Vehicle slogan earns a visit from the Secret Service

[sabra]

Source: charlestoncitypaper

On Monday, July 23, the day of the Democratic presidential debate in Charleston, a red minivan cruised around town with the words "Shoot George Bush at ShootGeorgeBush.com" written in bright green letters across the rear window. One side of the vehicle read, "Crawl back to Crawford, George. It's all you've got left," while the other simply stated, "George Bush Sucks."

Steve Pridemore, who owns and operates a local courier company, likes to take advantage of his days spent driving the Lowcountry's roads by etching political commentary in erasable ink on his vehicle. He's also the owner of the aforementioned domain name, a site he plans to develop as a Flash game where users can fire off artillery at a cartoon Dubya.

"It'll basically be a game where you can take pot shots at good 'ol George and his evil henches," says Pridemore. "When you hit him, he'd pop up and say 'I've got to tighten up that Patriot Act,' or 'I'll get you, Osama!' The president wouldn't be dead. He might get hit a lot, but he'd still be talking, just laying there in pieces."

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Unfortunately for Pridemore, he chose to advertise his site one day prior to Bush's visit to the Air Force base in North Charleston. About midnight on Monday evening, Pridemore answered a knock on the door of his mobile home on Remount Road to two Secret Service agents, flanked by two North Charleston police officers. The agents entered his home and began searching the premises, presumably for signs of any real intention by Pridemore to kill the president.

"I told them that Bush has nothing to fear from me, and neither does anybody else," says Pridemore. "They commented that the site wasn't up yet, so I know they'd checked it out. They were more concerned about whether I had any weapons of mass destruction in the motor home."


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[formercia]

1. Left-wing Moran

What do you expect,flowers?

[Cpl Frank]

5. Moran?

What's a "Left-Wing Moran?

[formercia]

6. The much more common Right-Wing Moran:

Homo Knuckledraggus

[Bitwit1234]

2. Truthfully no matter who they are I don't support somebody

even in jest saying shoot bush or cheney or rove or democrats. It only promotes violence. We all complain that coulter and the fox trash channel call for the killing and violence against democrats, we should encourge the killing of republicans either.

[formercia]

4. Another Terra provocation?

Perhaps it was the boys having a little fun on us.

[OnyxCollie]

3. Duh. nt

[loves_dulcinea]

7. i live only a few miles from this guy

i've never seen anyone around here display more than the odd crossed w or the bumpersticker that reads, "if you aren't outraged, then you aren't paying attention".

charleston is more blue than the rest of south carolina, but that doesn't mean that the people here are generally liberally inclined. i find it hard to believe that any business owner would risk the loss of custom which might be brought by such an outrageous sign.

the only place that might be more red than south carolina would be texas.

[formercia]

8. Any way to check if this guy is real?

or is this some Administration fabrication?

[Blue_Tires]

9. there is nothing at the URL

[UpInArms]

10. this only goes to prove the

"there ought to be limits to freedom"

Bush has shown a preoccupation with the Internet's potential to harm him. In February, months before Bush announced his candidacy, his top political adviser, Karl Rove, registered dozens of potentially off-color or pejorative domain names--at $70 a pop--so one could use them to create Web sites that parody Bush.

Congress took up, but put off, legislation to deal with the issue, often called cybersquatting--in which someone registers an individual or company name with the hopes of profiting from it.

[IndianaGreen]

11. Secret Service searched the house without a warrant, or jurisdiction?

Oh, I forgot. Our brave Democratic Congress did away with the Fourth Amendment. Gonzo rules!