Secret Service investigating university student (posted message on web)

This investigation will close quickly, the thing is, the Secret Service takes this stuff very seriously, and will investigate anything. they're a lot like airport security in that regard, even jokes have to be taken seriously, if only for a short while.

Only one of the most influential civil rights activism groups in American history? Organized things like, um, I dunno, all the lunch counter sit-ins of the late 1950's and early 1960's...You know...SNCC.

the Non-Violent Coordinating Committee to which the article says he belongs.

Also known as SNCC (pronounced Snick). It's only one of the most famous activism groups in history. And it is not called NVCC...

Google NVCC.
Now, Google SNCC.

See?

when you are an executive in a group that claims to support non-violence (whatever the correct initials are) does advocating violence, as this man did, get you kicked out?

The question never really interested me.

Cheers, though

This is simply ridiculous! shit

A THIEVING COWARDLY AWOL CHIMPANZEE

at least for a little while longer.

minded. They're a NON-VIOLENT GROUP for Heaven's sake!

However, the more bizarre and unpredictable the Bush-Co arresting is, the more likely those damn "little people" (yep, that's us) will behave themselves. KKKarl has studied the Psychology of such endeavors. He and his people have never let our "dear leader" down yet. KKKarl's downright untouchable. :puke:

n/t

may not let me get on the plane to DC 9/23...and he may be right!

Might be an option if you are really concerned.

"Where's Lee Harvey Oswald now that we really need him?" but of course you could only say that about a Democratic president in today's climate of repression of free speech. Goodbye friends. I expect Gonzales to be on my doorstep soon...

either Helms or Thurmond--I get my RW asshooles confused soemtiems in my memory--warned that Pres. Clinton had better not come to his state because he might get k**led? (I do the ** thing, becuase I don't doubt that the govt. searches the web for comments that link that deadly word with the word "president.")

as Marshall would say

Such as making a suggestion that any Supreme Court judge who has a life-time appointment to the bench should consider the dangers of such a job, in future.

OR..let's see...can we talk about how the US special ops has lazer weapons to microwave any commercial jetliner, with a passenger on board they need to 'off'?

When the Govt kills citizens, systematically...when exactly does it cease being the Govt of THE PEOPLE?

Please...somebody, give me an example..AND what should be done? AND, what is PATRIOTIC DUTY, in the eyes of our Founding Fathers now?

Talk about taking a statement out of context. Nowhere in that statement is he suggesting that Bush be shot.

:puke:

Hey SS, if you're reading this :

:hi:
:toast:

It was just a couple of months after John Lennon and I commented at my workplace that it was a shame the two shooters hadn't changed places.

Fortunately, no one reported me.

Of course, that was back when I thought it was just a coincidence and long before I ever googled "John Lennon George Bush."

I wonder whether being 75 would get her special consideration.

Fortunately, she's in Canada, and I'm not going to report her anyhow ... and we ultimately agreed that this would probably be about the worst time for anybody to do it, anyhow.

SS must take these comments seriously, but really, wouldn't it be more prudent to scrutinize comments before hard earned tax dollars are wasted? This is a complete waste of time and resources.

Didn't he know that all he had to do was say he was making "a personal observation" and everyone would smile forgivingly?

(Hey Agent Mike ... :P )

http://cmsimg.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=B2&Date=20050908&Category=NEWS01&ArtNo=509080451&Ref=AR&Profile=1008&MaxW=160


UofL student's Web posting brings out Secret Service
Web posting mentioned shooting police, Bush

By Jessie Halladay
jhalladay@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal

>snip

Bailey's comments were posted, and criticized, on the local Fraternal Order of Police Web site.

FOP President Richard Dotson said one of his members alerted the union leadership and someone from the union reported the Web posting to the Secret Service.

Referring to Bailey as "an idiot," Dotson said, "As far as I'm concerned, it's a direct threat against authority. We're concerned that someone out there might believe the remarks of this man."

