US Expat in Thailand Faces 10 Years for Threatening US Senator

[renaissanc]

The expat sounds like a run-of-the-mill, unhinged sufferer of Trump Derangement Syndrome. I'll bet he has a TrueVision TV package with CNN, MSDNC, ABC, etc.

[WDSmart]

I do not support the US making any rulings on anyone for their views, BUT... if there were actual threats involved, I do support rulings in that case.

[brewsterbudgen]

Update:  Some serious backtracking going on!

 

"Chairman of the House Committee on Military Affairs Wiroj Lakkhanaadisorn (People's Party) said on Friday the Third Army Region may not have been careful in lodging a lese majeste complaint with police which led to the arrest and brief detention of American scholar Paul Chambers earlier this week.
He said the matter may affect bilateral ties with an important nation that has a huge trade relations with Thailand at a critical junction when it's not even apparent what alleged royal insult Chambers had committed. The committee is thus summoning generals from the Third Army Region to clarify to the committee on April 24." (Khaosod)

[kingstonkid]

14 hours ago, Gsxrnz said:

So this guy gets unsolicited emails from a Republican senator's office (probably espousing foul right-wing ideology about there only being two genders, or taking pornography out of schools, or seeking a donation), and this nut job decides that offing the entire Senate is the solution.

 

I wonder what his forum handle is? 

 

 

Bob_Smith   LOL🤣

[JOE BAMA]

I guess the "pornography' question depends on how you define "pornography."  Dictionary.com defines it as "sexually explicit videos, photographs, writings, or the like, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal."   https://www.dictionary.com/browse/pornography          There seem to be lots of other "definitions" floating around.  A lot of people seem to use words the same way that other people who hold the same beliefs as they do, without actually bothering to locate the real meaning.  Ignorance is a contagious social disease, and it's rampant in the U.S. 

[Sig]

7 minutes ago, Thingamabob said:

Good question. When I was a kid at school in the late 1940s/early 1950s black and white, postcard size porn  pics imported from France were widely circulated. The idea that youngsters have only recently become exposed to porn is nonsense.

Interesting. Thanks for enlightening me. I had never heard before that the schools circulated pornography to the school children before, as they do now and even assign homework with pornographic books to children. I guess I hadn't kept up with the reality of the situation in thinking that school districts in the past didn't impose pornographic materials into the curricula making it, in some cases, required reading of the students, as some school districts have been revealed to have been doing lately. But, even if school officials or teachers widely circulated pornographic postcard sized pics to students in the 40's and 50's, I think you'll find that there is a MASSIVE difference between that and the pornography that the teachers and school districts have assigned to schools these days, with very explicitly graphic stories, with pictures. In particular, they prefer to promote homosexual pornography and to even explicitly encourage the students to explore for themselves what they are learning in the assigned homework. The kind of stuff you mention from the 40's and 50's is like kindergarten level compared to post grad university level pornography. Although, I admit that I had not heard of schools widely circulating pornography to their students in the 40's and 50's, I have EXTREME doubts that it bore any resemblance to the kind of pornography being assigned to students in these recent times.
Sorry to say that I also doubt your version of events, unless you are meaning to say that kids got their hands on these pictures and passed them among themselves, that it wasn't from the schools. Of course, that sort of thing has likely been going on for millennia. But that isn't the issue and nobody is arguing or doubting that. That's why I took it that you were comparing apples to apples and meant that pornography was being distributed by the schools back then too and not making a vain attempt to compare apples to oranges.

[johng]

6 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Update:  Some serious backtracking going on!

 

Thanks but that's a different case.

[pomchop]

47 minutes ago, Wake Up1 said:

Sounds like the type of guy who wears a MAGA costume and breaks into the capital threatening police officers and the life of the Vice President and house Speaker. 😉

 

Should he should expect a pardon and restitution after his arrest and trial. 😎

 

 

Tillis has recently dared to question a few of trumps actions like tariffs...very meekly not to upset too many...but already tillis is apparently receiving all sorts of vile threats from maga in NC for having the audacity to speak the truth or at least attempt to display a tiny bit of a backbone....so now lets be sure and follow up on all those threats as well.  No worries though as long as threats from maga are all subject to pardons.

[pomchop]

maga goons?  did they get arrested?

 

Hegseth’s confirmation ultimately did not come down to Ernst. Instead, the final holdout was Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), who, like Ernst, is up for re-election in less than two years. According to a blow by blow Politico account, Tillis received inside pressure from Trump and his allies as well as from online “MAGA goons.” After 24-hours of defiance, Tillis caved. According to Vanity Fair, as Tillis was deciding, he faced serious threats of violence: “Tillis told people that the FBI warned him about ‘credible death threats’ when he was considering voting against Pete Hegseth’s nomination for defense secretary.” 

