At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door...
Tuesday, November 09, 2004
a word to the wise
A good thing to remember on this blog and any other.
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Personally, I think the man is chicken shit. Not only that, he removed the "offending" material that "might be misconstrued" as a threat to an official.
It is against free speech to wish that the president were dead? Surely Ashcrost, Norquist, Rove.
Would I personally kill them? I have no plans to dd so. Am I equiped to do so? Sure. How could I not be.
There are laws protecting the president and you may not threated him or encourage others to take action. But that applied only to the president and no other official in the country.
I was disappointed by a recent book of fiction where a character, hateful of the president, discussed a plot to kill him. That author was untouched, and his book was published.
However, I have twice since been "selected" by the Airline (those were the words, the airline) for a special search.
They are NOT finding out who is a threat to the security of the United States: they are creating an "enemies" list, much like Nixon. What used to cost hundreds of dollars to process an "enemy" now takes pennies. So, why not.
I bought three bags of caramels last night, dead haloween candy, 90% markdown, they cost 19 cents a bag. I suspect one can buy enemy lists pretty cheaply now too.
If the secret service comes to my door,I will likely say fuck you and go to jail. They won't have any law to justify my incarceration,but they no longer need it. As we have seen, there is no criminal prosecution for any police officer for any act, unless they kill you, and then they are inconvenienced by a trial pending acquittal. (Actually, I don't know if being suspended with full pay is a dis-incentive).
If you are NOT a family man, you are at risk, it is that simple. A free person, without entangling alliances, is free to act on her conscience, and that in itself represents a threat. Shit, we learned that in IBM management school.
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