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I originally saw this on soc.youth.support.gay-lesbian-bi and thought
you might be interested. The incident that provoked the e-mail is
detailed at
http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Florida/antigay.html
and continued at
http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Florida/legislator.html
-Morris
http://www.bloomington.in.us/~yamahaha/
http://www.youth.org/loco/PERSONProject/Alerts/States/Florida/questioned.html
Associated Press, April 17, 2001
Secret Service questions woman about e-mail sent to lawmakers
PENSACOLA, Fla. (AP) -- A woman upset at a state lawmaker for
criticizing four gay activists was questioned by two U.S.
Secret Service agents after she sent the legislator, Gov. Jeb Bush and
President Bush a scathing e-mail about the comments.
Margaret Richards, a 58-year-old seamstress, said she sent Rep. Allen
Trovillion an e-mail saying a firing squad would be
lenient punishment for making the comments and blaming him for helping
"appoint a dictator to the White House."
Richards said she sent carbon copies of the message to the governor and
President. The two agents then went to her house
Saturday and asked her if she belonged to a terrorist group, owned any
weapons or had ever been committed to a mental
institution, she said.
"I was floored," Richards said. "When they showed up at the door, the
first thing I thought was, 'This must be a joke."'
Richards also said the agents searched her house, photographed her and
convinced her to sign a waiver that lets them check her
medical records.
[...]
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