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Secret Service Reads Livejournal
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'."
My kingdom for a mod point!!!
I can't believe that the parent was modded as flamebait! I guess the left-leaning slashbots can't understand a reasonable response.
I love it. From now on, everybody please use "SS" to stand for Secret Service.
Before all the flames start. When I was 7-10, I used to sleep in a bed in a room upstairs at my great-grandmother's house, near Paris France.
She later told me that during the second world war, two SS officers were billeted in that room. One of them slept in that bed from 1940 to 1944.
My mother was born in 1943. At that house. My grandfather spend 2 years in a german work camp, in Baden-Baden, then returned to France to work the farm so that german troops could eat. The only reason my mother got enought milk and food is because those SS officers made sure she did. Also, early in '44, the young one came back early and cried in my great grandmother's arms. His entire family had been killed in an American bombing raid in Germany. He was 22 or so. In July, as the american approached, the two germans left with their units. My great grandmother never saw or heard of them again.
All this to say that they were well meaning and doing their jobs with the diligence required by wartime military discipline.
The Secret Service ought to chill and let people express themselves.
"Piter, too, is dead."
Here we have an example of a post that needs to be moderated, -1 Overrated.
This is a proper use of that particular mod, as contrasted with using it to mod an unmodded post with which you do not agree.
Go ahead and mod it down now, then turn to page 47 of your texts.
What was that? You in the back. Good catch! Yes, this post you're reading now is a great example of an off topic post. Go ahead and mod it down, and open your texts.
It's not offtopic, dumbass. It's orthogonal.
Yeah, but: Clinton just got a blow job. Bush has indirectly slaughtered over 1,000 of your children.
If it was my children dying because Bush had Dick in his ear telling him to go to war to make more money, then I'd certainly want "an eye for an eye."
Back on topic, I read the cached version of her "prayer" and completely agree that it was satire, obviously so, and involved no real threat, from her or somebody else (other than God, who's going to kill all of us one day). Did the people who wrote the movie "Dead Presidents" get visits from the SS? (I love that abbreviation, makes them sound so Third Reichish.)
I feel fantastic, and I'm still alive.