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(Some Guy)   College student threatens to assassinate Bush, Rummy and "all Republicans" online. His lawyer hopes he can get out of jail in time for finals   (suntimes.com) divider line
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lmxloco
2006-04-18 1:26:53 PM  
That may very well be the longest article ever.

Anyone have the cliff notes?
 
lmxloco
2006-04-18 1:27:29 PM  
Ahh...next time I have to wait for the entire page to load before opening my big mouth.

Oh well.
 
Crackhead Ben
2006-04-18 1:34:08 PM  
lmxloco: Anyone have the cliff notes?

"Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board."

says it all,

if the kid's name was James Smith, there'd be no problems.
 
labman [TotalFark]
2006-04-18 1:49:45 PM  
Crackhead Ben: if the kid's name was James Smith, there'd be no problems.

definitely not true there. I know a college student who was arrested for doing this same thing and he didn't have a foreign name. (Unless Dwight is foreign)
 
Crackhead Ben
2006-04-18 1:52:07 PM  
labman: (Unless Dwight is foreign)

Ahem, Dwight EISENHOWER? Does Eisenhower sound American to you?
 
GraphicAddiction
2006-04-18 2:00:38 PM  
Crackhead Ben: if the kid's name was James Smith, there'd be no problems.

It's time to put down the pipe.
 
poot_rootbeer
2006-04-18 2:02:02 PM  
On the other hand, if he had said all DEMOCRATS should be assassinated, he would be given a syndicated newspaper column.

/cruel and unusual punishment
 
Crackhead Ben
2006-04-18 2:12:51 PM  
GraphicAddiction: It's time to put down the pipe.

C'mon, foreign kid, brown skin, here on a "student visa," goes around proclaiming we should kill all the republicans?

He's either a terrorist or Howard Dean's successor.
 
GraphicAddiction
2006-04-18 2:22:04 PM  
Crackhead Ben: He's either a terrorist or Howard Dean's successor.

Well, they are on the same side, after all. ;)
 
kabloink [TotalFark]
2006-04-18 2:47:55 PM  
Crackhead Ben: C'mon, foreign kid, brown skin, here on a "student visa," goes around proclaiming we should kill all the republicans?

I think killing is a bit much. I think forcing republican politicians to actually live the moral values they support would be punishment enough for them.
 
atpgod
2006-04-18 2:58:36 PM  
kabloink: I think forcing republican politicians to actually live the moral values they support would be punishment enough for them.

Where can I sign up for your newsletter?
 
TheConvincingSavant
2006-04-18 3:06:43 PM  
I think killing is a bit much. I think forcing republican politicians to actually live the moral values they support would be punishment enough for them.

That would never work.

They'd just remove morality entirely and become Democrats.
 
Lionel Mandrake
2006-04-18 3:30:29 PM  
Anybody who publicly advocates assassinating the President can expect a visit from the authorities.

ANYBODY....
 
MasterThief
2006-04-18 3:49:23 PM  
Crackhead Ben: C'mon, foreign kid, brown skin, here on a "student visa," goes around proclaiming we should kill all the republicans?

Yeah, good luck avoiding deportation. Last time I checked, threatening the president is considered a "crime involving moral turpitude."
 
mutt
2006-04-18 3:58:48 PM  
Did one Chicago newspaper buy the other? The URL is suntimes.com but the title graphic on the site is post-trib.com
 
Crackhead Ben
2006-04-18 4:03:04 PM  
kabloink: I think killing is a bit much. I think forcing republican politicians to actually live the moral values they support would be punishment enough for them.

Nonsense, they're the "do as we say, not as we do" administration.

Besides, most people don't live up to the same moral value system they support.
 
Scooby's'pawn
2006-04-18 4:27:11 PM  
The caliber of engineering students at PU must be slipping. Who doesn't know that threatening the president is a crime?

His diatribe doesn't stop at political enemies. If it did, I might chalk it up to a ill-conceived rant. No, he goes on to urge "the Web sites readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them"

This is one disturbed individual. his lawyer couldn't be more wrong. He's quite capable of trying to carry through on his threat.
 
heap
2006-04-18 4:32:23 PM  
TheConvincingSavant: They'd just remove morality entirely and become Democrats.

you say that like it'd be a bad thing.

considering lip service and wedge-issuing is all it's getting now, i'm not really seeing the downside.
 
