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Secret Service Reads Livejournal

Posted by michael on from the underemployed-civil-servants dept.

Prong_Thunder writes "A livejournal post written on October 18th (google cache, scroll down to 'a prayer for dubya') resulted in a visit from the US Secret Service nine days later, as it 'constituted a possible threat to the president'."

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  1. Re:RIP some civil liberties by Mortlath · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Unless the FBI thinks that God exists and that this person was conspiring with Him to kill the President, there was no threat, period.
    It doesn't matter what the FBI thinks about God, it matters what the person in question believes about God.

    Crimes have been known to be committed in the name of God.

    I can see why the FBI might take this seriously. I think they just want to cover their rear-ends. If something did happen, they would be in deep trouble if it was known that they knew of a threat previously (kind of like what happened with Sep. 11 incident).

    -Morty