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[kelliem]

Holy cow, this is scary: http://www.livejournal.com/users/anniesj/331112.html
(gakked from vagabondage)

Whatever happened to the right to free speech?

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[kelliem.livejournal.com]

Yeah, though you would think that the Secret Service could have spent 10 minutes reading the thread and determined there was no actual threat involved. It sounds fairly clear from the person's post that it was a joking thread and obviously so. They didn't need to descend on the person's house and scare them half to death. That's overkill.

[jidabug.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it was overkill, but the Secret Service has no sense of humor and there is never a time when it is acceptable to joke about doing harm to the president. They *must* investigate every "tip" they get, and just reading the thread wouldn't have been a very thorough job. For all they knew, there were other locked entries that were dead serious about such a thing.

[sithdragn.livejournal.com]

That's overkill.

Overkill, and your tax dollars hard at work, yessiree.

I'm sorry, but one week till the election and that was amongst the most serious threats to Dubya to be had? I find that very difficult to believe.