Ex-Purdue student sentenced in Web threats to Bush

[Robbien]

Source: Chicago Trib

HAMMOND, Ind. - A former Purdue University graduate student convicted of threatening to kill President George W. Bush and others in Internet postings has been sentenced to more than four years in prison.

Thirty-eight-year-old Vikram S. Buddhi, an Indian national who was living in West Lafayette, was sentenced Friday in U.S. District Court in Hammond to 57 months in prison and 3 years of probation.

Buddhi denies he committed any crime and represented himself in court Friday.

He was convicted in 2007 on 11 counts of making threats that were posted in a chat room in 2005 and 2006.

Authorities said Buddhi hijacked online identities of other Purdue students to post messages. The messages justified the murder of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and the rape of their wives.

Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-presidentialthrea,0,3646161.story

[BlueJazz]

1. ....And the Bush cronies and "team" + the War Crooks are having Steaks for supper in Bermuda

[New Dawn]

2. Yet Bush murdered 1.3 million Iraqis and hasn't gone to jail. That sums up the US "justice" system.

[Thothmes]

20. We let Lyndon Johnson get away with killing 2-4 million

Vietnamese. What is a mere 1.3 million Iraqis.

[Judi Lynn]

26. Would you be kind enough to a link which supports your claim of 2 to 4 million LBJ murders? n/t

[Thothmes]

27. Depending on what years you use and which sources

you read, the total of Vietnamese casualites during the war years varies widely. In an April 3, 1995 article in Agence France Presse, Vietnameses officals estimate North Vietnames military casualties to be around 1,700,000. Noam Chomsky's Reader from 1987 estimates Vietnames civilian casualties to be around 3,000,000. These figures probably cover from the early 60s through the end of the war in the mid 70s. The exact death toll of the Vietnam war will most probably never be know exactly.

[bluestateguy]

3. Throw away the key

He also made life a living hell for the four people whose identities he hijacked to post those threats. Those four people were probably subjected to quite a scare from the Secret Service.

Then deport this guy's ass when he serves his sentence.

[provis99]

4. sure, but make sure Bush et al are his cellmates in jail.

I can't believe a war criminal like Bush is allowed to get off scot-free for his crimes.

[Enthusiast]

15. True, nt

[emilyg]

6. +1

[Jefferson23]

5. Buddhi''s father says US trial ''miscarriage of justic

Sat, Dec 12 05:49 PM

Mumbai, Dec 12 (PTI) The father of IIT alumnus Vikram Buddhi, who was awarded a nearly five-year jail term by a US court for posting hate messages against former President George W Bush, today sharply reacted to the verdict saying the trial was unfair and a "total miscarriage of justice". B K Subbarao, a lawyer and former Navy Captain, also said the 38-year-old PhD student of Purdue University will appeal against the ruling.

"The sentence has come without a straight trial and without any valid indictment because essential facts were not stated in the charges," Subbarao told PTI, terming it a "total miscarriage of justice". "As the indictment was invalid, he should not have been sentenced.

Buddhi, who is defending himself in US court, will now file an appeal in the appellate court in Chicago." Buddhi was sentenced to four years and nine months in prison and an additional three years of supervised release by a US court for posting hate messages in 2006 against Bush and calling for bombings of American infrastructure.

Subbarao said the US criminal Procedure laws required essential facts of the offence to be stated in the charges which was not done in his son''s case. He said the first charge against Buddhi states "on or before December 30, 2005 Vikram Buddhi knowingly and wilfully threatened to kill George Bush in violation of section 871 of title 18 US code.

http://in.news.yahoo.com/20/20091212/1416/tnl-buddhi-s-father-says-us-trial-miscar.html

[cowcommander]

7. Internet, serious business

[proteus_lives]

8. I've read about this.

Happened only a few miles from me.

I know it's the Shrub but if someone did the something to Obama we'd be screaming for his head. What he did was serious and he belongs in jail and then to be sent back to India.

[moonbatmax]

9. Haven't we already had people doing this to Obama?

Haven't some of these teabagger types been calling for assassination and overthrow?
Haven't they been saying this at rallies? Shouting it from the podium?
Haven't we been hearing this talk, even from certain well-known radio and television personalities?

When do they get arrested?
When do they go to trial?
When do they go to prison?

And since when is some internet crackpot more dangerous
than these whack jobs bringing their guns to the President's
and congresspeople's public appearances?

[The Wizard]

10. Republicans are above the law

After they hijacked two national elections and started an illegal/immoral war all crimes committed by Republicans/bigots are ignored.

[BR_Parkway]

14. Well, considering this guy did it in 2005 and is just now coming to

the end of his trial - I can't say for certain that the teabaggers and such aren't being investigate/arrested until someone like the Secret Service does some sort of press release about it. I do know that I've only seen a few reports from them saying they'd investigated something and decided it wasn't a credible threat - and that was a small percentage of the the number of threats I've heard about so I'd assume that some things are still under investigation

[Posteritatis]

21. They *are* being arrested, *are* being tried, and in some cases *are* going to prison

Seriously, there's reports of arrests due to threats against the president every other day here if you follow LBN and GD:P enough. It's not a rare or nonexistent thing, even if none of the arrests so far are Beck or anyone else satisfyingly high-profile.

[rpannier]

11. You can't threaten the President of the US

What he did was illegal
It's irrelevant where he made the threat
It's also irrelevant to claim "What about Glen Beck, Teabaggers, etc." They should be thrown in jail if they threaten the life of the President

[fasttense]

12. Would you be supporting law and order if this guy had threatened a child molester?

If this guy had threatened to kill an unconvicted child rapist, or serial killer would we all be saying good, the law has won out? It's illegal to threaten someone even an unconvicted child rapist or murderer, and this guy got what he deserved.

This guy threatened a mass murderer and war criminal. True the mass murderer and war criminal was a president at the time but does that excuse everything?

[rasputin1952]

17. Apples and oranges...

You don't threaten the PotUS...at the same time, no one should take the law into their own hands. Once the individual is stopped from threatening a child, in your scenario, it is up to the law to decide what to do.

[rpannier]

18. Yes I would

We are supposed to be a nation of laws

Threatening to kill someone is a crime

[JonQ]

22. As a nation we take threats against the president pretty seriously

as we should. What f he'd threatened obama (someone who favors an escalation in afghanistan) on the grounds that he is likewise a war criminal? Would that have been ok?

[Mongooseflies]

13. Good, now go after all the Obama death threats

According to what I've read the past few months the secret service has a seen a huge uptick in RWNJ's making the same threats online.
If that's the case, I would expect they be prosecuted and serve similar time for the same crime.

[AlphaCentauri]

19. exactly n/t

[JonQ]

23. No doubt they are

this occured in 2005, they are only now getting around to sentencing. So if that's typical expect people making serious threats against the president now to be sentenced some time in 2013/14.

[rasputin1952]

16. Few people have disgusted me as much as bush did...

I despise the creature, but there are limits. Calling for the death of anyone is foul, calling for the raping of their wives/daughters is even more foul. Both are acts of extreme violence.

Anyone who calls for the death/assassination of a president needs to be dealt within a severe manner. 4+ years seems a little light, considering that others have received 20+ to life.

My point is, lines are drawn that should not be crossed, regardless of the "target". Having lived through the JFK assassination, and the attempts on other presidents, it is something that no one should have to go through again.

[JonQ]

24. Good

and isn't 38 a bit old to be A) making threats against politicians on the internet and B) a grad student?

[rayofreason]

25. Represented himself?...

...He has a fool for a client.