What Would Moses Do?

[catscradle]

Whatever the answer is to that, he better watch his ass. . . This is an AP article from the Denver Post:

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) --A man who made a remark about a "burning Bush" during the president's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.

Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon was convicted in September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free speech.

Humphreys said he got into a bar-room discussion in nearby Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police Humphreys talked about a "burning Bush" and the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.

"I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," Humphreys testified during his trial. "I had said that before and I thought it was funny."

Sorry, I can't link this, you need a paid subscription =P

Comments

[wiebke.livejournal.com]

Was that really in the Denver Post? It soooooo sounds like The Onion. Damn! Maybe this is what breeds so much apathy. I find it hard to believe any of this isn't something The Onion made up. Sigh...

[catscradle.livejournal.com]

I wish to God it was the Onion - but no, it's was indeed the Denver Post. In fact, I did a google search and just found a CNN article on it: http://asia.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/06/burning.bush.ap/ (http://asia.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/06/burning.bush.ap/)

That's 3 years and a month in prison for joking.

Odd, I'm looking at the url and it's under CNN Asia. I can't find it at all on the www.cnn.com site.

There are quite a few websites out there that reported the AP article: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=burning+Bush%2C+Sioux+Falls (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=burning+Bush%2C+Sioux+Falls)

Not a single one is a mainstream news source with the exception of CNN's Asian site.