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Originally posted by Mdv2
It is stupid what that girl did, but remember it is a 14 years old girl. If you expect such a girl to be a threat than I seriously doubt your capabilities. Aren't their much more important things to do such as defending the US rather than hunting 14 year old girls?
Originally posted by pavil
Originally posted by Mdv2
It is stupid what that girl did, but remember it is a 14 years old girl. If you expect such a girl to be a threat than I seriously doubt your capabilities. Aren't their much more important things to do such as defending the US rather than hunting 14 year old girls?
No the Secret Service doesn't have anything more important to do than investigate any potential threats to the President. If you were to write a letter to a newspaper saying the same thing, you should expect a visit from the "men in sunglasses". Just because their profile on Myspace said they were 14 doesn't mean they were 14 in the eyes of the Secret Service. I get the distinct impresssion the Secret Service doesn't take jokes very lightly if you know what I mean.
They needed to follow up on this as they do hundreds of other "stupid things that people say" as they should. It's not like the Internet isn't full of strange people. Unfourtunately some 14 year kids do some pretty sick and stupid things at times. The Secret Service doesn't have the luxury of saying "well that's just a stupid 14 year old girl, no need to check it out".
Originally posted by darkbluesky
Just let me add for the benefit of MdV2 that the only duty of the Secret Service is to provide protection for The President, NOT defending the US.
Originally posted by pavil
Just because their profile on Myspace said they were 14 doesn't mean they were 14 in the eyes of the Secret Service. I get the distinct impresssion the Secret Service doesn't take jokes very lightly if you know what I mean.
Originally posted by pavil
Unfourtunately some 14 year kids do some pretty sick and stupid things at times. The Secret Service doesn't have the luxury of saying "well that's just a stupid 14 year old girl, no need to check it out".
Originally posted by Mdv2
Nowadays, agencies and secret services have access to almost every single detail of your personal identity, which is the reason why I refuse to believe that they were not aware of her social status.
Personally, I think they wanted to set an example by taking the girl out of her classroom for investigation.
Tend to agree...
Originally posted by Nygdan
So basically the complaint here is that people that are conservatives have the audacity to speak their minds on the internet, and that it just must be a secret plot by evil mr. bush.
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Didnt you know Democrats invented the internet, thanks to mr. Al Gore??
Originally posted by ThePieMaN
Originally posted by darkbluesky
Just let me add for the benefit of MdV2 that the only duty of the Secret Service is to provide protection for The President, NOT defending the US.
Just to correct you. The secret service's job is not just to protect the Pres., his VP, foreign dignitaries and Heads of State as well as their embassies etc etc. Their job also entails counterfeiting, access device fraud, financial institution fraud, identity theft, computer fraud; and computer-based attacks on our nation’s financial, banking, and telecommunications infrastructure.
Originally posted by HoorahUSMC
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Didnt you know Democrats invented the internet, thanks to mr. Al Gore??
First, he never said he invented it, he said he helped invent it, which he did. He funded millions into a little company that invented the Internet for personal use. Sorry, I know, that is the truth and the truth is liberal, but it is what it is.
The very website you are now reading would be considered propaganda by these neo-fascists- no matter the fact that the criminal syndicates Bush and Blair front for are the most deceitful progenitors of lurid propaganda since the third reich.
The only remaining outlet for the groundswell of dissent in opposition to the Neo-Fascist takeover of the west is the Internet, and it keeps these jack-booted bastards awake at night to think you can sit in front of your computer and broadcast your outrage to the four corners of the earth on a whim.
Originally posted by Mdv2
Nowadays, agencies and secret services have access to almost every single detail of your personal identity, which is the reason why I refuse to believe that they were not aware of her social status.
Personally, I think they wanted to set an example by taking the girl out of her classroom for investigation.
Originally posted by HoorahUSMC
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Didnt you know Democrats invented the internet, thanks to mr. Al Gore??
First, he never said he invented it, he said he helped invent it, which he did. He funded millions into a little company that invented the internet for personal use. Sorry, I know, that is the truth and the truth is liberal, but it is what it is.
Originally posted by HoorahUSMC
And hey, if Republicans can figure out how to turn a computer on and get online let them! I hate when there is an online poll with over a million votes that show a landslide for Dems or against Reps the excuse republicans use is "Well Republicans don't know how to use the Internet."
Originally posted by jsobecky
Originally posted by HoorahUSMC
Originally posted by Rockpuck
Didnt you know Democrats invented the internet, thanks to mr. Al Gore??
First, he never said he invented it, he said he helped invent it, which he did. He funded millions into a little company that invented the internet for personal use. Sorry, I know, that is the truth and the truth is liberal, but it is what it is.
Really? That will be big news to Paul Baran, ARPA, and BBN (Bolt, Baranek, and Newman).
Following his enthusiasm earlier this week for “the Google” - and two years after his talk about “the internets” - George Bush has been interviewed by America’s MSNBC about his use of technology.