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Squeaky Fromm blog

: I’d like to see some independent verification of this but Steve Outing links to a 23-year-old Charleston Live Journal blogger who says she said nasty and apparently threatening things about the President and got a visit from the Secret Service.

At 9:45 last night, the Secret Service showed up on my mother’s front door to talk to me about what I said about the President, as what I said could apparently be misconstrued as a threat to his life. After about ten minutes of talking to me and my family, they quickly came to the conclusion that I was not a threat to national security (mostly because we are the least threatening people in the entire world) and told me that they would not recommend that any further action be taken with my case.

10 responses to “Squeaky Fromm blog”

  1. dick Avatar
    dick

    What is the question? Apparently from another site I read that her comments were forwarded to the Secret Service. In view of the election and the dirty tricks being pulled all over the place and the shootings into campaign headquarters and the attempt to run down Rep Katherine Harris and the breaking and entering of campaign headquarters, it seems to me that the Secret Service was only doing the prudent thing in this case. Who is to know whether she is a dingbat or not without checking? Assume that she was a dingbat and the Secret Service did not follow up the call about what she said on the website and she did make an attempt to assassinate the president, successful or not. What would be the outcry about why the Secret Service did not follow up the call in the first place? Sounds like a call for publicity to me and she bit off more than she could chew. Sorry about that. Had her 15 minutes of fame. Move along, nothing to see here.

  2. Terry Heaton Avatar
    Terry Heaton

    “Independent confirmation?” What’s that mean, Jeff?

  3. MB Avatar
    MB

    I can’t remember where exactly I saw it but within just the last two or three days there was an interview on tv with some current or former head honcho from the secret service. He gave some statistic about the number of reported threats (numbering somewhere in the thousands), perceived or real, made each year towards those persons whose protection the secret service is responsible for. He also said that they followup on each and everyone of these reports and that most are dismissed as would seem to be the case in this story. So in my opinion there’s nothing nefarious going on here whatsoever.

  4. Blueprint Avatar
    Blueprint

    These types need to make themselves look like they’re worth their takehome. See this for a real takedown.
    http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/toy_store_homeland_securit y
    Drop the Barbie and back away slowly….

  5. Terry Heaton Avatar
    Terry Heaton

    New info. Annie’s “threat” was a prayer.
    http://donatacom.com/blog.shtml#577

  6. bob Avatar
    bob

    Ahh… what a sweet, innocent, little prayer.

  7. Kat Avatar
    Kat

    Osama’s threats are ‘prayers’ too, if you can call cultic rantings a prayer.

  8. Ruth Avatar
    Ruth

    Calling for the death of anyone isn’t the way to undo wrongs and make them right. If anyone wishes to make a point, and really seeks to do the right thing, this is a basic consideration.
    Because he has brought about the inexcusable deaths of so many Americans, the president has stirred up a great deal of strong negative feelings, and many of them are expressed with awkward and even violent emotions. It is however not acceptable that, like Pat Robertson in his dotage, friends of a decent leader like Sen. Kerry should express themselves in uncivilized terms. Please, reflect on the nature of the person you would like to see leading this much abused country and show the kind of judgment you are hoping for, not the kind of irrational derringdo we need to get out of the highest office in the land.

  9. Don Avatar
    Don

    New clue. Annie’s “prayer” was a threat.

  10. Stewart Vardaman Avatar
    Stewart Vardaman

    MB, this is possibly what you were refering to?
    http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2004/10/1026_041026_tv_secret_service2.html
    Death threats against protected government officials might be phoned in to a police department or a television station. E-mailed threats have become more common than threat letters.
    “We investigate every threat that we receive,” said Anthony M. Chapa, a U.S. Secret Service special agent based in Los Angeles.