I agree. They have done a very good job of dealing with these because I often hear they investigated and yet I never see any press shit, any grandstanding, any abuse of the freedoms. It's a part of law enforcement that seems to be working well.

As to some of the other sub-thread stuff going on I got confused!! :)

I wonder...if DD had made the exact same threat against GW...would he have been disappeared?

one of those bad Lifetime TV movies with an even worse title. (which I won't bother writing out 'cause it'll only make the thread worse)

You weren't the catalyst.

to start making guesses...sometimes the urge to poke the rabid dogs is just a bit difficult to resist.

you really, really, really don't have to reply. Or be bothered. REALLY.

Predicto called for the out right murder of our president and he used extremely racist and vile terms while doing so. Publicly calling for the murder of our president is a serious felony, or at least it used to be....

It does not matter were it is done.

You called people on this board traitors simply for having a differing opinion than the sitting president during war time. Predicto called for our presidents murder during wartime. That makes his threats even more serious..

Some of the places he posts are linked to the open public where any crack smoking ditto head could act out on the stupidity.

You had the S.S. check out the postings on BOTF?

Well, that explains the unfamiliar van, with dark smoked windows, that's been parked across the street from my house all afternoon.

Try to keep that kind of thing to a minimum, please. What they don't know, won't hurt me.

Good to hear pov from a legal mind. Although Predicto was determined to be a "crank", there MAY have been a real threat. He did post a method of accomplishing what he "wished" and, even if he had no intention of carrying it out, how many people who pass thru here and never post could have been given the idea to follow thru? It's too dangerous just to let it go...

"Threats against the President-Elect will be taken very seriously," said U.S. Attorney Lampton. "Use of internet chat rooms to express those threats is as much a crime as uttering the words. Threats of this nature will be pursued swiftly and vigorously."

This following the arrest of a man in Mississippi who made threats against Obama.

The whole thing is unbelievable. Doggie was and is a complete idiot but dangerous? No wonder Slate is pissed off at BOTF.

...correctly, he did not say that he was "kidding" until after his visit from SS...you can check that out. The line-crossing exercise was actually posting a PLAN as to how he would kill the Prez, including what ammo to use...what if some nut job worse than him had read it (not all who read here post) and considered/attempted it?

Cat says it happened in BB...so Slate is pissed off at BOTF over something that happened in BB?

You called people on this board traitors simply for having a differing opinion than the sitting president during war time.

No, I didn't. I called them traitors for actively helping the enemy to kill our soldiers. Ie: Harry Reid standing at the Senate podium, ranting that the war was lost.....when it was not lost. This constitutes treason, in my opinion.

Many others. like Ted Kennedy, claiming the war was illegal and that Bush should be tried at The Hague...shit like that.

Jack

I still hang in BB for old times sake. Predicto has been spamming it for ages. You should see some of the top posts over there, its like a list of poems by Frat House Morons. Some are so funny I laugh out loud but dangerous? Juvenile, idiotic, stupid....yes. Funny? Absolutely. Some of the best writing on The Fray is in these taunting homo posts over there, I swear they are priceless plays on words.

Really!