Woman charged with threatening Wisconsin lawmakers

[Bozita]

Source: CBS News

April 1, 2011 10:27 AM
Woman charged with threatening Wisconsin lawmakers
Posted by Lucy Madison
Updated: 12:13 p.m. EST


A 26-year-old woman is being charged with allegedly sending email threats to a handful of Wisconsin lawmakers during the state's contentious battle over collective bargaining rights earlier this month.

The woman, Katherine Windels, is being charged with two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts, for sending computer messages threatening injury or harm, and for propagating bomb scares.

According to a criminal complaint filed in the Dane County Circuit Court, Windels, under the alias "Lisa Patterson," first sent threatening emails to State Senator Robert Cowles on March 9, stating that "Because of your actions today and in t=e past couple of weeks I and the group of people that are working with me =ave decided that we've had enough. We feel that you and your republica= dictators have to die." (Spelling errors appear as in original complaint provided to CBSNews.com.)

The email went on to outline a plan that involved "arriving at your house and=putting a nice little bullet in your head," as well as planting bombs "in various locations around =he areas in which we know that you frequent" - such as "your house, yo=r car, the state capitol, and well I won't tell you all of them becaus= that's just no fun."

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20049644-503544.html

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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

[IScreamSundays]

1. Spelling Errors=

Repuke or Teahag

[gateley]

6. You're right. Wonder what her voting record would show. nt

[tpsbmam]

38. Too bad. You have to know her DOB to see voter regisration and voting record.

In NC you only need the name, that's it. It helps to narrow it down if you know the county, but that's not necessary. Oh well, I tried.

[sybylla]

40. She's 26. How many tries will it take to find out?

Surely someone with a load of time on their hands can find out. On the other hand, she might never have voted and wouldn't be registered.

[freshwest]

10. My first impression too. Remember the 'Obama people beat me up' story in 2008? All fake.

MSM will run with this to smear the unions!

[rurallib]

20. it's like a trait, like a tail on a cat.

probably couldn't find anyone to edit it in her group.

[hack89]

24. Tell me you are kidding.

I know plenty of poorly educated Democrats - my parents and my in-laws for starters. All hard working union members none of which graduated from high school.

[Marnie]

34. Problem is these are not common types of typos or

misspellings, They are deliberately mis typed.
Why?

[hack89]

42. Beats me - tell me how only teabaggers make typos like that. nt

[sharp_stick]

2. The fucking idiot

if she actually did this, has just become the Union Thug every RW asshole in the country has been dreaming of.

The media will no longer even have to pretend to cover Wisconsin as a legitimate fight against the asshole Gov.

[No Elephants]

12. Not so fast I smell Tea. If she did this, I'll bet you she is (a) Republican and (b) not union.

If facts prove me wrong, I'll apologize profusely in GD.

[sharp_stick]

19. I'd like to believe that

but I have a hard time believing a puke would actually take a bullet for something like this.

It's possible but I don't hold out a lot of hope.

[FarLeftFist]

25. But someone has already resigned....

For sending emails stating that Walker should stage a fake attack on himself to blame the protesters. I wouldn't put it past these people.

[No Elephants]

45. In fairness, the guy who resigned never offered or intended to do anything that might get

himself in trouble.

"Let's you and him take a risk for the cause," is all he proposed.

[No Elephants]

44. See Replies 14 and 16.

[LeftinOH]

3. I smell a rat. The misspellings, and using an alias? Hmmmm.

[oldhippydude]

15. I'm a lousy speller too!!

are these folks not smart enough to use a spell checker??..

[Marnie]

35. How often does any one accidentally hit the = key?

[high density]

48. The "typos" with the equal sign are a technical error

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

The email body text was not decoded correctly.

Lines of quoted-printable encoded data must not be longer than 76 characters. To satisfy this requirement without altering the encoded text, soft line breaks may be added as desired. A soft line break consists of an "=" at the end of an encoded line, and does not appear as a line break in the decoded text. These soft line breaks also allow encoding text without line breaks (or containing very long lines) for an environment where line size is limited, such as SMTP. A text line exceeding 1000 bytes cannot be encoded in e-mail in 8bit (identical, or clear text) encoding because of SMTP restrictions.

[HighLowRoller87]

4. Wouldn't surprise me if she was part of the Republican party herself....

After all, they did brainstorm igniting violence to make the union protesters look bad.

