Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Rep. Eric Cantor

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Man Charged With Threatening To Kill Rep. Eric Cantor
Justin Elliott | March 29, 2010, 12:22PM

The U.S. Attorney in Philadelphia released this statement today:

PRESS RELEASE

PHILADELPHIA - Today, a two-count complaint and warrant was filed charging Norman Leboon with threatening to kill United States Congressman Eric Cantor and his family, and threatening to kill Congressman Eric Cantor, who is an official of the United States, announced United States Attorney Michael L. Levy and FBI Special Agent in Charge Jan Fedarcyk. As set forth in the affidavit to the complaint and warrant, in or about late March, 2010, Leboon created and then transmitted a YouTube video to Google over the internet, in which he threatened to kill Congressman Cantor and his family. No harm came to the Congressman or his family as a result of Leboon's threats.

"The Department of Justice takes threats against government officials seriously, especially threats to kill or injure others," said Levy. "Whether the reason for the threat is personal or political, threats are not protected by the First Amendment and are crimes."

INFORMATION REGARDING THE DEFENDANT

NAME ADDRESS AGE
Norman Leboon Philadelphia, PA 33 years old
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http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/03/man-charged-with-threatening-eric-cantor.php

[Tom Rinaldo]

1. I applaud this arrest (based on what I read).

But don't stop there. Go after all the crazies who threaten to attack people for political reasons. Most threats by far are coming from the Right.

[hlthe2b]

6. ditto...

I don't know what this guy's thinking is and frankly don't care... Arrest all these crazies, no matter their political stripes.

[xultar]

2. Have the people threatening to kill Dems been arrested? I'm glad they got

the guy but still, who is watching out for everyone else getting threats?

[Newsjock]

3. Yes, all good, but

Where are the charges against all the people threatening to kill Democrats?

[xultar]

5. +1

[proud2BlibKansan]

36. +100

[sufrommich]

4. That sounds pretty bad. Glad his family is OK. nt

[eleny]

7. I hope we can follow this case all the way to prosecution and jail

All cases of this kind of crazy should never go down the memory hole.

[arcadian]

8. More political theater from Cantor

[onenote]

33. really?

Check out the guy. He's a well established anti-semitic loon

[arcadian]

35. Yeah, notice when action was taken against this guy.

Sure the guy is a nut and he's probably been baiting Cantor for some time, but now is when they decide to go after him? Come on, get real.

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. I was thinking that same thing

[arcadian]

38. Politicians generally don't like to publicize things like this either

as it encourages others

[blm]

9. Want to bet they managed to 'find' another mentally unstable person to be the fall guy on this

to protect Cantor from being laughed out of DC for his BULLSHIT performance from last week?

[EFerrari]

23. It looks like there's a father and son with the same name

and they both seem to be dancing on tables. Yikes.

[Turbineguy]

10. The Google sez.....

http://www.google.com/search?q=norman+leboon&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

[WeDidIt]

11. Good. n/t

[Juche]

12. I support arresting him but

It seems that people are free to make death threats against Obama w/o repercussion. At worst a person might get a visit from SS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3r0KJm0YlI

Here is a video of an old man saying Obama was acting like Hitler and how he wanted to take his gun and go to DC. Grassley talks to him like he is a responsible adult for making that threat.

It is a double standard. Threats of violence and treason should be illegal no matter what the political views of those making them. Right now it seems the right has a free pass and they shouldn't.

[cali]

30. there have been quite a few arrests of people who threatened Obama.

[Cirque du So-What]

13. Rhetoric doesn't sound like anything I've ever heard from a Democrat

or even the farthest of leftists, for that matter (from the TPM link):

During the video NORMAN LEBOON made the following statements:

"My Congressman Eric Cantor, and you and your cupcake evil wife..." "Remember Eric...our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given. You are a liar, you're a Lucifer, you're a pig, a greedy fucking pig, you're an abomination, you receive my bullets in your office, remember they will be placed in your heads. You and your children are Lucifer's abominations."

Aside from the profanity, it sounds like something you'd expect to hear from the born-again taliban who just got rounded up for plotting to kill law enforcement officers. It doesn't make sense, and that's why it's called 'crazy.' Good luck trying to pin this on Democrats, you in the corporate media, RW noise machine & repukes!

[seabeyond]

15. deleted cause after watching video, just nuts and likes no one but gays and lesbians

IF the one on video is this guy.

couldnt watch whole video, so maybe more in there.

backing out of thread and subject

[Posteritatis]

18. Frothing idiocy is independent of political orientation

There's morons everywhere, even if the more vile, threatening, batshit ones are concentrated in one part of the spectrum lately.

