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Teenage girl quizzed over MySpace anti-Bush page

A US girl of 14 was dragged out of class by Secret Service
agents for calling President Bush an idiot on her MySpace page.

Julia Wilson's internet page, called "So Bush is an idiot but hey
what else is new?", infuriated security experts, reports The Mirror.

She also posted the words "Kill Bush" and ran a cartoon
of a knife stabbing the hand of the president.

Two federal agents went searching for Julia at her home
before finding the teenager at school in Sacramento, California.

After pulling her out of class, they subjected her to a 20-minute interview.

Julia said: "I told them I just really don't agree with Bush's politics.
I do not have any plans of harming Bush in any way.
I am very peaceful. I just don't like Bush."

She said the agents warned her she could be locked
up for making the threat.

Dad Jim Moose added: "I don't condone what she did,
but it seems a little over the top. You'd think they could
determine that she's not a credible threat."


As I recall back in the Thatcher years our own Special Branch interviewed some woman in Devon who wrote to a newspaper to say she thought Pres Regan was mad.

I guess that, like most 14-year-old teenage girls, the girl in question is a naive silly cow with little understanding of the world around her and how it works. But, this being America with it's availability of deadly firearms to virtually all citizens, idiotic statements, like the one's made by this girl, have to be taken seriously. Over the years there has been a steady stream of troubled, confused, young people taking up arms and killing their classmates, teachers (I Don?t Like Mondays) or anyone else who might be in the vicinity. Even the silliest, most na?ve, seemingly harmless person, can quickly become a deadly threat when tooled up with a Winchester, Remington or Smith & Wesson etc. In this case I guess the authorities had to check her out.

However, I read a similar type of article in The Sunday Times this week, where a 15-year-old schoolgirl had been hauled off to the Police cells. Her crime? She declined to join an all-Muslim girls set/group in her class because she couldn?t understand half of them and couldn?t relate to any of them. Apparently, the teacher went nuts, screaming that she was a ?racist? you know ? like only crazed middleclass nutters can. Yes, apparently the teacher was carried away on a wave of political zealotry and called the Old Bill, denouncing the hapless girl as a fascist and racist. Even the PC?s are PC nowadays, so they had no compunction in carting her off to the nick (don?t know if they locked her in cell 101, it didn?t say). Anyhow, they let her out some time latter after a police caution. I find all this very disturbing. The girl had not threatened to kill anyone or anything like that, she simply suggested that she would rather work with girls who she had more in common with. Is 1984 belatedly upon us? Can we not express a preference without being dragged off by the thought police? Shouldn?t we wake up before this goes any further?


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Well, had it not been for the threat, I doubt this would have happened. The Secret Service takes threats agains the Prez very seriously. Unfortunately assassination is not unknown here.

I'd say it's ALL a bunch of crock!

always thought america was a free country.andy at handiwork wrote:

> Just found this....
>
> Teenage girl quizzed over MySpace anti-Bush page
>
> A US girl of 14 was dragged out of class by Secret Service
> agents for calling President Bush an idiot on her MySpace page.
>
> Julia Wilson's internet page, called "So Bush is an idiot but
> hey
> what else is new?", infuriated security experts, reports The
> Mirror.
>
> She also posted the words "Kill Bush" and ran a cartoon
> of a knife stabbing the hand of the president.
>
> Two federal agents went searching for Julia at her home
> before finding the teenager at school in Sacramento,
> California.
>
> After pulling her out of class, they subjected her to a
> 20-minute interview.
>
> Julia said: "I told them I just really don't agree with Bush's
> politics.
> I do not have any plans of harming Bush in any way.
> I am very peaceful. I just don't like Bush."
>
> She said the agents warned her she could be locked
> up for making the threat.
>
> Dad Jim Moose added: "I don't condone what she did,
> but it seems a little over the top. You'd think they could
> determine that she's not a credible threat."
>
>
> As I recall back in the Thatcher years our own Special Branch
> interviewed some woman in Devon who wrote to a newspaper to say
> she thought Pres Regan was mad.

yeah its best to be a bit diplomatic i spose.

"Only this morning GWB was trying to threaten North Korea by implying that they might send Iran nuclear weapons."

Wow, really? I missed that. Can you give a link?


"bring down the world in flames if he goes on"

?The world?? Don't you think you might be just, ever so slightly, over-egging it there, Keith? I mean, even if we let speculation and imagination run riot there are only two real contenders to be 'flamed' - Iran and North Korea, which hardly equates to the whole world. I think we Europeans can sleep soundly in our beds on these issues.


?I thought the USA was a place where you could speak your mind unlike those communist countries.?

Well, it is ? and she did. But (not unreasonably) there are laws against making public threats to kill someone. Particularly if your intended victim happens to be the head of State!



Officer Dibble