Reply #143: Here's an experience I'm familiar with a few years ago re. SS

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A friend of mine works at an exclusive Private Boarding and Day School in the Southeast. One of their students as a joke sent a threatening E-Mail to Bush through the White House website. Shortly afterward two SS Agents showed up at the school interviewed the student and a friend who was with her at the time of the e-mail. The school administrators had to provide all the student's information to them. Parents' names and her school records. After the interview they were satisfied that it was a prank.

The school administrators were really upset about the whole incident because they felt it was overeaching. The Secret Service said that EVERY potential threat must be investigated. It's amazing to me that they have enough staff to do this...but that's what it is.

So, while this might be alarming to all of us...it's what the SS do and in this case where the poster was already banned it would seem that Skinner's lawyer is doing what he feels is appropriate. We all should appreciate his efforts to protect our private information, even that of the banned poster.