Man Charged With Threatening Top Republican, Rep. Eric Cantor

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A Philadelphia man has been charged after allegedly threatening the life of Rep. Eric Cantor, the second-ranking Republican in the House. U.S. Attorney Zane David Memeger said that 38-year-old Norman LaBoon has been charged with two counts of threatening an official of the United States and with transmitting in interstate commerce a threatening communication, according to the The Philadelphia Inquirer.

The FBI arrested LaBoon in March after receiving a copy of a YouTube video in which LaBoon made threats about Cantor. Officials tracked the I.P. address to a computer in Philadelphia used by LaBoon, who had previously been arrested for making terrorist threats. When the FBI detained and questioned LaBoon, he told agents that Cantor "will be dead."

According to the FBI, the suspect recorded the video by himself by using his cellphone. In it, he is seen calling Cantor "a liar, a Lucifer and a pig," and saying, "Remember Eric . . . our judgment time, the final Yom Kippur has been given." LaBoon also refers to Cantor's "cupcake evil wife," and ends by saying, "You and your children are Lucifer's abominations."

A month before LaBoon was arrested, Cantor told reporters that a bullet had been shot through the window of his campaign office in Richmond, Va., as the Congress debated health care reform.

"I have received threats since I have assumed elected office, not only because of my position, but because I am Jewish," Cantor said.

In LaBoon's video, he says, "You receive my bullets in your office" and warned that Cantor would be shot in the future.

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mcgowann

Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan and Kevin McCarthy are young, smart, fiscal conservatives who have been pushing for a balanced budget and reducing the National Debt. This guy threatening him doesn't understand that we need more like Eric Cantor and fewer career politicians who have been corrupted by lobbyist and special interests.

October 22 2010 at 8:35 PM Report abuse Permalink +1 rate up rate down Reply