Tonight following the president's news conference, I logged onto one of the political message board sites I read. One of the regular posters created a thread titled "Is Anyone Else Watching The Chimpanzee?" His post was crude, which is normal for him, but tonight he crossed a line and started discussing the joys of witnessing the murder of Barack Obama.
I did a quick Google search, located the phone number for the Dallas field office of the U.S. Secret Service and had a conversation with an agent on duty. He gave me his private e-mail address and asked that I forward a link to the post. He indicated that this would be presented to a U.S. Attorney in the morning to obtain a court order for the website to provide the full information about the individual.
Here's what my e-mail to the Secret Service said...
This is a link to a post made at 7:08pm on the political message board site "America's Political Chatroom". The poster, using the name "lewstherin", made the post under the title "Is Anyone Else Watching The Chimpanzee?"
In addition to a photo of Adolph Hitler, he also stated... "why is it everytime i watch him on a live feed, i just wish to God to watch a slug split his skull open. i mean i relly want this to happen. i'm looking at him off and on while i type this imagining what it would look like. it would be a beautiful thing. i truly look forward to this moment. any true patriot would."
http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum/index.php?showtopic=67694
This is a reference to the president's press conference held Wednesday, July 22.
There are far too many people of questionable mental stability amongst us, for this hate and threatening message to not begin formulation of an actionable plan, if not by the original poster, then by someone else.
Only minutes later I received a reply from the agent. Then I went back to the original post and added this reply...
I just finished a phone call with a field agent of the U.S. Secret Service. The agent provided me with his private e-mail address and asked me to forward a link to this this post. He indicated it will be presented to a U.S. Attorney in the morning. I've already received a response to the e-mail from the Secret Service agent and he said, "Thank you for sending this. I will forward it to the right task force."
Being a sicko and advocating assassination is not a right. It's a cancer that needs to be removed. At the least, I suspect you'll make some new acquaintances in the next few days. You also might find attempting to use commercal airlines will be a bit more challenging for you in the future.
I did a quick Google search, located the phone number for the Dallas field office of the U.S. Secret Service and had a conversation with an agent on duty. He gave me his private e-mail address and asked that I forward a link to the post. He indicated that this would be presented to a U.S. Attorney in the morning to obtain a court order for the website to provide the full information about the individual.
Here's what my e-mail to the Secret Service said...
This is a link to a post made at 7:08pm on the political message board site "America's Political Chatroom". The poster, using the name "lewstherin", made the post under the title "Is Anyone Else Watching The Chimpanzee?"
In addition to a photo of Adolph Hitler, he also stated... "why is it everytime i watch him on a live feed, i just wish to God to watch a slug split his skull open. i mean i relly want this to happen. i'm looking at him off and on while i type this imagining what it would look like. it would be a beautiful thing. i truly look forward to this moment. any true patriot would."
http://liberalforum.org/liberalforum/index.php?showtopic=67694
This is a reference to the president's press conference held Wednesday, July 22.
There are far too many people of questionable mental stability amongst us, for this hate and threatening message to not begin formulation of an actionable plan, if not by the original poster, then by someone else.
Only minutes later I received a reply from the agent. Then I went back to the original post and added this reply...
I just finished a phone call with a field agent of the U.S. Secret Service. The agent provided me with his private e-mail address and asked me to forward a link to this this post. He indicated it will be presented to a U.S. Attorney in the morning. I've already received a response to the e-mail from the Secret Service agent and he said, "Thank you for sending this. I will forward it to the right task force."
Being a sicko and advocating assassination is not a right. It's a cancer that needs to be removed. At the least, I suspect you'll make some new acquaintances in the next few days. You also might find attempting to use commercal airlines will be a bit more challenging for you in the future.