Threat to Bush ("Kill Bush") on billboard gains Secret Service notice

Copyright © 2003, The Morning Call ^ | October 2, 2003 | By Nicole Radzievich

[Behind Liberal Lines]

Allentown, PA--The U.S. Secret Service has taken notice of a white billboard along Route 22 that has ''Kill Bush'' painted on it.

...police say the Secret Service on Wednesday began asking questions about the graffiti. If federal authorities were to pursue the matter, the author or authors of the graffiti could face charges of threats against the president, a federal crime punishable by fines and imprisonment up to five years.

Doreen Murphy of Fogelsville said she wouldn't shed a tear for the vandal.

''You can see this was well thought out. It wasn't a bunch of kids like the vandals that smashed the school bus windows in Northampton ,'' said Murphy, who works at the nearby Lehigh Valley Industrial Park IV and first saw the billboard on Monday. ''With the state this country is in right now, we don't need this.''

The perpetrator, [police] said, had to spend some time, possibly with a ladder, to roll red paint across the billboard. The letters are carefully written.

The billboard incident is one of several similar messages that have been uttered or posted around the country in recent months, according to published reports.

''This would represent a new and alarming trend in rhetoric against President Bush and his policies,'' said John Pettegrew, associate professor of history at Lehigh University. ''It would be extremely dangerous for this country and democracy.''

[reformedliberal]

Civil War II may be a guerilla war. Personally, I think it is in progress.

[rootntootn]

The dims have ceased to be a political party. I think it will be a close thing whether they simply fade away or their extremism results in another "civil" war.

[jocon307]

"...if anyhting happens to GWB, NO DEMOCRAT will be elected for years."

The only people who should be praying harder than the RATS that GWB has a long and happy life are the Muslim populations of the world.

As for the dims, wouldn't it be great if they got voted out of every congressional and senate seat they hold? LOL, if Jennings thought we had a temper tantrum in '94, imagine his look if that happened?

I can dream, can't I?

[gortklattu]

We never said kill Clinton...impeachment was the successful goal.

The democrats are the most hatefilled party ever to gain strength in this nation.... Only the republican, I mean, Jew hating nazis rival this scourge

[lonevoice]

Was Michael Moore in Allentown filming a sequel to "Roger and Me"?

[Cindy]

BUSH COUNTRY.org - Opinion Corner: "KILL PRESIDENT BUSH DOT COM: TAKING FREE SPEECH WAY TOO FAR" by Jeremy Reynalds (October 17, 2003) (Read More...)

[FairOpinion]

"Several days ago on C-Span a woman caller said that Bush should be assassinated instead of Saddam. "

I hope she got a visit from the Secret Service promptly.

They take these threat seriously.

[JohnathanRGalt]

If they catch the scum bag, don't arrest him, just publish his address, and walk away.

Justice will be served.
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Have you seen this?

He published his own address, a P.O. box.

[PLMerite]

Well, I tried to get to K*llPresidentBush.com and it doesn't work. Maybe the Secret Service has already paid the idiot a visit.

[PLMerite]

Any pictures of this billboard? I can use it to taunt liberals on Usenet.

[ought-six]

"From your lips....to God's ears........I've never seen the ugliness of the democrat party like I have these past two years....even in Kennedy, Carter or Johnson's terms.....liberals have never, ever been this ugly......."

That is the alarming truth. The left is sooooo filled with hate that they are becoming caricatures of themselves, which is the prelude to them snapping. They are not even a worthy opponent for a civilized debate.

[ought-six]

"You didn't see it during those terms because the radical left had not yet taken control of the party. Today, however, the leftist extremists virtually control the entire Democratic party, and there is no creature so filled with hate as is a leftist extremist. The Toons, the Schumers, the neo-Kennedys, ad nauseum, leftist extremists all, are the literal embodiment of hate."

You took the words right out of my mouth.

[ought-six]

"Do you ever stop and wonder how ugly it is going to get? I mean it gets worse and worse. Where does it end if we keep going like this? Civil war?"

Unfortunately, yes.

[JohnathanRGalt]

Well, I tried to get to K*llPresidentBush.com and it doesn't work. Maybe the Secret Service has already paid the idiot a visit.

He says the site won't be open until November. However, he wants to take your $20 now.

[Saundra Duffy]

How about "uproot Bush" - not to mention "F--k Bush!" and a bunch of other crap found in the vocabulary of the "peace" crowd.

[JohnathanRGalt]

Any pictures of this billboard? I can use it to taunt liberals on Usenet.

Have you noticed the original story has been removed?

[Cindy]

Re post no. 28....

Yes he did (or someone using his name sure did).

[clee1]

That is exactly where this is going. And sooner than anyone realizes.

[Amazed with the idiocy]

I have been on many Democratic websites over the last few months, as I am looking for a candidate that I can trust. I do not trust GWB, but I do not wish him any harm. Oh back to the point, there is so much hatred in the posts here. More than any other site I have ever been to. Someone mentioned that we should simply not vote for the guy, well we didn't, over half of us. I will try to refrain from using the language that is so prevalent here, (personal attacks because someone has a different opinion). "If you are not with us then you are against us" does not apply in a democracy. What is it that GWB has done that is so great again??? And by the way, the USSR was crubling from the inside out, Reagan, you idiots, had nothing to do with it.

[mathluv]

.liberals have never, ever been this ugly.......

but they were in power.