The US embassy takes threats
against the president very seriously
Posted on 11/04/2004 1:47:59 PM PST by yankeedame
Last Updated: Thursday, 4 November, 2004, 17:36 GMT
'Kill Bush' rappers rapped by US
The US embassy takes threats
against the president very seriously
A Norwegian rap group that criticised US President George W Bush by setting up a website whose name means "Kill him now" is in trouble with US authorities. Washington's embassy in Oslo has reported hip-hop artists Gatas Parlament to the police, accusing them of threatening the president.
Their website argued for shooting the US president and urged readers to pay money towards a bounty on his head.
Gatas Parlament, or Street Parliament, has defended the exercise as a satire.
Oslo police has since taken the site, www.killhim.nu, off the internet.
In its place now is a copy of the police order closing down the site.
'Political campaign'
The .nu suffix appears at the end of several addresses for web sites based in Scandinavia.
However, it also sounds similar to the Norwegian word for "now" - leading to the suggestion that Gatas Parlament's website was calling for President Bush's immediate assassination.
Oslo police said they planned to interview the rap group to find out whether they should be charged with threatening the president.
If found guilty, the charge could lead to a fine or a maximum prison sentence of two years.
A member of the band, Aslak Borgersund, told a Norwegian newspaper it was "pretty obvious to everyone who does not work for the American embassy or the police that this wasn't about killing anyone".
He described the website as a political campaign.
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(Presenting GATAS PARLAMENT --YD, w/ thanks to Google. )
(I guess this one was for the cover of "Tiger Beat". -- YD)
Those bad a$$ Norwegians.
I hope these people are in a mess of trouble like they never could have imagined.
They'd look like they'd been dropped into a mowing machine.
We must develop a zero tolerance this hate talk where our president is threatened. I have informed one liberal if I hear him going where he did before the election, I will turn him into the SS.
There is a complete pyscho who goes to our church who will be told the same thing.
I fear for that some left lunatic will encourage some pyscho to try and harm our president. So I have a zero tolerance for this talk at this time.
Lars Diddy and Snoop Doggy Ole?
How about we throw them in jail - just as satire, of course. I'm sure they would appreciate the artistic value.
A Norwegian rap group? What the hell can these idiots rap about that wouldn't sound like the Muppet Show Swedish Chef?
Now that's the kind of satire I like.
Norveggiehead RAPPERS???
It's a good thing .
And they visit it every now and then?
Anything is possible.
Oh, that's just sad.
We must develop a zero tolerance this hate talk where our president is threatened.
Agreed! Although I haven't come across any psychocRATS in my (more conservative) area who have threatened the President, if I do, they'll be reported.
I think we need to very publicly whack these turds. Drop a JDAM on stage during their next concert?
Ping
Prisoner# 8ALRG1, the convict formerly known as Phat Sven.
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