Mental patient charged with threatening Bush

Palestinian man allegedly told caretakers he wanted to castrate president

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. - A Palestinian man faces federal charges of threatening President Bush over comments made while getting mental-health care, according to an indictment made public this week.

News of the indictment raised questions Friday about how to treat such comments by mental patients.

Federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23 on two felony counts of “knowingly and willfully” threatening to harm Bush — first by telling two workers at his treatment center that he wanted to castrate Bush, then a day later to Secret Service agents notified by the center.

The indictment says Nijmeh told the agents that his threat “is not too harsh, considering what he has done to my country. If not that than maybe something else, you know?”


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12209825/

beat me to it :D

Regardless of prez or circumstances, anyone making brash, loud comments to do harm to others is going to be locked up. Especially if it's a major political figure.

I'm sorry the guy's nuts from birth or has gone nuts.

But you don't threaten that sort of shit. Not ever. To anyone.

:think:

that is so funny.....

sense in this country? He's a mental patient. Cut 'em some slack.

and to mental health professionals! what the hell happened to client patient confidentiality