Judge Won't Drop Bush Threat Charge Against Purdue University Student

[Kadie]

Judge Won't Drop Bush Threat Charge Against Purdue University Student
Monday, June 04, 2007


HAMMOND, Ind. — A judge refused to throw out a Purdue University student's indictment on charges alleging he urged the assassination of President George Bush and made threats against other administration officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney and his wife.

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Buddhi, an Indian national who was attending advanced engineering classes at Purdue's West Lafayette campus, faces an 11-count complaint for alleged comments he made in an Internet chat room in 2005 and 2006.

Friday's indictment alleges that he made threats against the president, Vice President Dick Cheney and their wives. He also made threats against then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and called for the bombings of the American infrastructure, it alleges.

"It is now legal under international law to bomb key sites in the USA. Iraqis! Give Anglosaxons the tit reaction for the tat action of Bush and the Republicans," Buddhi wrote in one posting, according to federal court records.

Buddhi's federal public defender, John Martin, has argued that Buddhi's comments were protected speech under the First Amendment because they were intended as "political banter" in opposition to the war in Iraq.

For example, on a message board pertaining to defense contractor Halliburton, Buddhi posted that "Bush is a President of Mass Destruction" and "should be electrocuted."

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,277816,00.html

[AndyA]

1. Well, they should go after Ann Coulter too.

Ann Coulter:

"We need somebody to put rat poisoning in Justice Stevens' creme brulee..."

She said she was joking, but the mere suggestion might give someone ideas.

[Bitwit1234]

3. I was just thinking the very same thing.

Why is Coulter allowed to urge people to kill federal judges. Granted they aren't the president, but they are federal officers of the court.

[MindPilot]

4. Or this guy...

In his first interview as the chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party, Dennis Milligan told a reporter that America needs to be attacked by terrorists so that people will appreciate the work that President Bush has done to protect the country.

[madrchsod]

2. one can not say things like this concerning the president

does`t matter what party or how much we dislike a president..it`s just not done unless one is ready to face arrest.