Anti-vaxxer escalates from wishing children dead to threatening to kill adult lawmakers

A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor threatened to murder Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) if she advanced a bill to vaccinate children in public schools, The Daily Beast reports today. Yes, we are in a dystopian hellscape.

The feds charged Darryl Varnum in late June after he told the Congresswoman he was gonna kill your ass if you do that bill, report The Beast's Jackie Kucinich and Lachlan Markay.

Varnum's LinkedIn says he's a senior cyber systems engineer.

In his threats, the man told the lawmaker, who is black, to get the fuck out of America, which echoes the same sort of explicitly racist inflammatory speech that is increasingly used by Donald Trump at his hate rallies and on Twitter.

According to the complaint filed in U.S. District Court in the District of Maryland, Varnum left a voicemail for Rep. Wilson that said, in part:

I will fucking come down and kill your fucking ass. And youre a Congressperson, thats fine. I hope the fucking FBI, CIA and everybody else hears this shit. This is the United States of America, bitch. Get the fuck out.

Wilson was at the time working on the introduction of a bill that would require public schools to vaccinate registered students.

Darryl Albert Varnum of Westminster, Maryland called the congresspersonidentified only as congressperson #1on June 28, 2019, according to the complaint, and left a voicemail threatening to kill the member if the bill was introduced.

Im gonna kill your ass if you do that bill. I swear, Varnums voicemail began.