We've Seen The Hatred, Where Is The Shame?

The "freckle-faced 14-year-old" high school freshman who posted a "Kill Bush" cartoon on her MySpace page, just won't go away and feel shame in private. In fact, no one in her family seems to feel shame.

Because she and her parents think that what she did didn't warrant the Secret Service visit to her school, nor their stern lecture to her about her MySpace group called "Let's Stab Bush" and threats made to the President.

here's the story again, from KCRA:

Julia Wilson, a straight-A student at McClatchy High School, spends a lot of her free time on the networking website MySpace.

Until a few months ago the 14-year-old moderated her own group called "Let's Stab Bush.

That's where Wilson posted a cartoon picture of President Bush which included the words "kill Bush" and showed him being stabbed in the hand.

She caught the attention of the Secret Service, which showed up on Wednesday to question her about the picture.

Two agents pulled her out of class and interviewed her for 15 minutes to see if she was really a threat to President Bush.

"They just like told me that it was a federal offense and that I could go to Juvie if I was really planning to harm him. That really scared me and I started crying because I thought they were going to arrest me," Wilson told KCRA.

Wilson's parents are upset she was pulled from class and interviewed without their consent.
"It is a pretty intimidating experience. I don't think very many people are interrogated by the Secret Service," Julia's mother Kristie Wilson said.

The family considered taking legal action against the Secret Service, but learned that it is not illegal for law enforcement to question a minor.

Wilson was eventually cleared of any wrongdoing.... and that's the first mistake the Secret Service made. Cleared of any wrongdoing? She threatened the President of the United States with a cartoon drawing on the internet, and it is not funny.

Her parents are upset with the Secret Service and not their daughter? Unbelievable!

Last evening her father was interviewed by a local news station. He was upset that the Secret Service went to her school and made an example of her. He should write them a thank-you note for doing his job for him. And then he said that Julia is worried that this may hurt her chances of getting into Cambridge someday. Heavens, we wouldn't want Julia's threat to the President to actually have consequences.

What is the matter with Julia Wilson's parents? While they don't "condone" what she did, they feel that the Secret Service overreacted?!! Julia Wilson didn't just stay out too late or talk back to her teacher; she very blatantly stated that the President should be killed. This was no prank, no joke and it isn't even funny. It's not just in bad taste, nor just teenage poor judgment; what Julia Wilson did by threatening the President was to demonstrate her own as well as her family's disdain for our government, our leadership and America. Dissent is healthy and allowed in America. None of us like all of our Presidents or elected officials, but to state your President should be killed is poisonous and treasonous.

A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murder is less to fear.
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero
106-43 BC, Roman Statesman, Philosopher and Orator

I stand by my original post Where Does She Get The Anger?; I hope the community ostracizes Julia Wilson and her family. That right and wrong are so blurred in her family, is shameful and disgraceful. They are hateful and repugnant. Otherwise they would feel remorse, and not for themselves.