering machine -- along with three similar threats -- were placed with a prepaid wireless card.

In late November, Eugene police responded to another report of anti-Semitic phone harassment at Eugene's Masonic Lodge 11. The anonymous caller's voice said, "I'm going to burn your house down. Because you suck. You understand that? You and your (expletive) Jews. You get the (expletive) out of town."

Read more: http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/11/feds_accuse_eugene_man_of_thre.html

[sandnsea]

1. Holy christ

I guess I better call the one here tomorrow and make sure they aren't being harrassed. I didn't think about it. Maybe they need help. This is just crazy.

Did you hear about a shooting at a mall up near Portland?

[Lone_Star_Dem]

2. Wow. That man is seriously mentally ill. nt

[Heidi]

3. Recommended.

:kick:

[tomm2thumbs]

4. that is why Michele Bachmann needs to be kept at arm's length - she's got them genes?

just because people elect you doesn't mean you aren't crazy. But I'm preaching to the Bush/Cheney Choir here

[nashville_brook]

5. "The Paranoid Style" is all the rage this season.

[muntrv]

6. But remember, this is not terrorisim because the culprit is not a Muslim.

When Christians do it, it's not terrorism.:sarcasm:

[depakid]

7. Sounds like the guy's just disturbed at this point

Frohnmeyer is a Republican, btw. Granted an old school "can do" Oregon Republican, but still.

[Odin2005]

8. Terrorist! Send him to Gitmo!

[Ferret Annica]

9. I know who this guy is

He used to hang around another well known asshole who made it his life's work to harass the anarchist community in the Whiteaker members neighborhood. I saw him once with an axe handle to his friend's brandished rifle at a warehouse many Cascadia Forest Defenders and Icky's Teahouse Coop members had rented and were living in.

Good riddance to bad garbage.

[fascisthunter]

10. another Fox News watcher

I bet he had an account at Freeperland.

[David Zephyr]

11. Kicking so more people see this.

Sick people. Good for the feds!

[Blue_Tires]

12. ttt