Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com.
She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense.
It was too late.
The above is from Don Thompson's "Teen Questioned Over Bush Threats on MySpace:
Secret Service Agents Remove 14-Year-Old Girl From Class" (Associated Press). The Secret Service, who are doing such a bang up job with the Constitution these days, pulled Wilson from her classroom without her parents present or an attorney. They yelled at her, they screamed at her and acted in a manner that should leave many in the country wondering who was the grown up here?
The Secret Service took one look at Julia Wilson and apparently saw Squeaky Fromme. They wasted her time, they wasted their time and they wasted tax payer money. They also made an enemy:
Julia Wilson plans to post a new MySpace.com page, this one devoted to organizing other students to protest the Iraq war.
"I decided today I think I will because it (the questioning) went too far," she said.
That's the answer, the only answer, to an administration and their flacks that think they can get away with anything.
And note that the so-called "Family Values" Republicans once again are okay with circumventing parents to 'communicate' with minors. From Mark Foley to the Secret Service, the GOP is demonstrating that they don't really speak out for families, they betray them.
If you're outraged by what was done to Julia Wilson, we are, let it fuel you to speak out against the war and expose the administration and all the fraud and deceit it's been built upon.