On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 11:18:47 -0700, atl_man2 wrote:


I just KNEW I'd have to explain it ad nauseum to YOU!! The charge!!!!
The CHARGE!!! It is a charge that is NOT a state law, BUT IS a Federal
charge under the DHS. Jeesh......like trying to get a cat to understand
the theory of relativity.


Sorry, but many states have a "Terroristic Threat" Law. Most are related
to terrorizing a person, and predate Homeland Security. New Jersey's is
typical:

Terroristic threats


2C:12-3. Terroristic threats
a. A person is guilty of a crime of the third degree if he threatens
to commit any crime of violence with purpose to terrorize another or
to cause evacuation of a building, place of assembly, or facility of
public transportation, or otherwise to cause serious public
inconvenience, or in reckless disregard of the risk of causing such
terror or inconvenience.

b. A person is guilty of a crime of the third degree if he threatens
to kill another with purpose to put him in imminent fear of death
under circumstances reasonably causing the victim to believe the
immediacy of the threat and the likelihood that it will be carried
out.

L.1978, c. 95, s. 2C:12-3, eff. Sept. 1, 1979; L.1981, c. 290, s. 15,
eff. Sept. 24, 1981.


http://www.jfrlaw.com/criminal_statutes/2c123.htm