I like him, think I'll send him a card. Where do the SS get off taking the guys photos and coming in his house.
I didn't hear a threat in there. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, January 22, 2007 10:15 AM Subject: Weeding them terrorists out one by one > Pa. Man's Letter Brings Secret Service > > BETHLEHEM, Pa. (AP) -- An elderly man who wrote in a letter to the > editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong > man" got a visit from Secret Service agents concerned he was > threatening President Bush. > > The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's edition of The > Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, "I still believe > they hanged the wrong man." > > Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn't say who - I > could've meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said Friday. > > Two Secret Service agents questioned Tilli at his Bethlehem apartment > Thursday, briefly searching the place and taking pictures of him, he > said. > > The Secret Service confirmed the encounter. Bob Slama, special agent > in charge of the Secret Service's Philadelphia office, said it was the > agency's duty to investigate. > > The agents almost immediately decided Tilli was not a threat, Slama said > > "We have no further interest in Dan," he said. > > Tilli said the agents appeared more relaxed when he dug out a > scrapbook containing more than 200 letters that he has written over > the years, almost all on political topics. > > "He said, 'Keep writing, but just don't make no threats,'" Tilli said > of one of the agents. > > It wasn't Tilli's first run-in with the federal government over his > letter writing. Two FBI agents from Allentown showed up at his home > last year about a letter he wrote advocating a civil war to unseat > Bush, he said. > > (c) 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may > not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Learn more > about our Privacy Policy. > > > > > -- > "Mommy's all right, Daddy's all right > They just seem a little weird, > Surrender, Surrender, > But don't give yourself away, aaaaaa, aaaaaaa" > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:225432 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
