Secret Service questions girl, 14, for MySpace anti-Bush

By LAUREL ROSENHALL
Thursday, October 19, 2006
One of the latest persons to be questioned by federal agents in possible threats against President Bush is a 14-year-old girl with a heart on her backpack and braces on her teeth, a freckle-nosed adolescent who is passionate about liberal politics and cute movie stars.

Her name is Julia Wilson, and she learned a vivid civics lesson this week when two Secret Service agents pulled her out of biology class at McClatchy High School to ask about comments and images she posted on MySpace.

Beneath the words "Kill Bush," Julia posted a cartoonish photo-collage of a knife stabbing the hand of the president. It was one of a few images Julia said she used to decorate an anti-Bush Web page she moderated on MySpace, the social networking Web site that is hugely popular among teenagers.

The Secret Service refused to answer questions about the case or even confirm an investigation. Eric Zahren, a Secret Service spokesman, said the agency does not discuss its work "due to the sensitivity of our mission."

Julia's mother, Kirstie Wilson, and an assistant principal at McClatchy High, said two agents showed them badges stating they were with the Secret Service and the Department of Homeland Security.

Federal law prohibits making serious threats against the president, and Julia and her parents say what she did was wrong.

The parents are disturbed, however, that federal agents questioned a child at school _ without her parents present. And First Amendment lawyers question whether the Secret Service over-reacted to a 14-year-old's comments on a Web site made for casual socializing.

"I don't condone what she did, but it seems a little over the top to me," said Julia's father, Jim Moose. "You'd think they could look at the situation and determine that she's not a credible threat."

Here is how Julia Wilson's family tells their story:

Two Secret Service agents arrived at their home about 2:30 Wednesday, Kirstie Wilson said. They told her they wanted to speak with her daughter about threats to the president that she had posted on MySpace.

"She was in molecular biology, and I said I really didn't want to take her out of class for this," Kirstie Wilson said. "I said I'd make sure she came right home from school."

She asked the agents to come back in an hour, and they left.

Then Wilson sent her daughter a text message instructing her to come straight home from school.

"... there are two men from the secret service that want to talk with you. Apparently you made some death threats against president bush. Dont worry youre not going to jail or anything like that but they take these things very seriously these days," Kirstie Wilson wrote.

"Are you serious!?!? omg. Am I in a lot of trouble"? her daughter replied, using common teenage shorthand for "Oh, my God."

Kirstie Wilson called her husband. While they were on the phone, she received another text message from her daughter: "They took me out of class."

It was a 15- to 20-minute interview, Julia said. Agents asked her about her father's job, her e-mail address, and her Social Security number. They asked about the MySpace page she had created last year as an eighth-grader.

"I told them I just really don't agree with Bush's politics," Julia said. "I don't have any plans of harming Bush in any way. I'm very peaceful; I just don't like Bush."

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Treason is a serious offense

This goes to show you to what depths anti-Americans will go through to spew their hatred for any President that doesn't share their socialist anti-Democratic position. Even children are getting in on the act. The thought police at our schools and universities and the news media have done well to influence the populace with their daily broadcasts of propoganda of hatred for Western Freedom (well, except for immoral "freedoms"). Before there was Homeland Security there was liberal thought police.
To liberals, Saddam Hussein is just "misunderstood". Perhaps we should place him back in power and give him a billion dollars to get back on his feet again. Perhaps all of those murdered under his reign of terror should be brought back to their cells and tortured and murdered and raped again because Sadaam Hussein deserves his rights as a purely "misunderstood" dictator.
Men have fulfilled the biblical prophecy in our day: Men have exchanged good for evil and evil for good. Liberals masquerade as "concerned" Americans. In reality they are the biggest threat to Western culture, and interntaional peace. There is a true enemy within our ranks whose sole purpose is to wipe out the American way of life because their hearts are darkened and delusional. Their socialist agendas speak to their purpose and direction for America. They are like parasites who will twist the truth and suck the life out of liberty until it is nothing more than a shell of its former self. Then they'll move on to their next conquest while true Americans are left to pick up the pieces.

