# PA Man Beheads Govt. Emp. Father, Posts Video Online, Calls For "Revolution" Against Biden
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894
**Category:** The BBQ Pit
**Tags:** trump
**Created:** [January 31, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894 "2024-01-31T05:04:21Z")
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/1 "2024-01-31T05:04:21Z")
Story here. (Yes, I know the Mail isn’t the best source, but this is breaking within the last hour and there aren’t many articles about it yet.)
> **[Man beheads his federal employee father and posts video on YouTube](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13026501/Man-beheads-federal-employee-father-posts-video-decapitated-head-YouTube.html)**
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> Man beheads his federal employee father and posts video of decapitated head on YouTube while calling for 'revolution' against 'Biden regime' and to fight 'army of illegal immigrants'
> **[Middletown man posts video claiming to show beheaded father in Levittown](https://www.phillyburbs.com/story/news/crime/2024/01/30/middletown-police-bucks-county-justin-mohn-michael-mohn-death-levittown-upper-orchard/72416523007/)**
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> Middletown police are not commenting on the details of the crime scene
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> Justin Mohn, 32, beheaded his father Michael at their $390,000 home in Middleton Township, Pennsylvania then displayed the head during a rant blaming the federal government for ‘woke mobs’ and migrants he claims are destroying the United States.
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> The appalling 14 minute clip - which remained on YouTube for six hours after it was posted, and is still online as of 11:30pm on Tuesday - sees Mohn hold up his father’s head in a bloodied plastic bag.
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> He says: ‘This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal employee of over 20 years and my father. He is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country.’
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> Mohn went on to say he was offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who could kill top officials including FBI Director Christopher Wray, Attorney General Merrick Garland and former Attorney General Bill Barr.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before Trump and his legion of stochastic terrorists started driving people to these levels of insanity. May he receive the maximum punishment allowable under the law and may the psychopaths who egged him on share his fate.
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### Author:  [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/2 "2024-01-31T05:17:40Z")
So if he killed his father for being an employee of the federal government, are there specific charges at the federal level for that? In other words, did this guy who hates the feds so much just sign himself up for a lifetime stay in federal custody?
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### Author:  [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/3 "2024-01-31T05:28:03Z")
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> Mohn went on to say he was offering a $1 million bounty to anyone who could
**Vinny** : Yeah. But first, show me the money.
**Mohn** : I have it.
**Vinny** : You have it, then show it to me.
**Mohn** : [pause] I can get it.
**Vinny** : You can get it? Okay, get it. Bring it here, let me see it.
_after a long wait_
**Mohn** : It’s a million bucks.
**Vinny** : How do I know that’s not a bunch of ones with a twenty wrapped around it? Fan it out, show it to me.
**Mohn** : It’s a million bucks in Trump scrip and a Silver MedBed voucher. (Silver was all I could afford.)
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### Author:  [@octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/octopus)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/4 "2024-01-31T05:35:03Z")
I’d hope the penalty for decapitation of another human would be sufficient that conditions such as the employer of the victim would be irrelevant.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/5 "2024-01-31T05:59:02Z")
> [@DWMarch](#):
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> So if he killed his father for being an employee of the federal government, are there specific charges at the federal level for that?
Looks like it.
> **[18 U.S. Code § 1114 - Protection of officers and employees of the United States](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1114)**
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> (a)In General.—Whoever kills or attempts to kill any officer or employee of the United States or of any agency in any branch of the United States Government (including any member of the uniformed services) while such officer or employee is engaged in or on account of the performance of official duties, or any person assisting such an officer or employee in the performance of such duties or on account of that assistance, shall be punished—
> (1)in the case of murder, as provided under section 1111;
> (2)in the case of manslaughter, as provided under section 1112; or
> (3)in the case of attempted murder or manslaughter, as provided in section 1113.
> (b)Extraterritorial Jurisdiction.—
> There is extraterritorial jurisdiction over the conduct prohibited by this section.
“On account of the performance of their official duties” seems like it would cover this circumstance.
The irony is that the people he was hoping to inspire are probably just going to call him a “crisis actor” or say that “the Deep State” put him up to it.
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### Author:  [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/6 "2024-01-31T07:10:51Z")
Occasionally I read or hear something like this and wonder is there any point to anything?
People are just crazy nut bags. And it’s getting worse.
We had a 26 yo. drug crazed idiot who killed his ‘quit highschool’ girlfriend and their baby. He cut the little hands off the baby thinking they couldn’t figure out it was his.
