Police State, USA

Frank Ford sent me an article entitled "Letter to editor brings Secret Service visit". Here's part of what it says:

An elderly man who wrote a letter to the editor about Saddam Hussein's execution that "they hanged the wrong man" got a visit from Secret Service Agents concerned he was threatening President Bush.

The letter by Dan Tilli, 81, was published in Monday's edition of The Express-Times of Easton, Pa. It ended with the line, "I still believe they hanged the wrong man."

Tilli said the statement was not a threat. "I didn't say who — I could've meant (Osama) bin Laden," he said.
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The agents almost immeditately decided Tilli was not a threat...

Well, isn't that nice?

But imagine getting a visit like that because of something you wrote in a letter to the editor. It's creepy. And that's putting it mildly.