Ex-candidate charged with making threats in Ind.

[proud2BlibKansan]

INDIANAPOLIS – An Indiana woman who ran unsuccessfully for U.S. Congress last year was being held Saturday on charges she made threats against judges and other officials on her Facebook account.

Morgan County Prosecutor Steve Sonnega — who said he was among those targeted — said he decided to move quickly after discovering the threats in part due to last week's shootings in Arizona that wounded U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others.

"I think the Arizona situation drove more to the sense of urgency," Sonnega told The Associated Press.

Cheryl Allen, 51, of Martinsville was being held on $100,000 bond Saturday in a jail in her hometown, about 28 miles south of Indianapolis. State police arrested her on eight felony counts of intimidation on Thursday, the same day authorities discovered the postings, which were apparently published on her page three days earlier.

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[BeyondGeography]

1. Republican

Shocking.

[kestrel91316]

2. Would the prosecutor have moved so quickly if HE HIMSELF had not been

threatened? Because generally IOKIYAR.

[proud2BlibKansan]

3. I think you know the answer to that

[justiceischeap]

4. I think we're going to see a rash of these arrests over the coming months

All politicians are scared shitless about what happened to Giffords, because, after all, it could happen to them too. They'll start taking these threats more seriously. So careful what you say.

But you're probably right, had his name not been mentioned, the wheels of justice probably would have been a lot slower.