SHOCK AND AWE: SECRET SERVICE ARRESTS LEFTIST FOR GWB THREAT!
WOW! The U.S. Secret Service FINALLY arrests a Leftist for making death threats against George W. Bush after ignoring thousands of Left Wing murder threats made against him while he was president.
A Pittsford man, found with a loaded rifle and machete, was arrested
Friday in Manhattan after allegedly threatening to kill former President
George W. Bush, according to police and media reports.
Benjamin
Smith, 44, was arrested by the Secret Service after telling agents he
was divorced and "working on a relationship with Barbara Bush." Reuters,
quoting from a criminal complaint filed in federal court, reported
Smith screamed, "Bush will get his!" as he was taken into custody.
Barbara Pierce Bush, 32, is the elder of the 43rd president's twin
girls.
This is not Smith's first brush with the law. He was
arrested in 2011 for an alleged hate crime on the Erie Canal. In that
incident, Smith was charged with assault after allegedly pushing a man
into bushes, punching him, and yelling, "All you Pakistanis and Indians
are all going to be killed! Go home!" according to the court documents.
The outcome of the 2011 case was not immediately available.
On
Friday, he was arrested in New York City after being tracked there. His
mother, apparently alarmed over a note she found in the Pittsford home
she shares with her son, called 911.
The Monroe County Sheriff's Office responded, said Cpl. John Helfer, a spokesman for the office.
"We took a missing person report after his mother called 911 on Thursday," Helfer said.
According
to Reuters, the note said: "I'm going to work for George W. Bush and
the Pentagon. I have to slay a dragon and then Barbara Bush is mine."
Using
Smith's cellphone, the Secret Service tracked him down in Manhattan on
Friday morning and found him sitting in his car with the weapons.
The New York Daily News said Smith laughed during his arraignment every time Griswald repeated the "slay the dragon" line from his letter.
George Ogilvie, a spokesman for the U.S. Secret Service, told USA TODAY
that Smith was arrested under U.S. Code Title 18 Section 879, which
prohibits threats against a former president. Ogilvie would not go into
detail about the incident.
At a preliminary hearing, Assistant
U.S. Attorney Andrea Griswold told U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman
that the government believes Smith was referring to the former
president's daughter and not Bush's mother, who shares the same name,
Reuters reported.
Smith was found with a loaded Rossi .38-caliber
rifle, investigators said after agents had been looking for him for more
than 12 hours, according to the Daily News.
According to Reuters, Smith's mother called police Thursday after she found a note in the Pittsford home she shares with her son.
"I'm going to work for George W. Bush and the Pentagon," the note said. "I have to slay a dragon and then Barbara Bush is mine."
Reuters reported Smith's attorney, Peggy Cross-Goldenberg, said the note and her client's screams are not a "true threat."
Pitman
said it was "unclear" whether a jury would find Smith guilty, though
she noted that Barbara Bush lives in New York City, the reports said.
"Admittedly,
there is some inconsistency in the notion that the way to win Barbara
Bush's affections is to kill her father," Pitman said.
A Bush spokesman told the Daily News the former president was not aware of Smith or his alleged threats.
Includes reporting by Yamiche Alcindor of USA Today and staff writer Gary Craig.
SOURCE:
Secret Service: Pittsford man Benjamin Smith arrested after threatening President Bush over daughter
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