The Asheville Citizen-Times reports that:
The U.S. Secret Service seized a computer from the dorm room of a Mars Hill College student after he posted a message on a Web site apparently deemed threatening to President Bush.
Freshman Tim Willis said he meant no real harm in using modified song lyrics describing the violent death of the president on myspace.com, a site popular with millions of young people as a place for personal expression … Willis said he made the post in late February as a response to a posting about Bush by a friend, who also had his computer seized. Willis said he took the lyrics from ?Bullet,? a song recorded by The Misfits in the late 1970s, and replaced the references to President Kennedy with President Bush.
As in my last entry on what I’ve dubbed the MySpace Militia (policing students’ entries on the popular MySpace.com web site ? akin to the Facebook Police), “[w]hat the kid did was certainly not nice, but that doesn’t sound like a credible threat.” It complicates matters that the subject is President Bush, since per my understanding the Secret Service is obligated to investigate perceived threats against the president.
But as disgusting as those song lyrics are (and they are disgusting), a “Bullet” rewrite involving Bush still doesn’t approach the level of violence (and incitement to violence1) toward the president and Christians frequently advocated on chapelhill.indymedia.org, the “independent” site that NC taxpayers are forced to support via UNC-Chapel Hill.
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1. Q.v., “See the bushite, you kill it … I’d kill bushite …”
