Professor Rat threatens conformists safety

[Steven Schear]

"Threats are illogical."
~ Sarek of Vulcan

On Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 11:48 AM professor rat <pro2rat at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> Ohio police are investigating alleged threats posted to the website of a
> journalists' collective, directed against Steven Roach, the policeman whose
> shooting of an unarmed black man led to riots.
> "The recipients of the threats have no way to discern their validity,"
> said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office. "They cause
> fear and they disrupt lives, and it's for
> that reason that they're taken very seriously.
> "It's more than the individual targets. It's the families and those
> associated with them," he
> said.
> An anarchist using the online moniker "Professor Rat" has
> threatened the lives of two federal terrorism investigators in Denver,
> advocating that they "need killing."
>  Professor Rat also has threatened a
> University of Ottawa law professor, a columnist for The Boston Globe and a
> Cincinnati police officer.
>
> Many of those threats were posted to a listserv called Cypherpunks.
>
> The threats name an FBI agent assigned to the local multiagency Joint
> Terrorism Task Force and the government's lead prosecutor of terrorism
> cases in Colorado.
> The posts made by Professor Rat fall under a relatively new category of
> crime known as "cyberstalking," said Jim Doyle, a retired New York City
> police sergeant who now works as a cybercrimes consultant for a Connecticut
> company called Internet Crimes.
>
> The statements made by Professor Rat constitute prosecutable offenses, he
> said.
>
> "The bottom line is what the victim feels," he said. "Is the victim
> threatened? Is the victim alarmed? Hey, that's a crime."
>
> Eugene Volokh, a law professor at the University of California-Los Angeles
> and a First
> Amendment specialist, said the threats were probably criminal. . . "
>
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