It’s another case of Trump Derangement Syndrome: An indictment Wednesday by the Department of Justice says an Alaska man threatened to torture and kill six Supreme Court justices and their family members in messages sent through the court’s website in 2023 and 2024.
Prosecutors say Panos Anastasiou, 76, a registered nonpartisan voter in Alaska, made the threats over a six-month period. Many threats were made after the Supreme Court’s decision agreeing with broad criminal immunity decisions of the lower court for former President Trump.
Between March 10, 2023, and July 16, 2024, defendant, Anastasiou sent over 465 messages to the Supreme Court via an online portal, the Department of Justice says.
Beginning on or about Jan. 4, 2024, the Anchorage man began sending messages “intended to threaten harm and convey threats of harm towards Supreme Court Justices 1- 6 and Family Members 1 and 2. The messages contained violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination via torture, hanging, and firearms, and encouraged others to participate in the acts of violence,” the indictment reads. “Some of these threats were intended to intimidate Supreme Court Justices 1-6 and retaliate against them for official actions Supreme Court Justices 1-6 had taken in their official capacity as federal judges.”
One threat was that he would provide rope to hang a justice from a tree, known as “lynching.” Another threat was that he would put a bullet in a justice’s head. In another message, he said he would “spray” the justice’s house with bullets in hopes of killing him and his family. There were also threats of kidnap and beheading the justices.
“We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court Justices and their families to retaliate against them for decisions he disagreed with,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “Our justice system depends on the ability of judges to make their decisions based on the law, and not on fear. Our democracy depends on the ability of public officials to do their jobs without fearing for their lives or the safety of their families.”
Anastasiou is a frequent donor to Democrats, including Rep. Mary Peltola of Alaska.
Beginning on Jan. 4, Anastasiou’s messages allegedly escalated to messages intending to threaten harm toward the victims. The messages contained violent, racist, and homophobic rhetoric coupled with threats of assassination by torture, hanging, and firearms, the Justice Department said.
Anastasiou is charged by indictment with nine counts of making threats against a federal judge and 13 counts of making threats in interstate commerce. The defendant made his initial court appearance yesterday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Kyle F. Reardon of the U.S. District Court for the District of Alaska.
The threats continued through July of 2024. The indictment is embedded below:
This started in March of 2023? What took so long? At least I’m glad something was finally done.
While we are busy indicting random people who threaten the Supreme Court, let’s not forget to include the democrat Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer. He stood on the steps of the Supreme Court and publicly threatened justices by name. But with ‘democrat privilege’ in force, that will not happen. We have a two tiered justice system: democrats and their sympathizers on one side and the rest of us.
I totally agree with your post.
Schumer should be in jail for being a political trouble maker.
Dont forget Maxine Waters and Nancy Pelosi. They are just as dangerous as her comrades with lots of supporters back in the land of fruits and nuts…. California.
well said.
70 year old man acting like a kid. Said it before. The Deranged left are immature, run by their”emotions”, and honestly, dangerous. All of them.
This was going on in 2023 and it’s practically the end of 2024. Takes Feds this long to nail a 76 year old that clearly has dementia? Wow.
But praying grandmas and others who were ushered in by Capitol Police into the Capitol on January 6, 2021 were found immediately. Imagine that.🙄
The left is fundamentally violent
that’s interesting. After the synagogue of my youth was shot up and friends of my parents were murdered I thought it was the right who were violent. too be clear i do not think either side is fundamentally violent. There are people in this world who need to blame others for their problems. sadly some act out violently.
well leo, afraid the facts disagree with you.
Too bad the writer used the sophomoric “Trump Derangement Syndrome” phrase.
I quit reading after that.
The use of the word syndrome makes it a medical Term.
This is nothing new, Obama instructed Democrats to “get in these peoples faces, make them feel uncomfortable.” Maxine Waters has had several incitements to violence, it’s a way of life for them.
Another”nonpartisan””” riiight!
no… left
“a registered nonpartisan voter in Alaska” = democrat
Another day, another person learns the limits on speech established by Brandenburg vs Ohio
Just another crazy lib.
The worlds full of them.
This may sound crude and abit “off the wall”.. My question is: When is Alaska going to get their Mental institution up here? Almost every state has a mental institution if not 2..I’m not talking about mental health associations.. We have several of those always full. I mean our OWN mental institution, so they can get the help they NEED while they are safely taken care of.. and off the streets endangering other people. Many are refusing to taking their the medications, because they don’t “like” the affects it has on them so they go around in public either scaring others or harming them, Now I understand that’s about 5-10% of the population of the other mental disturbed people. It could also serve as a place for drug addiction as well alcoholism. I know we have several small mental places, always “booked to the hilt”..
You haven’t been to the DNC have you since they have all the weapons experts shooting at ex president and Supreme Court. Mega sounds like wimps to the last 3 shooters.
kc, Alaska has long had a mental institution, its in Juneau and often referred to as the Capital.
What ever happened to the Alaska Psychiatry Institute, aka API? 🤔
The feds should go get George Clooney , Howard stern, Miley Cyrus, these are hate mongers extraordinaire.
These people have completely gone off the edge. Completely ungrateful for what this country has given them. They deserve nothing but misery from here on out.
How telling that DOJ fails to mention exactly which six SC justices were targeted!!!
Wow! It took only 465 threats before the DOJ decides to arrest him? 🤔
Jim Colman , you are spot on 100 % right, and this nonsense all really got going shortly after Obama got elected. He was the biggest instigator of all this lunacy. Remember that’s where he started his life was on the streets being a rabble rousing trouble maker (Community Organizer) ..he was the man who brought this victimhood mentality into the national Public arena. He got elected pretending to be a new fresh visionary of hope , but that was all a mirage that hoodwinked many stupid people into voting for him. These Democrats who have emerged since the Clintons somehow lied their ways into power in the early 90’S has become the most radical, dangerous, and unstable group who almost all of them are willing to destroy our country from within, it’s obviously their main goal, they have zero real governing skills for real problems, their all about grievance and the re distribution of wealth, and globalism., their All bat ///// crazy!
What Mediterranean architectural style is that building? How ironic.
please how does one elevate from the equal class to the ruling class receiving funds from the public “trust” fund for nearly ever? It would be terrible if the ruling class was only a temporary job wouldn’t it.
I would like to endlessly receive a such a bestowal.