"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?)
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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?
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And what exactly was the Secret Service doing on Myspace?
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Da_bang80
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Isn't it obvious? Looking for 14 year old girls...
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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?
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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.
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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".
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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?
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Shik
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It's USSS.
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And all this happened in my city... at least as far as I can tell.
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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.
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Da_bang80
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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.
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