Man Charged With Threatening to Kill Rep. Eric Cantor

A 38-year-old Pennsylvania man has been charged with threatening to kill U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) after admitting to the FBI that he uploaded a video to YouTube making direct threats against the congressman and his family.

According to an affidavit filed in the case by the FBI, Norman Laboon recorded the video with his cell phone last week and uploaded it to YouTube several days later. In the video, Laboon is clearly identifiable and calls Cantor "a liar, a Lucifer and a pig." He also refers to Cantor's "cupcake evil wife," and ends by saying, "You and your children are Lucifer's abominations."

After receiving a copy of the video last week, federal authorities contacted Google, which owns YouTube, and eventually tracked the video to a computer in Philadelphia used by Laboon, who had an outstanding warrant for making terrorist threats.

When the FBI detained and questioned Laboon on Saturday, he again said that Cantor "will be dead."

Cantor revealed last week that a bullet had been shot through the window of his Richmond campaign office, but local Richmond authorities said at the time that the bullet casing found near Cantor's office was not shot directly at the congressman's office. In Laboon's video, he says, "You receive my bullets in your office" and warned that Cantor would be shot in the future.

Cantor's spokesman, Brad Dayspring, said that Cantor was notified of the threat and the arrest over the weekend. But even before that, Cantor made an announcement on Capitol Hill last week that like more than a dozen Democrats receiving threats and harassment since the health care vote, he, too, had been threatened in the past.

"I've received threats since I assumed elected office, not only because of my position but also because I'm Jewish,'' Cantor said last Thursday. "I've never blamed anyone in this body for that, period. Any suggestion that a leader in this body would incite threats or acts against other members is akin to saying that I would endanger myself, my wife or my children."