Homeless man gets nearly 5 years for Bush threats

[a kennedy]

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - A mentally ill homeless man will serve 57 months in federal prison for threats he made against President Bush.

Timothy Wade Pinkston threatened in August to go to Washington and shoot Bush. At the time, the 48-year-old was committed to a hospital psychiatric unit.

Court records say he repeated the threat to Secret Service agents, saying he didn't like the president's foreign policy or his handling of the war in Iraq.

Pinkston told a federal judge in Tampa on Wednesday that he is HIV-positive and bipolar and has a substance abuse problem. He said he'd been taking drugs and drinking when he made the threat and didn't know what he was saying.

He was previously charged with threatening the president in 1991 and also sent threatening letters to the governor of Georgia.

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D91H87KG0&show_article=1

[Gabi Hayes]

1. that's totally inaccurate....I just saw the guy on CNN

[The Blue Flower]

2. Cure for homelessness

in *'s Amerika.

[IntravenousDemilo]

3. On the bright side, he's not homeless anymore...

...but does he really belong in prison? Should he not still be in a hospital instead?

Of course, maybe the court decided the best evidence that Mr Pinkston was sane was that he wanted to kill Bush. I mean, you'd have to be pretty crazy not to want him dead.

[liberal renegade]

4. 3 hots and a cot.....

[dysfunctional press]

5. and all the sex you want...

or even don't want...:scared: