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'Burning Bush' comment draws prison term
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 barroom 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."
Comments
Sounds like the sort of thing that happens to Iraqis when they criticize or make jokes about Hussein...
Posted by: Monnica | December 10, 2002 11:09 AM
They say regime change begins at home...
Posted by: sudama | December 10, 2002 12:05 PM
Yeah. That's right monnica. And we want to help the Iraqi citizens with open bombs! It will be just like when bombs brought women's liberation to Afghanistan! Unless it didn't.
Posted by: zagg | December 10, 2002 1:00 PM