Cypherpunk list subscriber "threatening" Feds
professor rat
pro2rat at yahoo.com.au
Wed Dec 21 01:18:51 PST 2022
Don't hate the FBIÂ - KILL the FBI
An anarchist using the online moniker âProfessor Ratâ has threatened the lives of two federal terrorism investigators in Denver, advocating that they âneed killing.â The threats name an FBI agent assigned to the local multiagency Joint Terrorism Task Force and the governmentâs lead prosecutor of terrorism cases in Colorado.
Officials say they are concerned about the threats, which were sent to an e-mail listserv and posted on the Internet in April.
âThe recipients of the threats have no way to discern their validity,â said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. attorneyâs office. "They cause fear and they disrupt lives, and itâs for that reason that theyâre taken very seriously.
âItâs more than the individual targets. Itâs the families and those associated with them,â he said.
That is the purpose of the postings, an Australian man who admits to using the Professor Rat name and to posting these kinds of threats said in a telephone interview and a series of e-mails: To scare people out of working for the government.
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