Secret Service interrogates Tacoma 7th grader for a Facebook post - Polidicks

Calm down, most they'll do IF they take action is subpoena garry since the servers are located in the U.S. and request your IP address and maybe (I doubt it) ban you from entering the U.S. Oh and we'll permaban you too.

[QUOTE=Starpluck;29906661]Calm down, most they'll do IF they take action iis subpoena garry since the servers are located in the U.S. and request your IP address and maybe (I doubt it) ban you from entering the U.S. [b]Oh and we'll permaban you too.[/b][/QUOTE] I'm really sorry.

[QUOTE=UnknownDude;29905774]Wait, am I in trouble now? I'm getting paranoid, better snip it.[/QUOTE] obstructing justice

[quote]His mother says she isn't financially able to take legal action[/quote] Good, people shouldn't be suing eachother willy nilly.

[QUOTE=certified;29895777]What a waste of their resources. Don't they realize they hit a [b]FUCKING DEBT CEILING[/b] yesterday? This is even more of a waste then taking an 8 year old away from her family because of some botox.[/QUOTE] To be honest, the taking an 8 year old away from her family was an entirely valid idea and was a good decision, not a waste. It only got news time because she had already been on the news before then. [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=animephreak135;29891162]It's uneccesary, but 30 minutes of "interrogation" isn't exactly a big deal either. A concerned soccer mom probably reported his Facebook post. The Secret Service is also pretty good about having agents in every region of the U.S. I remember being questioned by a secret service agent my junior year of highschool because a $20 bill I tried to use in the cafeteria was a "nearly flawless" fake. Good times.[/QUOTE] Admittedly, counterfeit currency is the actual job of the Secret Service, so this is considerably more valid than this facebook interpretation. After all, while you may or may not be behind it, they might be able to figure out where it came from and what not.

[QUOTE=UnknownDude;29906877]I'm really sorry.[/QUOTE] You'll be fine. I don't think they can be THIS idiotic. :buddy: [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] hm, they did do it to those SA guys, tho... [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] yeah go back to panicmode

[QUOTE=Zero Ziat;29907899]You'll be fine. I don't think they can be THIS idiotic. :buddy: [/QUOTE] There's nothing idiotic about it. You should expect full ramifications if you threaten the life of one of the most important people in the world.

So investigate every little internethreat to kill the president? On FP? [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] :tinfoil: [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] Get busy, gents. :colbert: ps i actually knew they research everything but thinking they do this everywhere sometimes gets me worried because yeah xoxo pps its funny how you box me when in first page you say this is stupid and unnecessary, then after that you warn me to expect full ramifications and serious shit

[QUOTE=Foogooman;29902333]Why aren't more of you disturbed by the fact that the secret service is apparently monitoring your facebook pages for suspicious looking things?[/QUOTE] Because there's nothing disturbing about them reading a public webpage?

Julian Assange was right. They DO monitor facebook and track people. Edit: This is why you shouldn't use facebook if you are planning a terrorist attack or joking about one.

[QUOTE=Sanius;29897104]their "forum cancer" system is hilarious. basically, if you post in a certain sub-forum (BYOB I think, equivalent to OIFY), you get forum cancer. it changes your avatar and make your posts partially transparent. the one way to get rid of it is to pay $10 for a "vaccine" or something like that.[/QUOTE] Just that instead of OIFY do it for the MLP megathread. [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] I wonder what face that kid had when a G-man walked into the room.

[QUOTE=Sanius;29902349]how is that offensive? besides, it was probably reported to them anyway. I doubt they have people scanning every single facebook comment being made[/QUOTE] Considering they got at those people on Something Awful, they probably do spend an inordinate amount of time just searching google for anything related to killing Obama. :v: [editline]18th May 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=Sanius;29901910]Kind of hard to believe that anybody could be stupid enough to even joke about killing the president[/QUOTE] It is perfectly okay for me to joke about killing another human being, say, you. But suddenly if I joke about killing another human being with an arbitrary title and social status, but still a person just like me, it's a horrendous crime and I should be investigated and observed with taxpayer money. :geno:

well, they need to show they're doing something

[QUOTE=Doozle;29907324]Good, people shouldn't be suing eachother willy nilly.[/QUOTE] She has a valid fucking reason to sue, not just in america, if this happened in pretty much any first world country you'd sue.

