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Christopher, who reportedly made the threats on January 11, 15 and 16 in a chat forum on a website has been charged with threatening to kill Obama for "the country's own good," it said.
The department said that "threats against the president-elect will be taken very seriously". "Use of Internet chat rooms to express those threats is as much a crime as uttering the words. Threats of this nature will be pursued swiftly and vigorously," it added.
He is being held until a bail hearing scheduled for next Thursday and if convicted would be sentenced to maximum five years in prison and USD 250,000 fine.
"I have decided I will assassinate Barack Obama. It's really nothing personal about the man ... But I know it's for the country's own good that I do this," Christopher wrote in a posting on the website www.alien-earth.org on January 11, according to CBS news.
"It's not because I'm racist that I will kill Barack, it's because I can no longer allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the American people submit to their evil ways," he said.
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