Does anybody actually expect anything to come of the SS/Ted Negent meeting?

[bluestateguy]

They'll chit chat for a few minutes, emerge from the meeting all buddy-buddy and the SS will drop the matter, claiming that it was somehow not a "real threat".

Don't hold your breath.

[The Magistrate]

1. No One Expects Him To Be Arrested, Sir

But the open file makes subsequent complaints loom larger, and future contacts more serious. The fellow is incapable of restraining his mouth, and he has weapons, as well as an extant government certification of some degree of mental disturbance, namely his draft evasion and record of heavy drug use: this is just the sort of combination that a body-guard corps is pretty much required to take real notice of.

[MrSlayer]

4. One point of contention good Magistrate.

The one thing he does not have is a record of heavy drug use. He's always been very anti-drug. His drug of choice is underage girls.

Unless, of course, he's lying about it and you know something about it that I don't.

[The Magistrate]

24. Amboy Dukes was An Acid Band, Sir

I do not believe the wretch, at least not concerning the late sixties and into the early seventies. He is fucked up mentally to a point hard to reach without outside assistance....

[MrSlayer]

26. I certainly won't argue the state of his mentality.

But I've yet to meet someone that dropped acid who didn't become a better person for it.

But you may well be correct, sir. We really do only have his word to go on.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

2. I doubt it will be buddy buddy.

Methinks that while little can be done, Ted will piss and shit his pants. He's a fucking coward and a fraud.

[safeinOhio]

10. Tries to come across as a tuff guy...

only pulls on a 45 pound compound bow. Hell, into his 70s Fred Bear drew back on an 80 pound bow.
All mouth.

[TlalocW]

3. I think by law they've got to assign an agent to watch him

Now how closely that agent has to watch him and what percentage of his duties that is is up in the air. Jesse Helms got his own agent when he made threats against Clinton.

TlalocW

[ProgressiveProfessor]

27. Actually it would be policy not law

unless you can find something in the U.S.C that I cannot.

[pnwest]

5. well, its enough to cause him to walk that shit back

today, whimpering like a scared puppy. He was simpering on the radio today, "I would never threaten the life of the President"...he won't be arrested or anything, but he was exposed for the spineless, irrelevant blowhard that he is.

[mmonk]

6. No. It would only make him a martyr with the neanderthals.

[Cleita]

7. Well, it won't get him arrested, but I think it will scare him enough

to measure his words about the President in the future.

[Blecht]

8. I'm sure several are fans

They'll probably get his autograph.

[saras]

9. Yep. I expect a really bad song about it, in about a year.

[emilyg]

11. Nope.

[RZM]

12. I think it's for show

Probably because the SS has to appear to take all threats seriously and thus can't let such a public one slide. I don't think anybody really believes that Ted Nugent is a threat to the president. Could also be that Obama's team thinks a display of power over a RW figure and Romney surrogate is beneficial to his campaign, i.e. a 'My name is Andrew Shepherd and I AM the president' moment.

[global1]

15. I Don't Know If Nugent Is That Much Of A Threat To The President Himself - It's The Fact That.......

he has an NRA fan base of crazies that listen to him, idolize him and would probably act on his words. That's what scares me about Nugent. Nugent himself is a coward but his fans might not be.

What I worry about too is that he will probably come out of this meeting with the Secret Service saying that his rights of Free Speech are being trampled on and he'll use this incident of the SS meeting as a way of showing his fan base that he is right in what he says about this government.

I don't think we've heard the last of Ted Nugent and his inciting rantings.

[RZM]

16. Of course he's going to spin the meeting as evidence of his persecution

That's a given. He's already said that he's a 'black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally.' So it's pretty clear he sees himself as a victim here.

As for his followers, if it wasn't him, some other dumbass would be saying the same shit. Of course, this other dumbass probably couldn't play 'Wango Tango' on the guitar

[global1]

21. Yeah - Some Other Dumbass Would Be Saying The Same Thing But......

they probably would not be as in the public eye as Nugent is or have the following that he does. He's somewhat of an NRA RW Nutjob icon. As such - he's probably more dangerous than most.

[RZM]

22. So we should target him specifically because he's famous?

That doesn't work either. He's a stupid ass. Let him be a stupid ass. It's not like he's the only celebrity who's full of shit.

[Motown_Johnny]

13. Not really, but the guy is such a nut that something just might.

I honestly believe there is something wrong with the guy. He isn't just strange or stupid, I think the guy has an actual problem with his brain.

Maybe he was just born that way, I don't know. If he wasn't gifted with the ability to play a guitar (the guy really can play) he would most probably be a night time stock boy at someplace like a Walmart. He isn't presentable in public so you couldn't let him work when a customer might ask him a question.

I don't know if the Secret Service will consider him an actual threat but they just might profile this guy as deranged enough to either try something or pay someone else to do it for him.

I doubt that anything will come from him just talking shit but they just might decide to keep an eye on him from now on.

[hatrack]

14. They'll give him CRAP-PANTS FEVER, DUH-DUH-DUHHHH! CRAP-PANTS-FEVER, DUH-DUH-DUHHHH!

[spanone]

17. maybe they will make him uncomfortable....i'll go for that. make him squirm a little

he'll wear it like a badge of honor, i'm sure

[cherokeeprogressive]

19. Seriously?

Nnnnnnnope.

[lynne]

20. No. Nothing. Nor should it.

His statement was bizarre but it can be taken in a different manner that doesn't equal a threat to the president. His being dead could be taken to mean he'd kill himself. His being in jail could be taken to mean he'd commit an act of violence, vandalism, mayhem, etc., other than violence towards the president. When I first read the statement I didn't take it as a threat to anyone specific.

He's wacky but all this uproar seems like histrionics to me. But, hey, that's just my opinion.

[backscatter712]

23. The Secret Service will wag their fingers at him, but won't arrest or charge him. n/t

[Tom Ripley]

25. He will tell them his name is Henry Krinkle

[uncle ray]

28. has anybody ever made a second "threat" after being visited by the SS?

[SATIRical]

29. I expect to see him backpedaling and possibly issuing

an apology

[cynatnite]

30. The jerkoff will have his high price lawyer and will put on his "I was only funnin'" face...

Not much will come of it.

Of course, I don't think the SS will be that friendly to him. I've met those guys and they have no sense of humor.

[madokie]

31. I'll bet old shitty pants changes his tone if nothing else

[October]

32. No. I expect he will become a martyr to extremists.

He'll be another right-wing VICTIM. <slaps forehead>

That's ALL they know how to do.

sigh.