Hilarious read

[QUOTE=lorden;29919456]Considering they got at those people on Something Awful, they probably do spend an inordinate amount of time just searching google for anything related to killing Obama. :v: [/quote] It's not that they spend time searching. There is literally an online reporting thing where you can report things like that. Someone reports it, knowing the end results will be entirely hilarious. And then, hilarity ensues, because it takes not very long for them to look into such a report. [quote] It is perfectly okay for me to joke about killing another human being, say, you. But suddenly if I joke about killing another human being with an arbitrary title and social status, but still a person just like me, it's a horrendous crime and I should be investigated and observed with taxpayer money. :geno:[/QUOTE] It's not an arbitrary title and social status. It's an elected official and the head of state. So it's not arbitrary, he has a major position of power in the government. The Secret Service's job is to protect the president.(Also to look into counterfeiting, which is their original job, but whatever.) Therefore, they need to look into things like this for their job. They aren't there to protect random people. Now, if there is a death threat made, you can have the police look into it, and they have to care about it, and possibly give you a protection detail. So technically, it's not okay to joke about killing another human being, it's just that a. The Secret Service has one person to really care about, and so they have time to look into all threats, even ones that are a bit obviously not true. b. The chance of you getting reported for a threat against another random person is considerably lower, and if on the internet, is less likely to be taken seriously.

It actually proves government is following/stalking these social websites and that they are good surveillance systems.

here's another source that has more info on what he posted: [quote]The last seven words of one of LaPinta's status updates are what caught the Feds attention, [B]"First order, suicide bomb Obama. Suck it".[/B][/quote] [url]http://www.q13fox.com/news/kcpq-government-is-watching-every-text-tweet-and-status-update-you-do-20110518,0,2466637.story[/url] [editline]19th May 2011[/editline] also more info on how they find these postings: [quote]Mike Andrew, a professor at Edmonds Community College and also the president of the Cyber Security Institute, says the Secret Service likely found LaPinta through an advanced data filtering program. “Anytime you have a government official involved, particularly the chief executive of the United States, it doesn’t take much to trigger a concern,” Andrew said Wednesday. "In the process of crawling the Facebook web page of this young man, it came across the key words that alerted the program and sent a notification. Then an agent got involved, did some personal investigation and followed through from that point,” says Andrew. During the Clinton administration, the National Security Agency started a secret government surveillance network called "Echelon." It monitors electronic communications around the world, capturing and analyzing certain key words.[/quote]

wow overreacting much? the kid was just joking around..

Osama bin vito.

The Secret Service came to my high school once. Some fucking morons thought it was okay to print off fake $20 bills and use them to buy lunch. I was on the student newspaper staff at the time and actually got to meet them. They were pretty serious (I got the "no comment" brush-off). They caught the idiots who printed the money, who told the local paper they thought it was perfectly fine to make fake money. :lol: But seriously, a fucking middle school, over comments made by a boy too young to understand what he was saying? That's just :downs:

I can see where they're coming from, seeing as how terrorist groups are using kids as suicide bombers this is a bit ridiculous though.

-snip WRONG THREAD LOL-

Wow, this is pretty intelligent discussion for what I have seen so far on FP. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Continuing posting in bumped thread." - Swebonny))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=Soret;41586790]-snip WRONG THREAD LOL-[/QUOTE] how the fuck do you even end up in a two year old thread [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Posting just to complain about a bump" - Swebonny))[/highlight]

[QUOTE=a-cookie;41623218]how the fuck do you even end up in a two year old thread[/QUOTE] sometimes you just leave tabs open ok [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Continuing to bump dead thread" - Swebonny))[/highlight]