Indian held for internet threat to Bush ("Call For Assassination")

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Indian held for internet threat to Bush

Maya Mirchandani/ Prasad Ramamurthy

Sunday, April 23, 2006 (New York/Mumbai):

http://www.ndtv.com/morenews/showmorestory.asp?slug=Indian+held+for+internet+threat+to+Bush&id=87192&category=National

An Indian PhD student in the US has been arrested for posting internet messages threatening President George W Bush and calling for violence against Americans. Sources tell NDTV that Purdue University, where 34-year-old PhD student Vikram Buddhi studied, refused to renew his visa, which is to expire next month.

He has also been suspended following the incident. Vikram was arrested last week on charges of threatening US President George W Bush, Vice-President Dick Cheney and their families.

The chargesheet filed against him says he posted messages to an internet website in December last year. Messages were posted under the titles:

* Call For Assassination of GW Bush
* Bomb Key Sites In US: It's Legal For Arabs.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. For a PHD student he is not too bright

if he actually did this.

[Missy M]

2. In the article it says he did confess to posting the messages....

and I agree with you he is not too bright. How did he not know he would be arrested and probably spend time in prison (it said up to 35 years). Something like that would be considered a serious threat even pre-9/11. I certainly don't like someone making threats like that.

[Warren Stupidity]

4. Yeah not too bright but..

why isn't it an equally serious crime to threaten to nuke Iran, or to suggest that we should nuke Iraq to solve 'that problem'?

[Oversea Visitor]

7. Cause your President say it is ok

Nutcase attract more nutcases.

[Missy M]

8. I don't know, but it should be.

[Oversea Visitor]

6. It is stupid to make threat like that.

What a waste of education :rofl:

[salin]

9. well... he enrolled in the phd program 10 years ago

and switched the degree to a master's a year ago (I read in another article.) That alone, suggests that he has a few issues going on.

At least he didn't go after his advisor with a hatchett (a case at Stanford a decade or so ago with a long-long timer phd candidate), or go off on a review panel of profs (another math masters major at San Diego State a few years ago.)

Those two other cases came to mind when I read about the program (math - for some reason, I believe the above cases were math or heavy math/engineering) and the length of time he had been in it - and the switch to a masters program and that after one or two years (given all of the course work presumably finished in the first 8 or 9 years).

[xultar]

3. What I just wanna shave Chimpies Monkey paws? Will that get me

in trouble?

[Warren Stupidity]

5. How about if I just threaten George with 20-life?

Is that ok?

[kurth]

10. "We should never ever, ever, ever execute a sitting President" -Al Franken

on CBS Late Show with David Letterman, 10/21/05.

[phusion]

11. Reminds me of this: Pat Robertson calls for assassination of Hugo Chavez

"If he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it," Robertson told viewers on his "The 700 Club" show Monday. "It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/08/23/robertson.chavez.1534/index.html

[greekspeak]

12. Anne Coulter publically threatened Justice Stevens...why isn't she arreste

I guess she is blond and white enough not to have to worry about that. And after all, Stevens is a LIBRUL. I am not condoning what this woman did, but rather the double standard.

[HuffleClaw]

13. funny how only the brown-skinned people are punished for their

web postings. if they were fair about these prosecutions, the better part of free republic, coulter, savage, malkin, hannity and of course rush would be in jail as we speak.