Any Other Threat and She'd be in Jail

One of the interesting things is that her parents and others don't see the extent of the danger in her threats. If her threat had been a "Columbine-style" threat against other students or teachers, she would be in jail right now. There would be no cursory consideration of whether she was capable of carrying out the threat. The mere communication of the threat would be serious enough to warrant charges. As it is, she happened to "only" threaten our nation's leader. So, she is merely questioned and then let go. There's something wrong with this picture, and something seriously flawed in the morals and logic of her parents.

you are comparing a

you are comparing columbine to a death statement against the prez..that is funny. There is obvisiouly a big difference. And dont worry the president gets more protection than the US citizens ever will, and when they(the ones running the show) do protect us its always convienient to rip away our freedoms in the process, in the name of security ofcourse..LOL..ps "Think Big" and you will start to see a bigger threat than that girl who obviously spoke words she did not literally mean. I am glad they took it serious and investigated it, but rest assured the prez will sleep well tonight...LMAO

All Liberals are Treasonists and a Threat to Liberty

So typical that this 14 year old brainwashed kid tried to down play the seriousness of this threat and naturally her delusional liberal parents supported such treason - that's all liberals know. They are incapable of THINKING, all they know is FEELING, they are incapable of DISCUSSION all they know is VIOLENCE, they are incapable of REASON, all they know is RHETORIC. I am sure that if the story were about someone advocating "KILL CLINTON" those parents would be demanding the death penalty for the violator. Liberals are more dangerous to this country than illegals or Muslims....you can at least identify why they (illegals/muslims) hate this country and it is quite possible to reason or negotiate with them, but liberals are insidious, deceptive and pure unadulterated evil. The only saving grace for this country is when they have finally decimated America to the point where it is nothing but a forgotten third world waste-land, at least they will turn on themselves and cannibalize one another since they have no loyalty to anything other than their diabolical agenda. May the last liberal standing rot in hell!

one thing

the only difference is when you are in an islamic country, and
blog "death to islam" or "death to the prophet mohammhad" you will be pulled out of class and sent home with a "fatwah" on your head, if you make it home. Read up on what a fatwah is if you dont already know. I have no problems with being respectful to a religion, but when they shove it down your throat and say do or die, its kinda repelling no matter what religion is doing so. As far as Bush and Clinton go..rebuplicans and liberals alike need to realize ONE thing, both leaders work for the same team and it aint the people. we can pick the better of the 2, however neither one is working for the country..its all about globalism, capitalism, money for the "rich" and no sovreignty for you, me, or the USA. Read up on NAFTA and the super-highway they will be starting to build soon..it will open your eyes. Dont think Clinton doesnt support it either, he does.

The Girl and Her Parents Are Idiots

Bush-bashing has become so popular, people think they can do and say anything now. Even if he ends up being the worst president in history, the anti-Bush raving is far worse. I'm sick of it. I hope the girl and her parents learned that there are some limits to despicable behavior such as theirs. I've heard all I want to hear from political pundits who think they are experts on everything. The political left has become atrocious.

I hope she hangs

I hope she hangs

DEFINING CHARACTER TRAITS OF LIBERALS

some defining traits of liberals...
first some background information is needed
like animals human beings have a tendency to seek pleasure
and avoid pain maximize comfort level and minimize discomfort
we tend to have some comfort level that we sustain and are sensitive to deviations from it, there are in my opinion, 2 clearly separate
parts of the human brain one is more primative and is dominated by the
pain and pleasure principals that I mentioned... the other is more developed and is governed by pure thought, it does not sense pain but calculates and evaluates it is logical and can look to future
liberals tend to be animal dominated and use the more advanced part of their brain simply as a guide they tend to be reactive and not proactive, they tend not to look more than a few minutes into the future, likely because they are not able, they avoid seeing truths because it causes pain which must be avoided so any facts which contradict there views are ignored or attacked (sometimes with violence if it cannot be simply ignored)remeber they are responders
so if an idea or a fact causes pain they reduce the pain by ignoring the fact by equvocation or distraction, some ways to identify liberals are they usually have had everythting given to them and so cannot appreciate the sacrifices of others and so can easily give away things because they are easily obtained
when discussing a topic a liberal usually cannot evaulate the
right or wrong, merits or demerits of an action without first
knowing the 'who did it' and then they can tell you whether or not
that the 'what was done' is good or bad it seems that a liberal has
a separate internal scale for each indivdual and the actions are not as important as whether or not the individual is liked or not
fundamentally they must know 'who' said or 'who' did before they can make a value judgement this is a claer indicator that logic is not being used..... conservatives tend to be more logical and the animal part of their brain is more controlled they will seek truth even when it causes pain and tend to be proactive and future looking they evaluate what are the consequences of actions and are more responsible because they look into the future and alter their presen course of actions because they know that choices made in the present affect the future.... i guess this is enough for now...

liberals

just have to say your comments are the most interesting perspective I've read in a long time...and so true!

thanks

FEDS Questioning of Juvenile Girl

The Agents that questioned her must not have been very experienced. Probably were not much older or wiser than her! As a FED LEO I would never interview anyone under 18 without their parents or gardians present and I would also have a local police officer or Detective along with me as professional courtesy to the local authorities, basically it is investigations 101. The US Attorney's office would have flipped if they knew that happened unless their is an immediate danger its a BIG NO NO. She will not be botherd anymore becuase the Agents are bungling up the investigation! Good luck to her and her Lawyer they will rule!

