Reply #14: Credible, sure, but that is not credible, unless the SS are incompetent [View All]

[MADem]

Federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23 on two felony counts of "knowingly and willfully" threatening to harm Bush -- first by telling two workers at his treatment center that he wanted to castrate Bush, then a day later to Secret Service agents notified by the center.

The indictment says Nijmeh told the agents that his threat "is not too harsh, considering what he has done to my country. If not that than maybe something else, you know?" Nijmeh, 26, later said he was joking.

What's he gonna do, get close enough to the royal crotch with a set of snippers or a steak knife??? He did not even express INTENT, planning, only WANTING, a desire, if you will. And he mitigates his idiotic wish by making a remark about degree of harshness of his proposed punishment.

Go into any coffee shop in the land, and I wouldn't be shocked to hear similar sentiments expressed, what with rising gas prices, rising heating prices, increased local taxes, decreased federal services. Wanting ain't doing. This had EVERYTHING to do with the ethnicity of the speaker, IMO. If Joe Sixpack said it, the doctor probably would have joked about locking up his scalpels.

That said, it's a cautionary tale. Ari said it--watch what you say, watch what you do.