Durka-Durka-Muhammed-Jihad!!
I'm sitting in the Science & Engineering Library waiting for MATLAB to get fired up on the school's computer and reading the news in the meantime. The first thing to escape my lips - very LOUDLY - as I read this in the library was: Are they f*cking HIGH!?
Man's Conviction for Threatening Bush NixedYou know, this is just dandy - telling any would-be assassins that talking about it is now okay.....SAN FRANCISCO — A federal appeals court Friday overturned an inmate's conviction for writing a crude, rambling letter endorsing President Bush's death at the hands of terrorists — two weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
The letter from Oregon State Penitentiary prisoner Jonathan Lincoln, who was charged with threatening the president and given an 18-month sentence last year, read, in part: "You will die too George W Bush real Soon they Promised That you would Long Live Bin Laden."
Corrections officials intercepted the letter; Lincoln had been serving a 46-month sentence for robbery.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the letter was protected under the First Amendment, calling it "Lincoln's crude and offensive method of stating a political opposition to the president." The court noted "such political hyperbole does not constitute a 'threat."'
Then again, this comes from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Insane Judicial Thought....
Whats wrong with the 9th? They just denied a request for an injunction by Emiliano Santiago to st
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Whats wrong with the 9th? They just denied a request for an injunction by Emiliano Santiago to stop his deployment to Afghanistan in Santiago v Rumsfeld, that should win them a hero cookie.
In this case, when you read the decision, it makes sense, but of course you won't hear how in todays yellow journalism, only that an inmate threatened Bush...
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