Message board poster threatens to kill the President, is arrested

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General Sherman said:
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.
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To support his story, I was subpoenaed for this one as well. I just didn't want to bring it up unless Watermark wanted to talk about it. I knew that his stuff wasn't serious, and would have warned him if I was allowed to...
 
\\(())// said:
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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I believe that the current head of the Secret Service testifying before Congress has a bit more weight than that. Seriously dude... that is flat not true.
 
I'll repeat the link for you, Rootbeer...

link

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.
 
\\(())// said:
The author appears to have conducted rigorous research and is well-reviewed.

Believe what you want.



http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101668.html

http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-08-17-presidents-secret-service_N.htm
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Um... The current Director of the SS has certainly done research on the topic.

The reality is the dude said something that was clearly not supported by the facts. Even a congresswoman fell for it, he rectified it.

It's been linked twice now. Ignore what the dude in charge of that says, don't look at the ideologue in the mirror...
 
Damocles said:
The link doesn't even deal with the exaggerated claim of 400% more, however ours directly quotes the Director of the Secret Service debunking the claim made in the book you are trying to deal with...Interesting... It's like you don't read your own links.
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Really?

So you believe the accounts of threats against Obama in the Wiki article, but not a book that featured interviews with agents?
 
Damocles said:
The link doesn't even deal with the exaggerated claim of 400% more, however ours directly quotes the Director of the Secret Service debunking the claim made in the book you are trying to deal with...

Interesting... It's like you don't read your own links.
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So you are willing to take the word of one person as if it were fact?
 
\\(())// said:
Really?

So you believe the accounts of threats against Obama in the Wiki article, but not a book that featured interviews with agents?
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Do you think that anybody suggested there are no threats on Obama?

I believe the Director of the Secret Service when he points out to a Congresswoman who fell for the same exaggerated numbers you apparently have fell for that they simply aren't accurate and that the threat numbers are the same as with the two previous Presidents. You, apparently, believe whomever says what you want to believe.
 
Damocles said:
Do you think that anybody suggested there are no threats on Obama?
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Just playing along... The Secret Service did not deny that there are threats made against Obama- just that they do not constitute a higher then normal number when comparing to the previous two presidents (pssst that would be Bush and Clinton)
 
\\(())// said:
I don't think that, nor did I say it. Somebody here said the number of reported threats was exaggerated.
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No, somebody here said that the report that they were 400% more than the past Presidents was an exaggeration debunked directly by the Director of the Secret Service to a Congresswoman who believed that exaggeration.
 
Damocles said:
No, somebody here said that the report that they were 400% more than the past Presidents was an exaggeration debunked directly by the Director of the Secret Service to a Congresswoman who believed that exaggeration.
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I wonder if you read the article you cited.

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

link
 
icedancer2theend said:
Just playing along... The Secret Service did not deny that there are threats made against Obama- just that they do not constitute a higher then normal number when comparing to the previous two presidents (pssst that would be Bush and Clinton)
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I guess this couldn't be true, then, could it?


Most however, are kept under wraps because the Secret Service fears that revealing details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...reats-a-day-stretching-US-Secret-Service.html
 
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