Brilliant.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 7:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/7 "2024-01-31T07:29:02Z")
> [@octopus](#):
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> I’d hope the penalty for decapitation of another human would be sufficient that conditions such as the employer of the victim would be irrelevant
PA doesn’t use the death penalty. If he gets tried under federal law, the death penalty is an option.
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### Author:  [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/8 "2024-01-31T09:51:26Z")
> [@DWMarch](#):
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> So if he killed his father for being an employee of the federal government, are there specific charges at the federal level for that? In other words, did this guy who hates the feds so much just sign himself up for a lifetime stay in federal custody?
Yes.
But it will be a short lifetime because I anticipate a death penalty in there somewhere.
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 10:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/9 "2024-01-31T10:13:59Z")
A small and irrelevant question in the story-why do they list the price of the person’s home?
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/10 "2024-01-31T10:17:49Z")
To not-so-subtly indicate the socioeconomic status of the individuals involved.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 10:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/11 "2024-01-31T10:44:53Z")
Does he have FAS?
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### Author:  [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/12 "2024-01-31T10:50:35Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> A small and irrelevant question in the story-why do they list the price of the person’s home?
A $390,000 home. I’m in Canada; that’s average for a three-bedroom home, if not below average. That figure tells me nothing. Is it above/below market in America?
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### Author:  [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/13 "2024-01-31T11:01:42Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> Is it above/below market in America?
It depends on where you are.
If you’re in, say, Baton Rouge, that gets you a pretty decent house.
If you’re in the Bay Area, you’ll be lucky if $390K buys a parking space you can use three days a week.
This guy’s in Pennsylvania, apparently, so that looks to be in the neighborhood of average or a little above.
(I agree that it’s a weird detail to include in that way.)
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### Author:  [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/14 "2024-01-31T11:11:18Z")
> [@Spoons](#):
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> > [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> > A small and irrelevant question in the story-why do they list the price of the person’s home?
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> A $390,000 home. I’m in Canada; that’s average for a three-bedroom home, if not below average. That figure tells me nothing. Is it above/below market in America?
Out of curiosity, I looked it up. This is less than the median price of a US detached home (and much, much less than the median price in Canada).
So, no, it really doesn’t tell us much about their socioeconomic status. Maybe they were on the lower side of middle class, or maybe they were living in the boonies with a better-than-average house. Either way, it’s a stupid and useless fact to include in a news story.
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### Author:  [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/15 "2024-01-31T11:38:23Z")
In Levittown, that sounds like a solid, middle class house, nothing special. Certainly not indicative of poverty if that was the implication.
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### Author:  [@tofor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tofor)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/16 "2024-01-31T11:59:17Z")
They’re probably trying to suggest whether it’s reasonable to expect he has $1 million for the bounty? That figure says…probably not but maybe.
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### Author:  [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/17 "2024-01-31T11:59:32Z")
Wasn’t Levittown the original ‘whites only’ suburb?
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### Author:  [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/18 "2024-01-31T12:12:08Z")
I just read another article, and it seems to imply that the man beheaded his father (what a sentence!) after death-they specifically charged him with “abuse of a corpse”. So maybe the father died of natural causes and the Beloved Son decided to do what he did? Still pretty horrific.
> **[Police looking into social media post after man in his 60s found dead in...](https://abcnews.go.com/US/police-social-media-post-after-man-60s-found/story?id=106820593)**
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> An investigation is underway in Middletown Township, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, after a man was found dead inside a home on Tuesday night, according to police.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 12:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/19 "2024-01-31T12:21:32Z")
> [@Love\_Rhombus](#):
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> they specifically charged him with “abuse of a corpse”. So maybe the father died of natural causes and the Beloved Son decided to do what he did?
…_and_ first-degree murder.
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### Author:  [@Tired\_and\_Cranky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tired_and_Cranky)
#### Post date: [January 31, 2024, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pa-man-beheads-govt-emp-father-posts-video-online-calls-for-revolution-against-biden/996894/20 "2024-01-31T12:22:50Z")
The police probably don’t have quite enough evidence yet to charge him with murder because, as you note, he could have beheaded the corpse after he died of some other cause But, an admission that he beheaded the guy and then holding his head up on Youtube is all the evidence they need to establish desecrating a corpse and to hold him. Prosecutors can seek an indictment for murder later if they can establish that the guy actually killed his father.
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