Message board poster threatens to kill the President, is arrested

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WinterBorn said:
Oh, so only genuine threats result in arrests? lol Actually, since people are presumed innocent, there was only a serious threat if he is convicted. But you didn't ask me for evidence of genuine threats. You asked for evidence of leftwingers calling for Bush's assasination. I did that. Thanks for playing.
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Pictures of signs that may or may not be unaltered images don't count. If the authorities have any notion that a president is threatened, they investigate, and they make an arrest if warranted.

Not the case with your "examples" was it?
 
\\(())// said:
Pictures of signs that may or may not be unaltered images don't count. If the authorities have any notion that a president is threatened, they investigate, and they make an arrest if warranted.

Not the case with your "examples" was it?
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What I said was: "Probably no more than the leftwingers did during the Bush years. I seem to recall a lot of "Assasinate Bush" cheers."

You asked for evidence and I provided it. It was a common theme during the Bush years.
 
Rana said:
OBama receives 400% more death threats than did Bush.

I would say that is a few more...
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I would say you will buy into anything so long as it supports what you want to believe.

Secret Service: Threat level against Obama no greater than under Bush, Clinton

Bit of a bombshell at this morning's Homeland Security Committee hearing:

U.S. Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan dismissed published reports that the level of death threats against President Obama are four times greater than typical threat levels against recent presidents — claiming the current volume of threats is comparable to that under George W. Bush and Bill Clinton.

"It's not [a] 400 percent [increase]," Sullivan said during a heated exchange with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.), who suggested the service needed additional agents to protect the first African-American president.

"I'm not sure where that number comes from," he said, adding that the number of threats against Obama "are the same level as it has been [against] the last two presidents."

Sullivan said he would get more specific in a closed-door session with members of the Homeland Security Committee.

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WinterBorn said:
What I said was: "Probably no more than the leftwingers did during the Bush years. I seem to recall a lot of "Assasinate Bush" cheers."

You asked for evidence and I provided it. It was a common theme during the Bush years.
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Obama averages 30 death threats a day, that is more than Bush's three thousand in a year.
 
Rana said:
I am sure that if this was the case, she would have reported them to the FBI, because she is such a gold standard citizen and she hates and is obsessed with Prakosh, as far as I know, neither were investigated, so I believe her recall is a little off and very much tainted.
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Absolutely true. I recall one of those AOL RWs reporting a guy for making a threat, but the guy definitely wasn't Prak. And I guess iceslut forgets her pals making bullet threats against Low and others, so it's just the usual hypocrisy on her part.
 
In case you haven't noticed, Bush is not the subject of this thread.
 
WinterBorn said:
Oh, so only genuine threats result in arrests? lol

Actually, since people are presumed innocent, there was only a serious threat if he is convicted. But you didn't ask me for evidence of genuine threats. You asked for evidence of leftwingers calling for Bush's assasination. I did that. Thanks for playing.
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Actually, the law doesn't really make any serious distinction between genuine and non-genuine threats. For one thing, that would make it almost impossible to prosecute the crime, because everyone could always argue that it was a joke, and it's practically impossible to prove what's in someones head. Of course, the prosecutor will often choose not to pursue obviously spurious cases.
 
WinterBorn said:
Had one of those nutballs here when George W. was president. I haven't seen anything of KingRaw since, and we frequented 3 of the same websites.
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When I was 17, I found the notion that posting a obviously joking presidential threat would immediately draw the ire of social security laughable, and so I posted an extremely formal one (I'm never going to repost the words, but it was not like KingRaw's demented rants), punctuated by an expression of attraction to his daughters. I even posted that it was a joke in the thread. And, a few months later, lo and behold, the social security actually came to my house, and read the whole thing aloud to my father. I, of course, started crying, much like the pathetic pussy I am. After a few minutes of discussing things with me they soon realized that I was not the typical kind of suspect, being of a pacifist bent, and the lady actually gave my dad her card and told him to call her should anyone ever bring this up again.

Oh well.
 
Rana said:
Obama averages 30 death threats a day, that is more than Bush's three thousand in a year.
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The previous link from icedancer should have put that to rest. He receives no more than did the past two Presidents.
 
\\(())// said:
Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...reats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html
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Yet, another link in this thread puts lie to that directly from the head of the SS who directly stated that the rate of threats are no more than that of the previous two presidents.

I'll trust him a bit more to know the rate of threats than the Daily Telegraph.
 
Damocles said:
Yet, another link in this thread puts lie to that directly from the head of the SS who directly stated that the rate of threats are no more than that of the previous two presidents. I'll trust him a bit more to know the rate of threats than the Daily Telegraph.
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The author of the book In the President's Secret Service is the source. The Telegraph ran a story about the issue.
 
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