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: Of course the progressives here are 'praying' for Cardinal Pell to be convicted. Why?  Not because he might be guilty or innocent, that is immaterial. It because he is an orthodox Catholic bishop.  Orthodox Catholics in the Curia have been regularly cursed by Pope Francis who has gradually placed his heterodox cronies into high places in the Curia.
"I am the Pope."

SOLUTION: Non-threat

PROBLEM: Comment: Hispanics, blacks, and rational American voters will decide this election. tRump ought to be afraid, very afraid.

SOLUTION: Non-threat

PROBLEM: Comment: I like the "waves" metaphor, but the waves are waves of benefits for the schools, for the sick, and for the elderly and poor. And the waves will touch much more. With funding stabilized to bring a floor under the sick and poor, and a hope for getting our schools out of the hell of the 3rd lowest HS graduation rate in the country, the legislature won't have to cut other areas to make budget. The already debt-ridden college students will be less likely to see tuitions shoot up. The state infrastructure and state services can be lifted a little. 

Or we could decide that we really love the inequality we have in Oregon, where Wells Fargo, Comcast, Chevron, and their friends enjoy the lowest corporate taxes in America. (And are throwing big money against M97 to keep it that way.)

SOLUTION:
Non-threat