Sarah Palin gun stalker collared by FBI

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: Mirror News (UK)

A GUN-toting teenager who has bombarded right-wing US politician Sarah Palin with threatening letters has been arrested by the FBI in her home state of Alaska.

Stalker Shawn Christy, 19, sent her receipts for a gun he bought and told her to watch his back.

Palin, a supporter of the gun lobby, had won a six-month restraining order against Christy in October.

But her family have revealed that Christy was held in Anchorage, just 50 miles from her home in Wasilla. FBI officers have ordered him to return to Pennsylvania, 3,500 miles away.

Read more: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/03/07/sarah-palin-gun-stalker-collared-by-fbi-115875-22971487/

[Renew Deal]

1. Is it just me, or is this poorly written?

[MidwestTransplant]

2. Maybe Sarah wrote it.

[Jansen]

29. Not just you.

"Stalker Shawn Christy, 19, sent her receipts for a gun he bought and told her to watch his back."

Written it is poorly.

[KansDem]

3. Maybe he just wanted to go caribou hunting with her...

And she wouldn't let him ride in the helicopter.

[Buzz Clik]

4. What's the big deal? Palin packs heat, and her house is a fortress.

The solution to gun toting threats is to carry a gun. Problem solved.

[polmaven]

8. It IS a big deal!

I don't care who it is, or how well his/her home is protected....Any threat - even a veiled threat is a "big deal". Guns have their place in this society, but threatening the lives of other people is not one of them.

[Buzz Clik]

10. I guess that my intentional omission came back to bite me:

I forgot my :sarcasm:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

11. The guy sent her a copy of his gun receipt and told her to watch her ass

Anyone who's read my posts knows I'm not a Palin fan at all but yeah...that kind of behavior most certainly is a big deal.

[emilyg]

19. +1

[Dulcinea]

21. Agreed.

I'm no fan of hers either, but this guy needs a visit from the FBI.

[speltwon]

22. Considering the FBI arrested him

they probably have the visit part under control

[NCcoast]

20. That's right

We'll all be safer when everyone is packing heat.

[crim son]

5. Ooooh, I hope Christy isn't a Democrat.

Cuz that would suck.

"...told her to watch his back"? Eh?

[AlbertCat]

7. "...told her to watch his back"? Eh?

I know. Maybe they were going hunting together?

[crim son]

9. I'm sure he was hoping! n/t

[DCKit]

6. Under almost any other circumstances, the party of the insane would simply consider him...

an ardent fan.

[Maine_Nurse]

12. And we'd be screaming "Repug violence" if it was against a dem, Does that make him a left extremist

[wellst0nev0ter]

14. I'm Afraid It Just Makes Him One Crazy SOB, Not A Left-Wing Terra-ist

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2010/09/28/breaking_news/doc4ca235e0bf331043209185.txt

However, since accounts say that he believes that Sarah Palin is evil and must be punished because the Bah-bull told him so, I'm going to go for "Not A Left-Winger" for 200, Alex.

[Xenotime]

13. The suggestion that this gun nut was a dem is ludicris.

[speltwon]

23. god forbid, we should wait for facts before we determine either way

and frankly, who the fuck cares? This person threatened a (former) politician with gun violence. That's wrong. I don't care what party they are. The instant rush to politicize and predetermine the political views of the Giffords shooter turned out to be a big fail. Why not wait? Considering Palin is an (insanely stupid) Republican, it very well may be that this threatener is a Democrat. Giffords shooter was an independent. I suggest waiting. I'm not speculating either way. The kneejerk assumption is usually when somebody threatens or assaults a politician, that the person belongs to the opposing party. That is very frequently untrue. The mayor of Seattle a few years back was assaulted - struck in the face by a guy swinging a bullhorn. The mayor was a Democrat. The swinger was a batshit insane Democrat. It happens.

[RamboLiberal]

15. Palin's parents say they fear for her safety

Sarah Palin's parents said they fear for the safety of their daughter and her family, and that they sleep with guns as a precaution, the BBC reports.

In a recent interview with BBC's "Newsnight," which explored the former Republican vice presidential nominee's prospective presidential bid for 2012, her parents Chuck and Sally Heath spoke about threats against the family.

"As a mother I do have concerns about her safety and that of the kids... she knows how I feel, that it's risky," Sally Heath told the network.

Citing a recent incident in which a man from Pennsylvania reportedly sent the family and others copies of the receipt of a gun he had purchased, as well as that of a one-way ticket to Anchorage, Chuck Heath said the family had legitimate safety concerns.

"We sleep with the guns," Palin's father told BBC's Jackie Long

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20040085-503544.html?tag=stack

I'm glad the FBI caught the nutcase. Your daughter ought to be more circumspect with her words with gun metaphors, "pals around with terrorists", "real Americans", not like us, & "targets".

Think of the fear the Obama familiy & many Democrats targetted by Sarah & her ilk live in everyday. Ask Gabby Giffords, Mark Kelly, their family & staff. They already have been wounded by the hatred Palin spews.

[Politicalboi]

18. Where were these two assholes when Gabby got shot?

I guess it never occurred to them that their _itch daughter is partly to blame for the deaths in Arizona too.

[southernyankeebelle]

16. Is it a she or a he? Sounds like they can't make up their minds.

[enuegii]

17. With a first name like "Stalker" it's hard to tell...

...and I agree with the poster upthread that the article is poorly written.

[plumbob]

24. Why won't the government stay out of Palin's life!?

What nanny stater ordered the FBI in??!!

[Yo_Mama]

25. It's a false story, according to the FBI

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/07/sarah_palin_stalker_detained

Salon has a correction up.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. Interesting...

...and it would be even more intersting to know the source of the original fake report. Thanks for posting the Salon link, I hadn't seen it yet.

[Tx4obama]

27. Here's a link to an Alaskan article that explains the WHOLE LIE

Read Updates 1, 2, and 3 on the below link
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2011/03/sarah-palin-still-pissed-off-that.html

Note: Gryphen is a local blogger and always has all the 'real' details.

[Zax2me]

28. That link was interesting

But shed no light and displayed no proof of a 'whole lie'