Secret Service reviewing comments made by Hopewell woman (Sue Niederer)

[wicket]

This is the woman arrested at the Laura Bush event.

http://www.boston.com/dailynews/266/region/Secret_Service_reviewing_comme:.shtml

Threatening comments made about President Bush by a Hopewell Township woman whose son was killed in Iraq are under review by the Secret Service.

Federal officials said they are examining comments made in online postings of interviews with Sue Niederer, who was arrested last week during a Republican campaign rally in Mercer County when she interrupted a speech by first lady Laura Bush.

In portions an interview posted online in May on the Web site Counterpunch.org, Niederer said she wanted to ''rip the president's head off'' and ''shoot him in the groined area.''

The comments caught the attention of a Secret Service analyst and are under review, according to Special Agent Tony Colgary. It is a federal crime to threaten to kill the president.

[tom_paine]

1. Naturally, they are scrutinizing the victim

The SS is the striking arm of the Emperor.

But then, almost ALL things in Amerika are bent to serve the Imperial Family.

Hey, at least they aren't dragging her straight to the Gulag at 3am.

[trumad]

5. There's the tom_paine I've grown to love...

How are you Thomas?

[Lord_StarFyre]

2. You vill not be allowed

...to shpeak against Der Furher

Heil Dubya

[trumad]

3. yeah...and I got harassed for my 864304 shirt last night at the JK rally!

I guess they're Bord(sp) or something?

[RebelYell]

4. Treason is also a federal crime n/t

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Much as I hate to say it,

they are doing their duty to check into things like this. I fully understand her outrage and can sympathize, but one can't go around making public statements about causing physical harm to the person holding the office...even if it's the Flim-Flam Man.

I don't want to see Bush assassinated or maimed. I just want him out of office. Exiled would be a icing on the cake! But that's as far as it goes for me.

[napi21]

11. You're right. SS is doing their job. I have 2 friends in the SS.

Their job is to protect the candidate they are assigned to. Several investigations like this happen everyday. These agents have been very serious about threats like that for a long time, and it's gotten more intense in recent years. No matter what their politics, on the job the SS agents are totaly committed to the security of the candidate they are assigned to, no matter what party.

[Owlet]

12. Yep...let the Secret Service protect him....

....so we don't end up with President Cheney.

[Kool Kitty]

19. OMFG-what a horrifying thought.

I just may have to sleep with the lights on tonight. :scared:

[Flammable Materials]

29. We already have President Cheney.

He just likes having the figurehead to hide behind.

[TankLV]

24. You're right - that's why Jesse Helms and Ann Coulter and all the other

repuke scum who made similar comments were investigated and have served time or are now serving time in prison.

Oh, wait, if forgot, THEY'RE NOT!

It seems it's only an action even just worth investigating, let alone being arrested for, when a DEMOCRAT does it!

[Cooley Hurd]

30. No problem w/ the SS following up, however...

...did they have to publicize it? It appears to me that the only reason the media knows about the SS investigation is because the Bush campaign wants to humiliate this woman for speaking out against them (sound familiar?)...

[sr_pacifica]

37. But then we'd be stuck with Cheney

Sorry this was supposed to link with the original message

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

7. I'm still waiting for these loons to investigate Jesse Helms comments

about Clinton.

Sheesh, a mother's grief is now a federal offense?

[Bake]

22. Ab-so-fucking-lute-ly!!!

Helms' comments made me want to :puke: from the get-go!! But there was never an inquiry into THAT!!! Clinton had too much class!!

Nobody will ever accuse Smirk of being a classy guy!! That rat bastard.

Bake

[QC]

23. The Secret Service did interview Helms over those comments,

according to Al Franken.

[wicket]

32. What comments did Jesse Helms make??

[BeHereNow]

8. Shameful

simply shameful...
You tax dollars at work.
SS investigates the comments of a grief stricken mother.
Don't you feel safer now?

BHN

[Unforgiven]

16. Oh,Yes of course (gag!)

By the way I believe the term is "saferer"


And as our great leader would say "Help are on the way"

[kayell]

9. Wow, I remember all the arrests of freepers who threatened Clinton

Why the jails are full of them. FreepRepublic had to shut down it got so bad.

/sarcasm

[wicket]

13. the hypocrisy is sickening

n/t

[unslinkychild1]

18. Hey Kayell...

Where do you get those poster thingies on your sig? Anywhere I can find to download and print them? I have a subversive teenager on a poster-plastering mission at his high school. :)

[JohnyCanuck]

20. Check out this site for propaganda posters

http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html

[unslinkychild1]

27. Wow, JohnyCanuck!

I've just spent about 2 hours there--cool site. My boy's gonna get famous as the surreptitious seditious poster! I already printed him about 10 draft posters from someone on DU. Does Leperous let you print his/her stuff? I couldn't figure out how (I've got a Mac), and all I could get were itty bitty squares on an 8x10, not the full thing. I want my kids to mass distribute some of these--the more recent ones that high-schoolers could relate to. I think some of his TEACHERS would get more of a bang about some of these--the kids would just be saying WTF?

On Edit: Or think they were SERIOUS, and turn in all their books and shut up.

[LTR]

10. The Secret Service is supposed to protect the president

And they've gone to ridiculous extremes in the past. But this kind of thing has been going on for a long time. They've always been like this.

I won't fault the SS for this. Hey, at least one government agency is doing it's job.

Likely, nothing much will come of it. The SS does investigate every little thing, though. Im sure this woman doesn't mean to kill the president, but better safe than sorry.

[TankLV]

25. Riiiiiiiiight. Just ask Jesse Helms and Ann Coulter.

Oh, wait, we're still waiting for them to even ASK them about their threats!

Silly me.

[dArKeR]

14. Is it a Federal Crime for an American citizen to lie which then caused

the deaths and amputations of American soldiers?

[wicket]

15. It should be.

[AngryOldDem]

17. Just answer the mother's questions, George!

The crime is that this administration cannot look this mother in the eye and give her the answers she deserves.

This is bullshit.

Sue Niederer is my heroine.

[truthisfreedom]

21. bush keeps those SS guys hoppin' with all of his hate-generating activity.

eom

[0007]

26. I'm a packing my bags

and a gonna to a Amerika where there is freedom of speech and real fairness.

Not stayin' in a country where they yank my yank a doodle dandy.

[Flammable Materials]

28. I still haven't received a response from DHS ...

... to my reporting of the woman who was caught on television saying that Kerry was evil and should be shot.

[dumpster_baby]

31. Oh, America is the Greatest Democracy in the World

What a load of shit....

[wicket]

33. kick

:kick:

[dave123williams]

34. I, for one, would pay concert ticket prices to see what she described.

There's a major difference between saying you want to, and saying you're <b>going</b> to.

BTW; nothing in this story indicates that she, in fact, lost her son in Iraq.

[wicket]

36. It's in the first paragraph

Threatening comments made about President Bush by a Hopewell Township woman whose son was killed in Iraq are under review by the Secret Service.

[Raster]

35. cockroaches can live for up to a week without their heads.