I don’t know if I’d classify this as a “reason” why we need another president, but it is disturbing news nonetheless.
(St. Louis-AP) -- A federal appeals court has upheld the sentence for a man who had suggested that President Bush might be set ablaze.
Richard Humphreys appealed his three-year sentence, saying his
comment was protected by free speech rights. He was convicted in
2002 of threatening to kill or harm the president.
Humphreys says he got into a barroom discussion with a truck driver
a day before Bush's March 2001 visit to Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
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