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LAS
VEGAS - A man accused of threatening a Nevada Republican Party official
with a rifle was arrested Tuesday in a vehicle in which police found
swords, knives, a shotgun, shells and a flare gun, authorities said.
Zachary Moyle, executive director of the state GOP, told The Associated
Press on Tuesday that Matthew Hunter Kramer, 31 invited him to
look at something in the trunk of his Mercedes before pulling out a
rifle, pointing it at his face and warning that he would be back if
President Bush vetoed an emergency war spending bill being considered
by Congress.
Kramer also removed photos of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from
the wall of the office and threatened to harm staff members, Moyle
said. Kramer left his cell phone number with office staff before
leaving, police said.
He is charged with criminal syndicalism, assault with a deadly weapon
and aiming a firearm at a person, police Officer Martin Wright said.
Criminal syndicalism makes it a crime to advocate sabotage, violence or
terrorism to accomplish industrial or political reform, said Ron
Bloxham, a Clark County prosecutor. It carries a maximum sentence of
six years in prison. [Man arrested in threat on GOP official]
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Never heard of ''criminal
syndicalism,'' before, so I looked it up. First, though, I am
suspicious of why this obscure law was invoked, and not plain old
criminal trespass, brandishing a weapon, assault, and being a
democrat? The vagueness of criminal syndicalism, as
it's defined here, seemed to me a camel's nose under the
tent. So too, evidently, did the august Warren Court. (Did I say that?)
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Accordingly, we are here confronted with a statute which, by its own
words and as applied, purports to punish mere advocacy and to forbid,
on pain of criminal punishment, assembly with others merely to advocate
the described type of action. Such a statute falls within the
condemnation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments. The contrary
teaching of Whitney v. California, cannot be supported, and that
decision is therefore overruled. -
BRANDENBURG v. OHIO
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Another question is begged. Isn't Nevada a "carry" state?
Why wasn't Kramer shot dead by about 50 people the second he
pulled that gun? Did we learn nothing from that other
fiend Cho?
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