Before getting into the details, here's the dictionary definition of terrorism:

Main Entry: ter·ror·ism
Pronunciation: 'ter-&r-"i-z&m
Function: noun
: the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion
- ter·ror·ist /-&r-ist/ adjective or noun
- ter·ror·is·tic /"ter-&r-'is-tik/ adjective

The New York Times reports that the office of a New Jersey State Senator was shut down after about 60+ callers made assorted threats of violence, including death threats, against the Senator. The threats were made by talk-radio listeners standing up for the inalienable right to have a heart attack.

Angry telephone calls over her proposal to ban restaurants from using a type of cooking oil blamed for increasing people’s cholesterol levels prompted a New Jersey state senator to close her office early on Friday.[...]

Many calls were threatening, Senator Karcher said.

“They said that I should be pushed off a bridge, that I should be stabbed, that I am a Communist and several other things,” Ms. Karcher said.

Commies against Cholesterol. Ann Coulter would be proud; but then again, she only calls for the murder of Presidents and Supreme Court Justices, a notch above the talk-radio crowd, perhaps.

Senator Karcher, a Democrat who represents parts of Mercer and Monmouth Counties, said that state police came to the office, escorted two staff workers to their cars and plan to return on Tuesday to investigate calls and taped messages. Monday is Columbus Day, a state holiday.

“People were just really hostile and aggressive,” said Ms. Karcher, partly blaming talk radio discussions for the calls.

But of course, the police was there, so firm action will be taken to pursue and prosecute this, right?

Wrong.

David Wald, a spokesman for the State Department of Law and Public Safety, confirmed that state police detectives had responded and listened to recorded conversations but found none of the calls were threatening. He said that no investigation was planned at the moment.

No investigation? A legislative office gets shut down by threats of violence and there's no investigation?

What, do they need to to blow up a building first?

People get arrested for talking to Dick Cheney, by the way.

Sickening.