[MudGrrl]

The Impaler

The 2008 presidential bid just got a little more challenging for the race’s only satanic vampire candidate.

Jonathon “The Impaler” Sharkey, a 42-year-old New Jersey man who is running under the Vampire, Witches and Pagan Party, is currently being investigated by the Secret Service for potential threats toward President George W. Bush.

According to Sharkey, Secret Service agents visited him and his 19-year-old wife, Spree, in Ohio on Feb. 15. The visit concerned Sharkey’s repeated remarks about impaling Bush, an act Sharkey said he would only do if he were elected president.

“They never even asked to see my impaling stick,” Sharkey said.

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They were telling me, when they were interrogating me, that their job was to protect Bush even after he’s out of office,” Sharkey said. “I’m looking at them like, ‘Oh, you’re going to defy me when I become president?’”

 

[MudGrrl]

I just ran across this....

seemed appropriate to put this in here.

Cardboard GW ..... art or threat?

But it’s one piece of art — which was part of an ongoing 12 year exhibit in McDonald’s front yard — that recently brought him unwanted attention.

Last Thursday, McDonald, 55, returned to his home to find a business card from a U.S. Secret Service agent, the writing on the back said: “Please call me.”

McDonald did and set up an appointment for the next day. McDonald also invited his lawyer.

Three people, called “fellow citizens” by one of the two agents who showed up at McDonald’s home last Friday afternoon, had called the U.S. Secret Service and said McDonald was a threat to the president because of a life-size cardboard cut-out of President George W. Bush with a kitchen knife in his forehead was displayed in his front yard.
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McDonald called the piece a political statement Tuesday in an interview at his home, not unlike the more than 500 other pieces he’s placed outside his home.

“The president creates his own misery,” McDonald said. A six-year Navy veteran, who was stationed at Naval Air Station Alameda, McDonald staunchly opposes the Bush administration’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and he feels it’s his patriotic duty to engage other citizens about these issues.

He doesn’t want people to get upset by his art, he said, he wants to “engage them in thinking.” And it just so happens that McDonald thinks the Bush administration is one of the all-time worst.

“They deserve all the attention I give them,” he said about his routine e-mails to President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.

Last year, McDonald, who served in the Navy from 1973-1979, was investigated by the Secret Service a first time for sending an e-mail to Bush telling him if he came to Alameda he would personally kick him in the backside.

Apparently that crossed a line with the Secret Service, and his recent artwork, which has been covered up with a yellow cardboard silhouette of Bush adorned with a yellow swastika, did as well.

 

[Changleen]

Secret service sure must be busy these days.