Posted on 09/07/2005 11:18:09 PM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
Secret Service investigates posting about shooting police, Bush
Associated Press
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a student who suggested in an Internet posting that people taking necessities after Hurricane Katrina should shoot police officers, guardsmen and President Bush if necessary.
Phillip Bailey, 21 and chairman of the University of Louisvill's Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, confirmed meeting with Secret Service agents on Tuesday. He said he does not regret his posting.
He said he was trying to say that it's understandable for people to fight for survival and claims that he wasn't advocating violence.
"I'm advocating that people defend themselves and survive," he said.
Local Fraternal Order of Police President Richard Dotson said one of his members alerted union leadership about Bailey's comments, and someone from the union reported the Web posting to the Secret Service.
"As far as I'm concerned, it's a direct threat against authority," Dotson said. "We're concerned that someone out there might believe the remarks of this man."
Bailey's message was posted Monday on a Web site called "The SOULution" and responded to a posting suggesting that looters be shot.
Bailey wrote that many people in New Orleans were simply trying to find necessities to stay alive, and noted, "I say shoot every cop, national guard and politician who stands in your way, INCLUDING GEORGE W. BUSH if need be."
James Cobb, special agent in charge of the Louisville office of the Secret Service, said it will be up to the U.S. attorney's office whether Bailey is charged with making threats against the president. The offense can carry a five-year penalty.
Bailey, who has been active in efforts to fight violence in the city, said he believes that people are trying to misuse his comments to discredit him. He is scheduled to appear next weekend on a panel featuring local religious, government and community leaders, including Metro Police Chief Robert White. The panel is supposed to discuss ways to help young black men in the city.
Christopher 2X, who works with Bailey on some projects, said the student should have been more careful about how he expressed himself, because any controversy can jeopardize the positive work he does.
"He's 21 years old and he's in a learning process, and what he did is not show good judgment," 2X said.
U of L professor Ricky Jones said Bailey's comments have been blown out of proportion.
"Phillip Bailey is not a terrorist," Jones said. "Phillip Bailey is not a presidential assassin nor a potential presidential assassin."
"Christopher 2X"
Must mean he's twice the idiot Phillip Bailey is.
That boggles the mind.
I loved his work with Earth, Wind and Fire.
Ya, like I'm going to believe a college professor.
I'm still trying to figure out how folks had to go looting for food and water after only one day without.
It's a sad state of affairs when our schools are so bad that they teach people to label themselves without teaching them what the words mean, like non violent in this instance.
It's often the people who try to put themselves off as the most compassionate that lash outlike this. I've seen it time and again with liberals, and several times here at free republic.
They'll call you insensitive, uncaring, unchristian - you name it. But if you stick to your guns and prove your position correct, they'll start lashing out at you. Projection - "I think you must be a horrible, violent person because deep down that's what I really am".
Well said.
Bless his heart..he is just 21 and in a learning process..
OK. Who does the DUmmy funnies? Didn't I read on there that someone from DU said basically the same thing?
Since when is shooting someone NONVIOLENT?
Remember all those who said that Mohammad Siddique Khan was not a terrorist? That he was just a simple Yorkshire school teacher? That there was no way he could have been a suicide bomber -- that the police must have been mistaken in identifying him. And so forth.
It appears that he completely misses the point of having a NONVIOLENT committee. As usual, the "tolerance" o the left only extends to those that fully agree with them.
Terrific point! As to the statement made by the idiot: if what he repeated in the article is what he did say, I don't see a 'direct threat against the President' The President wouldn't be down there confronting looters. He could have just as easily said, 'even Jesus if necessary'. I'm more outraged about his call to shoot police, it would be the latter who would be confronting looters.
Hehe...see post 17...you beat me to it while I was searching for an image...
No, he is an adult and should be responsible for his mouth.
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