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Rhode Island man admits threatening to dismember a Harvard professor and eat and rape his remains for speaking for abortion rights and against Trump

Haviland

Federal prosecutors will recommend a 21-month prison sentence for Matthew Haviland, 29, of North Kingstown, who admitted today he sent numerous threatening messages to both a Harvard professor and a department there in which he graphically described how he would kill the professor for writing articles in favor of abortion rights and against President Trump and would bomb the school.

The US Attorney's office in Boston described some of the messages Haviland sent the unidentified professor, which he acknowledged he sent today in agreeing to plead guilty to one count of stalking and two counts of transmitting a threat in interstate commerce

Over the span of several hours on March 10, 2019, Haviland allegedly sent a Massachusetts professor a string of approximately 28 e-mails containing messages that included such threats as, "I will rip every limb from your body and eat it, piece by piece" and "I will bite through your eyeballs while you’re still alive, and I will laugh while you scream." The professor to whom Haviland sent the threat ... has published and spoken in favor of abortion rights, and several of Haviland’s e‑mails made reference to abortion. In two successive e-mails, for example, Haviland allegedly wrote, "You will be held accountable for every f****** baby you murdered through your horrible deception of they are not humans" and "You will have your face ripped off and eaten by me, personally. I will enjoy raping your body after you’re dead. And that will only be the start."

The plea agreement, which must still be approved by a judge in US District Court, does not cover the roughly 114 voice messages he allegedly left over two days in April at a Rhode Island abortion clinic.

According to an affidavit by a detective in the case, which has more details of the messages, the professor, alarmed at the messages, contacted police. Police in North Kingstown, already familiar with Haviland, visited him at home and suggested he stop sending such messages:

Haviland stated that he was only expressing his political views and has no intention of harming himself or anyone else. He admitted that some of his language had been strong. The police recommended that Haviland think about the way his statements would be interpreted by those who read or heard them and Haviland agreed that he would.

At a hearing last month, US Magistrate Judge Jennifer Boal ordered Haviland held pending a trial due to the seriousness of the crimes he allegedly committed, because she did not feel the home confinement his lawyer proposed would help get him help for his mental-health problems he has and because of his "recent history of escalation of maladaptive behaviors in the community."

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Police in North Kingstown, already familiar with Haviland, visited him at home and suggested he stop sending such messages

I'm really hoping that 21 months isn't it, and that the 114 messages he sent to that clinic add another, oh let's say 20 to 30 years. Consecutive.

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...Just sayin'.

"Dude, stop with the eyeball eating shit, okay? You're starting to sound unreasonable."

He's nuts. Period. He's not a typical Trump person, Biden person, Kennedy person. He's not a typical anything. He's just a nut. He needs help. Hopefully, he'll get it.

Oh, BTW...Germany just went south on thirty year notes. https://apnews.com/f7eee4d172864885b246da733803ee6e
I suggest bearer bonds. American bearer bonds. I like the ones with pictures of President Grant on them.

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You're now 4 replies into this thread and seem to be the only one bending over backwards trying to defend your political party and President.

Do you find that happens a lot these days after a mass casualty incident? Or, in this case, when some nutjob shut-in who spends 18hrs a day on InfoWars sends threats to a professor?

And if so, maybe ask yourself why?

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Does it every thread about deranged Trumpsters. Sad, really.

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by how good a job white supremacists do showing us that they're, uh, maybe not as supreme as they'd like us to believe.

Haviland faces a sentence of up to five years in prison, three years of supervised release, a fine of up to $250,000, or twice the gross gain or loss resulting from the offense, whichever is greater, and restitution.

Translation: if your Nazi buddies fund your Kickstarter, you get to pay the victim out of it, and then whatever's left goes to the state. Good luck, asshole!

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https://www.justice.gov/usao-ma/pr/rhode-island-man-agrees-plead-guilty-...

"Those e-mails included the message: “You people are Evil, putrid, and somebody shoudl [sic] BOMB your school for spreading the idea that it’s okay to HATE people because of their race.”"

See? He's anti racist.

Sometimes crazy is just that...crazy. Look, the Grand Coelacanth of the KKK probably doesn't want an eyeball eating lunatic like this near him.

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these Nazi Magagagaga morons pulling a wrench and making an income on the Green New Deal and then we can all forget how sick they are because they will be distracted by other things.

