Secret Service Harasses LJ Member

[snarkyman]

From jpicon: VERY, VERY important link. I implore you to please take the time to read it.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/anniesj/331112.html

So apparently, anything you say in your LJ about the president can get you a visit from the Secret Service. Anger and sarcasm expressed at W will cause you a world of pain.

anniesj made another post to clarify her feelings about her previous post. She just wants this to end.

http://www.livejournal.com/users/anniesj/331475.html

Sounds to me like she was scared but good, which is in fact the intention of the Bush regime. We need to defeat Bush and elect Karry next Tuesday. Please do your part.

QotD #1 (From memory - I'll attribute/fix later):
"Anything that helps enable a police state is bad for democracy."

QotD #2:
"We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder 'censorship,' we call it 'concern for commercial viability.'" -- David Mamet

UPDATE
Slashdot is now covering this story.
http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/28/1326229

Comments

Re: Deleted, but screencapped

[eirehound.livejournal.com]

Hmmmm ... Not a threat. Not really. But then again the SS moves in strange and mysterious ways.

Praying to "God" for the death of the President may be in very poor taste, but I'd be loath to say that there was anything to it along the lines of "I'm going to buy a Mannlicher-Carcano by mailorder and set up shop in a book depository." (Hell, Michael Moore has done virtually as much as this writer did in formally published works, and his publishers' legal departments haven't quibbled.)

Unless, of course, the SS believe that a prayer to a divine power constitutes an actual attempt on the life of the President.

If so, exactly what would the SS do to prevent divine action? I mean, if I were an SS person and I saw Mother Kali materialise with her skulls and her dripping fangs and a sword in all eight arms, and stride across the Rose Garden straight toward the Oval Office, I would probably just stand aside and accept that the situation was not quite within my competence.

Maybe the SS is afraid that God will actually hear and answer prayers.

Re: Deleted, but screencapped

[siderea]

Unless, of course, the SS believe that a prayer to a divine power constitutes an actual attempt on the life of the President.

Possibly. 'pends on whether Bush has been purging members of the "reality-based community" from his service or not.

Re: Deleted, but screencapped

[eirehound.livejournal.com]

When, exactly, did he have any members of the "reality-based community" in his service? :-)