Hmmm...

Kristin posted something last week about the US senate agreeing to torture, and the day after I found an article on www.ananova.com - Girl, 14, quizzed over anti-Bush MySpace page.

The girl's name is Julia Wilson, and at least she wasn't tortured... But it made me wonder what the Secret Service a) is doing looking around on MySpace and b) just what the Secret Service MySpace page would be like if they had one? (Something like: We're the Secret Service and we love finding fake currency, protecting our nation's leaders and partying on! LOLOLOLOL!!! And totally catching the most wanted fugitives! Gooooooooo America! LOLOLOLOL!?) (just working the MySpace stereotype there... although apparently half of MySpace users are over 30)

*ahem*

Okay, so she "made a threat against his life" (the SS has to investigate credible threats like that), but not really in a credible way, and hadn't used the blog for months and months, and had actually deleted it. Why not do something about it when it was originally created, rather than months down the track? Were they hoping that Osama bin Laden had been checking out the MySpace thing and she had his e-mail address?

I also found an article about it on a newspaper's website that allowed comments and was amazed at the right-wing replies on there, which generally ran along the lines of 'bring back military service' and 'blame the parents' and 'this is what liberalism is about!' and 'God ordained Bush, how dare anyone question anything he does,' plus the old chestnut of 'ship her to Iran and see how she likes it there' (ugh).

Bah, politics makes me want to puke sometimes!