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Originally Posted by jenn02674
No, if you do some quick google searches (I'm not going to do the work for you) you will see the exact same thing to people that commented in such a way about Bush. The man was pulled over and visited, he wasn't arrested, it ended there. Why is this any different than someone making a sly comment about terrorism getting a visit by police? Now THAT does happen all the time.
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Also where is the "death" in the threat?????
We had a can helen not tuna one I see this bumper sticker falling in that catagory!
This is much different than a terrorist threat and I am sorry you can not see that.
police pulled him over and the police called the SS to report the civilian. Abuse of power!
I would think a impeach bush....
torture Cheney is much more of a threat that a abort obama....
The law requires that someone
“knowingly and willfully” make a threat “to inflict bodily harm” on the president.
In general, the law has been interpreted by legal scholars to require that the threat be credible, that is, that the person making the threat at some level intended to carry out the threat or had the ability or predisposition to carry it out.
Arrests of individuals who have allegedly made threats against the president’s life are not uncommon, however, and generally involve people who are just plain angry, but who do not seem to be making credible threats.
Hyde Park » Threat against Bush was stupid, but was it also illegal?
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