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I understand this is a completly silly thread(located in General) with no harm intended but technically people saying stuff like Let's make soup #5 out of George W. Bush... is a terroristic threat to a Secret Service guy with no sence of humor. Just a heads up, i find the thread to be funny and i get it as its intended.

Links are nice. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=553938)

If a Secret Service man can't tell that that thread is a joke, he doesn't deserve his license to kill. And I'm going to quote a line I cannot believe I am actually quoting;

"People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."

Carry on.

If a Secret Service man can't tell that that thread is a joke, he doesn't deserve his license to kill.

You mean like http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15258484/

I dont see a ton of difference and it makes it clear in the article its indeed a federal offence.

Post 9/11 the US intelligence services are highly paranoid, because Johnny NSA doesn't want to be the man who said "Don't worry about it, this is non-actionable" and ended up with the third assassination of a US President. It seems, if your link is factually accurate, that they are rather too paranoid these days.

There's a world of difference, however, between posting something saying "KILL BUSH!" and discussing what the President would taste like. It is not a realistic threat - hell, looking at how it's phrased and at the context, it's not a threat at all. I'm sure that any Secret Service men reading that thread would also note that similar "threats" are directed towards historical leaders such as William Pitt the Younger, Mao Tse Tung, Josef Stalin, and William of Normandy, and correctly conclude that nobody actually intends to make steaks out of the POTUS. They have degrees and things, after all, "potential threat assessment" must be in there somewhere.

I really wouldn't worry about it, in short.

Remember when they raided Steve Jackson Games, because they were under the impression that 'GURPS Cyberpunk' was some sort of hacker's guide, or incitement to overthrow the government, or something else that they didn't like the sound of? That was way before 9/11...