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OMS eighth-grader Kindrel Clark recently won the speech competition at the Southern Association of Student Councils annual conference in Greenville SC.
She is the 14-year-old daughter of Mark and Kecia Clark of Odenville.
"My speech was about leadership," Clark said. "And about how leadership as members of the SGA can affect everybody else."
Clark said she spent about two weeks writing the speech and then memorizing it. She said it really shocked her when her named was called out as the winner.
"I was not expecting to win because it was my first conference and my first time giving a speech," Clark said. "It was exciting."
Clark said she read her speech before a panel of two judges. The speech had to be between four and five minutes.
"I had practiced at home with my mom, and every day with my SGA sponsor Tammy Williams," she said. "Mrs. Williams is fantastic. Had it not been for her, I would not have gotten the speech done. She really pushed me to get it done. I was really nervous; my mom was nervous, but Mrs. Williams was the only one that really knew I was going to win."
Clark said although this is her last year to be at the middle school, she wants to continue this at the high school level.
"I want to continue going to conferences and giving speeches," Clark said.
"This was my first year in the SGA, and it is something I really enjoy being part of."
Clark has plans of going to Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburg, Pa.
She wants to major in either culinary arts or structural engineering.
"I would love to design roller coasters," Clark said.
Kecia Clark said she was just amazed at her daughter.
"I am amazed to be her mom," Mrs. Clark said. "She blew me completely out of the water with her speech. I had heard bits and pieces of it, but never heard the entire speech put together. When she got up on the stage, it was like she was a natural. She just owned it. Words cannot express how it made me feel."
OMS Principal Debra Carroll said she was so proud of Kindrel being able to go and compete in this particular venue with thousands of kids there.
"It makes me proud to know she performed as well as she did under that much pressure," Carroll said. "Mrs. Williams told me she was magnificent. That came from preparation and hard work. We are all just so proud of her."

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I [heart] librarians.
Last night Jim and I drove up to Tacoma, Washington to hang out with school librarians. To be more precise, the Tacoma chapter of the Washington Library Media Association invited us to speak, eat dinner and sign advance copies of Blackbringer that Putnam had sent them. How cool is that? It was a wonderful event -- we had so much fun (and the food was great!). On the way there we stopped at Radio Shack and bought a digital voice recorder and we recorded our talks, and this weekend Jim is going to figure out how to post a podcast so anyone who wants to can hear me talk about struggling with perfectionism, my teenage yearnings to be a tormented "artiste," the Millenium Falcon, and more, and hear Jim talk about doing the art for the book, and also about the first time he ever used a microphone (hint: it was at K-Mart).
Can I just say: I love signing my book. Love it. And I love speaking to groups of librarians -- they totally laugh at my jokes! Oh -- and the librarian who had organized the dinner asked me in an email if I would be wearing polka dots (could I be getting a polka-dotted reputation?), and so I did. Remember these? They were a hit!
Now -- I have a question for you. What do you think of this Laini's Lady design?
Be absolutely honest. The cat head, the human hand, the look of the cat, everything: like? Don't like? Please, even if you don't usually leave comments, I'd love to know. Thank you!!
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- Sam said...
Ok, since you seem sincere in asking for opinion...
The hand doesn't bother me, but the cat has ummmm breasts. That looks just a little wierd. - 6:09 PM
- staceyfike said...
if i were a cat person, i would love it
- kelly rae said...
you are on fire with all the goodness that is in your life right now! yay! i'm so endlessly proud of you both!
as for the cat, my VERY first impression: scary. i think it's the cat's eyes. she looks sort of mean. is there a way to make a cat look more stuck up and less mean???
you're brilliant...
xo - 8:57 PM
- Tinker said...
I don't know if you've ever looked at my art album on my blog, but if you did, you'd know how I feel about animals in clothing :-)
However, I have to say she is a bit chesty for a feline, though otherwise quite intriguing -
perhaps more Cleocatra-like costuming to go with the quote?
On the scary synchronistic side (for me) - DARN!! Why didn't I grab that idea when it floated past and run with it! But chances are it will probably find a better home with you...sigh... - 1:46 AM
- Tinker said...
Aack! I hope that didn't come out too weird! I think clothed animals with quotes is a great idea.
- Rhonda the Stitchingnut said...
I'm not too kean on the cat lady. It's not quite right. Something about it ... maybe it's the angle & too much in the chest area. The tail coming out from under the dress? ;-)
- Laurel said...
I just found you via jacketflap (I'm about to ahve my first book out in 2008 and I'm trying to learn the ropes) and I LOVE your ladies.
I totally like the cat, but maybe she seems les.... marketable? I like her *because* she's weird, but maybe that makes her less sell-able. Dunno.
But wow, really great work!
http://kidliterary.blogspot.com - 5:00 AM
- Courtney said...
Hi Liani,
I also found you on jacketflap. Love your ladies, so swirly and fun. The chest on your cat doesn't bug me but the human hand is just a little weird. Congrats on all of your success and love those polka-dot shoes! - 6:10 AM
- Heather said...
I think it's GREAT! It makes that whole Egyptian cat-worshipping thing come to life. I don't care if the cat has breasts or a human hand - it works!
- [a} said...
Awesome as usual, but you could also have done like some exotic, Egyptian-style dress. And one leg before the other, like in those ancient Egyptian paintings.
['Tis a super quote, btw, did you make it up?]
Also, I am SUCH a cat person. - 9:05 AM
- Goddess of Leonie said...
hey luscious laini!
i love the quote...
but then felt freaked out when i saw the cat's head on the body.
what could be cuter...
a normal lady, words on her dress, with a cat wandering around her legs, tail twining upwards?
luscious leonie - 4:03 PM
- brittany said...
well, since you really want my humble opinion...I think it would be kind of cool if she had a human head with some kind of cat-like qualitiy to it, but the tail still peeking out...like she's got a little secret.
and oh, my goodness, those shoes! I lOOOVe them! I want to be fun like you.
xo - 9:09 PM
- annie said...
I like the idea and the quote. Perhaps, though, hand in pocket and no bust line.
- annie said...
By the way, glad to see others have found you on jacketflap. I didn't ask you before I put your feed into the list, but I figured it would be okay!
I love your ladies, and I love cats, but not this cat head, on this butterfly fairy lady, it did not work for me. Sorry.
- Carol said...
I love it, mostly...the bust does not bother me, since the whole thing is obviously a sort of anthropomorphism. I adore the tail coming out from the dress. The head of the cat does seem a little off to me, though...maybe show a bit of the neck coming out of the collar? But in all I really think it's cool.
- Amber said...
I agree with all the comments about making it more Egyptian-style. I didn't even notice the bust until someone mentioned it, but the hand bothers me a little. I think animals in clothes are fine, as long as they're all-animal.
The quote is perfect, by the way. So true. (Especially for Siamese cats.) - 12:29 AM
- anna said...
No, too wierd. Can you tuck a cat under her arm (and give her a human head?) - you could still leave the tail tho. Colours are great!
- Maddie said...
I would love anyone that laughs at my jokes
as well! - 4:13 PM
- luckyzmom said...
I love it. I can see a paw instead of a hand maybe.