[Thingamabob]

16 minutes ago, Sig said:

Interesting. Thanks for enlightening me. I had never heard before that the schools circulated pornography to the school children before, as they do now and even assign homework with pornographic books to children. I guess I hadn't kept up with the reality of the situation in thinking that school districts in the past didn't impose pornographic materials into the curricula making it, in some cases, required reading of the students, as some school districts have been revealed to have been doing lately. But, even if school officials or teachers widely circulated pornographic postcard sized pics to students in the 40's and 50's, I think you'll find that there is a MASSIVE difference between that and the pornography that the teachers and school districts have assigned to schools these days, with very explicitly graphic stories, with pictures. In particular, they prefer to promote homosexual pornography and to even explicitly encourage the students to explore for themselves what they are learning in the assigned homework. The kind of stuff you mention from the 40's and 50's is like kindergarten level compared to post grad university level pornography. Although, I admit that I had not heard of schools widely circulating pornography to their students in the 40's and 50's, I have EXTREME doubts that it bore any resemblance to the kind of pornography being assigned to students in these recent times.
Sorry to say that I also doubt your version of events, unless you are meaning to say that kids got their hands on these pictures and passed them among themselves, that it wasn't from the schools. Of course, that sort of thing has likely been going on for millennia. But that isn't the issue and nobody is arguing or doubting that. That's why I took it that you were comparing apples to apples and meant that pornography was being distributed by the schools back then too and not making a vain attempt to compare apples to oranges.

You have managed to totally distort the issue. It was not the schools circulating porn, it was the pupils. Next time engage brain before opening mouth.

[brewsterbudgen]

19 minutes ago, johng said:

 

Thanks but that's a different case.

Sorry about that.  My bad!

[Jonathan Swift]

16 hours ago, johng said:

 

Sounds like a deranged nutcase to me.

Nah, just an American with 2nd amendment rights. There are a lot like him. 

[Wrwest]

11 hours ago, VillageIdiot said:

Easy-does-it Felton.

Control yourself or they will be coming after you next.

Went to hit the "laugh" meme but ... well, I am American and I have been critical of Trump and his Project 2025. I even have gone as far as the Trump Executive Order against two other Americans having declared that the 2020 election was secure and fair. Cautious times on the basis on documented actions being taken by trump ...

[impulse]

30 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

Sorry about that.  My bad!

Don't apologize.  It was good info.

 

[Cabradelmar]

Wow. Over emails 😂 honestly, I'm just glad he's no longer in Thailand #dolt #unhinged 

[riverhigh]

1 hour ago, proton said:

 

I'd bet he lives in Pattaya anyway

I bet otherwise. Pattaya is the Monte-Carlo of South East Asia, a family resort that only attracts the welthiest of tourists, No nut-jobs here in Pattayadise, just fun-loving tourists looking for sunshine and world class beaches. If you don't beleive me, read the unbiased and fact-checked brochure from the Thailand Authority of Tourism.

[SMIAI]

 

[ignore it]

2 hours ago, Aviatorhi said:

America has a democratic system? I think their justice department just perjured itself. 

Again

[impulse]

2 minutes ago, riverhigh said:

I bet otherwise. Pattaya is the Monte-Carlo of South East Asia, a family resort that only attracts the welthiest of tourists, No nut-jobs here in Pattayadise, just fun-loving tourists looking for sunshine and world class beaches. If you don't beleive me, read the unbiased and fact-checked brochure from the Thailand Authority of Tourism.

 

You should do a TV commercial on that. 

 

I was almost in tears the first time I went to Pattaya thinking I was going to an exotic, unspoiled beach for a golf tournament.  I grew to like the place (well, Jomtien) but it was a shock the first time, especially with Friday traffic.

 

[Packer]

17 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

prompted by dissatisfaction over unsolicited emails.

 

I've around 30,000 unread emails. I hope none are from him. 

