Florida Student Posts Threat to Obaminator on Facebook

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  1. LSUTiga

    LSUTiga TF Pubic Relations

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    Good lord. Does this surprise anyone else, or am I just that naive? I've posted things half-assed in fun with no inkling of a serious consideration as to actually "meaning" it. I guess some idiots actually WOULD post it on the net if they had intentions?? I know I dam sure wouldn't if I was serious about harming anyone.

    EDIT: Sorry about thread title. Should read "threat".
     
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  2. mctiger

    mctiger RIP, and thanks for the music Staff Member

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    The Secret Service has no sense of humor. But....its against the law to threaten the President, whether you mean it or not.
     
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    red55 curmudgeon Staff Member

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    Naive. One man's half-ass, not-serious fun is often not funny at all to anyone else.

    People are responsible for what they say . . . even on Facebook . . . even on TigerFan. If you threaten the President here and the Secret Service comes to BRETT with a subpoena he must give up your address.
     
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  4. martin

    martin Banned Forever

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    Secret service knows they have Latin hookers in Miami and wants to field trip
     
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  5. Tiger_fan

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    depends on the sentence the judge decides to give him (sentencing is set for Aug. 22 before U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke, and she was nominated by President George W. Bush and served Florida Governor Jeb Bush's administration as chief inspector general)

    i think we all agree that he deserves some sort of penalty for having the Secret Service waste time, resources, and taxpayer money investigating his threats

    these were his two posts on facebook:

    1) two days before Obama's visit to the Univ of Miami, Feb 21--"Who wants to help me assassinate Obummer while hes at UM this week?"

    2) the day of Obama's visit to the Univ of Miami, Feb. 23 -- "If anyones going to UM to see Obama today, get ur phones out and record. Cause at any moment im gonna put a bullet through his head and u don't wanna miss that! Youtube!"

    so of course the Secret Service had to go waste time seeing what the deal was with this guy, two agents went to his home, he and his mother agreed to allow a search, etc

    (interesting sidenote: when the Secret Service searched his cell phone, they found a text on his phone where a friend warned him he might get in trouble for saying what he posted on facebook, and in his reply back to him, he talked about how he was going to challenge the Secret Service, and wrote: "I wanna kill at least two of them when they get here" ... he was originally charged with threatening the agents as well, but prosecutor Seth Schlessinger said that charge will be dropped)
     
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