Either change to a cat paw in lieu of the human hand or remove the cat head & tail and put a woman in the dress with a cat at her feet. Also, the colors are wrong for a reference to Egypt. Try reds, gold, black and sienna. Good luck with your new book!


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Monday, January 3, 2011
Bedskirt Tutorial
My daughter's bed is a daybed so I would need one long side and two short sides to my bedskirt. For the long side the finished length would be 84". First I decided what part of the pattern I wanted to show the most. I picked the large damask to be the focal point of the skirt. The finished length of the skirt would be 18".
I cut two widths of the fabric and then matched up the pattern and sewed them together to form one long 108" piece of fabric. For the two shorter sides I used a single width of fabric for each side. I hemmed the bottom of the fabric a quarter of an inch.
I wanted her bedskirt to have a ruffled effect. I didn't want it super full looking, but just flowing. I have a ruffler attachment for my sewing machine. After trying it out on several pieces of scrap fabric, I felt fairly comfortable starting to ruffle the actual bedskirt. Well I had more than my share of problems with that ruffler. I couldn't get it to actually catch the fabric without me helping it along. So it took much longer than I would have liked to ruffle it. I read the instructions countless times...but they were not really helpful.
After I finished ruffling all of the fabric, I realized I better cut the sheet for the bedskirt to make sure my ruffled fabric actually fits. I used a full size white sheet I had in the closet and actually laid it on the boxspring and cut it on site. It was much easier to do it this way rather than take the measurements and then hope to cut straight lines.
Next I attached the ruffled fabric to the sheet, wrong side of the fabric to the top of the sheet. I got lucky because the ruffled fabric ended up being exactly the length of the sheet. Since the ruffler really wasn't working well I sort of winged the length of the ruffles...so I got really lucky.
I ended by sewing ribbon on the two back corners so that I could tie it to the bed posts to keep it from moving.
I laid it on the bed...perfect fit. I tied it to the back rail on both sides.
The actual sewing time was less than an hour. The fighting with the ruffler...twice that long. In the end I love how it turned out. Let me know what you think. If anyone out there has tips on using a ruffler, I'd love if you would share those tips with me. Check back tomorrow as I continue with the redesign of my daughter's room.
16 comments:
- Shelia said...
Oh, you did good. The bed skirt looks great and that is some beautiful fabric you used too.
Happy New Year and be a sweetie,
Shelia ;) - January 3, 2011 at 9:17 AM
- marty (A Stroll Thru Life) said...
I have never used a ruffler, just always done it by hand. Your bedskirt turned out gorgoeus. I love the look. The fabric is stunning. Hugs, Marty
- January 3, 2011 at 9:54 AM
- Brandi said...
Wow you did a beautiful job. I love the fabric you chose for the skirt.
- January 3, 2011 at 11:03 AM
- Traci said...
Advice on a ruffler? HA! I didn't/don't know what a ruffler is! I so envy sew people!! I think it looks fab!!!
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- Gloria (The Little Red House with the White Porch) said...
Greetings! I'm over from BNOTP -- you did a wonderful job on the dust ruffle, GORGEOUS fabric choice! I can't help you with the ruffle... I don't sew. You did a great job though!
Best regards,
Gloria - January 3, 2011 at 2:39 PM
- melismama said...
Judy, just gorgeous! You are so talented, think I have said that before!
- January 3, 2011 at 3:30 PM
- Vanessa said...
Ok, where were you when I was just winging it on my daughter's bedskirt Judy! LOL! :-) Seriously though, this was a great tutorial and the bedskirt looks absolutely beautiful. That fabric is gorgeous and I can't wait to see the rest of your daughter's room redo!
Vanessa - January 3, 2011 at 5:20 PM
- Mary said...
Thank you for participating in the very first Masterpiece Monday! I hope you'll come back again, it was fun having you share! Take care, Mary
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- Christa @ Stories of a House said...
Wow, for someone who is totally intimidated by her sewing machine, this was a great tutorial!
- January 4, 2011 at 7:44 PM
- AmieAnn said...
This is sooo amazing.. you make me want to bond with my sewing machine! Thanks for sharing with the Pink Hippo Party !
- January 8, 2011 at 2:50 PM
- Pamela Rosenberg said...
Great job and a really good tutorial. I love the fabric you chose. No clue when it comes to a ruffler. My machine is so simple I think it was only about $100 when I got it twenty years ago. I am always proud of myself when I remember how to thread it. :)
thanks for sharing your post on Motivated Monday at Becolorful.
Pam - January 9, 2011 at 8:11 PM
- amy anderson said...
love your ideas! youcanmakethis.com has a free tutorial on the ruffler foot. Its a lifesaver!!!
https://www.youcanmakethis.com/info/free/free-the-ruffler-unruffled.htm - January 16, 2011 at 2:43 PM
- Sweet Baby K's Bowtique said...
Thank you for the tutorial! I have been putting off making a bedskirt for my son's bedroom. I have the checkered flag material just hadn't figured out the how to part. Thanks for the assistance!
- February 11, 2011 at 6:33 PM
- julie said...
I know this is a late comment, but just read your tutorial. Great job on the bedskirt. I, too, struggle with my ruffler. Have found the lighter weight fabric seems to work best. Ruffler attachmen is a good idea, but I think they need to reinvent the wheel!!!!!
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Thanks for sharing! I'm going to try it out!
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There were fears over the future of one of Britain's most iconic holiday brands today after Pontin's was put into administration.
In a surprise move, advisory firm KPMG was appointed administrator yesterday to the holiday company, which employs 850 staff in the UK.
No redundancies have been made and all five sites - Brean Sands in Somerset, Camber Sands, Sussex, Pakefield, Suffolk, Prestatyn Sands in Wales and Southport, Merseyside - will continue to cater for customers as normal.
KPMG said it was optimistic of finding a buyer and hoped the Pontin's name would live on. The business was started in 1946 by Fred Pontin and at one point had 30 holiday parks.
A spokeswoman for KPMG said the company had run out of cash because bookings had fallen drastically in the past year.
Pontin's slide into administration has come as a surprise as many UK holiday companies have benefited in recent years from more people taking holidays in the UK rather than abroad, because of the weak pound.
The administrators plan to appoint an "experienced leisure operator" to help them run the company until a buyer can be found and have pledged to honour all reservations.
Joint administrator Jane Moriarty said: "Pontin's is an iconic British brand which forms the backdrop to thousands of treasured family holiday memories.
"It has unfortunately struggled in the current economic environment but, with some support from new management, we are optimistic that it will be part of thousands of family memories in the years to come.
"From day one, we will be actively running Pontin's to ensure that our guests' holiday expectations are met."
Pontin's was started when Fred Pontin opened the first Pontin's Holiday Park in Brean Sands in 1946.
It is best known for its "blue coats" who offer entertainment and help to holidaymakers.
It organises entertainment for its guests featuring acts such as Keith Harris and Orville, Bobby Davro and Chico.
At one point, the Pontin's empire stretched to 30 parks and in 1978 it was bought by Coral for £56 million, according to its website.
The company was bought by Ocean Parks for £46 million in 2008, who closed a site in Blackpool last year.
Its website claims: "We have been offering outstanding value for money for over 60 years.
