An Angry Individual

Found Poem #2/An Angry Individual

Federal agents on Tuesday
arrested and charged a man
with threatening to kill Senator Patty Murray,
Democrat of Washington,
because he was angry about her vote
in favor of
the major health care legislation.

The man, Charles A. Wilson, 64,
of Selah, Washington
made a series of threatening phone calls
to Senator Murray’s Seattle office
between March 22 — the day after Congress
approved the health care law — and April 4,
including a recorded message
in which he said, “I want to kill you.”

“There’s a target on your back now,”
Mr. Wilson said.

“There are many people out there
that want you dead.
It takes only one piece of lead.
Kill the f—king senator!
Kill the f—king senator!
I’ll donate the lead.”

In one message, Mr. Wilson also
allegedly stated,
“I hope somebody kills President Obama.”

Special Agent Frederick Gutt,
a spokesman for the F.B.I. in Seattle,
said that Mr. Wilson
did not appear
to have any prior criminal record
and seemed to have acted
on his own.
“By all accounts,
this is an angry individual,”
he said.


Source: The New York Times, April 7, 2010.