Secret Service Targeting 14-Year Old Girls on Myspace

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Teen Questioned Over Bush Threats on MySpace

Secret Service Agents Remove 14-Year-Old Girl From Class

By DON THOMPSON, AP

 

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (Oct. 14) - 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.

 

Federal authorities had found the page and placed Wilson on their checklist. They finally reached her this week in her molecular biology class.

 

The 14-year-old freshman was taken out of class Wednesday and questioned for about 15 minutes by two Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who said the agents should have included them when they questioned their daughter.

 

On Friday, the teenager said the agents' questioning led her to tears.

 

"I wasn't dangerous. I mean, look at what's (stenciled) on my backpack - it's a heart. I'm a very peace-loving person," said Wilson, an honor student who describes herself as politically passionate. "I'm against the war in Iraq. I'm not going to kill the president."

 

Her mother, Kirstie Wilson, said two agents showed up at the family's home Wednesday afternoon, questioned her and promised to return once her daughter was home from school.

 

After they left, Kirstie Wilson sent a text message to her daughter's cell phone, telling her to come straight home: "There are two men from the secret service that want to talk with you. Apparently you made some death threats against president bush."

 

"Are you serious!?!? omg. Am I in a lot of trouble?" her daughter responded.

 

Moments later, Kirstie Wilson received another text message from her daughter saying agents had pulled her out of class.

 

Julia Wilson said the agents threatened her by saying she could be sent to juvenile hall for making the threat.

 

"They yelled at me a lot," she said. "They were unnecessarily mean."

 

Spokesmen for the Secret Service in Sacramento and Washington, D.C., said they could not comment on the case.

 

Wilson and her parents said the agents were justified in questioning her over her MySpace.com posting. But they said they believe agents went too far by not waiting until she was out of school.

 

They also said the agents should have more quickly figured out they weren't dealing with a real danger. Ultimately, the agents told the teen they would delete her investigation file.

 

Assistant Principal Paul Belluomini said the agents gave him the impression the girl's mother knew they were planning to question her daughter at school. There is no legal requirement that parents be notified.

 

"This has been an ongoing problem," said Ann Brick, an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union in San Francisco.

 

Former Govs. Pete Wilson and Gray Davis vetoed bills that would have required that parents give consent or be present when their children are questioned at school by law enforcement officers. A similar bill this year cleared the state Senate but died in the Assembly.

 

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.

 

Well, I'm going to take President Bush out of my top 16!

[Vampiro69 0]

Though shit, she should not have done that.

[alfdogg 0]

"Are you serious!?!? omg. Am I in a lot of trouble?"

[snuffbox 0]

Weak.

[vivalaultra 0]

I think there's an inherent danger and silliness in 13 and 14 year olds doing things like making pictures that say "Kill Bush" or being overly anti-Bush. I don't have that much faith in the youth of America that they're doing these things out of some real knowlege of politics and government. When you get your world view from Green Day or Good Charlotte, you might be in trouble. Such a strong sentiment without concrete reasoning or knowledge isn't helpful. Suddenly politics have become fashionable, especially with the middle-school and junior-high circuit.

[Guest Vitamin X]

I froze when I read what Julie Wilson wrote.

[alfdogg 0]

God damn, how did I let that one slip by. So obvious.

[bob_barron 0]

I was going to make the froze joke! I was hoping kkk would post the picture he photoshopped.

[bob_barron 0]

 

Now everybody freeze

[Guest Felonies!]

Northern California? You don't say!

[bobobrazil1984 0]

got no problem with the secret service looking into it, though i do think there should be a point where they do a value judgement on if it even has a possibility of being a real possible risk, instead of just allocating all kinds of resources to fully investigate it.

[Gary Floyd 0]

Eh, I'd go into a rant on why I hate kids today, but I'm too lazy.

[snuffbox 0]

Them dadgum kids.

[Slayer 0]

 

Now everybody freeze

 

I'll stab her...

 

with my cock

[snuffbox 0]

We got 14 year olds jacking off their boyfriends in the hallways, getting their boobmilk all over the place, and now theyre trying to kill our sacred president. Dang kids today.

[2GOLD 0]

Well...at least they haven't brought back Bryan Adams.

[snuffbox 0]

But they did, kinda! That cheesey techno cover of Heaven was really over with them darn youngsters.

[2GOLD 0]

Ah hell, I forgot about that. Plus the way they completely destroyed the Axel F theme from Beverly Hills Cop. Damn stupid kids.

[Guest Felonies!]

We got 14 year olds jacking off their boyfriends in the hallways, getting their boobmilk all over the place, and now theyre trying to kill our sacred president. Dang kids today.

How many Beatles albums can this girl name?

[snuffbox 0]

NONE!

[SuperJerk 0]

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.

 

I remember when I learned in history class that slavery is illegal.

 

My mom was all like, "Who's going to pick all this cotton NOW?"

[Guest Felonies!]

NONE!

No. The correct answer was "just Revolver."

[snuffbox 0]

That's what these meddling kids use to kill Presidents after playing them dag videogames.

[Guest Felonies!]

If the Secret Service offered to trade her some Yu-Gi-Oh cards in exchange for deleting the myspace, this could've been handled smoothly.

[vivalaultra 0]

On a scale of 1-18, how similar is Yu-Gi-Oh to Pokemon? I've...never heard of Yu-Gi-Oh.

[snuffbox 0]

One represents all that is wrong with our youth today...the other, not so much.

[SuperJerk 0]

My slavery joke got no-sold in favor of witty discussion of Japanese trading cards.

 

 

Fuck you guys. I'm going to bed.

[snuffbox 0]

Don't blame us...we just cant help ourselves when spman-level material e-slaps us right in the face.

[Open the Muggy Gate 0]

We got SuperJerk out of a topic! CELEBRATION TIME!

[vivalaultra 0]

I remember hearing a semi-amusing joke one time about a Jamaican guy and Pokemon, but I can't remember it all.

 

And slavery is never a laughing matter...Japanese trading cards, however, are always a laughing matter. I used to work at Burger King back in like...1998 when Pokemon was really popular and they were giving away those supposedly collectible gold Pokemon card things and I spent like 10 bucks buying all of them, but now they're completely worthless. I remember there was this big scandal and like...five people got fired for trying to steal boxloads of em. I still know nothing about Yu-Gi-Oh. I am, however, a Level 5 Gundam.