[DCKit]

34. We wouldn't be "Teh Left" if we believed in solving our (imaginary) problems with violence.

The MSM can bleat false equivalencies all day, 24/7, but we're Ghandi to their Hitler - and that only enrages the RightWingNuts all the more.

[EFerrari]

14. LeBoon -- is this the same guy?

One of the allegations against Verizon in the lawsuit is made by Philadelphia resident Norman LeBoon, who says after he read of the alleged surveillance of US citizens, he began asking Verizon if his landline communications were being shared. LeBoon says he eventually spoke with “Ellen” in Verizon customer service, who told him, “I can tell you, Mr. LeBoon, that your records have been shared with the government, but that’s between you and me.… They are going to deny it because of national security. The government is denying it and we have to deny it, too. Around here we are saying that Verizon has ‘plausible deniability.’”

http://www.historycommons.org/entity.jsp?entity=norman_leboon_1

ETA: Looks like this guy is Norman Sr. but the accused doesn't use that designation.

[Raksha]

24. Whoa!!! Interesting that he made an allegation against Verizon.

It also occurs to me that the Supreme Court recently came down with an utterly bizarre judgment that there is no constitutional right not to be framed by law enforcement or the government. It could be that Cantor desperately needed a distraction from his previous trumped-up accusations, so he decided to go after a political enemy in his district.

Edited to add: I clicked on a Google search link and had a quick look at the article titles it brought up. It appears the Leboons (father and son) are Islamic extremists and fanatical anti-Zionists. So even if Verizon was eavesdropping on them, it appears there was a credible reason for it.

[EFerrari]

29. I think it was his father, who apparently is one frie short of a happy meal, too.

There's a lot of nutty stuff by Norman "Sr." if you search his name. And then I found this pix page,

"My son Norman LeBoon Jr. by prophetmedhi":

http://www.snapmylife.com/pictures/show/10095587

Caution: I only looked at the front page so if you click beyond that, you're own your own.

[Jackeens]

16. (self delete)

[seabeyond]

19. oooosh, i could only go a minute and half. wow.... nt

[Jackeens]

20. I know, really creepy stuff. I decided to delete it....

...I'm 99% certain it's him, but just in case it's not I thought it wiser to get rid.

[seabeyond]

21. probably. you would at least a person would dress and shower before declaring self mesiah

i mean, jsut to be taken a tad more serious. wearing a robe doesnt cut it, lol

[Jackeens]

27. He looked like me after a late night.

:blush:

[Renew Deal]

17. There's a lot of crazy people in this country.

I'm glad they caught this creep.

[Tom Rinaldo]

22. Contrast DU's reaction to this arrest...

...with Free Republic's reaction to the arrest of the "Christian" extremist militia members who allegedly were plotting to kill police. Cantor is a central political foe of ours but we are quick to condem threats against his life. It's a very different picture from the freepers who are blaming our government for the arrest of those plotting to kill cops.

[LeftishBrit]

25. He sounds nuttier than twenty fruitcakes; glad he was caught before he injured anyone

He also does not sound like a left-winger.

[PCIntern]

26. My staff is surprised he's not a patient fof ours....

they think we treat every nutjob in the Delaware Valley. Some days I'm inclined to agree...

[Jefferson23]

28. This guy Leboon sounds mentally ill. From the official record:

"LEBOON stated he had made over 2,000 videos in which he made threats.
(c) LEBOON further stated that he is the "son of the god of Enoch" and that his father speaks through him. LEBOON stated that Eric Cantor is "pure evil"; will be dead; and that Cantor's family is suffering because of his father's wrath."

There is no mention of the gun incident that took place, or if there is a connection of any kind...or did I miss something?

Cantor and his family are fortunately spared this wacko as a threat to their lives.

[WeDidIt]

31. It's people like this that actually make good on their threats

So kudoes to the feds for taking him off the streets. From what I'm seeing, Leboon was a real danger to Cantor and there's no way in hell I want sto see any violence perpetrated on any Republican.

[Jefferson23]

32. I'm sure we'll learn much more about him, but for now, at least he is

off the streets.

[Jefferson23]

39. So far there seems to be no connection of Leboon the Loon

to the bullet shot near Cantor's office.

snip* Any connection between Leboon and the randomly fired bullet found in Cantor's campaign office in Virginia last week? The feds are making no such connection. Assuming Richmond police are right that the bullet was random, could Leboon have made his video after that incident in Virginia became public? That appears unlikely: Leboon told authorities on Saturday that he made the Cantor video "approximately three days" before. Cantor's press conference announcing the bullet in his office was on Thursday.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/03/what_to_make_of_norman_leboon.php

[Crunchy Frog]

40. I bet he paid the guy to do it. n/t