55. A. hit
B. chance
C. search D.gathering
A
California-- Upset by
the war in Iraq,
Julia Wilson expressed her anger and impatience with
President Bush last spring on her web page
on MySpaee. com. She posted a picture of the
president,
wrote "Kill Bush'across
the top and drew a sword stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her
page after learning in her eighth-grede history class that such threats are a federal
offense.
It was too late.
Federal authorities had found the page and placed Wilson on their checklist. They
finally reached her this week in her
biology class. The 14-year-old was taken out of class Wednesday and
questioned for about 15 minutes by two
Secret Service agents. The incident has upset her parents, who
said the agents should have included them
when questioning their daughter.
The teenager
said the agents' questioning led her to tears. "I wasn't dangerous,"
said Wilson, an
honor student who describes herself as
politically enthusiastic. "I'm a peace-loving person. I'm against
the war in Iraq. I'm not going to kill the
president."
Her mother, Kirstie Wilson, said two agents showed up at the family's
home Wednesday afternoon,
questioned her and promised to return once
her daughter was home from school.
After they left,
Kirstie Wilson sent a text message to her daughter's
cell phone, asking her to come
straight home and telling her that two men
from the secret service wanted to talk with her.
But moments
later, Kirsfie Wilson received a text message from
her daughter saying agents had
pulled her out of class.
Julia Wilson
said the agents threatened her, saying she could be sent to court for making
the threat.
"They yelled at me a lot," she
said. "They were unnecessarily mean."
Wilson and her
parents said the agents were justified in questioning her over her MySpace. eom
posting. But they said the agents went too
far by not waiting until she was out of school and the agents
should have more quickly figured out they
weren't dealing with a real danger.
Assistant
Principal Paul Robinon said the agents gave him the
impression the girl's mother knew
they were planning to question her daughter
at school. There is no legal requirement that parents be
notified.
"This has
been an on-going problem," said Ann Brick, a lawyer with the American
Civil Liberties
Union in San Francisco.
Former governors
Pete Wilson and Gray Davis vetoed (否决) bills that would have required that
parents give pemaission
or be present when their children are questioned at schoul
by law enforcement
officers,