Hypothetical question about when people are arrested for making threats vs Gov't officials.
Latest one today, the PA guy threatening the Governor.
But since I'm not an attorney... what's required to make the indictment? To charge the individual with a crime?
Is ability to carry out the crime a consideration?
If a 92 year old man in a wheelchair threatens to beat up someone, maybe "The Rock", is it a chargeable offense?
What is someone scribbles on a piece of paper with tanks and rockets striking someone's house?
Or laser beams?
What if someone threatens to build a gigawatt laser and fly it in a drone (lol... physics) and zap someone...
Is that an offense?
How about voodoo dolls? A crime? If you livestream it on FB?
See where I'm going?
Does a prosecutor have to prove INTENT and ABILITY to commit the crime?
Or even the possibility for harm or lack thereof?
I DO know that the SS interviewed quite a few people during Shrub and Obama and usually asked 2-3 questions then left without a second thought... the stories were out there...