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Angry Anime fan accused of terrorizing Greg Abbott's office with stabbing threats: report
Abbott Built the Trap, Then Called It SafetyA Threat Is a Crime. The Policy Was the Setup.A Houston man is accused of phoning Gov. Greg Abbott’s office and threatening to stab staff while demanding access to “anime.” That threat is real, ugly, and criminal. But the larger story is not a single voicemail from a volatile man. It is a state government that passed sweeping online-content restrictions, then pretended the fallout would be neat, surgical, and child-focused.The Power Sits With AbbottThe people with actual institutional power here are not the caller, and not the staffer listening to…
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