Dead Presidents
As per usual, Art Bell in his annual predictions show (where callers generally gravitate toward predicting huge-scale earthquakes, alien landings, volcanic eruptions, and tsunamis tearing the Earth ashunder) warned the audience not to predict political assassinations, as that always gets a visit from the Secret Service.
Occasionally we’ll get a story like this one, or closer to home for me because it came straight from “Mad Cow Country” (where I grew up) this one.
It occurs to me that I very easily could have been met by the secret service. I was following the lawsuit involving the Army of God and vagrant members, and the so-called “Nuremburgh Files” with that list of abortion-providers and maybe politicians… if they ended up dead, their name crossed out, if they ended up wonded, they were in a gray font. Um… “inspired” (?)… I posted onto my website a list of assassinated presidents, crossed out were Lincoln, Garfield, McKinnley, Kennedy … grayed were Reagan and Ford … and Clinton was at the end of the list for no good reason. I had it up for about six hours, taking it down for a number of reasons. #1: Bad taste. #2: In the event of a meeting with secret service, I’m not entirely sure how the hell I could explain. (Not that I could expect any law enforcement officers to check into it. Who was reading this thing? Me, my brother, and two dudes from school, more or less.) #3: The cross-outs weren’t showing up on the web, thus the joke was muddled, and I thought it was so slight that it wasn’t worth the effort of fixing.
The matter of whether or not I would have been questioned by the Secret Service hinges on where on the front page of my old website I would have had listed the “Assassinated Presidents” list. Local police officers did end up looking at my website… for my purposes here, the less said about the incident the better. And they ended up printing out the first three pages of the thing, to alert my father. (Alien Abduction Story, Debating Whether I am a Diety… up at the top because, they were my favourites on that site… which, of course, suggests the whole deal of the “Assassinated Presidents List” is moot, because I doubt I would have had it up there…
… though, perhaps it would have been bunched up with … Uh, who the freak knows?)