Bailey, who contributes regularly to the Louisville Cardinal, the campus newspaper, and has been active in efforts to fight violence in the city, said he believes that people are trying to misuse his comments to discredit him.

more:http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050908/NEWS01/509080451/1008/NEWS01

"...when exactly does it cease being the Govt of THE PEOPLE?"

We live in a kingdom now, didn't you see the Fox News Announcement ?

What a bunch of horseshit. bush would never be anywhere near any kind of situation that would even cause him a hangnail. Unless of course he's riding his bikey-wikey.

who reported him. I didn't even know that was an option. I've read plenty of that kind of stuff at Freepland.
Of course it was all directed at evil Liberals. Does the SS investigate online "threats" to Senators?

If so, I have some civic duty to perform. Anyone care to join me?

He might be able to get away with it.

How many government officials have advocated that looters be shot?

Well, Bush is one of the biggest looters on the face of this planet. He has emptied the coffers of our nation and poured them into the pockets of his friends.

So, obviously, elected officials are advocating the shooting of the president. Naughty, naughty. I'm sure the Secret Service will want to have a little chat with them.

Tell 'em to look up "hyperbole", and "figure of speech".

I swear, I could just kill people who are that disingenuous.
I'd swing for them, myself.

Or, as LSU's Hurricane Center director van Heerden said on Sunday about the FEMA representative who responded to his urging *last year* that tent cities would have to be prepared for evacuees if disaster struck New Orleans by saying, sarcastically, "Americans don't live in tents", when asked what he'd say to her now, "I'd wring her neck". Or maybe I'd knock someone's block off ...

Back during Gulf War I, a friend of mine was hospitalized in the US midwest for acute alcohol overdosing, and was undergoing detoxification. Genuinely distressed about the war then starting, but also self-righteous and diversionary as addicts are wont to be, he announced that if Bush I attempted to draft his son, he'd shoot him.

Well, his son was 10 years old. But still the secret service was called, and the interview conducted. A few days later, I had a floral delivery made to him in the hospital: a large umbrella-tree plant ... a sort of ... bush. He checked it for ... bugs ... and named it George.

I know quite sure that a drunk who said such things about a prime minister in Canada would be ignored just like any other drunk who said any other self-serving attention-getting outlandish thing would be.

Conditional threats, where the condition will never materialize. The likelihood of George W. Bush standing in the way of a food-looter was about as likely as the other one drafting a 10-year-old.

No threat at all.

or Trent Lott or Strom Thurmond, etc. etc.

has supporters calling him compassionate. The irony is thick.

What's going to happen to him/her? He/she should get the same punishment.

and if they're freeptards, he's toast, like this guy:

http://www.thespeciousreport.com/2002_burningbush.html

Come investigate me, please.

He's talking about a hypothetical self-defense situation here.

between me and my first meal in three days then...
I guess I better move to Canada.
(Note to potential investigators: I should move to Canada NOT because I have ever said anything about sh**t ing Bush but because THIS would not be the sort of country I would want to live in anymore, and, well, Canada is so close etc. )

Talk about wasting resources.
..This is your tax dollars hard at work folks.

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Secret Service investigating university student
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The Associated Press
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LOUISVILLE, Ky. The Secret Service has its eye on a Kentucky student.

Twenty-one-year-old Phillip Bailey is being investigated for suggesting President Bush be shot.

Bailey is chairman of the University of Louisville Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee.

He says he posted a message on a Web site in response to someone else who suggested that looters in New Orleans should be shot. Bailey wrote that many people were simply trying to find necessities to stay alive. His posting called for shooting -- in his words --"every cop, national guard and politician who stands in your way, including George W. Bush if need be."'

The Secret Service says it'll be up to the U-S attorney's office to decide if Bailey is charged with making threats against the president. That offense can carry a five-year prison term.


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Did someone turn him in?

unless he's typing on a laptop resting on george w. bush's lap w/ a gun slung over his shoulder he still has right of free speech. as reckless and unthinking as it may be. you can investigate him as a potential threat (which would make sense), but you cannot prosecute and convict without overruling our constitution.

what's next, arrest stephen hawkings if he ever says, "george w. bush can eat the rest of my pretzels."? remove head from sphincter, then proceed.