"But there is one thing that will never change at Pontin's: our promise to offer memorable, fun-filled family holidays for outstanding value for money."
Bob Atkinson, a travel expert at TravelSupermarket.com, said he was "amazed" that Pontin's had gone into administration, describing it as "an iconic British brand and a stalwart of the British holiday industry".
Mr Atkinson said the news was surprising because the boom in "staycation" holidays since the beginning of the economic downturn had generally benefited holiday parks like Pontin's.
He said: "If Pontin's were to close down it would remove a significant number of competitively-priced short breaks from the more economic end of the market."
Mr Atkinson said it was difficult to speculate as to the cause of Pontin's entering into administration but added that competition outside of the peak season may have damaged the company.
"Holidays and breaks out of peak season have often been sold at rock bottom rates, leaving companies with little room for healthy margins."
He urged the administrators to communicate clearly with customers who had booked holidays over the Christmas period.
KPMG has set up a helpline for people who have made bookings at Pontin's: 0844 576 8481.
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I've said this repeatedly here to no avail. We are crapping right now because Chavez dares tell us how it's going to be in our own theatre and we expect the Russian's, Chinese, and Iran to just roll over and trust another hegemony in their back yard.
There are few here that have ever even studied international relations, that much is clear. They just keep reading the Wilsonian ideal textbook of international failure.


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The purpose of these Pacific Gate Post articles is to stimulate thinking, challenge and entertain. Hopefully, such intent is occasionally achieved. On many fronts, touching politics, religion, and culture through the pen may occasionally arouse emotions beyond rational thought, or invite reactions instigated by agenda. The August 22, 2008 article hereunder, seeks to explore the notion and result of guns in society. Comments and emails in response indicate that the subject of guns may stimulate passions perhaps more than religion or politics. The comments not containing extreme personal attacks or inappropriate content were posted. Some further thoughts on the article's perspective are appropriate, given the importance of the subject.
Guns and cannons enabled a revolution, and created a Confederation that was then morphed into a Federation. The rights protected, conscientiously reserved the right of citizens to bear arms, thereby safeguarding against the possibility that citizens might once again find themselves under an oppressive or unjust government. It is understandable that at some level the original intention be shielded from corruption or impaired in any form.
The Declaration of Independence and the Framers of The Constitution when forming the Federation could never have envisioned the overwhelming weaponry currently under federal government administration, and available to the Commander In Chief. The tools of revolution that succeeded against the Royal army in the 18th. century, were similar to those of the routed oppressor. The Federal government today has weapons, including nuclear, that would readily squash any uprising, regardless of artillery, and a suggested maintenance of arms for such intended purpose is disingenuous. The checks and balances in the structure of the government safeguard against an authoritarian regime. If the structure breaks down, guns wouldn't bring a potential dictator under control if he has his finger on the button.
It is not reasonable that broad access be granted solely because frontier reality of 250 years ago required it or made it feasible. FEASIBILITY is a critical point here, not the love or hatred of guns. Is it feasible that society would today be capable of protecting itself from would be oppressors on its own soil using guns?
Having grown up with guns, and having belonged to a gun club with a state of the art shooting range, provided me an appreciation for handguns and rifles. Those years provided some insight into the extreme power provided an individual holding a gun. The omnipotent energy of an exploding .44 Magnum or .454 Cassull cartridge discharging out of a chamber at almost 2000 feet per second, or the monstrous power of a .500 S&W Magnum, are undeniable. They are indisputably dangerous, and manufactured for only one purpose - maiming one's target is not it. Even the most common caliber, the .22 endows its owner with cogent superiority over the neighborhood. None of these guns will ever be used in a successful revolution on American soil.
Unfortunately, when it comes to accessibility of guns strictly for self protection, it becomes very difficult to have half measures. Under the current laws, North American society will continue to find itself subjugated to a proliferation of guns, particularly guns in the wrong hands. Either everyone in society is allowed to own one, or no one is. The current situation is a dangerous partial acceptance, and criminals ready, willing and able to kill, will continue to have ready access in greater and greater numbers, as population numbers continue to increase.
Having healthy debates on serious topics is encouraging. Resolutions require an effort to understand both sides of an argument, as well as creative and clear thinking void of anger. The passionate responses on this topic, suggest that a solution may be highly difficult to achieve, but not impossible. In the meantime, thoughtful comments are welcome. Reason usually finds workable solutions.
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- AnonymousAugust 27, 2008 at 10:19 AM
I would argue that an armed populace is one of those "checks and balances" that you mention. I agree that no one gun would be able to restore our nation's government to a republic should it become some sort of tyranny. On the other hand, that really isn't the point. Iraq and Afghanistan are just two countries where individuals and small groups have had a major impact on the governing bodies of those nations. Their ideologies are irrelevant for this argument, their effectiveness against overwhelming technology and firepower is. Having an armed populace isn't a guarantee that the United States will remain a true republic, like all "checks and balances" it is never 100% effective. Having an armed populace does increase the chance that should someone attempt to replace our existing government with a tyranny they will find the effort too difficult to achieve.
One element missing from the article and certainly relevant for the bay area is the temporary failure of local governments in the event of natural and in some cases man-made disasters. Hurricane Katrina, the "Rodney King" riots in LA, are both examples where for a limited time and over a limited area civil government can collapse and the individual would be responsible for their own protection. -Patrick "The August 22, 2008 article hereunder, seeks to explore the notion and result of guns in society. Comments and emails in response indicate that the subject of guns may stimulate passions perhaps more than religion or politics."
True. The subject of guns often involves the proposed prohibition of an individual right. If one were to propose a prohibition upon religious or political rights, perhaps one might stimulate similar passionate responses.


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Fake punts are typically reserved for critical do-or-die situations, but for the Seattle Seahawks, they're business as usual.
Up by 30 points over the Buffalo Bills early in the fourth quarter, the Seahawks opted to run a fake punt, which went for 29 yards. Seattle got a field goal out of the drive in closing out a 50-17 win. (photo: JC.Winkler, Flickr)
Seahawks coach Pete Carroll said after the game that his team had the play installed if Buffalo gave his punt unit a specific look, which it did at that time. However, Carroll regrets not stopping it in that particular situation.
"I feel bad about this," Carroll said, via the Seattle Times.
Carroll was criticized last week for opting to enable his team's air attack in the fourth quarter against the Arizona Cardinals despite blowing them out 58-0. However, that scenario was understandable given the fact that he had backup quarterback Matt Flynn calling signals.
This time around, Carroll expressed some regret.
"We looked for it every time we were going to punt, and it was just there," he said. "I should have stopped it in the sense that it looked bad."
As for Bills coach Chan Gailey's thoughts on the play?


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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Thoughts of Love for All Animals
Happy New Year to all. May it bring Peace, Love, and Happiness to all of us, our beloved animal friends, and our beautiful and living planet.
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What a gentle interlude that was. Thanks, Rose! (I love his World Peace Diet book).
Happy New Year to you, and I second what Jenny said - thank you for your own gentle spirit and all you do to bring comfort and happiness to all critters and your human friends, too. :-)
And I'm sure hoping you and Andrea can finally enjoy a fun get-together, and that you both blog about it for the benefit of the rest of us! :-)Hi, Rose!
