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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-13-10 11:31 AM
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2. Unless the kid threatened violence he's just a potty mouth. It's not a reason to
Edited on Mon Sep-13-10 11:33 AM by GreenPartyVoter
keep him out of the country for life.

I seriously wonder if this story is true, or if we have actually heard the most pertinent of details.
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  -Drunken e-mail to Obama gets teen banned from U.S. sabra  Sep-13-10 11:22 AM   #0 
  - Wow I wonder how many of us are about to be kicked out of the country.  dkf   Sep-13-10 11:31 AM   #1 
  - The Free Speech zones just got a heck of a lot smaller  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-13-10 11:32 AM   #3 
  - Threats to the president were *never* considered free speech.  SemiCharmedQuark   Sep-13-10 03:37 PM   #39 
  - British Fox News  A Physicist   Sep-13-10 01:46 PM   #25 
  - Thank you. And welcome to DU.  Hekate   Sep-13-10 09:21 PM   #57 
  - How many threatening emails have you sent to the White House?  SemiCharmedQuark   Sep-13-10 03:31 PM   #38 
  - Unless the kid threatened violence he's just a potty mouth. It's not a reason to  GreenPartyVoter   Sep-13-10 11:31 AM   #2 
  - Apparently he did use threatening language.  geek tragedy   Sep-13-10 01:13 PM   #19 
  - We've heard the kid's story from his point of view, in a Murdoch publication.  HuckleB   Sep-13-10 09:22 PM   #58 
  - Something tells me there is more to this  sharp_stick   Sep-13-10 11:33 AM   #4 
  - Yes, I think there has to be a lot more to this than just a nasty name  Warpy   Sep-13-10 11:45 AM   #8 
  - So you came up with prick?  DeSwiss   Sep-13-10 12:46 PM   #15 
     - But comparing Obama  sharp_stick   Sep-13-10 12:57 PM   #16 
     - I'd say it's MORE offensive, at least to average male sensibilities..  whathehell   Sep-13-10 02:35 PM   #30 
     - I'd like to buy a vowel, Vanna...  Buns_of_Fire   Sep-13-10 04:35 PM   #44 
  - Sky News=Fox News  Dappleganger   Sep-13-10 11:33 AM   #5 
  - Toronto Sun = New York Post  devilgrrl   Sep-13-10 04:02 PM   #42 
  - Wow, the comments to the Toronto Sun are much more polite than you'd find  Bette Noir   Sep-13-10 11:39 AM   #6 
  - Obama's middle name is Hussein, you see  Warpy   Sep-13-10 11:46 AM   #9 
  - If you can't call someone a prick, how will we know who the pricks are amongst us? . . .  Journeyman   Sep-13-10 11:40 AM   #7 
  - I wonder what the 60 reasons to get tombstoned from the US are  Renew Deal   Sep-13-10 12:11 PM   #10 
  - !  dionysus   Sep-13-10 09:20 PM   #55 
  - I sent an angry email to George Bush  irislake   Sep-13-10 12:24 PM   #11 
  - amen!  Divine Discontent   Sep-13-10 09:28 PM   #62 
  - Does he behave that way when sober?  alp227   Sep-13-10 12:24 PM   #12 
  - threatening language  frogmarch   Sep-13-10 12:27 PM   #13 
  - Thank you for posting that it was threatening language also. Good to see another source  uppityperson   Sep-13-10 02:50 PM   #34 
  - I figured there had to have been threatening language as well...  Spazito   Sep-13-10 09:25 PM   #61 
  - K&R  DeSwiss   Sep-13-10 12:42 PM   #14 
  - Way to get your name permanently on the Intertubes...  snooper2   Sep-13-10 01:09 PM   #17 
  - This article and most of the comments above assume that what the kid says is true about him being  Brickbat   Sep-13-10 01:12 PM   #18 
  - As a parent of a 13 year old, I was thinking exactly that.  blondeatlast   Sep-13-10 01:20 PM   #20 
  - And the word "drunken" isn't supported, either.  Orsino   Sep-13-10 08:37 PM   #51 