Feds Questioning Teen Female

In response to FED LEO's comment about the FED's questioning of the 14 year old juvenile female without a parent present, although it is certainly a good idea not to question the 14 year old female without a parent present, it is not a requirement for a parent to be present unless the juvenile is UNDER the age of 14. As a 26 year veteran police officer (Sgt) I hear this complaint often that Officers questioned a teenager about an incident without a parent present.

As far as the investigation goes, she will not be bothered anymore most likely because the agents believe she poses no serious threat to the President. One would hope that her parents should be monitoring her internet activities a little closer. While she certainly has a right to disagree with the President, her parents should instill in her that she should not be advocating violence against anyone, especially the President of the United States. Where were they while she was authoring this website, don't they monitor her at all.

But look at the mother's response to the daughter via text message, Don't worry you're not going to jail, or anything like that. In other words, Don't worry honey, it's no big deal.

In my day, I would have been more worried about what my father was going to do to me than what the FEDS were. That's where the real problem lies today.

She said she's "peacefull" yet...

She's a peaceful person yet she want's to kill someone because she's against their politics. one thing about kids, they are first and foremost, influenced by their parents politics/ideologies. if she hates Bush that much then so do her parents. you all figure out the rest.

What if the tables were turned?

I wonder how little Julia and her parents would feel if some "right wing nut job" who disagreed with their politics set up a similar website that targeted them instead of the President? Think they'd be more than a little worried? These liberals are impotent cowards who cannot ever back up their "tough" talk. I would wager they are the same types who call American soldiers baby killers and who call abortionists heroes.

Such a Short Memory it Seems

I listened very carefully to people whine and moan, curse, threaten, and insult every part about Clinton for eight years. My good Republican friends STILL cannot break their old habits of blaming Clinton for everything he did and everything he did not do. Now I see the same people every day saying anyone who speaks against the president (Bush) is a traitor, unpatriotic, disloyal to the nation, threat to civil order, terrorist supporter and should be hung. Well friends, I hope you did not name your own poison, because so many of you did the same thing for eight years. Republicans tried to impeach Clinton for lying about getting a blow from a grown woman. Honestly, I WISH that was the biggest thing Bush could be accused of when it comes his turn in the barrel. See you after the elections in November.

Just remember. You set the pace years ago. You made it OK to do now, you just don't like the target. You have no one to blame but yourselves for everything that follows.

This girl is no threat to anyone. She should have told the knuckleheads that her web site was "political art", which it actually was. Then tell them to spend their time doing something useful. Round up a few thousand illegal aliens and deport them back to Mexico. That would actually save public funds.

OMG!!!!! SHE'S ONLY

OMG!!!!! SHE'S ONLY 13!~~~~~~~~~~!!!!~~~~~!!!!!

Hmm... Children doing what their parents instill upon them...

First of all, I'm 15 years old and I am a strong Democrat, and I am apalled at these acuasations that you self-righteous Repulican asses are throwing out such as "Bush bashing has become so popular"... and the statement some really enlightend person made - "May the last liberal standing rot in hell!".
On the the second quote, all I have to say is wow. Look at how mature you are. I am 15 years old and can still see how idiotic that statement was. It truely showed how close-mined you are. Preaching how Democrats no nothing but violence, which is complete bull-shit, while you guys love nothing more than money.
On the first quote, "Bush bashing has become so popular", that had to have been the most asinine thing I have ever read... And I've read some thick-witted things. I wonder if you hipocriticle dicks remember the when Clinton was threatened to be inpeached by...who? You! I ponder if you had anything to say about one of the if not the greatest presidents of all time when that was going on. In fact, if I am not misled, in the Fox interview with Clinton recently, Chris Wallace kept bringing up things that Clinton did wrong in Iraq. So it seems as if my presumtion was correct, you Repulican's are still on Him for what He did/didn't do. Another thing about that quote, have none of you people heard of the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America where it grants persons with free speech? Ah, but I do remember when you utilized that amendment when you spoke about President Clinton. It seems as if you guys are always quick to forget about the parts of that document that do not benefit you at that moment in time.
In closing, I just want to let you people know, It's not brainwashed children... Just because we now-a-days are more informed and opinionated about political matters than you were when you were our age doesn't mean we don't know enough to form our own conjecures about the people in which run our country.

wise up and get a life

wind your neck in.. if she hates bush she hates him. i hate him and i dont htink and idiot should be in presidacy..

everyone has the write to voice there opinionions.. if this happened to my daughter, i would argue.. they have no write to question without permission, never mind the fact that shes only 14...

america is fucked up.. the world is.. hold, i think my 2 year old godson said bin laden..

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