It was a special day for more reasons than that! Did you enjoy it? :-)
Yes, I bought a copy in '08 and finally read it last winter. I think you'll enjoy it! What else is on your reading list?
Thanks, I thought Punky & Company deserved a little more face time, given how adorable those faces are! I probably would have just gone with a plain old graphic but for you saying you enjoy being left comments by critters! :-)Laurie
Oh, yes, keep the animal avatars coming, you know I love to blog with the animals! :D
Thanks Alessandra & Michelle! :)
Yeah, I figured not everyone would be into the Tuttle meditation. But, I mainly just wanted to wish all my fellow animal friends a very happy prosperous New Year!
Here's to that! :)


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Threatening the President of the United States is a class E felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871.[1][2][3] It consists of knowingly and willfully mailing or otherwise making "any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States". The United States Secret Service investigates suspected violations of this law and monitors those who have a history of threatening the President. Threatening the President is considered a political offense.[4] Immigrants who commit this crime can be deported.[5]
Because the offense consists of pure speech, the courts have issued rulings attempting to balance the government's interest in protecting the President with free speech rights under the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. According to the book Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures, "Hundreds of celebrity howlers threaten the President of the United States every year, sometimes because they disagree with his policies, but more often just because he is the President."[6]
The prototype for Section 871 was the English Treason Act 1351, which made it a crime to "compass or imagine" the death of the King. Convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 871 have been sustained for declaring that "President Wilson ought to be killed. It is a wonder some one has not done it already. If I had an opportunity, I would do it myself.";[7] and for declaring that "Wilson is a wooden-headed son of a bitch. I wish Wilson was in hell, and if I had the power I would put him there."[8] In a later era, a conviction was sustained for displaying posters urging passersby to "hang [President] Roosevelt".[9]
There has been some controversy among the federal appellate courts as to how the term "willfully" should be interpreted. Traditional legal interpretations of the term are reflected by Black's Law Dictionary's definition, which includes descriptions such as "malicious, done with evil intent, or with a bad motive or purpose," but most courts have adopted a more easily proven standard. For instance, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a threat was knowingly made if the maker comprehended the meaning of the words uttered by him. It was willingly made, if in addition to comprehending the meaning of his words, the maker voluntarily and intentionally uttered them as a declaration of apparent determination to carry them into execution.[10] According to the U.S. Attorney's Manual, "Of the individuals who come to the Secret Service's attention as creating a possible danger to one of their protectees, approximately 75 percent are mentally ill."[11]
The first prosecutions under the statute, enacted in 1917, occurred during the highly charged, hyperpatriotic years of World War I, and the decisions handed down by the courts in these early cases reflected intolerance for any words demonstrating even a vague spirit of disloyalty.[12][13] There was a relative moratorium on prosecutions under this statute until the World War II era. The number increased during the turbulent Vietnam War era. They have tended to fall when the country has not been directly embroiled in a national crisis situation.[14]
The number of reported threats rose from 2,400 in 1965 to 12,800 in 1969.[15] According to Ronald Kessler, President George W. Bush received about 3,000 threats a year, while his successor Barack Obama received about four times that amount.[16] This figure has been disputed by Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan, who says that Obama receives about as many threats as the previous two Presidents.[17]
According to the U.S. Attorneys' Manual, "Media attention given to certain kinds of criminal activity seems to generate further criminal activity; this is especially true concerning Presidential threats which is well documented by data previously supplied by the United States Secret Service. For example, in the six-month period following the March 30, 1981, attempt on the life of President Reagan, the average number of threats against protectees of the Secret Service increased by over 150 percent from a similar period during the prior year." For this reason, the agency recommends considering the use of sealed affidavits to keep news of threats from leaking to the press.[11]
Convictions under 18 U.S.C. § 871 have been sustained for declaring that "President Wilson ought to be killed. It is a wonder some one has not done it already. If I had an opportunity, I would do it myself.";[7] and for declaring that "Wilson is a wooden-headed son of a bitch. I wish Wilson was in hell, and if I had the power I would put him there."[18] In a later era, a conviction was sustained for displaying posters urging passersby to "hang [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt".[19]
In a 1971 interview, comedian Groucho Marx told Flash magazine, "I think the only hope this country has is Nixon's assassination." U.S. Attorney James L. Browning, Jr. opined, "It is one thing to say that 'I (or we) will kill Richard Nixon' when you are the leader of an organization which advocates killing people and overthrowing the Government; it is quite another to utter the words which are attributed to Mr. Marx, an alleged comedian."[20]
In July 2003, the Los Angeles Times published a Sunday editorial cartoon by conservative Michael Ramirez that depicted a man pointing a gun at President Bush's head; it was a takeoff on the 1969 Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Eddie Adams that showed South Vietnamese National Police Chief Nguyễn Ngọc Loan executing a Viet Cong prisoner (Capt. Nguyễn Văn Lém) at point-blank range. The cartoon prompted a visit from the Secret Service, but no charges were filed.[21][22]
In 2005, a teacher instructed her senior civics and economics class to take photographs to illustrate the rights contained in the United States Bill of Rights. One student "had taken a photo of George Bush out of a magazine and tacked the picture to a wall with a red thumb tack through his head. Then he made a thumb's-down sign with his own hand next to the President's picture, and he had a photo taken of that, and he pasted it on a poster." A Wal-Mart photo department employee reported it to police, and the Secret Service investigated. No charges were filed.[23]
In 2007, Purdue University teaching assistant Vikram Buddhi was convicted of posting messages to Yahoo Finance criticizing the Iraq War and stating, "Call for the assassination of GW Bush" and "Rape and Kill Laura Bush." The defense had argued that the defendant never explicitly threatened anyone.[24]
In September 2009 the Secret Service investigated Facebook polls that asked whether President Barack Obama should be assassinated.[25] Some question has arisen as to how to handle Facebook groups such as "LETS KILL BUSH WITH SHOES" (a reference to the 2008 Muntadhar al-Zaidi shoe incident) which had 484 members as of September 2009;[26] similar issues have arisen on MySpace.[27] Tweets have come under Secret Service investigation, including ones that said "ASSASSINATION! America, we survived the Assassinations and Lincoln & Kennedy. We'll surely get over a bullet to Barrack [sic] Obama's head," and "The next American with a Clear Shot should drop Obama like a bad habit. 4get Blacks or his claims to b[e] Black. Turn on Barack Obama."[28]
