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Give me a break!
This wasn't a threat on Obama's life!
It was just some guy using his free speech!
It sounds like the Secret Service guys make a jobs program for themselfs by arresting anybody who says any trivial thing about the President!
If the Secret Service used this policy in Iraq 99 percent of the country would be in jail for wishing death on Bush and Obama!
'Death to Obama' sign holder detained Aug. 13, 2009 10:24 AM Associated Press HAGERSTOWN, Md. - The Secret Service is investigating a man who authorities said held a sign reading "Death to Obama" outside a town-hall meeting on health-care reform in western Maryland. The sign also read, "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids," referring to the first name of President Barack Obama's wife, said Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Peter Lazich. Lazich said deputies detained the unidentified, 51-year-old man near the entrance to Hagerstown Community College about 1 p.m. Wednesday after getting calls from a number of people attending the meeting held by Sen. Ben Cardin, D-Md. Obama was not at the meeting. The sheriff's office turned the man over to the Secret Service, Lazich said. Barbara Golden, special agent in charge of the agency's Baltimore field office, said Thursday that an investigation is ongoing but declined further comment. A spokesman at the agency's Washington headquarters also declined to discuss the investigation. Police said there were no other arrests among the nearly 1,000 people, some carrying protest signs, who came to the college for the meeting or demonstrated off-campus. Cardin's national communications director, Sue Walitsky, called the incident "unfortunate." She said she was unaware of it until Thursday morning.
Again in this article the cops seem to be making a big deal out of nothing - the cops didn't arrest him for anything - other then two OLD unrelated misdemeanor warrants Source http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2009/08/13/20090813policestandoff-ON-CR.html
Police standoff ends at LA federal building Aug. 13, 2009 10:49 PM Associated Press LOS ANGELES — A man suspected of making threats against the White House was pulled from his car Thursday after an hours-long standoff in the parking lot of the Federal Building in West Los Angeles. The man had refused to leave his red Volkswagen Beetle and withstood four rounds of chemical agents tossed inside the car after police broke a rear window. About an hour later, officers shot out the drivers window with a bean bag gun, used a Taser on the man and pulled him out. Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan identified the suspect as Joseph Moshe, 56, of Los Angeles. Moshe is suspected of calling a police dispatch number Wednesday and making threatening statements about the White House, Donovan said. Police pulled him from the car after he ignored repeated attempts to negotiate his surrender. The Federal Building had been locked down since noon, and employees were told to stay inside, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said. Officers spotted Moshe's car around 10 a.m. near his home in the Westchester neighborhood and pursued him through the city's west side, police Det. Gus Villanueva said. He drove around the federal building parking area once before a police SUV blocked his path as he tried to return to the street. Officers then surrounded his car with police cruisers and a large armored vehicle. The man sat in the car smoking for hours before a robot broke a rear window of the car so officers could see inside, police Lt. Ruben de la Torre said. Police did not know if the man was armed, he said. Villanueva said Moshe was booked on two previous unrelated misdemeanor warrants but did not provide details. Officials later said he was taken to a hospital for observation. Asked how the man was able to withstand multiple rounds of what appeared to be tear gas, Villanueva said some people are able to resist the chemicals. “I can't explain that, there's no way to explain that,” he said. |