Today morning i read about a 14 year old kid, Julia Wilson, in Sacramento, who posted a picture of Bush, scrawled "Kill Bush" with a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand as she was upset with the war in Iraq. She later removed the picture after learning that it was a "federal offence" but it was too late. Some federal authorities had located her page and soon caught her in her biology class. They "questioned" her for 15 minutes. As Wilson reported later, they "yelled at me lot. They were unnecessarily mean." They also threatened her and said that she could be sent to a juvenile hall.
A tearful Wilson had to prove that the post was not meant to be serious. "I wasn't dangerous. I mean, look at what's (stencilled) on my bacpack- its a heart! I'm a very peace loving person. I'm not going to kill the President."
When I read this, all I thought was, "What the fuck?"
Bush gets to kill millions of innocents in Iraq (and anywhere else if he wishes to) but one harmless 14 year old was threatened by the federal authorities for posting a "Kill Bush" picture. And this, THIS, can land her up in a juvenile hall whereaeas Bush isn't spotted in any court or prison, no matter how juvenile he actually is. How come no one cries when the men, women and children of Iraq are killed but when a girl (rightly so) expresses her disapproval at Bush's ways, she gets threatened by his men? Is this rational?
Yes she posted a "graphically violent" picture. But is she really violent? No. Bush is. Looks like we are running down the wrong end of the street.
Weird are the ways of our world.
