Teen Questioned by the Secret Service

The parents should have definitely been involved. Wait a minute - why was he being questioned in the first place?

WHAT!!!! OK I just read this article. Holy Shit! This 14 year old girl was pulled out of class by secret service and her mother found out AFTER it happened. Why was she questioned?

For having her myspace page say something about the president and about how she wished him to be six feet under. There was a picture too with daggers flying out of his head.

Whoa. So you can't even say anything bad about our leaders or you and /or your underage children will be interrogated. Where do we live again? Wait, someone wake me, is this Nazi Germany?

I'm sure that most 14 year olds know that posting items like that is a bad Ideal. As for the questioning It seems they had no intentions of arresting her. It sounds like they had a hunch that she was just mouthing off but needed to varify it. The girl should have learned her lesson and will probably not repeat such a silly mistake. The Secret service has a duty to investigate threats. And yes they have every right.

marea c. death threats are not covered under Free speech. They haven't been for a very long time. Incitement to riot isn't either. There are very few things that aren't protected speech and this girl hit one of them right square in the middle.

when I read about it yesterday I thought about some of the very negative opinions written here and wondered just how far the Bush Police would go...

Considering that President Bush spends occasional time addressing elementary classroom audiences, it is reasonable that his security detail might fear some plot might be hatched involving an eight year old assassin bearing a sharpened crayola. Now realize how much more of a threat could be posed by a fourteen year old girl made crazy by the onset of menstration and armed with an ipod cord and a garrot.

One has to marvel at the astounding investigative expertise of the secret service to expose the potential plot so well concealed within a MySpace.com posting........brilliant!

Thank you Daniel!!

Well said!!

"I'm sure that most 14 year olds know that posting items like that is a bad Ideal."

Ugh, You think that? I don't think that most 14 year olds know much of anything, especially concerns of secret service and FBI procedures. It's myspace, you know how many ppeople have pages that I have seen (before Tom sold out and went corporate) and had pictures and propaganda slandering Bush big time. You really think someone is going to post on myspace and follow through with something like that? Furthermore, are secret service people so blind that they could not see it was A MYSPACE PAGE by a 14 year old child just being a naive? She is a harmless short term rebel, I mean, I can browse on myspace, read someone's profile and tell the difference between those are are serious and those who are just young, dumb, and immature. Can't you? I feel sorry our secret service wasted time and money investigating such B.S.

Oh but wait, no, I am not surprised at all, people who work for the Gov't are usually bumbling idiots.


AND........if your child were pulled out of school without your permission by strangers and you knew your child was guilty of nothing but being a bit stupid. I would think you'd be singing a different tune. I might assume you don't have children with that kind of attitude that adults could take your child anywhere without your knowledge.

Well you are wrong on all accounts. I have a 14-year-old daughter She has been pulled out of class and questioned. They did not leave the school and the school has a policy that they will not let any child leave without the parent's permission. There is no indication in the articles that this girl was taken out of the school.

Have you tought your children it is wrong to say "Kill (any one)". I have tought mine and we have an open honest relationship, she knows she can discuss anything and i don't judge her.

The one value that you seem to ignoring is that people interpret the first amendment wrongly. You can say almost anything almost anywhere. You can't yell fire in a crouded movie theatre and you can't threaten to kill someone. You also can not defame someones charactor in public. The courts have established this and upheld it for many years but our education system seems to be ineffective in communicating this to children.

Children also learn by example. They hear radical ideals on telavision and believe every word. Where are the parents? (nevermind I know where they are)

i dunno. so the 14 year old posted something that could be construed as a threat? usually 14 year old children don't have such strong political opinions. it's possible someone's parent called the fbi or something about this kid's webpage. they have to investigate.

so the secret service finds out it's a 14 year old girl. now what. are the parents of the 14 year old the real threat? so they question the kid without the parents.

i don't think this is a big deal. probably scared the bejabbers about of the 14 year old. sounds like the parent was mad about it. i think the secret service proceeded credibly once they decided to investigate.

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yes it is posible that someone called. It is also bollible that the NSA Preditor operation cought the phrase. I have no proof and the NSA will not admit it but there were allegations that all internet trafif is screened by this program that seaks out specific phrases and groups of words. Who knows for sure?

I see nothing wrong with them questioning her at school without her parents there. If they took her off school grounds that would be different. If it scared her that will maybe make her think before she posts something like that again.