We Need To Make A Point That This Will Not Be Tolerated

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We need more arrests like this!

Maryland man charged with threatening phone call to LGBTQ group after Nashville shooting
UPI
By Sheri Walsh
April 5, 2023

A Maryland man has been charged with making a threatening phone call to an LGBTQ advocacy group in reference to last month's deadly shooting at a Nashville elementary school.

The Justice Department announced the federal criminal complaint Tuesday against Adam Michael Nettina. The 34-year-old from West Friendship made an initial appearance in U.S. District Court in Baltimore on Monday. He was charged with interstate communications with a threat to injure.

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According to court documents, the voicemail left for the group of LGBTQ advocates included numerous threats, including "... We'll cut your throats. We'll put a bullet in your head... You're going to kill us? We're going to kill you 10 times more in full."

We need more “perp walks” showing that you cannot make threats without paying for it legally.

WUSA9 reported that…

A Howard County man threatened to “slaughter” members of a prominent LGBTQ+ rights organization in an apparent response to the mass shooting at a Christian school in Tennessee last week, according to charging documents unsealed Monday.

Adam Michael Nettina, of West Friendship, Maryland, was charged Monday with one felony count of interstate communications with a threat to injure. The charge carries a maximum sentence of up to five years in prison.

If you threaten us, that is a bias crime!

If you use a phone or mail or cross state lines, that is a federal crime!

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Update: 4:45PM

WUSA9 updated their story...

According to an affidavit, on the morning of March 28, Nettina left a threatening voice mail at the D.C. office of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBTQ+ civil rights organization in the United States. The call came just one day after six people, including three children, were killed in a shooting at The Covenant School – a private Christian school in Nashville, Tennessee. 

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The Human Rights Campaign told WUSA9 the organization had received two threatening voicemails late last month and had just learned about Nettina's arrest this week.

“The LGBTQ+ community is under attack in statehouses across the country and on social media platforms. This violent, hateful rhetoric leads to stigma, and stigma leads to physical violence," Human Rights Campaign spokesperson Elizabeth Bibi told WUSA9 in a statement. "As we see radical politicians sow hate and fear with anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric, we have seen the physical threats to our community multiply – from armed men at Pride parades, to threats of violence against local drag shows at libraries, to bomb threats at children’s hospitals, to the continued rise in fatal violence against members of our community, especially Black transgender women.  

Now get a load if this what she wrote back in 2016 about the Pulse nightclub.

Nettina’s articles for CatholicVote include a June 2016 piece in response to the fatal shooting of 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando titled “We Have Nothing to Apologize For” and a piece published Thursday about the resignation of Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs’ press secretary titled “Democrat Spokeswoman Resigns After Inciting Violence.” 

The article included a section titled “’Trans’ Radicalization is Growing” which warned about the purported risk of violence from the April 1 “Trans Day of Vengeance” – a hyperbolically named annual event near the Supreme Court meant to raise awareness for transgender issues. The event was canceled last week after organizers said they received a credible threat of gun violence.

Both articles were removed from CatholicVote’s site shortly after WUSA9 reached out for comment Tuesday, although they remained available on the Internet Archive.

The CatholicVote wrote...

"CatholicVote is deeply saddened to learn of this troubling incident,” CatholicVote told WUSA9 in a statement Tuesday afternoon. “We have zero tolerance for threats of violence from any employee or independent contractor. We have terminated this individual’s independent contractor agreement and the few articles that he produced have been removed from our website."

Um... a question for the CatholicVote. Why now? Why did you allow it published in the first place? When the article incited violence you seemed to have no problem with the tone of the article when it was published. Now that you got your hand caught in the cookie jar with the vengeful article you pull it.