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I can understand the Secret Service's job and I wholeheartedly respect that they take threats seriously. However, for noone from Wal*Mart to the local police to tell them that this was a kid, or to go to his school and confiscate the poster is a tad extreme.
I am sure or at least I would hope the Secret Service has more to do than to worry about a high school students project.
And if it truly "is their job to investigate all threats to the president" then why did we not hear of them investigating a known felon when G. Gordon Liddy announced on his radio show, "I name my shooting targets Bill and Hilary." Is that not more of a threat than some high schoolers project? Especially when there was a possibility of some of his listeners taking that seriously?
By the confiscation of this poster and the threat that, "the incident "would be interpreted by the U.S. attorney, who would decide whether the student could be indicted", should be warning flags that perhaps we are losing our right to free speech.
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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"
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