Santa Rosa teacher gave assignment: “A political science instructor at Santa Rosa Junior College is being investigated by the Secret Service for telling his students to compose an e- mail to an elected official that included the words ‘kill the president, kill the president,’ a school administrator said Wednesday.” San Francisco Chronicle The teacher could not be reached for comment, but an administrator at the school explained it had been intended as an “experiential exercise that would instill a sense of fear so they would have a better sense of why more people don’t participate in the political process,” an explanation that does not make much sense to me.

I wonder, if widely blinked to in weblogs, if this item might swamp the Carnivore system (if that’s the one that’s watching all our internet traffic for naughty buzzwords).

Related:

“White House officials discovered a stowaway on a chartered plane for reporters covering President Bush’s Africa trip, and the man was detained by Ugandan authorities.

The Secret Service was notified by a White House aide that the man, who was not identified, had joined the reporters on Friday and flew with them to a compound in Entebbe where the president had several events, said deputy Secret Service director Mark Sullivan.

The United Airlines Boeing 747 carried reporters, photographers, camera crews, White House staff and Secret Service agents. The man, who carried no weapons and had no passport or other identification, boarded in Pretoria, South Africa, and flew to Bush’s next stop, in Entebbe, where he was detained.

The man was shouting as he was led away. ” Salon