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Federal Jury Indicts Mentally Ill Patient For Threatening Bush
(Yvonne Lee, All Headline News, April 7, 2006)
East St. Louis, IL (AHN) - A Palestinian mental health patient has been indicted on two felony counts of "knowingly and willfully" threatening to harm President George W. Bush. . . . The Associated Press reports federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23. But it was only made public this week. . . . He is accused to telling two employees at the Alton Mental Health Center that he wants to castrate Mr. Bush. The next day, he repeated his threats to Secret Service agents contacted by the center. . . . . . . According to the indictment Nijmeh 26, told 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 said later that he was joking about the threats. . . . J. Steven Beckett, a University of Illinois law professor, says to the AP that Nijmeh's threats may only be the "delirious rantings of a mental patient." . . . He says, "It's national security gone berserk." . . . He speculated that some details of the case have been kept secret, but added, "My immediate reaction here is, 'Who's nuts?'" . . . Randy Massey, the acting U.S. attorney for southern Illinois, did not immediately return a message seeking comment Friday. . . . Eric Pingolt, head of the Secret Service's Springfield office, says the Secret Service takes all threats seriously and considers the suspect's mental state before deciding the threat's validity. . . . He says, "Everything is judged case by case."

[COMMENT by Lorenzo: If this wasn't so serious it would be really funny, at least in a "Brave New World" kind of way. We are told that 95% of the shipping containers coming into this country are NOT inspected. But Petty Tyrant Bush's homeland security storm troopers use their umpressive resources to save us from a madman making a joke about our Benevolent Dictator. It seems we are quickly moving even beyond mere fascism. . . . "And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?]

posted by LoZo 7:04 AM