Purdue student charged with threatening Bush (on Yahoo forum)

[sabra]

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/purdue18.html

Purdue student charged with threatening Bush

A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.

Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board. Buddhi has been studying industrial engineering at the university, having moved temporarily from India to his new home in West Lafayette, Ind., 10 years ago on a student visa. He was originally hired as a teaching assistant in the math department but was removed from that position and is now a teaching assistant in the industrial engineering department.

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Buddhi allegedly posted his messages on a Yahoo finance board dedicated to Sirius Satellite radio, a site that receives 2 million to 3 million hits a day, Martin said.

A concerned citizen contacted the Secret Service office in Dallas to report that a subject was posting threatening messages about Bush, according to the criminal complaint filed in federal court in Hammond (Ind.) and unsealed Monday.

[gatorboy]

1. Was it the same "concerned citizen"

that turned in Henry Rollins for reading "Jihad" on an airplane? :eyes:

[sharp_stick]

2. A concerned citizen?

Jesus Christ on an F'in stick this country is resembling the Soviet Union more and more every god damned day. I propose an immediate renaming of the Capitol Building and Senate Building the Politburo and Kremlin.

[BlooInBloo]

3. I'd like to see what he wrote...

... But no matter how despicable gw is, and how much better off we'd be if he weren't President, there ARE nonetheless lines one would do well not to cross.

[Democrats_win]

4. Freedom in Iraq: In Iraq you can yell Death to Sadam. In America you can

yell "Death to Sadam" too.

Remember the old joke about the Soviet Union? An American was bragging about freedom in America. He tells a Soviet citizen, we can drive our cars right up to the White House gate and yell, "Death to Reagan."

The Soviet citizen smiled and said we too have freedom. I can drive up to the Kremlin and yell, "Death to Reagan" too.

Now the question is, can we replace Reagan´s name with Bush now that we´ve become Soviet America?

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. That IS an old joke.

Nobody's been able to drive up to the WH gates for years.

I wonder if we ever will again.

[Radio_Guy]

6. How long before they come for us?

How long will it be before someone takes what we type here out of context and accuse us of threatening Bush? How long before one, some, or more of us are arrested for posting our opinions on DU?

[sabra]

7. the possibility frightens me.