[alp227]

41. she threatened REPUBLICAN senator Cowles n/t

[No Elephants]

43. So? See Reply 16.

[Bozita]

5. Wall-to-wall coverage begins at FauxNews as soon as they find this CBS story

[OffWithTheirHeads]

7. That is soooooo KKKarl Rove!

[MNBrewer]

8. She probably works for the Indiana AG

[ChiciB1]

9. AND It Seems "THEY" Never Stop!! Sounds Weird To Me AND Really Makes

me wonder if this isn't just mort "reichwing" BS!! THIS gets full coverage by CBS?? MSM is so totally aberrant.

But then, I'm so much more of a cynic that I ever thought possible. Given where I live it's almost IMPOSSIBLE not to be overly cynical! Each month it gets WORSE!

[AlbertCat]

11. How very interesting!

Is that her???


Well at least she didn't actually shoot someone in the head.... like conservatives do.

[tblue]

17. That was the first thing I thought of.

Bagger.

[Skip_In_Boulder]

13. The baggers on FR yesterday were going on and on

yesterday about how the government was refusing to charge this individual. But I think I agree with some of the other posters here that this is probably an Republican, we already know they have been talking False Flag.

[truthisfreedom]

14. false flag. Backwards B.

[Hugabear]

18. Exactly what I was thinking. Typical repuke/teabagger tactic

They would love to make people think this was a union supporter doing this. Anything to turn public opinion against us

[Critters2]

29. Exactly my thought. nt

[No Elephants]

16. I have a feeling she is an antii-union Rethug, inspired by the Indiana prosecutor.

Indiana prosecutor told Wisconsin governor to stage ‘false flag’ operation


By Eric W. Dolan
Thursday, March 24th, 2011 -- 7:32 pm

An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill.

<snip>

In an email from February 19, Indiana deputy prosecutor Carlos F. Lam told Walker the situation presented "a good opportunity for what’s called a ‘false flag’ operation."

"If you could employ an associate who pretends to be sympathetic to the unions' cause to physically attack you (or even use a firearm against you), you could discredit the unions," Lam said in his email.

"Currently, the media is painting the union protest as a democratic uprising and failing to mention the role of the DNC and umbrella union organizations in the protest," he continued. "Employing a false flag operation would assist in undercutting any support that the media may be creating in favor of the unions."


Read more http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/03/24/indiana-prosecutor-told-wisconsin-governor-to-stage-false-flag-operation/

[Control-Z]

23. This is the first I've heard

about Lam's email. What there an OP about it already? If not, you should make one.

[Organic Machine]

21. According to a local Milwaukee station

she's an elementary school teacher: http://www.todaystmj4.com/news/local/119035264.html

She was also reported last fall for sending texts (the texts were redacted in the report) to a woman with the same name she allegedly used when sending the threats: http://addins.wkow.com/blogs/scoop/2011/03/suspect-in-threats-to-senators-investigated-last-fall

Sounds like she might have some mental issues.

[Ian David]

22. Also sounds like she was trying to set-up someone else. n/t

[Name removed]

26. Deleted message

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[Bozita]

27. Link to similar claims from the Mackinac Center in Michigan...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4797184

[Critters2]

28. Is that a backwards "B" I see? nt

[robcon]

30. What an asshole. She should spend some time on probation.

Awful.

[savalez]

31. FAKE - Read why:

She did it to try and frame the real "Lisa Patterson".

"Patterson and Windels know eachother and had some type of following-out last fall that climaxed with Patterson calling because Windels had been sent her numerous, harassing text messages.

So, apparently as a way to get even with Patterson for calling the police on her, Windels attempted to frame Patterson by sending out threats in her name to various GOP Senators."

Source: http://uppitywis.org/blogarticle/motive-person-making-threats-gop-senators-was-frame-someone-else

[Bozita]

32. Good find! Thank you.

[savalez]

37. You are welcome.

I go to that site everyday for everything Wisconsin so I figured they would have something about this there.

[Marnie]

33. Interesting that the note has no mention of hot button issues

either in Repo Talking points or Dim talking points and the typos are not really convincing as normal finger faults of misspellings.

I smell a plant.

[City Lights]

36. Paging Carlos Lam....

:mad:

[Zorra]

39. Something is wrong here, don't know exactly what.

One thing for sure is that Ms. Windels is obviously somewhat "emotionally challenged".

[Katya Mullethov]

46. Maybe it was the ATF again .

They give free gun with EACH tank of gas !!

[Psephos]

47. It appears she's a pre-school teacher at Red Caboose day care center in Madison.

At least, according to her public postings at MySpace and PeekYou. YMMV.

http://www.myspace.com/katherinewindels

Wisconsin State Journal has an article, as does the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/article_478a9b28-5be6-11e0-83ae-001cc4c002e0.html

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/119023079.html