Posted on 10/07/2008 8:04:22 PM PDT by little jeremiah
Secret Service visits Lufkin woman after 'death threat' allegation from an Obama campaign volunteer
By JESSICA SAVAGE The Lufkin Daily News
Monday, October 06, 2008
A Lufkin woman received a surprise visit from the Secret Service last week because of a "death threat" comment she reportedly made about Sen. Barack Obama to a campaign volunteer asking for her support of the presidential candidate.
Two federal agents arrived at Jessica Hughes' home Thursday to ask her if she said, "I will never support Obama and he will wind up dead on a hospital floor."
Jessica Savage/The Lufkin Daily News (ENLARGE) Jessica and Micah Hughes say two Secret Service agents showed up on their doorstep Thursday after a campaign volunteer for Sen. Barack Obama accused her of making a 'death threat' during a phone conversation a day earlier.
Hughes said her words were deliberately twisted by a volunteer who was apparently unhappy Hughes was rude during a phone conversation the two had. The Lufkin mother, a Republican, said she received a call on her cell phone Wednesday from a woman with the Obama Volunteers of Texarkana.
"She asked if I was an Obama supporter, to which I replied, 'No, I don't support him. Your guy is a socialist who voted four times in the state Senate to let little babies die in hospital closets; I think you should find something better to do with your time.' (And then) I hung up."
(Hughes is referring to a "born alive" Illinois bill that did not pass in the Illinois state Senate in 2005 and had previously been opposed by Obama because he said it undermined Roe v. Wade, according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan organization. A federal version of the bill, which Obama said he would have supported, passed by unanimous consent and was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2002.)
Obama Campaign Communications for Texas director Josh Taylor declined to comment Monday, refusing to answer any questions and referring the matter to the Secret Service, which he said is conducting an investigation. A message left with a Secret Service agent in Houston was not immediately returned.
Hughes said she was surprised to see two Secret Service agents at her door, and upset to learn that the conversation she had with the volunteer apparently had not been recorded.
"I find it hard to believe that (campaign volunteers) don't tape these calls. They call people unsolicited and they aren't monitoring the calls or recording them? I think that is absolutely ridiculous," she said.
"I mean, how often must this happen — that someone is rude to a volunteer that they don't want to talk to?"
Hughes said she wants to file a countercomplaint against the volunteer.
"She has made a charge that will follow me the rest of my life," she said.
"I find that repugnant and violating — that some person got her undies in a bundle because she didn't like what I had to say."
I heard your call on Hannity and had to pull over because I was shouting at Hannity! Please keep us updated and I will follow your blog. Fellow FReepers that could have been any number of us on the receiving end of this visit. Truly frightening.
The seeds have been planted. They are watering and feeding them.
Just following orders, huh?
They have no right to call her remarks RUDE.
She told the caller WHY SHE WAS NOT A SUPPORTER, that’s all.
It’s a little teensy taste of what the future holds if Obamination wins. Of course, he will only win by massive voter fraud, and that’s why ACORN’s been in overdrive.
The rioters will be in for a rude suprise when there is police swat teams and the NG is called out. Those riots will be supressed very fast.
I found this posting at The Annoyed Army. This person claims to have a son who works with the very agents who came to my door so I guess they were the real deal and they were ticked that I got ticked.
Oh well, last I checked citizens paid their salary. I was patient until the woman got rude and the man questioned my thoughts. That’s my limit.
“I cannot say too much without compromising my son but when I first got the e-mail about this (I’ve gotten it four times) I forwarded to him for his comments and he asked me not to quote him, for obvious reasons.
But, he did say I could tell people that (1) he has worked with these two agents on numerous occasions, as they are both also assigned to the Houston Office, and he has NEVER - not a single time - seen them be anything but polite and professional and that they all have it hammered into their heads from day one of their training that they MUST at all times be polite to keep from damaging the image and reputation of the service.
And (2) that the Service MUST - by law - investigate ANY allegation of a threat that is made to a public official they are responsible for protecting, even if does not APPEAR serious on the surface. They have NO CHOICE. If they just ASSUMED a threat was not serious and it turned out to be otherwise they would be - justifiably - crucified for not doing their job.
As I said, I can’t give you specifics but let me just say that there IS another side to this story but the difference is that the agents cannot publicly defend themselves while this lady is free to spread her accusations far and wide over the internet.
MY opinion? And remember.....this did NOT come from my son...the lady was ticked off (justifiably if she really did not make the comment) and took it out on the Agents, getting in their face with BOATLOADS of attitude, possibly refusing to cooperate. At that point the Agents probably stressed upon her the seriousness of a threat and they also probably mentioned that if she refused to cooperate with them their only alternative would be to talk to other people to see if they could find out if she might actually be a threat. But she turned their words around to say they THREATENED her, taking their innoculous comments and misrepresenting what they said.
Again, my son did not SAY that’s what happened but I’m BETTING that’s what happened. The lady called Sean Hannity’s show last Friday to tell “her story” and she was ranting and raving and I have no doubt that was her attitude with the Agents talked to her.
By the way, she got NOWHERE with Sean Hannity as he said he had been around a lot of SS Agents and that they had a difficult job and he had never seen any of them behave that way.
Just keep in mind......there IS another side to this story. Oh, and by the way, they don’t HAVE badge numbers!”
I still see a double standard here. Early in the year a Nobel Prize winner from 2007, a UK citizen made a prediction about Sen. Obama that if he wins the White House, he will be assasinated. Because she is a British citizen and a Nobel Prize winner, it was suprising that the Secret Service gaved her a pass. Not so if she was to have been an American citizen. Here is the FR URL link.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1967913/posts
Please see post 268.
You should contact the local US attorney’s office about this.
“...possibly refusing to cooperate...”
If the truthful answer is “no, I didn’t say what I am being accused of saying,” how much more “cooperation” can there be?
I don’t subscribe to the idea of time travel. However, I do think that the “Former” Soviet Union and China, and their Communist/Islamic allies, would exploit any disorder in the US resulting from any civil war here.
Jessica,
I am more then willing to support you in any action you take against the Obama campaign, the caller, or whom ever is responsible for this happening to you.
I’m sure other Freepers will be more then happy to chip in also. Let us know what you need, financially etc, and I know I’ll be there for you.
If we allow this type of action to take place in the US without refute, we are allowing ourselves to become serfs of the government.
If you see this or if someone can pass this on to you, feel free to freepmail me on here for anything you need. Btw, my husband grew up about an hour from Lufkin.
Brytani
Wow. What can I say? So much support and generosity is just breathtaking. Everyone at FreeRepublic has been so kind and now this.
We are in touch with an attorney who works in the Republican Party here and he is attempting to get us a pro-bono civil liberties attorney. If we do come to the point where we need help like bail or something, lmao, I will surely let you know but for now we’re okay, thank you.
Jessica Hughes
I don’t know about the FBI, but the SS has many Leftist supervisors appointed under the tenure of Democrat political hack Ronald Noble who was appointed by Bill Clinton. If you recall during the Clinton Administration the SS circled the wagons around the Pervert & Chief and very likely saved him more serious charges during the Impeachment process.
I have no doubt that these Noble promoted supervisors are at the top of the chain of command of SS and are directing more efforts against the Republicans and right wing than against the Leftists.
If Obama is elected we might see something like the STASI in a few years, as the laws the SS operates under are broad enough to literally shut down political speech “President Obama” doesn’t want spoken...or written...or broadcast...or THOUGHT.
At least I know a bit of the SS from what you report. It does suprise me that there has not been a lot of tenson between the more conservitive factions of the SS and the leftist supervisors. It could increase bigtime under a possible Obama White House.
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