I wonder just what is considered a THREAT to the Secret Service of safety to the President.
Reason I wonder is that the Old Timers use to tell me to never declare myself for voting purposes as a Dem. or Rep, allways declare being an Independent. These were the people that had grown up in a world gone mad. The 20's - 30's times.
Scenario,----------There is a knock on the door and two men in black suits identify themselves as the Secret Service and want to speak to me about a threat I publicly made to dispose of the President.
When I deny making threats one of them whips out my voter info and tells me if I indeed registered as a Republican. When I "admit' to this they tell me that to try to kick the President out of office was in fact under their new guidelines a Threat to the President. They then whip out a few canceled checks of less the $10.00 each written to the Rep. Party. Now the charges were more serious, I was helping to finance a terrorist group that wanted to cause harm and harassment to the President.
So OK the older generation was PARANOID especially in the 50's when the American Activity's was dragging in people for investigation of any off comment to a friend or neighbor. These people were the most patriottic , most had fought for their country and had seen war at it's worse. It became odd that in the 70's the old folk when census time came around began to mark [ Other ]on the question of race, -----something I do today,---- what--I have no idea what is in my DNA-----I am a mongrel.
Don't laugh here those that remember the MC Carthey hearings found that ones life could be destroyed if they registered as a party member that some obscure at the time member Senator wanted to outlaw.
So most of the old timers are now gone to their reward, but they left us with eye wittiness reports of history in their time and it as any inheritance is passed on to future generations. Never allow the insane to run the Asylum.