Obama email boy - fair and proportionate?

[Ian]

The Americans cannot allow the Axis of Email to go unchallenged! Evil-doers must be punished - preferably by nuking them from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.

We prefer to use our secret satellite that induces "natural" earthquakes. We'd probably get blamed for nukes; buncha hippies around the world, I tell ya.

[Elessarina]

At 17 you were immature and irrational. You were also a girl chasing boys. It was also more than a decade ago.

Sending death threats is not a sign of instability, it's sending death threats you mean that is a sign of instability.

And that can't be determined so all threats have to be treated as serious.

[Trolldor]

At 17 you were immature and irrational.

And that all went away when I turned 18.


Really, no kidding. They gave me guns and everything. (The "everythings" kept blowing up. )

It never goes away, you just learn to hide it.

[Clinton Huxley]

The White House should have sent an abusive and threatening email back...

"Listen here, you snivelling little limey cock-sucker, threaten The President and we will come over there and FUCK YOU UP. We will FUCK your pets up. We will FUcKING reduce Bedforshire to the GOD DAmN Stone age, Mother-Fucker!"

Something like that.

[Trolldor]

The White House should have sent an abusive and threatening email back...

"Listen here, you snivelling little limey cock-sucker, threaten The President and we will come over there and FUCK YOU UP. We will FUCK your pets up. We will FUcKING reduce Bedforshire to the GOD DAmN Stone age, Mother-Fucker!"

Something like that.

That's how the rest of the world does it.

[Robert_S]

I'm 99% certain that it was just a stupid lapse in judgment. Still it's a cheapening of everything if we don't take threats seriously.

Having been threatened, I think it's perfectly right to deny the kid entry to the country if he threatens the President.

[Santa_Claus]

Muslims.

No sense of humour.

[Clinton Huxley]

I'm going to burn a big pile of presidents unless KFC back off from building an outlet at the end of my street.

What I believe is missing here is a sense of proportion.

[Robert_S]

Muslims.

No sense of humour.

Well, you keep insulting them with your depiction of The Prophet in your avatar.

I'm going to burn a big pile of presidents unless KFC back off from building an outlet at the end of my street.

What I believe is missing here is a sense of proportion.

Why do you not wish for the venerable and inscrutable colonel to build a house near you?

[Clinton Huxley]

I don't want shell-suited KFC-slobbering hooligans swaggering around my neck of the woods!

[Robert_S]

Shell suited? Ninja Turtles are more fond of pizza I hear.

[PsychoSerenity]

Even if he did travel to America, he'd have hard job getting close to the president. Is Obama so afraid of this kid that he's never going to visit the UK again? If not, then it's over the top - especially when they know it's just a teenager fucking around.

[Thinking Aloud]

especially when they know it's just a teenager fucking around.

But they've nothing to lose by banning him either.

[Robert_S]

Even if he did travel to America, he'd have hard job getting close to the president. Is Obama so afraid of this kid that he's never going to visit the UK again? If not, then it's over the top - especially when they know it's just a teenager fucking around.

I don't think it's Obama, it's probably the people dealing with his security.

[Pappa]

Well, radio personality Michael Savage was banned from the UK, and all he did was express political opinions.

According to wiki, it wasn't for merely expressing political opinions:

The then UK Home Secretary, Jacqui Smith, announced on May 5, 2009 that Savage was on a list of individuals banned from entering the United Kingdom as he is "considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence".