Secret Service Interrogates 7th Grader For Facebook Post

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A Tacoma seventh grader faced federal interrogation at school for what he posted on his Facebook page. His mom said it all happened without her knowledge or permission.

Timi Robertson said she had just finished lunch with a friend Friday when she got a phone call from her son's school. Topics U.S. Secret Service Mass Media Facebook See more topics »

"I answered it, and it's the school security guard who's giving me a heads up that the Secret Service is here with the Tacoma Police Department and they have Vito and they're talking to him," Robertson said.

After Osama bin Laden was killed, 13-year-old Vito LaPinta posted an update to his Facebook status that got the Feds attention.

"I was saying how Osama was dead and for Obama to be careful because there could be suicide bombers," says LaPinta.

A week later, while Vito was in his fourth period class, he was called in to the principal's office.

"A man walked in with a suit and glasses and he said he was part of the Secret Service," LaPinta said. "He told me it was because of a post I made that indicated I was a threat toward the President."

The Tacoma school district acknowledged a Secret Service agent questioned Vito and that it was a security guard who called Vito's mom because the principal was on another call. The school district said they didn't wait for Vito's mother to get there because they thought she didn't take the phone call seriously.

"That's a blatant lie," Robertson said.

The teen's mom says she rushed to Truman Middle School immediately and arrived to discover her son had already been questioned for half an hour.

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[bfrombigd]

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin



[shigatsuningen]

It's sick that common language instigates such "police state" measures.

Don't they have better things to do than to chase 7th graders?

He's probably dangerous to them since he is one of the students apparently able to communicate in English in spite of the failing education system on a global level.

[wagglewax]

why the fuck do they care about such posts, i mean on that day there were thousands of posts like this one

[111RobinHood]

Well what do you expect when your fascist goverment has destroyed your constitution and has passed the the NDAA! You have no rights so stop questioning the CIA's conduct and the government when they don't give a damn about you. This is now class warfare between the elite and the ordinary people. The injustices and crimes that have been done in third world countries by America is now being done to you. War on terrorism means war against you the people and loss of rights. So wake the fuck up!

[ZemanG2]

Hey if we would have been paying attention instead of freaking out we old have noticed that the patriot bill and many others have taken our rights away. Anyone can be detained or question, age doesn't matter.

[BRBgottaskate]

the fuck is with his hair?

[paizmalachi20]

hey thats my cuzin

[TigerClanRP]

@Loopsk most things that provide messaging and status updates have filter that look for certain things and alert the company as to what was said then its just a matter of if they think its serious enough to actually do something for example steam monitors for the words torrent torrenting and torrented

[wefilmadrian101]

I'm a twelve year old seventh grader

[Loopsk12]

How the fuck did the secret service find the post out of billions, i think maybe they monitoring the internet like china...

[EGru1]

Hmm this is interesting , seems more paranoid behaviour displayed by the US and their over zealous Zealots exerting their power, now trying to legislate what one can and cannot say. Always thought freedom of speech was a right. Seems this is disappearing..