Skeezix
2006-04-18 5:04:36 PM  
So much for freedom of speech.

/sarcasm
 
illadelfian
2006-04-18 5:04:39 PM  
"A concerned citizen contacted the Secret Service office in Dallas to report that a subject was posting threatening messages about Bush, according to the criminal complaint filed in Hammonds federal court and unsealed Monday."

You mean a concerned Fox News viewer...
 
West_Side_Charlie
2006-04-18 5:04:56 PM  
mutt
Did one Chicago newspaper buy the other? The URL is suntimes.com but the title graphic on the site is post-trib.com

Nope, the Sun-Times just owns a mess of local newspapers, and this is one of them.
 
selfmedicating
2006-04-18 5:05:10 PM  
Silly rabbit. Only senators can threaten the president.
 
TheConvincingSavant
2006-04-18 5:05:20 PM  
considering lip service and wedge-issuing is all it's getting now, i'm not really seeing the downside.

Heck yeah.

Morality, shmorality.
 
Krapitino
2006-04-18 5:05:53 PM  
Kill the President!

/by telling him a really funny joke
//I got a million of 'em!
 
Shrinkwrap
2006-04-18 5:06:49 PM  
So much for freedom of speech.

It's actually against the law to threaten the kill the president.
 
NarrMaster
2006-04-18 5:07:30 PM  
If he had sent anthrax to the office of the Senate Minority leader, he'd get away with it.
 
BlueDjinn
2006-04-18 5:08:13 PM  
Aside from this guy being pretty sick (especially the "rape/mutilate women" part), I was puzzled by this passage:

"He was originally hired as a teaching assistant in the math department but was removed from that position and is now a teaching assistant in the industrial engineering department."

Ummm...they don't give the context of this statement, so I don't know whether it has anything to do with the charges against the guy or not. If it doesn't, then what on earth is this fact doing in the story? Does it have any relevance to anything whatsoever?

If it *does* have relevance, I can't figure out how--is that considered part of his punishment or something? Being transferred from the Math Dept. to the Engineering Dept.?

Weird.
 
SchlingFo
2006-04-18 5:09:06 PM  
That's interesting.

You can call for the deaths of all Republicans or Democrats, as a group, and nothing much can be done to you.

However, if you single out individual names, prepare for the shiatstorm.
 
VTSquire
2006-04-18 5:09:09 PM  
When's the last time anybody heard of a college student threatening to kill a Democrat?

serious question, no flame intended.
 
downtownkid
2006-04-18 5:09:50 PM  
illadelfian,

So...let me follow your logic here...you are saying that the Democratic party is in favor of murder and rape?
 
PermanentGuest
2006-04-18 5:10:09 PM  
I was alright with him upto the urging the web sites readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them, part.

With a name like Buddhi you'd expect him to be a pacifist or something like that. He's probably just a fed-up tech support drop out.
 
PedroWonStopVoting
2006-04-18 5:10:15 PM  
i think the president should dye Easter Eggs.
 
craigdamage
2006-04-18 5:10:29 PM  
Krapitino!

You better watch out!

Secret Service WILL appear at your home soon.


They DO NOT have a sense of humor.

They will only see the first part of what you said and NOT the puncline.


Don't even ask me how I know this.


Hell,I'm probably in trouble again just warning you....
 
buzz_kirkwood
2006-04-18 5:11:16 PM  
Not surprising. Speaking as a Purdue student, spending an hour with the "OMFG GLASS PARKING LOT, G-DUB, LAWL!" 20-something Republicans on campus will do that to a person.
 
Cthulus_Toaster
2006-04-18 5:11:25 PM  
Listen children to some wise words of advice: NEVER EVER THREATEN A PRESIDENT OR EX-PRESIDENT of the United States of America. It is not protected by free speech, and it will usually get your ass thrown into prison because it is illegal.
/The more you know/
 
WeaselFlesh
2006-04-18 5:11:33 PM  
He doesn't do a whole lot to help drum up sympathy with that whole "bomb America and rape its women" standpoint.
 
