§ 490.20 Making a terroristic threat.                                   
  1.  A person is guilty of making a terroristic threat when with intent
to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influence the policy of a
unit of government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of
a unit of government by murder, assassination or kidnapping, he  or  she
threatens  to  commit  or  cause to be committed a specified offense and
thereby causes a reasonable expectation or fear of the imminent  commis-
sion of such offense.                                                   
  2.  It  shall  be no defense to a prosecution pursuant to this section
that the defendant did not have the intent or capability  of  committing
the  specified  offense  or that the threat was not made to a person who
was a subject thereof.                                                  
  Making a terroristic threat is a class D felony.