In 2010, Johnny Logan Spencer Jr. was sentenced in Louisville, Kentucky, to 33 months in prison for posting a poem entitled "The Sniper" about the President's assassination on a white supremacist website. He apologized in court, saying that he was, as WHAS news put it, "upset about his mother's death and had fallen in with a white supremacist group that had helped him kick a drug habit."[29][30]
In 2010, Brian Dean Miller was sentenced in Texas to 27 months in prison for posting to Craigslist: "People, the time has come for revolution. It is time for Obama to die. I am dedicating my life to the death of Obama and every employee of the federal government. As I promised in a previous post, if the health care reform bill passed I would become a terrorist. Today I become a terrorist."[31][32]
Later in 2010, a 77-year-old white man named Michael Stephen Bowden, who said that President Obama was not doing enough to help African Americans, was arrested after making murder-suicide threats against Obama.[33]
On July 19, 2011, the 9th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals reversed the conviction of Walter Bagdasarian for making online threats against Obama. The court found that his speech urging Obama's assassination ("Re: Obama fk the niggar [sic], he will have a 50 cal in the head soon" and "shoot the nig country fkd for another 4 years+, what nig has done ANYTHING right???? long term???? never in history, except sambos") was protected by the First Amendment.[34]
A week after President Donald Trump was inaugurated, a Dallas art teacher named Payal Modi was caught on camera shooting a squirt gun as a video of Trump at his Inauguration ceremony was projected onto a whiteboard. The Dallas Independent School District placed Modi on administrative leave and opened an investigation.[35]
The prototype for Section 871 was the British Treason Act 1351, which made it a crime to "compass or imagine" the death of the King.[36][37] The statute prohibiting threats against the President was enacted by Congress in 1917. The maximum fine it allowed was $1,000. The law was amended in 1994 to increase the maximum fine to $250,000.[38][not in citation given]
Among the justifications that have been given for the statute include arguments that threats against the President have a tendency to stimulate opposition to national policies, however wise, even in the most critical times; to incite the hostile and evil-minded to take the President's life; to add to the expense of the President's safeguarding; to be an affront to all loyal and right-thinking persons; to inflame their minds; to provoke resentment, disorder, and violence;[7] and to disrupt Presidential activity and movement.[39][40][41] It has also been argued that such threats are akin to treason and can be rightly denounced as a crime against the people as the sovereign power.[7] Congressman Edwin Y. Webb noted, "That is one reason why we want this statute – in order to decrease the possibility of actual assault by punishing threats to commit an assault ... A bad man can make a public threat, and put somebody else up to committing a crime against the Chief Executive, and that is where the harm comes. The man who makes the threat is not himself very dangerous, but he is liable to put devilment in the mind of some poor fellow who does try to harm him."[42]
Prisoners are sometimes charged for threatening the President though they lack the ability to personally carry out such a threat. The courts have upheld such convictions,[43] reasoning that actual ability to carry out the threat is not an element of the offense; prisoners are able to make true threats as they could carry out the threat by directing people on the outside to harm the President.[44] Sometimes prisoners make such threats to manipulate the system; e.g., a case arose in which an inmate claiming to be "institutionalized" threatened the President in order to stay in prison; there was a case in which a state prisoner threatened the President because he wanted to go to a federal institution.[45]
Threatening the President of the United States is a class E felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871.[46][47] The offense is punishable by up to 5 years in prison,[46] a $250,000 maximum fine,[48] a $100 special assessment,[49] and 3 years of supervised release.[50] Internet restrictions such as a prohibition on access to email have been imposed on offenders who made their threats by computer. The U.S. Sentencing Guidelines set a base offense level of 12 for sending threatening communication, but when a threat to the President is involved, a 6-level "official victim" enhancement applies. Moreover, "an upward departure may be warranted due to the potential disruption of the governmental function."[51] Further enhancements can apply if the offender evidenced an intent to carry out the threat (6-level enhancement); made more than two threats (2-level enhancement); caused substantial disruption of public, governmental, or business functions or services (4-level enhancement); or created a substantial risk of inciting others to harm federal officials (2-level enhancement).[52] Since each 6-level increase approximately doubles the Guidelines sentencing range, it is not particularly rare for an offender who threatens the President to receive a sentence at or near the maximum, especially if he has a criminal history and/or does not qualify for a reduction for acceptance of responsibility. There is a 4-level decrease available for a threat involving a "single instance evidencing little or no deliberation", which would usually apply to spur-of-the-moment verbal threats. The maximum penalty for threatening a United States judge or a Federal law enforcement officer is 10 years imprisonment — double the maximum penalty for threatening the President.[53]
There has been some controversy among the federal appellate courts as to how the term "willfully" should be interpreted. Traditional legal interpretations of the term are reflected by Black's Law Dictionary's definition, which includes descriptions such as "malicious, done with evil intent, or with a bad motive or purpose." In U.S. v. Patillo, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that a threat to the President could lead to a verdict of guilty "only if made with the present intention to do injury to the President".[15][39] Specifically, the court opined that "The word [willfully] often denotes an act which is intentional, or knowing, or voluntary, as distinguished from accidental. But when used in a criminal statute it generally means an act done with a bad purpose...We believe that a 'bad purpose' assumes even more than its usual importance in a criminal prosecution based upon the bare utterance of words."[54]
Most of the other circuits have held that it is not necessary that the threat be intended to be communicated to the President or that it have tendency to influence his action.[13] The legislative history, which contains debate over a rejected amendment that would have eliminated the words "knowingly and willfully" from the statute, reflects that the word "willfully" was included in order to avoid criminalizing behavior carried out with innocent intent (e.g. mailing to a friend, for informational purposes, a newspaper article containing a threat to the President). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit held that a threat was knowingly made if the maker comprehended the meaning of the words uttered by him. It was willingly made, if in addition to comprehending the meaning of his words, the maker voluntarily and intentionally uttered them as a declaration of apparent determination to carry them into execution.[10]
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In the case of Watts v. United States (1969), the United States Supreme Court ruled that mere political hyperbole must be distinguished from true threats. At a DuBois Club public rally on the Washington Monument grounds, a member of the assembled group suggested that the young people present should get more education before expressing their views. The defendant, an 18-year-old, replied:
They always holler at us to get an education. And now I have already received my draft classification as 1-A and I have got to report for my physical this Monday coming. I am not going. If they ever make me carry a rifle the first man I want to get in my sights is L. B. J.
