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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by Stompy
He shouldn't have been fired. Temporarily suspended because he as a govt. job AT MOST (I'm thinking reprimand), but completely fired? Haha, no.
The whole "people can't say 'kill the president'" is a myth.
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Freedom of speech isn't denied when it comes to the president. It's the equivalent of saying to someone, "I'm going to kill you". We've all said it before at some point, so does that mean we should lose our jobs? Nope! People just have a tendency to turn on their "stupidity" mode where they can't discern actual threat from figure of speech. If the cop had a gun in his hand and was around the GOP convention, then yes, arrest him as he'd probably be quite serious...
This is just ridiculous politics and is nothing more than his peers/boss being Republican.. that and the Gov. is Bush, so Florida essentially = Bush. A police officer saying this in, say, Detroit wouldn't be arrested, but a cop saying this in Texas would. Get the pattern?
This reminds me of Meet the Parents: "you can't say bomb on an airplane!" "bomb bomb bomb. bombbombbombbomb". Same thing  |
I'll assume that you missed the Howard Stern incident where a caller called in and jokingly said it. They asked him on air to recant the statement, and he refused. A few days later the FBI was at the radio station going through logs and such and picked up this fellow a couple days later.
It's not a myth, as there was even a youngster in high school investigated just recently. (If I could find the newsclippings I would link to them).
If you truly think that it is a myth, if I was to report your comment to the secret service, I'm sure that Halx would get a call regarding your post. If you are willing to bet your freedom on it, I'm willing to place the call.
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Last edited by Cynthetiq; 08-28-2004 at 12:04 PM..
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