This cat is very dangerous and unpredictable. He’s going to do harm to someone one day.

Travc, I’ve passed the basic info on to the FBI. US citizens cant’ contact the RCMP, we are asked to put our complaint in via the FBI, which I did.

There is a false dichotomy emerging in this discussion which I’d like to briefly address: No one can say how likely it is that a sick puppy like Mabus will one day arm himself and kill someone. The fact that he hasn’t means nothing, and the fact that he keeps making threats and seems to have a hard time controlling himself suggests a valid concern.

It is perfectly reasonable to say that the chance that he will do something is near zero.

It is perfectly reasonable to pass information about him on to the authorities.

It is NOT the case that if one takes the potential threat seriously that one also believes that the threat is large. Or small. It is simply the case that the threat is not known and that the threat exists for real (even if it is of near zero importance) and that there are simple, low cost, non-panic stricken ways to deal with it. Not taking Mabus seriously and assuming that he is not harmless are not actually conflicting.

A simple analogy: The chance of being hit by a tornado even one that you can see heading in your direction, is slim. But when the tornado is in ear shot, one should go to the basement, and if you live in tornado alley, it is not an overreaction to have a weather radio or to otherwise pay attention when there are storms threatening. Same idea. There is not a conflict between understanding the real probabilities involved with tornado danger and acting in a way other than with the presumption that tornadoes can’t hurt you. Yes, I see very few people ho are not on one or the other end of an imaginary spectrum of correlated probability of danger and effort to avoid danger.

Back during Unibomber, those of us in academia learned to handle the regular threat fairly routinely. I received a post card explaining how I would be killed about once a month, decorated with home made ink stamps and done in moderately good calligraphy, and half the people in my department (at Harvard) relieved a very strange threatening home made hallmark like card at the same time one day, which the authorities actually took quite an interest in, taking the creepy greeting cards into custody to check for prints and stuff. And so on. Mabus is run of the mill, nothing special about him. So you just ignore him most of the time and send a report in now and then to the FBI so he remains on whatever list they may have, and don’t worry about it.

Not being concerned does not mean he is not dangerous. It just means he is not effective. He does serve an important role: Demonstrating that religious believe taken just a step or two in it’s own logical direction, is insane.

the *only* man in Minnesota who says there is no God

You’ve been disrespected.

I have to hope that this guy is on a watch list in case he should try to cross the US border, which is less than an hour from downtown Montreal.