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Originally posted by Lanny_MacDonald+Oct 28 2004, 05:29 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Lanny_MacDonald @ Oct 28 2004, 05:29 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-CaptainCrunch@Oct 28 2004, 05:22 PM
I have to agree with Lurch here, if Bush is coming to that down, and a threat is utterered even in a joking sense the guys going to jail. I'd like to see what the prosecutor has to say on this.
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Seems pretty extreme to me. Of course it would be nice to know the full details, but it does seem pretty extreme that the guy would be jailed for three years for such a comment. Maybe over night or a couple of days while Bush was in town, but three freakin' years? Come on. That's over kill! [/b][/quote]
It might be extreme but its in line with any kind of uttering threat.
The guy in the airport who jokes to a customs agent about a bomb in his luggage would get the same.
Put it in context with Mike Danton who got 7 years for trying to setup a hit.
Uttering threats especially towards the president is a felony offense.
I'm not arguing either way, but no judge is going to lighten a sentence cause he joking as a defense. If so, when I shoot somebody on the street, I can merely say I was joking as a defense.
Its the same as using ignorance as a defense, it dosen't count
do you have any info on the T.shirt thing?