Mental patient charged with threatening President Bush

[kpete]

Mental patient charged with threatening President Bush

By: JIM SUHR - Associated Press

EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. -- A Palestinian man faces federal charges of threatening President Bush over comments made while getting mental-health care, according to an indictment made public this week.

News of the indictment raised questions Friday about how to treat such comments by mental patients.

Federal grand jurors indicted Arafat Nijmeh on March 23 on two felony counts of "knowingly and willfully" threatening to harm Bush -- first by telling two workers at his treatment center that he wanted to castrate Bush, then a day later to Secret Service agents notified by the center.

The indictment says Nijmeh told the agents that his threat "is not too harsh, considering what he has done to my country. If not that than maybe something else, you know?"
.............

"It's national security gone berserk," Beckett said. He speculated that some details of the case have been kept secret, but added, "My immediate reaction here is, `Who's nuts?"'

http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/04/08/news/nation/12_39_594_7_06.txt

[havocmom]

1. Keep waiting for "Mental Patient Charged with Impersonating President

For Past Several Years"

[reichstag911]

2. Internecine squabble? n/t

[niallmac]

3. Palestinian threatens mental patient. n/t

[salin]

4. Breaking: Aides now admit mental patient is President Bush.

[thefool_wa]

5. This raises a few questions

1) Who were the workers? Were they Nurses? Doctors? Janitors? If it is anything but Janitors, doesn't doctor/patient priveledge come into play?

2) Who took a mental patient as being serious enough in his threat that they felt the need to call the SS? Did they really feel he had the desire and means to hold GW down and cut off his jewels?

Honestly, I think this is another ploy by the Bush-reich to re-inforce to the people of this country that no disobedience will be tolerated, even the pissed of ramblings of a mental patient.

:wtf:

[undeterred]

6. Mental patient declared competent

this proves it.