TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given a public comment from online platforms. You are expected to classify the comment into two classes: threat and non-threat. Threat is a statement that someone will be hurt or harmed, especially if the person does not do something in particular.
PROBLEM: Comment: Judging from the high rated comments it seems many could have used a visit by 3 ghosts this Christmas.

I'm essentially reading a lot of "Bah humbug...Perhaps this rabble should just die already and decrease the surplus population."

SOLUTION: Threat

PROBLEM: Comment: So you would like to see police officers shoot and kill more criminal suspects so Alaska can lead the nation? Is that your position?

SOLUTION: Threat

PROBLEM: Comment: Killing them is more effective and much cheaper in the long run, If you feed them, you have to feed them every day, and then they go and have kids that you also have to feed. 

And before this post gets yanked for "uncivility," realize that I am answering a direct question from a person who believes that his straw man argument is actually intelligent; and go read Jonathan Swift. Yeah, I know. He's an old dead white guy. Read him anyway.

SOLUTION:
Threat