[wordup] burning bush comment ...

[Adam Shand]

Via:http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200212/msg00043.html
From: http://www.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/12/06/burning.bush.ap/

'Burning Bush' comment draws prison term
Man plans to appeal

SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) --A man who made a remark about a 
"burning Bush" during the president's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was 
sentenced Friday to 37 months in prison.

Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon was convicted in September of 
threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans to appeal. 
He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right to free 
speech.

Humphreys said he got into a barroom discussion in nearby Watertown with 
a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation realized the 
president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police 
Humphreys talked about a "burning Bush" and the possibility of someone 
pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.

"I said God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," Humphreys 
testified during his trial. "I had said that before and I thought it was 
funny."