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Originally Posted by Siege
I find it hard to believe that George Bush cares about the thoughts of a non voting person.
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The Secret Service is
required to investigate any death threats to the president (or other cabinet members). If someone reports it to them, such as this case, they have to go check it out. Now, they may realize it's a stupid call, but they have to go anyways. Otherwise, if this kid was serious and did go psycho, they'd get screwed for not investigating.
Generally, all it takes is for some idiot to get a nice sit down talk with the Secret Service to immediately straighten them out and make them realize they screwed up, bad - and they'll never do it again. So the kid got a rude awakening to what you're not supposed to do in the real world. He'll be scared about it now, and in 5 or 10 years, he'll laugh about how stupid he was.