  - +1,000,000,000,000,000,000 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  HuckleB   Sep-13-10 09:23 PM   #60 
  - See people ...spying on us pays off. That kid was clearly a danger to us all.  L0oniX   Sep-13-10 01:24 PM   #21 
  - He sent the email to Obama. It's not exactly spying for  geek tragedy   Sep-13-10 01:26 PM   #22 
  - What ever.  L0oniX   Sep-13-10 01:32 PM   #24 
     - Nice argument. nt  geek tragedy   Sep-13-10 01:49 PM   #26 
  - How do know he was busted?  HuckleB   Sep-13-10 09:22 PM   #59 
  - Definitely not Oxford material  Swamp Rat   Sep-13-10 01:30 PM   #23 
  - Speaking of Oxford material...  Karenina   Sep-13-10 01:51 PM   #27 
     - NAAA!! DUUUU!!!!  Swamp Rat   Sep-13-10 01:54 PM   #28 
        - Cold in temperature, warm in spirit.  Karenina   Sep-13-10 02:54 PM   #35 
           - I guess I'll go back to Brasil  Swamp Rat   Sep-13-10 02:58 PM   #36 
              - In time for the World Cup?  Karenina   Sep-13-10 04:01 PM   #41 
                 - Obrigado, aqui é o meu favorito, Jackson do Pandeiro:  Swamp Rat   Sep-13-10 04:42 PM   #45 
  - I doubt we know the whole story. An angry e-mail doesn't get one banned for life from US.  WI_DEM   Sep-13-10 02:09 PM   #29 
  - "banned from America forever" WOW, because of an email  Liberal_in_LA   Sep-13-10 02:42 PM   #31 
  - Well, just being "Banned in Boston" is SO 1950s... nt  Buns_of_Fire   Sep-13-10 04:44 PM   #46 
  - That's his claim.  HuckleB   Sep-13-10 09:21 PM   #56 
  - Ah, Bedfordshire. Probably a chav.  Rabrrrrrr   Sep-13-10 02:44 PM   #32 
  - What is a "chav" ? n/t  whathehell   Sep-13-10 05:10 PM   #47 
  - Chavs are the intentionally socially maladjusted.  Rabrrrrrr   Sep-13-10 09:12 PM   #52 
     - Called "teddy boys" in the sixties? n/t  whathehell   Sep-13-10 09:41 PM   #63 
        - No.  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 12:58 AM   #65 
           - Oh.  whathehell   Sep-14-10 07:19 AM   #66 
              - Nice red herring.  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 09:38 AM   #67 
                 - Heard  whathehell   Sep-14-10 10:28 AM   #69 
                 - You're trying to compare a social, cultural "movement" to something very different.  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 10:44 AM   #71 
                    - Excuse me..  whathehell   Sep-14-10 12:26 PM   #73 
                 - ..Nice passive aggressive.  whathehell   Sep-14-10 10:38 AM   #70 
                    - Stating the content of your post is not passive aggressive.  HuckleB   Sep-14-10 10:44 AM   #72 
                       - Try  whathehell   Sep-14-10 12:27 PM   #74 
  - Bedford..or Luton...certainly got to watch for folks from Dunstable too  HipChick   Sep-13-10 08:34 PM   #49 
  - A Drunk 17 year old?  Sheepshank   Sep-13-10 02:47 PM   #33 
  - The minimum drinking age in the UK is....five.  Xithras   Sep-13-10 03:10 PM   #37 
     - all this and no sarcasm smilie?  Sheepshank   Sep-13-10 03:46 PM   #40 
     - In Japan, the legal drinking age is 20  Art_from_Ark   Sep-13-10 08:29 PM   #48 
  - What a heaping pile of crap from a shitty Murdoch publication.  devilgrrl   Sep-13-10 04:03 PM   #43 
  - Well put.  blondeatlast   Sep-13-10 08:35 PM   #50 
  - Are there any GOOD Murdoch publications?  Canuckistanian   Sep-13-10 09:16 PM   #53 
  - Uh, so all we know is this kid's version of the story.  HuckleB   Sep-13-10 09:19 PM   #54 
  - Can he still go to Kenya?...  lame54   Sep-13-10 09:48 PM   #64 
  - "Oh dear, it was me."  blueamy66   Sep-14-10 09:42 AM   #68 
 

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