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A man who became a brief Internet sensation for shouting down his Democratic congressman last week during a forum on healthcare told Fox News today that he was visited later that night by liberal "thugs," and that if it happens again, he will use "lethal force if necessary."

Last week, during a healthcare forum in Michigan, Mike Sola wheeled his disabled 36-year-old son to the podium used by Democratic Rep. John Dingell and shouted in the Congressman's face. He was later escorted out of the building by police.

Today, in a cryptic aside during an interview on Fox News, Sola said a "thug" supporter of House speaker Nancy Pelosi came to his house in the middle of the night after the forum.

"We had a visitor that night," Sola told interviewer Megyn Kelly, without elaborating on what he meant. "A message was sent to my family. It has been reported to the ... sheriff, their deputy has reported it to the Michigan state police."

"People are harassing you now Mike?" asked Kelly, who added that "our empathies all went out to you" when watching him at the town hall.

"Yes they are," Sola said. "And all I'm going to say to the person who doesn't have the courage to do it in the daytime, I will use every means available to me -- lethal force if necessary -- to protect Scott (the disabled son) and my wife. Your message has been received. My wife is terrified. We have not told Scott about it. But if you -- if I ever catch you on my property
-- I will take the risk of going to prison. But you will never again threaten my family."

Sola's mention of Pelosi was in reference to an op-ed she co-authored in USA Today criticizing some of the opponents' "un-American" tactics. The piece, co-written by House majority leader Steny Hoyer or Maryland, said the tactics have included "hanging in effigy one Democratic member of Congress in Maryland and protesters holding a sign displaying a tombstone with the name of another congressman in Texas, where protesters also shouted 'Just say no!' drowning out those who wanted to hold a substantive discussion."

Meanwhile, Sola said he confronted Rep. Dingell, a lead author of healthcare legislation, in an effort to ask the congressman how the bill would help his disabled son.