According to court testimony, the defendant in speaking made a gesture of sighting down the barrel of a rifle. The audience responded with laughter and applause, which the Court of Appeals would later view as potentially ominous:
[I]t has not been unknown for laughter and applause to have sinister implications for the safety of others. History records that applause and laughter frequently greeted Hitler's predictions of the future of the German Jews. Even earlier, the Roman holidays celebrated in the Colosseum often were punctuated by cheers and laughter when the Emperor gestured thumbs down on a fallen gladiator.[55]
The boy was arrested and found to be in possession of cannabis, but a Court of General Sessions Judge suppressed the cannabis because he found that there had been no probable cause for the Secret Service agents to believe the defendant's words constituted a threat to the President.[55] This did not prevent a federal court from convicting him for threatening the President. The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit affirmed his conviction, but the Supreme Court reversed, stating, "We agree with petitioner that his only offense here was 'a kind of very crude offensive method of stating a political opposition to the President.' Taken in context, and regarding the expressly conditional nature of the statement and the reaction of the listeners, we do not see how it could be interpreted otherwise." In a concurring opinion, William O. Douglas noted, "The Alien and Sedition Laws constituted one of our sorriest chapters; and I had thought we had done with them forever ... Suppression of speech as an effective police measure is an old, old device, outlawed by our Constitution."[56]
Other cases[edit]
Courts have held that a person is guilty of the offense if certain criteria are met. Specifically, the person must intentionally make a threat in a context, and under such circumstances, that a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted by persons hearing or reading it as a serious expression of an intention to harm the President. The statement must also not be the result of mistake, duress or coercion.[57][58][59][60][61][62] A true threat is a serious threat and not words uttered as a mere political argument, idle talk, or jest.[63] The standard definition of a true threat does not require actual subjective intent to carry out the threat.[64]
A defendant's statement that if they got the chance they would harm the President is a threat; merely because a threat has been conditional upon the ability of the defendant to carry it out does not render it any less of a threat.[12] It has been ruled that taken together, envelopes containing ambiguous messages, white powder, and cigarette butts that were mailed to the President after the 9/11 anthrax outbreaks conveyed a threatening message.[65] The sending of non-toxic white powder alone to the President has been deemed to be a threat.[66] A broad statement that the President must "see truth" and "uphold Constitution" or else the letter writer will put a bullet in his head count as not expressly conditional as it does not indicate what events or circumstances will prevent the threat from being carried out.[67] However, the statement "if I got hold of President Wilson, I would shoot him" was not an indictable offense because the conditional threat was ambiguous as to whether it was an expression of present or past intent.[68]
The posting of a paper in a public place with a statement that it would be an acceptable sacrifice to God to kill an unjust President was ruled not to be in violation of the statute.[69] The statute does not penalize imagining, wishing, or hoping that the act of killing the President will be committed by someone else.[70] Conversely, the mailing of letters containing the words "kill Reagan" and depicting the President's bleeding head impaled on a stake was considered a serious threat.[71] An oral threat against the President unheard by anyone does not constitute a threat denounced by statute.[13]
Since other statutes make it a crime to assault or to attempt to kill the President, some question has arisen as to whether it is necessary to have a statute banning threats. As the Georgetown Law Journal notes, "It can be argued that the punishment of an attempt against the life of the President is not sufficient; by the time all the elements of an attempt have come into existence the risk to the President becomes too great. On the other hand, the punishment of conduct short of an attempt runs the risk of violating the established principle that intent alone is not punishable ... While ordinarily mere preparation to commit an offense is not punishable, an exception may perhaps be justified by the seriousness of the consequences of an executed threat on the President's life."[14]
Psychiatric matters[edit]
According to the U.S. Attorney's Manual, "Of the individuals who come to the Secret Service's attention as creating a possible danger to one of their protectees, approximately 75 percent are mentally ill."[11] The Secret Service notes, "These are probably Secret Service's most serious cases because it must be determined whether the person making the threat really wants to hurt [Secret Service protectees] or whether they may have some medical problems of their own, for which they need help."[72] It is not uncommon for judges to order psychological evaluations of defendants charged under this statute in accordance with United States federal laws governing offenders with mental diseases or defects. Psychiatrists divide people who threaten the President into three classes: Class 1 includes persons who have expressed overt threatening statements but have made no overt action, Class 2 comprises individuals who have a history of assaultive behaviors toward authority figures, and Class 3 includes person who are considered dangerous and typically have been prosecuted under Section 871.[73]
Dilemmas related to patient confidentiality sometimes arise when a mentally ill subject makes a threat against the President. The termination of nurse Linda Portnoy was upheld after she reported such a statement to the Secret Service. The court noted that the patient was restrained and unable to act on his threats, so he wasn't an immediate safety risk. It also considered the patient's psychiatrist, not Portnoy, the appropriate person to assess the gravity of his threats.[74] In a study found that in those who threaten the President, the primary differentiating variable related to lethality was "opportunity and happenstance".[75] Conversely, a defendant's writings in his anger management workbook threatening to kill the President upon the defendant's release from the penitentiary were ruled to have fallen within the dangerous patient exception to psychotherapist-patient privilege.[76]
Federal law provides that the director of the facility in which a person is hospitalized due to being found incompetent to stand trial or not guilty only by reason of insanity of a Section 871 violation shall prepare annual or semiannual reports concerning the mental condition of the person and containing recommendations about the need for his continued hospitalization; a copy of the reports shall be submitted to the Director of the United States Secret Service to assist it in carrying out its protective duties.[77] The Ninth Circuit ruled that it is constitutional to hold a presidential threatener beyond Section 871's prescribed five-year statutory maximum if he is found to be dangerous and mentally ill. It is possible under federal law to hold some presidential threateners indefinitely.[78]
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- ^ "U.S.C. Title 18 - CRIMES AND CRIMINAL PROCEDURE". www.gpo.gov. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ "18 U.S. Code § 3559 - Sentencing classification of offenses | US Law | LII / Legal Information Institute". www.law.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2015-08-07.
- ^ Million, Elmer M. (April 1940). "Political Crimes". Missouri Law Review. 5 (2).
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- ^ Meloy, J. Reid, Sheridan, Lorraine, and Hoffman, Jens (2008). Stalking, Threatening, and Attacking Public Figures: A Psychological and Behavioral Analysis. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-532638-5.
- ^ a b c d United States v. Stickrath, 242 F. 151, 153 (SD Ohio 1917) ("In this country sovereignty resides in the people, not in the President, who is merely their chosen representative. To threaten to kill him or to inflict upon him bodily harm stimulates opposition to national policies, however wise, even in the most critical times, incites the hostile and evil-minded to take the President's life, adds to the expense of his safekeeping, is an affront to all loyal and right-thinking persons, inflames their minds, provokes resentment, disorder, and violence, is akin to treason, and is rightly denounced as a crime against the people as the sovereign power.").
- ^ Clark v. United States, 250 F. 449 (C. A. 5th Cir. 1918).
- ^ United States v. Apel, 44 F. Supp. 592, 593 (D.C. N. D. Ill. 1942). )
- ^ a b Ragansky v. United States, 253 F 643, 645 (CA7 Ill 1918) ("A threat is knowingly made, if the maker of it comprehends the meaning of the words uttered by him; a foreigner, ignorant of the English language, repeating these same words without knowledge of their meaning, may not knowingly have made a threat. And a threat is willfully made, if in addition to comprehending the meaning of his words, the maker voluntarily and intentionally utters them as the declaration of an apparent determination to carry them into execution.").
- ^ a b c USAM Chapter 9-65.000
- ^ a b United States v. Jasick, 252 F 931 (DC Mich 1918).
- ^ a b c United States v. Stobo, 251 F 689, 692 (DC Del 1918) ("Whatever prior to the passage of the act may have been the essential nature of a criminally punishable threat or its technical significance or description, that act recognizes as punishable an oral as well as a written threat, though not communicated or intended to be communicated to the President. The question whether the threat has a tendency to cause action or non-action on his part is wholly foreign to any proper consideration of a given case. The vital inquiry under the act is whether the threat is of such a nature as to create or tend to create sedition or disloyalty, or to stir up violence toward or resistance to the lawful authority of the President, as commander-in-chief of the army and navy, or as chief executive of the nation.").
- ^ a b Comment, Threatening the President: Protected Dissenter or Potential Assassin, 57 Geo. L.J. 553 (1969)
- ^ a b The Law: Threatening the President, Time, Sep 7, 1970
- ^ Harnden, Toby (3 Aug 2009), Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service, London: Telegraph, retrieved May 25, 2010
- ^ Secret Service Director: Threats Against Obama Not Up, December 3, 2009, archived from the original on December 7, 2009
- ^ Clark v. United States, 250 F. 449 (C. A. 5th Cir. 1918).
