Posted on 04/08/2005 4:27:51 PM PDT by mdittmar
Mailing a letter to the White House supporting President Bush's death at the hands of terrorists is not illegal, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
The decision overturns the conviction and 18-month sentence given last year to an Oregon inmate who sent a rambling, poorly written letter to the president. It read, in part, "You will die too George W Bush real Soon they Promised That you would Long Live Bin Laden."
(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...
Imagine if Kerry were president.
LOL...silly West Coast Conservative, quoting U.S. law like that. Judges don't care about U.S. Code.
Get a rope...
Public school product, no doubt.
A close friend of mine once told the story of a classmate who had this brilliant idea to send the President of The United States a threatening letter as a prank. They were in high school at the time.
After two secret servicemen payed his friend a personal visit, the joke was no longer funny. The student never did that again.
This inmate is not a high school student.
But are we surprised at this ruling?
Any word on an appeal?
"any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States"
It appears to me that the guy didn't make a direct threat. He only expressed a wish for those things to happen. It's the difference between saying "I wish someone would kill you" and I'm going to kill you". I don't like it but it appears that the court is right.
We see DUmmies do worse all the time.
howjaguess?
I don't know, I don't want to join the site just to read the rest of the story.
Me neither - lol.
Now if this had been sent to Clinton, you could throw away the key on this guy. But since it is a conservative nothing is out of bounds.
"You will die too George W Bush real Soon....",looks direct to me,but hey,I don't wear a black robe.
As my old Drill Instructor used to say in boot camp: "You could F**k up a wet dream" with such comments.
google news,judge
But saying 'You suck' to a Democrat president while he's passing is more than deserving of detention and interrogation. We've passed through the Looking Glass, Alice.
according to this law, how in the blue-eyed world could the conviction be overturned ?
Circuit, circus, circle; what's the difference?
Just curious. The world needs more literary references.
It's been a pretty long time since that was important.
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