Robobagpiper
2006-04-18 5:13:38 PM  
On the other hand, if he had said all DEMOCRATS should be assassinated,

No, just their leaders. In order to physically intimidate liberals, by making them realize that they can be killed, too. Otherwise, they will turn out to be outright traitors.

/if it's good for the goose...
 
Tainted1
2006-04-18 5:14:19 PM  
You can say just about whatever you want about the president and his cabinet as long a you don't say your going to kill them, which is apparent something this guy couldn't comprehend.

I wonder what his beef is anyways, all of the Indian people I've met on campus profess to liking America & its people, so I'm curious what set this guy off.

As for the guy saying he's just being harrassed for being foreign, grow up.
 
VideoVader
2006-04-18 5:14:23 PM  
Scooby's'pawn
The caliber of engineering students at PU must be slipping. Who doesn't know that threatening the president is a crime?

I think he knows, just as he knows that raping and mutilating women is a crime. He just doesn't care.

His diatribe doesn't stop at political enemies. If it did, I might chalk it up to a ill-conceived rant. No, he goes on to urge "the Web sites readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them"

This is one disturbed individual. his lawyer couldn't be more wrong. He's quite capable of trying to carry through on his threat.

True that. Petty politics aside, this guy is messed up.
 
Villain
2006-04-18 5:14:30 PM  
So, a college student, most of whom aren't exactly geniuses, goes off on a foolish and moronic tirade for which the justice department will rightfully be investigating him for the foreseeable future.

Why is this Farkworthy?

Oh yeah, so individuals like GraphicAddiction can get their jollies taking potshots at the fools who post equally foolish comments.
 
greaser_77
2006-04-18 5:15:30 PM  
selfmedicating: Silly rabbit. Only senators can threaten the president.

Don't forget about these guys:
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PermanentGuest
2006-04-18 5:16:15 PM  
Shiat,

I expressed misguided understanding of his feelings (to a point). Now they'll be after me next.

/Paranoia strikes deep:
//Into your life it will creep.
///It starts when you're always afraid.
////You step out of line, the man come and take you away
 
mongbiohazard
2006-04-18 5:16:19 PM  
TheConvincingSavant: ***I think killing is a bit much. I think forcing republican politicians to actually live the moral values they support would be punishment enough for them.***

That would never work.

They'd just remove morality entirely and become Democrats.

[image from members.arstechnica.com too old to be available]
 
insanity offense
2006-04-18 5:16:31 PM  
Kind of hard to get around this one. You can't talk about stuff like that when it comes to our leaders.
 
moulderx1 [OhFark]
2006-04-18 5:18:40 PM  
Hedley Lamarr: Qualifications?
Applicant: Rape, murder, arson, and rape.
Hedley Lamarr: You said rape twice.
Applicant: I like rape.
 
WeaselFlesh
2006-04-18 5:18:48 PM  
Not to defend this asshat, but surely there must be some exception for satire or comments that in no way way could be construed to be literal.
 
Electrify
2006-04-18 5:19:04 PM  
FREEDOM OF SPEACH!!!

I thought this was the land of the free, where people could express themselves without persecution. South Park can portray Mohammed on their show, which is a very disrespectful thing in islam, but we can't threaten to kill the President???

Look people, for the past few decades we haven't had to worry about defending our free speach. I say we all write death threats to President Bush, to show that we should be able to freely express ourselves without persecution!!!

/burries head in sand
 
clgrin
2006-04-18 5:19:14 PM  
If you all will excuse me, there's threatening letters I need to go get back from the mailman.

/runs
 
Jument
2006-04-18 5:19:27 PM  
Buddhi allegedly posted his messages on a Yahoo finance board dedicated to Sirius Satellite radio, a site that receives 2 million to 3 million hits a day

WTF? Of all the places to threaten His Monkeyness, why on a Sirius stock board?
 
jeep44
2006-04-18 5:19:35 PM  
I wonder what his FARK name was?
 
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