- ^ United States v. Apel, 44 F. Supp. 592, 593 (D.C. N. D. Ill. 1942). )
- ^ Paul Krassner, "Threatening the President Is No Joke, Even When It Is One," NYPress.com, November 11, 2003
- ^ Threatening the president is no joke, even when it is one, New York Press, November 11, 2003
- ^ Officials See Threat in Bush Newspaper Cartoon, Reuters, Jul 21, 2003
- ^ Matthew Rothschild (October 7, 2005), Civics Student...or Enemy of America?, The Progressive
- ^ Student Convicted of Threatening to Kill President Bush, Faces Up to 35 Years in Prison, Associated Press, June 29, 2007
- ^ Secret Service Probing Obama Assassination Poll on Facebook, Fox News, September 29, 2009
- ^ Charlie Spiering (Sep 29, 2009), Should Facebook remove groups that want to kill George W. Bush?, Washington Examiner
- ^ Teen Questioned Over Online Threats Against President Bush, Fox News, October 14, 2006
- ^ Goldman, Russell & Ryan, Jason (March 22, 2010), Health Care Bill Spurs Assassination Calls on Twitter, ABC News
- ^ Kentucky man charged with threatening President Obama, WKYT, Feb 19, 2010
- ^ "Louisville Man Sentenced to 33 Mos. for Poem About President Obama," WHAS=TV, December 6, 2010
- ^ Trahan, Jason (April 29, 2010), Arraignment ahead for Dallas man accused of Craigslist death threat against Obama, Dallas News
- ^ Associated Press, "Man Who Threatened to Kill Obama Sentenced to Two Years in Prison," The Guardian, November 1, 2010
- ^ "US man arrested for Obama threat".
- ^ File, Patrick (Summer 2011). "Ninth Circuit Overturns Conviction for Threat against Obama". Silha Center for the Study of Media Ethics and Law. 16 (3).
- ^ LeCapria, Kim (January 27, 2017), Dallas teacher suspended after faux assassination attempt on President Trump, Snopes
- ^ 25 Edw. III, c. 2 (1351)
- ^ United States v. Carrier, 672 F. 2d 300 (2nd Cir. March 1, 1982).
- ^ Act September 13, 1994
- ^ a b U.S. v. Patillo, 438 F2d 13 (CA4 1971).
- ^ Roy v. United States, 416 F2d 874 (CA9 Cal 1969) ("One purpose of the statute may have been to prevent assaults upon the President. Another purpose may have been to prevent statements that would have the effect of inciting others to assault the President. The statute seems to be designed to prevent a further mischief or evil, for if Congress desired to prevent an actual assault upon the President, then it could have drafted the statute to make it a crime to assault, attempt to assault, or conspire to assault the President. There would have been no need to direct the statute to threats. Similarly, if Congress desired to prevent incitement of others to assault the President, then it could have limited the statute to make it a crime to incite or induce others to assault or attempt to assault the President. Thus, it appears that the statute was designed in part to prevent an evil other than assaults upon the President or incitement to assault the President. It is our view that the other evil is the detrimental effect upon Presidential activity and movement that may result simply from a threat upon the President's life.").
- ^ Rogers v. United States, 95 U.S. 2091 (1975). Justice Marshall (concurring): "Plainly, threats may be costly and dangerous to society in a variety of ways, even when their authors have no intention whatever of carrying them out. Like a threat to blow up a building, a serious threat on the President's life is enormously disruptive and involves substantial cost to the government. A threat made with no present intention of carrying it out may still restrict the President's movements and require a reaction from those charged with protecting the President."
- ^ 53 Cong.Rec. 9377-78 (1916)
- ^ United States v. Glover, 846 F2d 339 (CA6 Ky 1988) ("We believe the threats made in the letters sent to the President were of a nature that a reasonable person would foresee that the receiver of the letters would perceive them to be a serious intention to inflict bodily harm upon or take the life of the President. If the appellant's argument were accepted, no prisoner could be convicted under this statute, since his argument seems to be premised on the idea that prisoners are incapable of carrying out threats, therefore, no reasonable person could consider such a threat to be a true threat. This premise is faulty. See United States v. Leaverton, 835 F.2d 254 (10th Cir.1987) (inmates convicted for sending simulated mail bomb to Senator Robert Dole).").
- ^ U.S. v. Miller, 115 361 (CA6 1997) ("Manifestly, an incarcerated individual who may be associated with a radical political organization, a lunatic fringe element, or any other criminally inclined gang or other affiliation may pose a significant risk of igniting or inspiring criminal activity outside the institution.").
- ^ U.S. v. Timothy Curtis Ballard, 6 F3d 1502 (11th Cir.).
- ^ a b 18 U.S.C. § 871
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- ^ U.S. v. Patillo, 431 F.2d 293.
- ^ a b Watts v. United States, 402 f2d 676.
- ^ Watts v. United States, 394 U.S. 705
- ^ United States v. Hoffman, 806 F2d 703 (CA7 Wis 1986) ("Contrary to the dissent's interpretation of case law, the government is not required to establish that the defendant actually intended to carry out the threat.").
- ^ United States v. Fulmer, 108 F3d 1486 (CA1 Mass 1997) ("We believe that the appropriate standard under which a defendant may be convicted for making a threat is whether he should have reasonably foreseen that the statement he uttered would be taken as a threat by those to whom it is made. This standard not only takes into account the factual context in which the statement was made, but also better avoids the perils that inhere in the "reasonable-recipient standard," namely that the jury will consider the unique sensitivity of the recipient.").
- ^ United States v. Lincoln, 462 F2d 1368 (CA6 Tenn 1972) ("By inserting the words knowingly and willfully in the statute Congress was referring to the intentional nature of the threat. The words knowingly and willfully were intended to signify that the defendant at the time of making the threat charged against him knew what he was doing and with that knowledge proceeded in violation of the law to make it. Thus, a threat is knowingly made if the maker of it comprehends the meaning of the words uttered by him and it is willfully made if in addition to comprehending the meaning of the words the maker voluntarily and intentionally utters them as the declaration of an apparent determination to carry them into execution.").
- ^ United States v. Hall, 493 F2d 904 (CA5 Fla 1974) ("Appellant's final point, that the trial judge erred in refusing to instruct the jury that specific intent to harm the President was a requisite element of the offense, is foreclosed by our recent decision to the contrary in United States v. Rogers, 488 F.2d 512 (5th Cir. 1974).").
- ^ United States v. Vincent, 681 F2d 462 (CA6 Mich 1982) ("This Court therefore construes the willfulness requirement of the statute to require only that the defendant intentionally make a statement, written or oral, in a context or under such circumstances wherein a reasonable person would foresee that the statement would be interpreted by those to whom the maker communicates the statement as a serious expression of an intention to inflict bodily harm upon or to take the life of the President, and that the statement not be the result of mistake, duress, or coercion. The statute does not require that the defendant actually intend to carry out the threat.").
- ^ United States v. Johnson, 14 F3d 766 (CA2 NY 1994) ("It is well settled that Sec. 871 requires only a showing of general intent.").
