'Kill Bush' rappers rapped by US (Original title)

BBC On-Line ^ | Thursday, 4 November, 2004 | staff writer

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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)

[Syncro]

You are both absolutely right.

If there is a proper place for zero tolerance it is a threat to our President.

It galled me no end when Craig Killborne showed a picture of President Bush with cross-hairs on it.

NOTHING happened to him.

He should still be in jail for that along with the producers of that show.

[Syncro]

I meant to ping you to my previous post

[Grampa Dave]

Well, it is a new world for these haters of Bush.

When we can document threats to our president, we should post it on Free Republic for the freepers and world to see.

Then we notify the SS, the fbi, homeland security and then the local cops and local DA.

That way no left wing bureaucrat of member of the MSM can hide or spike this action.

[TChris]

ROFL! LOVED the Swedish Chef on the Muppet Show when I was younger. :-)

[Syncro]

Yes things have changed exponentially.

Thank goodness.

[Grampa Dave]

Which is why we have to protect our president to keep those changes coming.

[MeekOneGOP]

Commies. It figures. Thanks, Knighthawk .....

[Syncro]

Oh yes that is a must.

My comment was more directed to the fact that the MSM has met it's waterloo what with the Internet (FR at the forefront) getting more mainstream as THE source of news without bias.

Buckhead thanks to CBS doing their thing thinking they could get away with it really got things rolling.

We have laurels, but not for sitting on...a lot of hard work ahead and we must stay vigilant.

Sunday there is going to be a patriotic event in San Francisco are you close enough to come?

[knighthawk]

Yeah, I thought I smelled a rat...

[Grampa Dave]

Sunday I will be a happy Grampa with my grand children helping me to celebrate my 66 the birthday which is toda.

Thanks anyway.

[BlueLancer]

"What the hell can these idiots rap about that wouldn't sound like the Muppet Show Swedish Chef??

Swedish Rap