http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/04/...d.ap/index.html

I know these are sensitive times, but to call the Secret Service to investigate a 15 year old's sketchbook is a little overkill, I think.

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a litle... perhaps...

seriously, what about freedom of speech?

Well, not that I know of secret service rules and regulation, but I think that they would have to investigate/interview any referral provided to them from the local police out of policy, even if it seems trivial. If the local police are telling them they should look into something, I doubt they would blow off any potential threat due to liability reasons. If anything, it would allow them to profile mental/obssessed cases early on to see if they could be threats in teh future. Kind of like Hinckley who was obsessed with jodie foster and catcher in the rye.

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Retro ...

Yes. If secret service gets called on something they should be investigating. But in the chain of the teacher informing administration, administration informing the police, and the police informing the SS, someone either overreacted, misunderstood the situation, or just took the wrong course of action. I think the parents should have been called before the police for this. And the police probably just assumed the situation was important enough to involve the SS because it seemed the school administration felt it more important to involve the police before the child's parents. Seems to me that the administration overreacted.

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What drawing? Pics or STFU!


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