The large psychotic portion of this society can be brought into the fold and social harm greatly reduced. Vote for a Neoliberal like Biden and you can gaurantee years of this Nazi shit to come. Does it make sense? Yes, and I don't like it either. But come on, your portfolio isn't that important and you can vote for Actual Reality for once in yer life

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"Vote for a Neoliberal like Biden and you can gaurantee years of this Nazi shit to come. Does it make sense? Yes, and I don't like it either. But come on, your portfolio isn't that important and you can vote for Actual Reality for once in yer life"

Too bad the one that could actually unseat Trump will be cockblocked out of the fold. Watch what happens to Tulsi Gabbard in the next debate. Will she be there? Did her destruction of Kamala doom her?
Just watch. The Democratic Party will self-immolate before your very eyes. Remember what happened to Bernie before the 2016 election.

My portfolio? It'll survive.

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Um, yeah, nah.

We've lost a generation to technology, it grew as they did and at the time it held the answers to everything "better"

"Why have books when you can have touchscreens?"

"Why have libraries when we have our phones?"

"Why talk to neighbors, friends or our family when we have 4Chan?

Our brains weren't ready for the explosion and a lot of people are legitimately and physically addicted to it.

Unfortunately, you can't just kick technology like a bad Vicodin habit. Even taking out the social media aspect of it, technology is now an essential part of our lives.

It's either gonna kill us or make us stronger.

Idiocracy or Utopia

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You're somewhat wrong. Technology didn't cause this. There have always been crazies out there, they just got a bigger platform on the web and they've become easier to track. Example: see Ted Kaczynski.

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Trump got 2.9 million fewer votes last time and now all these psychos who voted for him last time will be in jail. Oh and half his campaign staff is also in jail. Tired of winning yet, republican felons?

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i’m sure he didn’t REALLY mean he’d dismember and eat another human being, right? RIGHT?

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I'm thinking it's a bit over the edge, but who am I to judge? Technically speaking, a decent lawyer would be able to get him off the rape charge and plead it down to desecration of a corpse or something.
You want real cannibalism? Watch the Democratic Party in the next couple of months.

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You want real cannibalism? Watch the Democratic Party in the next couple of months.

oh wow good one. of course, by “real cannibalism” you mean “figurative cannibalism” — as opposed to this guy who was talking about dismembering and eating a guy for being liberal.

but yeah totally the same! dems are just as bad, or something.

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I am sure that his Rorschach tests are pretty much. " I see Biden taking away my liberty" "I see Warren and Sanders being bad"......

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dude.

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i’m aware of what passes for a joke in conservative circles. i even said “good one” in my reply.

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Pretty sure it was a joke

Consider the source.

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need not to let minuscule details that look like successes, (Mueller report, etc) put them off track of how deep a shit we are actually in. the magagagagas are the resentment-marinated empty psychotic core of life. liberals need to stop being elitist and start becoming Really Elitist. This country is inhabited by millions of murderous white primates who are ready to turn ole USA on to human miseries never before experienced on as wide a scale and with such stilted pearl-clutching 24/7 media coverage. the magagagas can not be really educated--come off that trip while you still can. neoliberal policies sold out public education to the bullshit zeitgeist promises of Bill Gates et al, and your communities cut comprehensive programs like Auto Shop in favor of buying computers to begin teaching "Internet", and Power Point. Well, now that the Internet has shown you the souls and the quality of mind of your average magagaga next door, how you like it? maybe your grandkids learned power point and Internet and now are married and have a mortgage? That is not what most Americans are going to be able to do--they cannot work with information unless it is to spread primitive hatreds. They need to pull a wrench so they can have the smallest bit of self-esteem while keeping their endlessly destructive mental illness to themselves. Sure, they can get help--if they ask for it. Kindly old-ass liberals, don't fuck this up--you get one chance at this--don't fuck it up. Stop thinking that liberal institutions are going to bail us out. They won't. You are going to have to vote for real change to get this country back on track. A vote for your portfolio means you don't really give a fuck what happens to the USA.

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To understand how we got here:

  1. Chip Berlet on how the Right mobilized (and manufactured) resentment
  2. Chris Hedges on how fascism happened and how to fight it
  3. Nancy MacLean on the origins of right-wing power

All long all very thinky and all absolutely worth a listen.

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someone pointed out that "Rhode Island Man" is New England's "Florida Man".

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Yikes. ‘Nuff sed. Magoo.

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