Wingnut + Email + Threat to President = Arrest

Repeat email-threat offender apprehended after threatening president and his family

By JACKSON WEST

Updated 1:45 PM PST, Thu, Oct 15, 2009

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Obama may worry about being embarrassed by radical leftists, but only right-wing nutjobs actually want the man dead.

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Late last month, Crescent City's John Gimble sent an email describing his plan to brutally murder President Barack Obama's wife and children before finishing with the president himself and then desecrating the corpse with a felt tip marker.

On Tuesday, after an investigation by the Secret Service, Gimble was indicted for threatening the president and is currently in custody.

Authorities have not revealed to whom the email was sent, but if it was president@whitehouse.gov, man, how collossaly stupid would that have been?

Then again, Gimble has a history of collossaly stupid behavior, from leaving vulgar messages on a Del Norte County sherriff's answering machine to calling for a posse to hunt down and kill Crescent City's police chief.

Over a citation for a broken taillight and a five dollar parking ticket, respectively.

"He probably could stand to benefit from some therapy," quipped attorney John Vrieze, who represented the county in the two previous cases, to the <em>San Francisco Chronicle</em>.

Jackson West has to hand it to the guy for not making any effort to hide behind online anonymity, at least.