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."
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What the Hell...
The same letter to Lord High Chief Justice Greer would land one in the slammer for life.
what exactly does the LAW say ?
I assume this guy will be forever watched by the secret service and with a little luck he'll step over the line and get himself into real trouble that he can't weasel out of.
9th Circus?
Like hell.You would never live to see a trial.He would just order his baliff to shoot you in the spine and drag your body to main street at high noon as a warning to other uppity serfs to never question the kings authority.
What's the big deal? Demorats say this all the time.
3 judge panel from the 9th Circuit. Figures.
I think Oregon is indeed in the 9th Circuit.
Yes. Unanimous 3-clown panel.
So I ask, just who is running this country?
18 USC Sec. 871:
"...Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both."
Actually, Judge Greer would order that the inmate be denied nourishment until this natural and peaceful demise.
he prolly dint use punctuation or capitals and wrote in hugh run-on sentences with many misspeelings and many abbrvs
"You can mail a letter to the POTUS saying he'll die and praising terrorists, but Teddy Kenndey pees his pants about Tom DeLay supposedly justifying violence against judges. (which DeLay didn't)"
WORTH REPEATING!
WORTH IMPEACHING!
...and I don't mean impeaching Dubya....
Of course it isn't a crime.
Patriotic heterosexual white Christian conservative male who likes guns? - now that's a crime!!!
democrats, republicans, no difference. Welcome to America 2005.
"What the Hell..."
That says it all. There is an out and out war of the left and the leftist judiciary against our President.
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