A freshman at Mars Hill College, in North Carolina, got a surprise visit from the U.S. Secret Service last week, after one of his postings on the myspace.com Web site was interpreted as a threat against President Bush, but now it appears he is not in trouble anymore, although he still doesn’t have his computer back.
The story is told in an article in today’s Asheville Citizen-Times. Tim Willis posted the lyrics to “Bullet,” a 1978 song by the Misfits that refers to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, at one point describing “the president’s bullet-ridden body in the street.” Except Mr. Willis substituted President Bush’s name for JFK’s.
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