Tell a joke about Bush in a S. Dakota bar and go straight to prison for threatening the president

[NNN0LHI]

I dare say if someone had been spotted carrying a weapon at a Bush event they would have been shot immediately. Bring guns to an Obama rally and everything is fine?

I think we need some new Secret Service personnel.

Don

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http://www.holysmoke.org/kh/kh582.htm

Burning Bush' comment draws prison term

Man plans to appeal

Friday, December 6, 2002 Posted: 2:59 PM EST (1959 GMT)

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) -- A man who made a remark about a "burning Bush" during the president's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.

Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon was convicted in September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free speech.

Humphreys said he got into a barroom discussion in nearby Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police Humphreys talked about a "burning Bush" and the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.

[rfranklin]

1. Thanks for posting that...I have often thought about that case...

when I see the threats that people make against the current POTUS. The lack of prosecutions is one of the reasons that they keep escalating their rhetoric--no consequences.

[RockaFowler]

2. "Overheard"

I love how this was overheard and he was put in jail. Yet day after day the Right-Wing says far worse about our President on TV and the Radio and the FCC and the Secret Service does nothing

[unblock]

3. sounds like the sort of thing you detain the guy for WHILE the president is in town

then drop the charges.

if they sent everyone who talked like that to prison for 37 months, our prisons would be really overcrowded.
heyyyyyyyyyy waitaminute....

[hootinholler]

4. Was it the one about the secret service taking up a collection?

That was a good one. Not as good as 3 brazilian soldiers killed, but I laughed when I first heard it.

-Hoot