Author Topic: Land of the free (Read 551 times)

Thud · « **on:** April 27, 2004, 03:51:22 PM »

God bless the Secret Service for their timely intervention

lazs2 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:00:50 PM »

crazy!

everyone knows that threats made by 15 year olds are harmless and should be ignored.

lazs

rpm · « **Reply #2 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:03:54 PM »

Sounds like Udie's been busy.

Thud · « **Reply #3 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:04:34 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
crazy!

everyone knows that threats made by 15 year olds are harmless and should be ignored.

lazs

Absolutely, imagine what unprecedented destruction he could have caused if he would have unleashed the enormous power of his anti-war drawing

Clowns

Udie · « **Reply #4 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:05:19 PM »

This is clearly Bush's fault. Deth to Ameriika!

lazs2 · « **Reply #5 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:17:19 PM »

yep.. I think what you miss by not living here is that because of school shootings it has been made a requirement that all drawings and writings of this nature are reported. Secret service handles threats on the president. did they overreact? probly but they could get accused of undereacting if he ended up even knowing someone who made an assaination attempt.

lazs

Saurdaukar · « **Reply #6 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:24:04 PM »

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Originally posted by Thud
Absolutely, imagine what unprecedented destruction he could have caused if he would have unleashed the enormous power of his anti-war drawing

Clowns

Seriously. Good thing we ignored the harmless videotapes made by the Columbine students - CNN wouldnt have had anything to report that month.

Thud · « **Reply #7 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:30:26 PM »

Sure, just reflect on what kind of country you live in when everyone effectively has to be placed under stringent surveillance to warrant their and others' safety...

And at the same time many say that they utterly despise government interference but that teh Patriot Law doesn't offend them a bit. What an inconsistenties.

Furious · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:33:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Udie
This is clearly Bush's fault. Deth to Ameriika!

Is Grunny out sick today?

Mini D · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:47:03 PM »

It's OK thud, some day you'll realise that the secret service responded to something that went through 3 layers of "evaluation" before they even heard about it. That's a teacher, an admin and a police force that decided it was prudent to turn this over to the secret service.

Damn those nosey government officials that responded to concerns and decided not to make an arrest.

MiniD

deSelys · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2004, 04:54:13 PM »

Me thinks that the teacher, the admin and the police force haven't dared to endorse any responsibility...

lazs2 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2004, 05:04:58 PM »

gee thud... i'm not under stringent survailance... Bet if I threatened to kill the president I might get a little attention tho.

you don't live here and have probly never even visited... you really have no idea of what it is like here.

lazs

Creamo · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2004, 05:05:18 PM »

More government, F the parents. They can make the tax money to pay for this insanity.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2004, 05:11:14 PM »

If he had drawn a pic of the head of a classmate on a stick, I sure as **** would have wanted some authority to know about it.

Thud · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2004, 05:38:45 PM »

The Columbine videos brought up were a valid point because in that case one could assume that the tragedy might have been prevented in case the videos would've been discovered.

To surface at the first place these would require some thorough preventive investigation. That is the choice you'd face with respect to that particular case.

As to the Bush-drawing, if a caricaturous drawing with his head on a stake, made by a high-school student warrants a secret service intervention...

Especially when both the teaching staff and police (why were they involved?) already are notified it is laughable that s-s resources are wasted on such an 'incident'.