Give that man a medal He's speaking for billions of people. Bush really is a complete maniac. It's quite amusing how such a pleb could be the most powerful man in the world.

It seems rather ill conceived to do this in the first place - what the hell did he expect?

I mean, come on - join ATS and abuse bush/blair/brown from the safety and comfort of your own home - at least for the time being, it's safer

I agree with others. Paranoid would be the wrong verbage. I'd call it smart, cautionary, etc.

I have a few projects that I have to be on the rooftops of buildings in DC and near the White House. You can bet your potutty that we call the SS every time we are going to be up there so we don't have a red dot on our foreheads (and I'm not talking about Hindus) or worse yet, another hole in the head that we don't need.

I agree the dude should have been arrested-like I said, he's lucky SS didn't use him for target practice. Not too bright to be making threats ANYWHERE against our gov, let alone right outside the capital. I will retract my paranoid comment in this case, as you guys are right, this instance has nothing to do with that. My bad.

At risk from what may I ask? A BOX??

Doesn't say if he was charged either.

Wonder what the real story was/is

watchZEITGEISTnow

So many people are distrusting of the media yet so readily accept any explanation given.

The first thing I have to ask is this.... What was "the verbal threat"? If he stood at the fence line and yelled out, "Bush if you walk out here I will punch you in the mouth" I would agree that makes him an idiot, but not a criminal. What about if he was walking along the fence line (like so many people do daily) and simply said, "If I had a chance, I'd slap the taste out of Bush's mouth" does that make him a criminal or someone simply venting like we see on various web sites and in our daily lives?

What was this "suspicious package" and in what manner was it "left"? What if this gentleman was walking with the package, made his "threat" and was suddenly taken down by Secret Service thus dropping his package, does that constitute "leaving a suspicious package"?

The real FACT here is that this "news" article gives little to no details of what really happened and gives you no FACTS to make any kind of judgment.

Let me ask this one question.... what is the real crime here? Is it that this man may have made a "threat" towards the President, or that on this President's say so this man could now be labeled an "enemy combatant" and we will see and hear nothing about him for the next 3 years while he sits in solitary confinement with no legal rights, no lawyer, no visitors and no right to due process?