Rocky Mountain News: Secret Service pays visit to Boulder High

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3323602,00.html

Secret Service pays visit to Boulder High
By Hector Gutierrez, Rocky Mountain News
November 12, 2004

Bob Dylan's Masters of War is a hard-hitting, anti-war song produced more than 20 years before any current Boulder High School student was born.

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Some students and parents apparently let the Secret Service and talk-radio stations know they were unhappy with the plan of a trio of students to do a poetry reading of the song, accompanied by background music, according to Ron Cabrera, the school's principal.

Rumors were rampant that during an audition and rehearsal for today's talent show, the students changed Dylan's powerful last verse at the end of the song to say that they hoped that President Bush was going to die.

The last verse begins: "And I hope that you die; And your death'll come soon."

"They were following up and doing their due diligence," Cabrera said of the agents' visit. "They had been receiving calls from the community and, in the course of the talk show, felt like they had heard (the students) inciting physical harm to the president."

more:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_3323602,00.html

Guess I'm on the list, now. :-)

I applaud their fight for free speech, but they did commit a crime.