"Julia Wilson plans to post a new MySpace.com page, this one devoted to organizing other students to protest the Iraq war.
"'I decided today I think I will because it (the questioning) went too far,' she said."
Good for her. She shouldn't let them frighten her into submission. (And, frankly, what else could have been their intent in pulling a 14-year-old out of class to yell at her about her MySpace page?)
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
So if I posted on this forum that I wanted to kill Bush the Secret Service weenies would come all the way up to Canada and ask me some questions and yell at me?
Posted by Hobbes (Member # 138) on :
Yes.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
And what exactly was the Secret Service doing on Myspace?
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
Isn't it obvious? Looking for 14 year old girls...
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Well, it's not as though they were quick to act- she had deleted the page in July.
Good thing she did not really mean the president any harm, right?
Posted by WizArtist II (Member # 1425) on :
If they had NOT followed up and this person had been wacko enough to actually TRY to kill Bush, there would have been an outcry of why didn't they question her. It doesn't matter if you like or dislike Bush or Clinton or anyone else duly elected, you simply can't make those types of threats.
They are upset that she got yelled at and were....gasp....MEAN? I guess calling for someone to kill someone is sweet and innocent and peace-loving. It's time to reboot society.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Actually, the parents mostly understood the questioning part, and did not know of approve of the girl's statement: they are pissed that the Secret Service imterrogated their (minor) daughter without their being present and went out of their way to get her at school (they'd already been to her housea and would not wait the hour untill she got home).
Still...almost three months between the page's deletion and the questioning is not encouraging.
When asked on CNN if she learned anything from all this she said "Yes: that the government is watching us".
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
I wouldn't blame the Secret Service (can't use the abbreviation SS... or can we?) for following up on the apparent threat. But once they verified the girl's identity, that should've been the time to back off. Instead, they decide to use intimidation. That's the problem, the attitude... plus the decision to pull the kid out of class, after giving the parents the impression that they were going to wait and come back once she got home!
Besides, haven't we all expressed the wish that someone or other would just drop dead at some point in our lives?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
It's USSS.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
And all this happened in my city... at least as far as I can tell.
Posted by Daniel Butler (Member # 1689) on :
I agree with MinutiaeMan. As soon as they realized it was a harmless 14-year-old girl they should've backed off instead of interrogating her.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
quote:Originally posted by Shik: It's USSS.
No, that's "United States Space Ship." Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
quote:Originally posted by MinutiaeMan:
quote:Originally posted by Shik: It's USSS.
No, that's "United States Space Ship."
I don't think we're quite at that point yet.
Shik is right though, USSS is the acronym Tom Clancy uses in his books. And that guy knows his stuff. Writes a damn good book too.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
No. USED to write a damn good book. Not anymore.
Posted by Mars Needs Women (Member # 1505) on :
Now they're all video games for the XBox.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
I bet he still cashes a damn good royalty check.
Posted by Lee (Member # 393) on :
That last one he wrote, Dragon's something, something Dragon, whatever it was called. . . unreadable. It was so bad, I suspect he didn't even write it.
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
The Bear And The Dragon. Written because he liked Ben Affleck as Jack Ryan SO MUCH in the movie version of The Sum Of All Fears that he's started doing Jack Ryan, Jr. books just so they can be made into movies starring Ben Affleck.
Clearly, he is a pod person.
Posted by Zefram (Member # 1568) on :
I even found some of Clancy's more popular earlier novels, such as The Hunt for Red October, hard to read. I haven't seen so many consecutive sentences ending in "such-and-such said" or "said such-and-such" since junior high school. Generally good ideas, poor execution.
Michael Crichton's Plot-O-Matic-produced novels caused me to lose interest in his books too.
Posted by Da_bang80 (Member # 528) on :
I haven't gotten around to Red October, I'm woking my way through Executive Decisions right now. I don't much care for his Jack Ryan books, or his Jack Jr. books. But I love reading his John Clark work (Without Remorse, Clear and Present Danger, and Rainbow Six)
quote: Now they're all video games for the XBox.
Actually only one of his Xbox games were based on an actual book (Rainbow Six) the rest are spinoffs. Most likely they took his ideas and made them into games instead of making his books into games.
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