Miss. man accused of threat against Bush remains in jail:
20-year-old Neal Allan Thomas of Olive Branch, Mississippi is sitting in federal custody right now. Allegedly he hacked someone’s MySpace and posted messages on this person’s MySpace to blow up a fire station and assassinate President Bush. Obviously that didn’t sit well with the Secret Service.
He asked a federal judge to release him from prison prior to his trial and that request was denied.
He should consider himself lucky that he’s not in one of those secret prisons that the guys on message boards keep telling me about.
I defy anyone to tell me that this is a first amendment issue.
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Ok. It’s a First Amendment issue. I don’t believe in treating the President’s life any different from my own. Well, that’s not true. I value my own far, far more than I do his. They don’t do this to people who threaten “normal citizens,” so they shouldn’t do it to him either.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzt. Oh, I’m sorry that’s the incorrect answer. The correct answer is threats are not covered under the first amendment and yes regular people do get arrested for posting death threats against others. They just don’t get treated as harshly as someone who threatens the life of an elected official.
Your consolation prize is to take a grade school civics class.
I realise that. It is still a stupid and worthless law that smacks of authority worship.
You do realize that this law was in effect before the internet and will still be in effect when President-elect Obama takes office right?
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That is ridiculous. First,if someone made those kinds of threats against anyone they would go to jail and deservedly so. Nutjobs do tend to target presidents more often. Be it for fame or whatever their twisted mind works out as a reason. Remember a president named John F. Kennedy? We have to protect our leaders.
Well, let’s see. My cousin was threatened by her husband whom she was divorcing, threatene with murder, and all she got was a piece of paper, a ‘restraining order.’ He wasn’t locked up.
Again, I care far more about me and mine than I do about ‘leaders.’
He’s a terrorist, let him sit in jail for a few years so he learns his lesson. Also it will act as a deterrent to the rest of them.