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."
LOL...silly West Coast Conservative, quoting U.S. law like that. Judges don't care about U.S. Code.
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 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.
according to this law, how in the blue-eyed world could the conviction be overturned ?
I guess technically it wasn't a threat. It was just a wish.
This nut didn't personally threaten Bush's life, from what I read. He said that Bush would die because the terrorists promised it. Perhaps he's a cagey nut. He writes like he went my high school. If he did go to my high school he's been punished enough.