LiveJournalers vie for Secret Service members to add them as a 'friend'
anniesj's LiveJournal: a word to the wise "A couple of weeks ago, following the last presidential debate, I said some rather inflammatory things about George W. Bush in a public post in my LJ, done in a satirical style. .... At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother's front door to talk to me about what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat to his life."
The story goes that another LiveJournaler reported the suspect posts, (which have since been deleted), to 'the authorities'.
Why does it not surprise me this happened "on LiveJournal"?
And now of course this has apparently sparked numerous more 'inflammatory posts' on various LiveJournals, as well as debate as to how it's going to affect the yoot's future...
I like the quote from the movie "The American President", when the conservative guy running for president is given 'the dirt', an FBI file, on the president's girlfriend, he says, "Ah heck, even my mother has an FBI file."
I probably have an FBI file. I also probably have more pressing issues that I could fret about if I wanted to. And you would think the Secret Service would too...
After all, the Wilkes-Barre police probably wouldn't spend any time hunting down whoever stole a plant stand & a pumpkin out of my friend's yard the day she & her husband put a Kerry/Edwards sign on their lawn. And a guy I met some weeks ago told me how all the Kerry/Edwards signs in his neighborhood were stolen... and I don't think the police care to investigate that... and those are actual incidents of lawbreakers - they weren't just talkin' about it! (link via My Likes and Dislikes)
posted by Chloe | Thursday 28 October 2004 4:47 PM
Update: The content of the suspect post has now been aired on The POMO Blog:
The young woman is quoted as saying: "I posted my own "prayer", in which I asked God (after stating that I don't actually believe in God, therefore rendering this prayer meaningless) to inspire Bush and his cronies to commit mass suicide. I then made the joke that if we all prayed hard enough together, maybe we could give Bush an aneurysm."
Apparently the secret service deems the power of prayer to be a real and threatening weapon? Not only that, but that it can be utilized by non-believers!?!
Posted by Chloe | Friday 29 October 2004 9:48AM
The MetaFilter comments thread on this topic is hilarious...
Particularly the personal anecdotes of intimidation by authorities:
lodurr: "So he called for backup and hammered on my doorbell for 15 minutes in the middle of the night until I came down, then got right up in my face trying to get me to crack and demonstrate ownership of a red 72 GTO with a blower and a big box of plumbers tools in the passenger seat."
Posted by Chloe | Saturday 30 October 2004 12:07PM
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