Teen questioned for Bush threat

midnight-gamer · Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 5:14 pm Post subject: Teen questioned for Bush threat

Forgive me if this has been posted. http://apnews1.iwon.com//article/20061015/D8KP09580.html
What do you on Peak Oil think of this? Did the government over react in this instance? Words are not actions. The penalty for simply saying something seems like it could have been very high. What are your thoughts.

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max_power29

We're all proper fooked. worship the beast(s) or be prosecuted to the fullest extant of the tyrrany

Rambo · Heavy Crude Joined: Jan 03, 2006 Posts: 161

Tyler_JC

I'm allowed to say Bush is an @$$hole and that I disagree with parts of his foreign policy.

I can say that he has bad taste in ties, that his wife looks like worn out street hooker, that his daughters are rampant adulteresses.

I can even say that the United States would be better off if he had been assassinated several years ago. Evil or Very Mad

But I can not and should not be allowed to make death threats.

We have to trade some liberty in exchange for security and I strongly believe that death threats cross the line.

I know that this teenager posed essentially no threat to the president but the secret service was right to investigate.

This is hardly an example of the government going too far in fighting terrorism (or whatever you wish to call it).

I am no apologist for the Bush Administration, but I don't wish him dead. I mean, come on, do we really want President "Secret-Undisclosed-Location" Cheney? Smile

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Gideon · Light Sweet Crude Joined: Aug 29, 2006 Posts: 1142

MonteQuest is a certified asshole.

MountainHiker

uNkNowN ElEmEnt

This is just typical in our Politically Correct world. The authorities overreact (hugely), makes massive threats, bully and intimidate a teenager who made a mistake and as long as she is properly cowed (and submissively cries) can go back to her little world.

There just is no such thing as a civilized conversation anymore

Rambo · Heavy Crude Joined: Jan 03, 2006 Posts: 161

No I would not want to kill the retard either I would send him to one of his own camps and he would never see the light of day again in his little dog pound. Very Happy

Kingcoal

Making death threats is going to far, no matter who the target is. I have been the target of death threats from a former crazy girlfriend. I reported it to the police and she was investigated. In other words, all citizens of the US have the right to live in a terror free environment, free from death threats, ect.
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emailking · Intermediate Crude Joined: Mar 11, 2006 Posts: 749

I think there is a difference between serious or possibly serious death threats, and this which was clearly a joke.

rogerhb

Chocky

4859 posts, 4859 irritating rhetorical questions.

I thought the Secret Service's response was very measured and reasonable. They impressed the seriousness of the matter on her but deleted the file so as not to ruin her life. I thought everyone knew by now that making death threats against US presidents was a serious business.

For Fark' sake there's enough wrong with America that you should be able to come up with some legitimate criticisms instead of petty crap like this.

Lokutus · Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject: Bush SS bullies 14 year old girl

The S.S. agents told Kirstie that they were investigating her daughter’s role in setting up a MySpace Web page. In particular, they were troubled because the Web page included the creation of art (pictured above) that the agents felt was extremely threatening to the life of the President of the United States.

The agents told Kirstie that since the art included the words, “Kill Bush,” and since it was accessible to anyone on the Internet, there was a very strong likelihood that someone—possibly a terrorist from a foreign country—might see the image and be inspired to act upon it. Thus, they reasoned, even if Julia only meant to be funny, the art put the President in grave danger. Many people are

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article15325.htm

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