Republican Trust Fund Baby Threatens To Murder Jim McDermott: "I'll Round Them Up, I'll Kill Them, I'll Kill His Friends, I'll Kill His Family..."

Right-wing terrorist Charles Habermann threatened to kill her too

Demented apologists-- some of whom like Limbaugh, Beck and Palin go beyond mere apologists and into the realm of inciters-- for right-wing terrorist and assassin Jared Loughner claim their incendiary words don't matter. Many in the Republican Party's congressional delegation, from Virginia Foxx (R-VA), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Trent Franks (R-AZ), Paul Broun (R-GA), Rand Paul (R-KY) and Allen West (R-FL) to more ostensibly respectable figures like Lamar Alexander (R-TN) are frantic to deny that Loughner's mindset is rooted in the basic tenets of the American Right and refuse to acknowledge a report by the Secret Service blaming Palin's hate-mongering for a huge uptick in violent threats against President Obama.

Sarah Palin's attacks on Barack Obama's patriotism provoked a spike in death threats against the future president, Secret Service agents revealed during the final weeks of the campaign.

The Republican vice presidential candidate attracted criticism for accusing Mr Obama of "palling around with terrorists," citing his association with the sixties radical William Ayers.

The attacks provoked a near lynch mob atmosphere at her rallies, with supporters yelling "terrorist" and "kill him" until the McCain campaign ordered her to tone down the rhetoric.

But it has now emerged that her demagogic tone may have unintentionally encouraged white supremacists to go even further.

The Secret Service warned the Obama family in mid October that they had seen a dramatic increase in the number of threats against the Democratic candidate, coinciding with Mrs Palin's attacks.

Michelle Obama, the future First Lady, was so upset that she turned to her friend and campaign adviser Valerie Jarrett and said: "Why would they try to make people hate us?"

Incendiary Limbaugh billboard in Tucson, right near the crime scene

It's made trashy sociopaths like Limbaugh, Beck, Palin, Hannity and O'Reilly-- none of whom ever had very promising futures-- into multimillionaires. Simple as that. All amplified by Hate Talk Radio and Fox. And Loughner is hardly the only deranged soul feeling permission from these hate-filled public figures. Enter stage right: millionaire trust fund baby Charles Turner Habermann of Riverside, California. Habermann, 32, of Palm Springs, was arrested yesterday for threatening to kill Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA).

According to the criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle, Habermann left two threatening, expletive-filled voicemail messages at the Seattle office of McDermott on December 10.

In the first message, according to the complaint, Habermann called McDermott, a Democrat, "disgusting, filthy, murderous" and a criminal and threatens to kill him if he ever "f---s around with my money."

In the second message, Habermann said, among other things, that he will "hunt that guy down and I'll f---ing get rid of him."

Habermann was scheduled to make an initial court appearance on the charges on Wednesday afternoon and could face ten years in prison if convicted.

Habermann also threatened to kill Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and is under investigation for making threats against California Assemblyman Manny Perez. Perez, Pingree and McDermott are all progressives who have been singled out for hateful rants by demented right-wing Hate Talk Radio hosts. Habermann has told the FBI that he was drunk and/or stoned when he made the threatening calls. According to the transcript of one call, Habermann said, "He advocates stealing people's money to give it to losers... That is what a majority of the Democratic Party engage in every day of every week of every fucking year because they're scum bags. They are disgusting filthy scum bags. And you let that fucking scum bag know, that if he ever fucks around with my money, ever the fuck again, I'll fucking kill him, okay. I'll round them up, I'll kill them, I'll kill his friends, I'll kill his family, I will kill everybody he fucking knows..." Here's the first transcript:


And here's the second one, also from December 10, just after midnight:


Would it surprise you to know he brags about hating Latinos and being as angry as Limbaugh that his tax dollars would go for health care for people whose parents didn't establish trust funds for them the way his did for him? I can't wait to hear how Palin and Beck explain how this has nothing to do with the Republicans or their hate rhetoric.


UPDATE: Rich People Don't Rot In Jail, They Post Bail

Habermann's family posted a $300,000 bond for his bail and he's out again, though on house arrest with electronic monitoring. In the calls to McDermott and Pingree and his visit to Pérez's office in March (at which time he went into a racist Hate Talk Radio-type rant and was escorted out), he made it clear he was worked up over the Democratic officials' positions on health care, immigration and the tax cut extension for the wealthy. But Republicans and Fox hosts will, of course, claim he was just a lone nut and that it isn't political. I mean it isn't as though he were a Republican candidate for Congress or president-- even if he does sound just like half of them!

Habermann appears to have been directly influenced not just by pot and booze but by something far worse: the bloody, incendiary hate ramblings of Fox's Bill O'Reilly. Every advertiser of O'Reilly's show is guilty for bankrolling that hatred. Dave Neiwert reminds us that the bizarre Bill O'Reilly column attacking McDermott for daring to suggest (while discussing whether to extend the Bush tax cuts) that Jesus might have been more concerned about helping the poor get their unemployment checks than he would in ensuring rich guys get their tax cuts, was published on THE SAME DAY Habermann unleashed his death threats against McDermott. What a coincidence. Again, who advertises on O'Reilly's show and bankrolls Fox's war against America?