Posted on 04/19/2006 7:18:09 PM PDT by ByDesign
Bush death threat tied to PU student By Danielle Braff Post-Tribune staff writer
A Purdue University graduate student was arrested and charged with threatening to kill President George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Vikram Buddhi allegedly posted the detailed and threatening messages on an online message board.
Buddhi has been studying industrial engineering at the university, having moved temporarily from India to his new home in West Lafayette 10 years ago on a student visa. He was originally hired as a teaching assistant in the math department but was removed from that position and is now a teaching assistant in the industrial engineering department.
Since this is a very busy time for college students, being immersed in studying for their upcoming finals, Buddhi’s attorney John Martin said he hopes his client will be released from jail Wednesday following his detention hearing so he can return to studying.
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Hope he enjoys the scrutiny from the Secret Service.
Good Lord. I guess we want to make sure this little criminal passes his courses, huh?
Immediate deportation... or he can spend his time studying in Jail.
Both! Jail, then deportation.
Arrogant ungrateful SOB. Makes me wish we had caning like in some countries.
The politics with the Tamils, Sri Lanka, Southern India, and so forth are complex.
At the moment my thought is that he was drunk, or out of his mind on drugs. On the other hand, he had been a mathematician and became a physicist. Probably has some stupid idea the President is a minor god who can control the price of aluminum foil.
Isn't that kind of what they said about the 2 Columbine kids before they went berserk?
This guy shouldn't be returning to classes, he should be deported back to India. I believe he's demonstrated a clear lack of respect for our country and it's laws, or isn't that enough anymore?
I hope I don't offend anyone but I've had so many wierd math professors. There..I said it.
That jumped out at me too. If he'd stayed 'studying', he wouldn't be in this kettle of fish.
Sure no problem, return to studying in India.
attorney says .....release Buddhi so he can return to studying..
I say, the attorney should keep Buddhi company in jail.
Send him to GITMO and subject him to threats of torture :-)
Ah. They got him for lèse majesté then.
I agree. 10 years' worth of studying sounds like he's working the professional student gambit anyway. Past time for him to go home & get a real job.
How stupid can you be?
Crazy Irish.
Uh, Vikram pal, you have just stepped in a pile of holy cow relics. Threatening the President of the U.S. is called a Federal Offense. After ten years in the US of A, one would think that would have entered your Buddhist skull but perhaps 10+ in Federal prison will wise you up. Enjoy the brotherhood.
*Something* about him smelled fishy.....
The professors and sometimes, religious leaders, who promote hatred for the United States, or President Bush, or the Republican Party; who have undecided, immature, minds at their command, should evaluate thier teachings a little more carefully. Some of them may be aware of it and want to capitalize on it. Some may be indoctrinated by so-called liberal values or PC views, or in truth, lack of values, and may think they are promoting 'freedom of speech'. Some may be looking for that 15 minutes of fame someone proclaimed we should all have(egoism?). Many are promoting hatred to the point of violence, whether they realize it or not. I suspect some of them are merely pontificating ideas brought on by their own failure in society, or their own wrong interpretation of the actions of government because of media propaganda or past personal experiences that lead them to question their own values. No intelligent person should swallow the news as presented on the popular media outlets, yet many have not yet realized that what they are taking in is pure propoganda, and not factual accounts, or even worse, taking advantage of our 'freedom of speech' in order to promote some entity's own agenda. Americans have not yet accepted the fact that it is possible for them to be 'brainwashed' as were Russians in the past. Freedom of speech, fine, who could not be for it? Incitement to murder, what category does that come under? If one of these immature, passionate, students decide to act on all this hate talk, who should be to blame? I speak from personal observation as I have seen intelligent young people dramatically converted to a point of near radicalism after attending very liberal colleges for a few years. Fortunatly they were grounded enough to not follow through on these 'teachings'; but then who can predict when it will totally involve that one person? And who can deny that that particular 'authority figure' wasn't the propelling figure to an act of violence? Who can undo an act of total destruction, no matter what the ignorance or motivation behind that action?
Exactly what Cracker Jack box did this drone Martin find his law licence in? There's scores of nutballs in prison for making threats that they didn't have the capability to do.
What's Martin's next brilliant defence gambit? "Your Honor, my client did say he was going to whack the President, but he couldn't have done so because the Secret Service would have stopped him!"
Martin again: “What was allegedly said certainly is derogatory and may be inflammatory,” Martin said. “But there’s no real serious threat more than it was chat on the Web.”
Okay, saying like lawyers do "we'll accept that ad arguendo," what the dickens did Martin's buddy Buddhi actually say?
In the various messages posted, Buddhi urged the Web site’s readers to bomb the United States and for them to rape American and British women and mutilate them, according to court documents. Other messages called for the killing of all Republicans.
"See, Your Honor? He couldn't have killed all Republicans... he's a starving student, and that's about fifty million bullets. Even with a student discount ---"
I dunno what Buddhi is paying Martin, but he's wasting his rupees.
A better approach might be to argue that the defendant is merely hostile to women because as an engineering geek he can't get laid. That's probably closer to causation here. He came on to some blonde and she put him down...
Where he's going, there aren't any girls, poor fellow. Still, "good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement."
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Joseph Goebbles would be in awe of the power of the American media and the technology at its disposal. I am certainly not comparing the American left to Nazis, but I am making a comment about the power that media technology has over the modern world. This power could be manipulated by people of any political persuasion, and we will be in for a bleak future if someone as depraved as Goebbles gets a hold of it. Fortunately we still have a pretty wide spectrum of ideas represented in our media, despite some of the bias that exists within certain news organizations like NBC. I share your concern about the lack of ideological diversity on America's college campuses.
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