Posted on 09/14/2010 8:49:19 AM PDT by VU4G10
17-year-old teenager from Bedfordshire has found himself with a lifetime ban from the US, after it was found that he sent a threatening email to President Barack Obama.
Luke Angel from Silsoe, sent the email while drunk and called the president abusive names after watching a documentary on the 9/11 attacks.
After the email was sent, the FBI intercepted the message and contacted police in the UK about the incident.
Teenage kicks
Speaking about what happened, Angel explained: "My parents aren't very happy about it.
"The police who came round took my picture and told me I was banned from America forever."
He also told the Sun: "I don't remember exactly what I wrote as I was drunk. But I think I called Barack Obama a prick.
"It was silly – the sort of thing you do when you're a teenager and have had a few."
Personally, we thought having a kebab and a heart to heart with your best mate is the sort of thing most people do while drunk.
But it has been a while since we were teenagers.
Good. Stupid yob.
I take it this fella was neither Muslim nor Hispanic.
Calling someone a prick may be abusive, but it’s not a threat. This doesn’t make sense. Did he actually threaten the President or not? The only evidence we have for the content of the message is the senders admittedly sketchy recollection and the only evidence we have that he was “banned for life” is his account of what he was told by the local UK police.
We have enough drunk, abusive teenagers of our own. They generally grow into Democrats. The last thing we need to do is import more of them.
come on ,bush definitely got worse
Dems are thin-skinned...
And a prick to boot.
And a prick to boot.
I don’t see where he rises to that level...
The guy doesn’t even remember what he said, but I’m relatively certain he wasn’t banned just for name-calling.
Stupid cops. They should have given the kid a bust of Churchill for speaking truth to power (I heard there's an extra one lying around Whitehall).
“I think I called Barack Obama a prick.”.....
HHHHHMMMMMMMM! HHHHHHHHMMMMM! HHHHHHMMMMMMM!
Wait,, did he THREATEN Obama,, or just call him a stupid prick? Thats not a threat.
Lord, I better recall my emails to him I sure have said worse. Has to be more to it they surly don’t read all the hate mail unless prick is a flag word LOL beings he doesn’t have one.
“The thinnest-skinned President in history.”
Which will ultimately be his downfall.
Stalin, Pot, Mussolini, Hussein, etc, etc. all ruled with an iron fist. They drove their totalitarian objectives by coming down with an iron fist on all who opposed them.
Obama, while having the same goals, will never even get close to their power - he’s too busy crying like a baby every time someone makes fun of his ears.
Not to worry, for every dumb kid that sends obammy a derogative email and gets banned we have half a million more illegal mexicans the feds are allowing in.
I think all meglomaniacs are thin-skinned. Obama has never really run in a competitive race and doesn’t know how to handle critism. The “Bush’s fault” and race card memes are getting more than a little threadbare.
If I send a nasty email to social security, can I get out of that?
The police said he was banned.
I doubt whether there was even time for anyone in the U.S. to ban him, which would have been a very doubtful move anyway, with election time approaching.
I don’t know whether they police were just making this up, or whether Britain can actually ban people from going to particular countries. I know they ban people from entering, but I don’t know if they can ban people from leaving.
I suspect they were just giving the kid a hard time.
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