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Monday, October 16, 2006

Myspace.Fascist-Amerika.com


When you suggest that Amerika is becoming a fascist state, you get howls of indignation. The idea that Amerika has used 9/11 to curtail civil liberties in the same way the Nazis used the burning of the Reichstag will get you called all types of names, but here is an example of Amerikan paranoia and the type of secret police thought crime security that defines an authoritarian regime which is only a few goose steps away from becoming a fascist state.

How can anyone possibly defend secret security agents going after a 14 year old girl because she posted ‘Kill Bush’ on her myspace web page? That is the sort of thing Secret Police in fascist states do folks, not in the land of free speech. Dragging 14 year olds out of school to answer questions from the Secret Police, with no adults or parents to accompany you, to answer angry questions about things you’ve written about the ‘Dear Leader’ off the internet, and then threatened with a youth prison for saying thinga against the ‘Dear Leader’ – how can that be defended, not just in how inane the whole thing is, but in terms of resources. Wouldn’t you think that the secret intelligence services in Amerika have a lot of things to be getting on with? You know, like finding Bin Laden or stopping the next terror attack – I didn’t realize they had so much time and money to waste dragging 14 year old kids out of school to answer ‘Did you say a rude thing about President Bush’ – how paranoid and over the top is that?

When the intelligence services seriously view 14 year old girls who post ‘Kill Bush’ on their Myspace page as a genuine threat to National Security, be afraid, be very fucking afraid.

Secret Service questions teen over Web threats

SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com.

She posted a picture of the president, scrawled “Kill Bush” across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense.

It was too late.

Federal authorities had found the page and placed Wilson on their checklist. They finally reached her this week in her molecular biology class.

The 14-year-old freshman was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.

On Friday, the teenager said the agents’ questioning led her to tears.

“I wasn’t dangerous. I mean, look at what’s (stenciled) on my backpack — it’s a heart. I’m a very peace-loving person,” said Wilson, an honor student who describes herself as politically passionate. “I’m against the war in Iraq. I’m not going to kill the president.”

Her mother, Kirstie Wilson, said two agents showed up at the family’s home Wednesday afternoon, questioned her and promised to return once her daughter was home from school.

After they left, Kirstie Wilson sent a text message to her daughter’s cell phone, telling her to come straight home: “There are two men from the secret service that want to talk with you. Apparently you made some death threats against president bush.”

“Are you serious!?!? omg. Am I in a lot of trouble?” her daughter responded.

‘They yelled a lot’
Moments later, Kirstie Wilson received another text message from her daughter saying agents had pulled her out of class.

Julia Wilson said the agents threatened her by saying she could be sent to juvenile hall for making the threat.

“They yelled at me a lot,” she said. “They were unnecessarily mean.”

Spokesmen for the Secret Service in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., said they could not comment on the case.

AP

10 Comments:

At 16/10/06 10:20 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Orwell's 1984 has come a little bit late. He can be forgiven for that.

 
At 16/10/06 12:55 pm, Blogger Luke said...

This is seriously out of hand.

Its kind of good news for youth though, we are listened to but not how we are wanted to.

Haha yeh anon, i wonder if she was put into a chair and have that rat cage contraption attatched to her. Maybe jail was one of her fairs shes got on her myspace page?

big brother's waching you...now you can add him on myspace!

 
At 16/10/06 4:42 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

yep. This is seriously out of hand.
Killing Bush is too good for him.

 
At 16/10/06 5:08 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Personally I have a bit of a problem with anyone, let alone a 14 year old, calling for someone to be be murdered.

Either she is just mouthing off what she heard from someone else or she really means it - your call

The US has plenty of previous for Presidents being murdered.

I dont have a problem with the Secret Service checking it out, same thing would happen here, and rightly so.

 
At 17/10/06 1:41 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

KILL BUSH!
Come on, christ. She's a 14 year old girl desribed as being "passionate about liberal politics and cute movie stars". I say KILL BUSH all the time, on my blog, in instant message conversations, on messageboards. And Echelon still hasn't picked up on me yet. I think we are lucky we live in such a great country as far as freedom of speech goes. If I were to be challenged by America for saying KILL BUSH or I WANT BUSH MURDERED there would be a public outrage. We cannot be touched here :-) .

 
At 17/10/06 12:29 pm, Blogger Blair said...

It's a criminal offence to threaten to kill the head of state in most countries. So what?

I hope the girl learnt her lesson. She should stop being so hysterical about politics and learn to engage in rational debate.

 
At 17/10/06 8:23 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Nothing wrong with the Secret Service checking her out- she was not arrested or detained or punished in any way, and she did make a threat against someone (in this case the President's) life! She didn't mean it, but they had to find that out or not, and all's well that ends well. They should check it out- do the names Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy ring any bells? Reagan was shot too, but he survived. Better a teenager inconvenienced for an hour than an actual asassin is allowed to slip through the net.

 
At 17/10/06 11:09 pm, Blogger karlos said...

Thomas. Don't be too sure "We cannot be touched here". There are powerful lobby groups at work in NZ. A few years ago a guy was arrested for writing a damning letter about US policy to the US Emabassy in Wellington. Charges were eventually dropped but still...

Deano.
Threats of violence are deplorable. But I question the SS (ironic huh?) motives. I think they intended to send a message rather than show concern for the safety of the Cheif Monkey. I had web hosting turned down by a US host because the domain name had the word 'terrorists' in it. There's something real bad going on in the US, under the guise of National Security.

I also question their Intelligence. They must have known it was posted by a 14 year old girl. Plug "kill bush" into google and count the search results.
I question their integrity. They lied to her parents and then went after her a school.

I think she learnt her lesson: what they teach me about American freedoms in school is bollocks.

 
At 17/10/06 11:49 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I KNOW I can't be touched. Thats why I've written my own blog posting about my ideas on "Killing Bush", http://tjp-net.org . I did so in the full knowledge that the FBI, CIA, or whoever could find out where I live by doing a DNS lookup. But I know I'm safe.

 
At 20/10/06 12:59 pm, Blogger Bomber said...

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Deano - please explain the rational - 14 year old girl writes 'kill bush' on her web page, they do have the budget to snoop on Myspace but the intelligence departments still don't have the funding to screen each container through their ports. Has the threat threshold changed suddenly?

Best post goes to Karlos - I think she learnt her lesson: what they teach me about American freedoms in school is bollocks. - funny shit bro

 

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