[DollHead]

"Yesterday, seventh grader Vito LaPinta was called to the principal’s office by US Secret Service and was questioned, unbeknownst to his mother, over one of the boy’s recent Facebook statuses that Vito said he was told “indicated a threat to the President.”

“I was saying how Osama is dead and for Obama to be careful because there might be suicide bombers,” Vito said.

Tacoma, WA schools said a security guard called Vito’s mom because the principal was on the other line, and that they didn’t wait for her to arrive because they felt that she didn’t take the phone call seriously.

Vito’s mother disagrees.

She said she rushed to Truman Middle School immediately, and arrived to discover her boy had already been questioned for half an hour.

“I just about lost it. My son, my 13-year-old son, who is a minor, who is supposed to be safe and secure in his classroom at school is being interrogated, without my knowledge or consent, privately, by the Secret Service,” Robertson said.

Once mom was on the scene, the agent finished the interview and told Vito he wasn’t in any trouble.

This incident also happend on the same day a New Hampshire middle school suspended a 13-yr-old girl for five days after posting she wished Osama bin Laden killed her math teacher."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/05/17...ebook-posting/

[xXRockerGuyXx]

Guess there's not much else for the SS to do but go on facebook and look at what a 13 year old posted on his facebook.

[curious observer]

Secret Service or Schutzstaffel?

[**butterflylove**]

Vito? Who calls their kid that? The SS should have investigated the mother instead for that name

[sassieroses]

Wow. That is beyond paranoia.

[candymosh]

"Tacoma, WA schools said a security guard called Vito’s mom because the principal was on the other line, and that they didn’t wait for her to arrive because they felt that she didn’t take the phone call seriously."

So did they call her and let her know or what? Maybe they didn't wait for her to get there to begin talking to him but it kind of seems like she knew that they had intent to question him.

[juliemd]

what has the world become? can't even make comments for fear of the secret service coming to eat you alive. pfft

[Chaoshiw]

Look people i know! The SS does not sit online checking face book their is a program that detects certain words after they are found the SS or FBI then investigate further.

[renfairegeek]

Kids just aren't being talked to about political issues - and what it means to be an American. Too many parents are blatantly stupid and racist... who shouldn't be talking about certain things with their kids around.