14 year old schoolgirl questioned after threatening Bush on MySpace

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SACRAMENTO, CALIF. - The latest Sacramento resident to be questioned by federal agents for threatening President Bush is a 14-year-old girl who is passionate about liberal politics and cute movie stars.

Julia Wilson learned a vivid civics lesson Wednesday when two Secret Service agents pulled her out of class to ask about comments and images she posted on MySpace. Beneath the words "Kill Bush," Wilson posted a cartoonish photo-collage of a knife stabbing the hand of the president. It was one of a few images Wilson said she used to decorate an anti-Bush Web page she moderated on MySpace, the social networking website that is hugely popular among teenagers.

The Secret Service refused to answer questions about the case or even confirm an investigation. But Wilson's mother, Kirstie, and an assistant principal at McClatchy High said two agents showed them badges stating they were with the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal law prohibits making true threats against the president, and Julia and her parents say what she did was wrong. The couple are disturbed however, that federal agents questioned a child at school without her parents present.

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Bush threats lead agents to girl, 14

LAUREL ROSENHALL AND RYAN LILLIS; The Sacramento Bee
Published: October 13th, 2006 01:00 AM
SACRAMENTO – The latest Sacramento resident to be questioned by federal agents for threatening President Bush is a 14-year-old girl who is passionate about liberal politics and cute movie stars.

Her name is Julia Wilson, and she learned a vivid civics lesson Wednesday when two Secret Service agents pulled her out of biology class to ask about comments and images she posted on MySpace.

Beneath the words “Kill Bush,” Wilson posted a cartoonish photo-collage of a knife stabbing the hand of the president. It was one of a few images Wilson said she used to decorate an anti-Bush page she moderated on MySpace, the social networking Web site.

The Secret Service refused to answer questions about the case or even confirm an investigation.

But Wilson’s mother, Kirstie Wilson, an assistant principal, said two agents showed badges stating they were with the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal law prohibits making true threats against the president, and Julia and her parents say what she did was wrong. The couple are disturbed, however, that agents questioned a child at school – without her parents present.

“I don’t condone what she did but it seems a little over the top to me,” said Julia’s father, Jim Moose. “You’d think they could look at the situation and determine that she’s not a credible threat.”

It was a 15- to 20-minute interview, Julia said. Agents asked her about her father’s job, her e-mail address and her Social Security number. They asked about the MySpace page she had created last year as an eighth-grader.

“I told them I just really don’t agree with Bush’s politics,” Julia said.

Julia also is a part of MySpace fan clubs for movie stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor.

The group that got her in trouble was called something like “People who want to stab Bush” – Julia said she doesn’t remember the exact name because she soon changed it.

Doesn't the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have anything better to do? This is what "giving up a few liberties for some security" leads to.

 

[CurtSibling]

The USA is still fighting the cold war...Against her own citizens.

An example of a nation in acute paranoia...A pity they did not have that
paranoia when dealing with all those future-terrorists in the 1980s...

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[nc-1701]

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Doesn't the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have anything better to do? This is what "giving up a few liberties for some security" leads to.

Well is'nt threatening to kill anyone illegal? I mean the SS also edited the lyrices for Eminems song "We as Americans" because it had <censored> money/I don't rap for dead presidents I'de rather see the presidenmt dead/.

So I'm by no means suprised and I belive that he actions were probably illegal but I'm not 100% sure.

Would be nice if they could go after terrorists or something for a change.

 

[joycem10]

Actually the Secret Service does not have any other job. This is pretty much all they do except look for counterfeiters.

This same type of thing has been going on as long as I can remember. Make a stupid comment about killing the pres and if the Sercret Service hears about it, you're questoned.

 

[Zarn]

Ignoring her would be discrimination. You can never be positive about anyone's intentions before you even question them.

Would a 26 year old Muslim male fit your terrorist description better?

 

[The Last Conformist]

Ignoring her would be discrimination. You can never be positive about anyone's intentions before you even question them.

Discriminating between credible and otherwise threats is part of the Secret Service's job.

 

[silver 2039]

The 14 year olds are evil and insane. Trust me...you have to wacth out for them. They enjoy genoicde, and things like that....or that may just be me.

 

[Che Guava]

Ahhh..money well spent keeping the world safe from preteen-would-be-assassin-Ewan-McGregor-fans...

 

[Peri]

Isnt a threat on the President's life taken seriously regardless of who makes it? Advocating murder publicly of the President (even G W Bush) is wrong plain and simple. If she can't make her case without resorting to this cheap shot then is it really worth listening to her?

 

[De Lorimier]

Who said she's worth listening to? I think that's the conclusion most people come to. She's fourteen and writes stupid things on the web, like most teenagers. For special services to get involved is ridiculous... and a little scary.

 

[batteryacid]

I am undecied yet if I should or be about this (reminds me also a bit about the improsonment of a - I think she was Swiss- mother helping her 2 year old son pee in the garden in the US )

The whole incident could have been copied from "Brazil" or "1984"
I have more and more the feeling that reality overtakes most satires these days (this feeling first appeared when I first watched "Wag the Dog" and realized that it was made before the Balkan invention of the US, not to speak of Afghanistan or Irak War II )

 

[Turner]

Actually the Secret Service does not have any other job. This is pretty much all they do except look for counterfeiters.

This same type of thing has been going on as long as I can remember. Make a stupid comment about killing the pres and if the Sercret Service hears about it, you're questoned.

Indeed. They take every threat seriously. I'm not at all surprised they did this.

 

[Bill3000]

Isnt a threat on the President's life taken seriously regardless of who makes it? Advocating murder publicly of the President (even G W Bush) is wrong plain and simple. If she can't make her case without resorting to this cheap shot then is it really worth listening to her?

I know, but not all threats agains the President are looked into, are they? (Or is it a matter of who finds it?) Besides, she's 14. Whatever issue of politics she would have would be heavily generalized. Do you actually expect anyone to listen to her, at least not before she becomes more informed about politics?

 

[MobBoss]

Doesn't the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security have anything better to do? This is what "giving up a few liberties for some security" leads to.

No...no, they dont. They happen to take threats against the life of the president very seriously. As they should. It is precisely the Secret Service to look into such threats.

 

[amadeus]

Gavrilo Princip was only 20 when he shot Archduke Ferdinand and Bernard Lortie was only a teenager when he started kidnapping and killing for the FLQ.

A 14 year old girl could be just as much of a potential threat.

 

[Captain Planet]

Oh my god, I can't believe I live this close to the United States today.

 

[Kozmos]

LMAO

What load of crap.....

 

[Mise]

Well her dad might have been Muslim or something.

 

[amadeus]

Oh my god, I can't believe I live this close to the United States today.

I can assume that I'd be safe from any sort of investigation if I had said that it was my intent to kill your Prime Minister? I sincerly doubt it.

 

[Turner]

It doesn't matter if her dad is muslim or not. Any threat to the President's life (and this means any president, not just GWB) is taken seriously and investigated.

End result? A slap on the wrist, and everyone goes about their business.

I do agree, however, that she should have had her parents present, and a lawyer as well.