[jvs]

1 hour ago, Sig said:

Interesting. Thanks for enlightening me. I had never heard before that the schools circulated pornography to the school children before, as they do now and even assign homework with pornographic books to children. I guess I hadn't kept up with the reality of the situation in thinking that school districts in the past didn't impose pornographic materials into the curricula making it, in some cases, required reading of the students, as some school districts have been revealed to have been doing lately. But, even if school officials or teachers widely circulated pornographic postcard sized pics to students in the 40's and 50's, I think you'll find that there is a MASSIVE difference between that and the pornography that the teachers and school districts have assigned to schools these days, with very explicitly graphic stories, with pictures. In particular, they prefer to promote homosexual pornography and to even explicitly encourage the students to explore for themselves what they are learning in the assigned homework. The kind of stuff you mention from the 40's and 50's is like kindergarten level compared to post grad university level pornography. Although, I admit that I had not heard of schools widely circulating pornography to their students in the 40's and 50's, I have EXTREME doubts that it bore any resemblance to the kind of pornography being assigned to students in these recent times.
Sorry to say that I also doubt your version of events, unless you are meaning to say that kids got their hands on these pictures and passed them among themselves, that it wasn't from the schools. Of course, that sort of thing has likely been going on for millennia. But that isn't the issue and nobody is arguing or doubting that. That's why I took it that you were comparing apples to apples and meant that pornography was being distributed by the schools back then too and not making a vain attempt to compare apples to oranges.

Genesis 19:30-36.

[ignore it]

The Republicans do have an aggressive email system. 

 

I sometimes get 20+ in a day.  There from everybody.  

 

Its not too bad.  At least Trump is offering flags,mugs, photos etc, but an email from some local politician running for dog catcher in El Paso promising to help make America safe again from illegal immigrant dogs is a bit much. 

 

I block the senders but new ones from the blocked ones go into spam. When I get a "blocked" again, I report them as Phishing.

 

Now if the wannabe dog catcher had an interesting t-shirt on offer I might be interested.

 

So much for sending Trump $5 the first time he ran.

[Felton Jarvis]

12 hours ago, NoDisplayName said:

AH, old news.

He was arrested two years ago when he flew in to Atlanta.

 

Expatriate Charged with Making Multiple Threats to Kill U.S. Senator and U.S. Marines   Tuesday, May 30, 2023

 

RALEIGH , N.C. – Eric Charles Welton, an American citizen living in Thailand, was arrested last Thursday on a criminal complaint charging that he threatened a U.S. senator and members of their staff in September of 2021. He is also alleged to have made threats against U.S. Marines and others working the U.S. Consulate in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in late 2022.  Welton was arrested at the Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International Airport as he returned to the United States from overseas by FBI Charlotte and FBI Atlanta Special Agents.

 

https://www.justice.gov/usao-ednc/pr/expatriate-charged-making-multiple-threats-kill-us-senator-and-us-marines

What was the outcome and sentencing on this case???

[oslooskar]

2 hours ago, Aviatorhi said:

I think their justice department just perjured itself. 

 

The Department of Justice has proven to me that they are worthless when it comes to protecting the rights of the little guy.

[impulse]

14 minutes ago, Felton Jarvis said:

What was the outcome and sentencing on this case???

 

From the OP:  His sentencing is set for July, where he could face a substantial prison term for his actions.

[kiwikeith]

16 hours ago, jvs said:

How do you take pornography out of schools?

Ban cell phones and only use school computers, Just young kids and this is happening in NZ, in 12 year old classes, one kid opened a porn site on a laptop and stripped off and danced while the other kids watched and laughed.

The kid that stripped was a great young man and only stripped to his undies it was him having a joke the other kids were all running around dancing, the boy was expelled , My son was his friend and I knew his dad and family for years they were just young kids joking.

My son said kids can watch porn on their cell phones at school smoke dope and vape and now even the young kids are doing this, it's happening allover the world , the world is crazy at present.

[Gknrd]

It's one thing to call them names and such , but threaten to kill them is a different story. 

 

[Walker88]

16 hours ago, ukrules said:

 

There's a lot of that about recently, I note that this Senator is a Republican which tells us a lot about the unhinged one making the threats.

No, it does not.

 

Sen Tillis is one of the few R Senators who is not a MAGA sycophant. It is just as likely the lunatic was a MAGA.

 

Last week, in a confirmation Hearing for the new Trade Rep, Sen Tillis asked nominee Greer about the flip flop on tariffs and what the actual intent is. Greer gave the silly MAGA response, to which Tillis replied: "I just want to know who to choke if this fails."

[koele2]

Too bad he didn’t act on it.  Those emails and phone calls never stop.  Maybe if it happened, those annoying spam would stop.  The politicians might get off their butt and stop the junk sent to us to save their necks.  It’s worth a US senator if we all stopped getting spam.  Senators grow like weeds.

[NanLaew]

18 hours ago, johng said:

 

Sounds like a deranged nutcase to me.

 

Nah....Senator Tillis is many things, but he's not that.