- ^ United States v. Rogers, 488 F2d 512 (CA5 La 1974) ("The District Court's instructions on the law are literally in accord with the precedents of the majority of Circuits which have construed the statute. See, e. g., Roy v. United States, 9 Cir., 1969, 416 F.2d 874. And in approving them we reject appellant's importunities that we adopt the holding of United States v. Patillo, 4 Cir. (en banc), 1971, 438 F.2d 13, affirming 431 F.2d 293 to the effect that "where * * * a true threat against the person of the President is uttered without communication to the President intended, the threat can form a basis for conviction under the terms of Section 871(a) only if made with the present intention to do injury to the President." (Emphasis added). We decline to do so and instead follow the great majority of the Circuits which have held that it is not necessary to prove an intention to carry out the threat under Sec. 871(a).").
- ^ United States v. Smith, 928 F2d 740 (CA6 Ohio 1991) ("I recognize that the objective standard adopted in this circuit does not require proof of an actual, subjective intent to carry out a threat.").
- ^ United States v. Lewis, 220 F Supp 2d 548 (SD W Va 2002).
- ^ United States v. Magers, 535 F3d 608 (CA7 Ind 2008).
- ^ United States v. Lockhart, 382 F3d 447 (CA4 Va 2004) ("Finally, the threat is not conditional in the same manner as the threat in Watts. Watts involved a threat made "expressly conditional" on being drafted into the United States military. Watts, 394 U.S. at 708, 89 S.Ct. 1399. Miss Lockhart's threat, while grammatically conditional—it begins with the phrase "[i]f George Bush refuses to see the truth and uphold the Constitution"—does not indicate what events or circumstances would prevent the threat from being carried out beyond the broad statement that the President must "see the truth" and "uphold the Constitution." Likewise, Miss Lockhart did not say or do anything upon giving the letter to the Food Lion manager that would indicate the threat was intended to be conditional. Thus, in the context in which it was delivered, the threat was not "expressly conditional" in nature as that term is described in Watts.").
- ^ United States v. Metzdorf, 252 F 933 (DC Mont 1918).
- ^ United States v. Marino, 148 F Supp 75 (DC Ill 1957).
- ^ United States v. Daulong, 60 F Supp 235 (DC La 1945).
- ^ United States v. Merrill, 746 F2d 458 (CA9 Ariz 1984) ("Whether any given form of written or oral expression constitutes a true threat for the statute's purposes is a question for the trier of fact under all of the circumstances.").
- ^ Frequently Asked Questions, U.S. Secret Service
- ^ Brook Zitek, D.O., Roya Lewis, M.D., John O'Donnell, J.D. and William R. Dubin, M.D. (August 2005), Assessment and Management of Patients Who Make Threats Against the President in the Psychiatric Emergency Service, American Psychiatric Association
- ^ Reporting Hollow Threats, 38 (1), Nursing2008, January 2008, p. 19
- ^ "Threats to the President Revisited", Forensic Sci., 9: 173–8, May–Jun 1977, doi:10.1016/0300-9432(77)90088-7, PMID 863349
- ^ United States v. Lincoln, F Supp 2d 1169 (DC Or 2003).
- ^
- ^ U.S. v. Sahhar, 56 F.3d 1026 (9th Cir. May 26, 1995).
Other articles[edit]
- Finer (1976), Mens Rea, the First Amendment, and Threats Against the Life of the President, 18, Ariz L Rev, p. 863
- Logan, William S.; Reuterfors, David L.; Bohn Jr., Martin J.; Clark, Charles L. (13 Feb 2006), "The description and classification of presidential threateners", Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 2 (2): 151–167
- Megargee, Edwin I. (1986), "A Psychometric Study of Incarcerated Presidential Threateners", Criminal Justice and Behavior, 13 (3): 243–260, doi:10.1177/0093854886013003001
- "2.36: Threats Against the President", Criminal Pattern Jury Instructions (PDF), p. 137


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And heaven forbid you want some real-world advice on pros and cons, gotchas, pitfalls and nifty features, ease of installation/maintenance, suitability for specific purposes, or any of that other stuff.
Seriously, use a dedicated email account. Call it "firstname.lastname@example.com." Sounds oversimple, perhaps, but I think it would be more than sufficient for your needs as described.
If you need something more robust for tracking and database purposes (I don't know how you run your business, but this one primary reason for ticketing systems), it will by necessity be more complex for your users as well.
100% right on. email is the way to go. they come to you, you can look at them easily (and anywhere), and you can easily respond if the fix is a simple one they can do themselves
use a different address for each of your customers: firstname.lastname@example.com; keep it real simple, and everyone is happy
All too often if you only have the free-form of an email people won't give enough details of the problem to be able to start finding a solution. If you have fields like "what do you expect to happen", "what error messages, if any do you get?", "what do you do to replicate the problem?", "how urgent is a solution needed?", etc asks people many of the questions you're ultimately going to need the answer to solve the problem.
So stick an HTML form in front of the email, with a textarea for each question.
Another vote for Cerb, Used it for a while now and i've had no serious problems. As said above the public web interface is rather ugly to start but easy enough to change
Dude, there is such a thing as too much information. Same for people above who said sourceforge. He might *find* every ticketing system on earth through one of those methods, but should he have to research, download, install (including battering himself against poorly documented and painful to implement open source installs) and test every package he finds to decide what to use?
For big orgs with a lot of technical users, RT is fine but for a small simple operation it's hopelessly overcomplicated. He wo
I'm a nurse and part-time sysadmin for the nonprofit I work for (I know, I know, I agree it's a bad idea, but no one more qualified has volunteered to come and do it for free). I've been using the Backpack ToDo list [backpackit.com]. I have a Thunderbird template on each computer that has the email for a backpack page and TODO in the subject line. In the body, the submitter has to put their computer ID, the problem, and either "urgent" or "annoying". Backpack is set up to SMS me when messages come in, and then I can cate
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Another option (a little more modern) would be RT [bestpractical.com]. Our security group is using it with success. They get at least a hundred new tickets every day and RT made it possible for them to deal with all of them in a timely manner.
In general, you can modify an issue through the commandline or through the web interface or through e-mail. Of course, I don't think anyone uses the command line interface.
Also, Richard does a great job of responding to any issue regarding Roundup, just see the mailing lists.
It's at least a start. It took us a little while to implement, but now it runs like a dream. It seems to offer everything you're looking for. It's PHP/mySQL based. Hope that helps!
...and a cell phone. Take tickets by phone only so you can ask them right then and there "what do you expect to happen when you click there and what actually happens?" "what does the error message say?" "is the little green light in your ethernet card lit?". Write down the info you get from the phone call on a post-it note. Stick it on the side of your monitor. When the issue is resolved, put the note in a file or in the wastebasket, depending on how much archiving you want to do.
Another bug tracking tool to consider is Mantis [mantisbt.org]. We use it in our product to track a large number of small issues that the client is constantly coming up with; we think it works well.
However, it's quite possible that it's also too complicated for your needs. I like the suggestion of a simple email address as a public interface; perhaps just install Mediawiki for yourself so you can store everything in it? I like wikis for keeping track of simple stuff.
I use itracker [itracker.org] for issue tracking on a few personal projects. It's easy to set up (just drop the EAR in a JBoss installation and configure a database) and easy to use.
Not too fancy, but it should do the trick.
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