GQuon's Journal: Another day, another death threat

(Filed under Caldera, since that and the Microsoft logo is the only ones we have for total dimwits.)

A Norwegian hyper-commercial, faux socialistic, rap group is collecting a bounty for killing Bush. I guess they must have an album out.

I guess they, just like The Guardian, will come out and say that they're sorry that people took offence. How about they're sorry that they were born and raised to be somebody who advocates murder to sell their lame rap records. I would tell them to shut up and sing, but they can't sing.

UPDATE 7: Removed address.

UPDATE: And here's their webpage, with MP3s that are soo cool and hip, that you'll want to stream them 24/7: We're moronic posers
Whois query for the rappers

UPDATE 2: removed
UPDATE 3: removed

UPDATE 4: The US embassy in Norway has lodged a formal complaint with the Norwegian police.

UPDATE 5 Oh, look: It's a trend: A livejournal post (...) resulted in a visit from the US Secret Service

UPDATE 6: Copyleft Software has put up a fax purportedly from the Norwegian police demanding that the webiste be closed, referencing relevant law authorizing the police to take action to prevent violations. I've now removed the addresses and phone numbers to the ISP, but if anybody is interested they can still look the information up in WHOIS.

The Embassy is not amused.

[Ashtead]

According to the newspaper VG [www.vg.no], the Oslo police has received a notice about this death threat from the US Embassy. There is a maximum of 12 years in jail for this according to the police spokesman, and since they have used this for financial gain, there might be a case for "corporate sanctions".

(I am a Norwegian but obviously not a lawyer...)

Re:The Embassy is not amused.

[GQuon]

Corporate sanctions are quite possible. Just this month, a Norwegian party/action group got a fine for telling its members to break the law.

But do you really think they'll be punished? At the very least I expect an outcry about "all the money that the police will waste on this case when there are so many more important cases". "Oh! The stifling of dissent!"
Jail time for the boobs? I wish! It was a lame joke after all. They're not REALLY collecting money to pay assassins.

Re:The Embassy is not amused.

[Ashtead]

It's hard to guess at what will happen. Just look at the signs at the airports where it is made clear that making jokes about security is an offense ... Threatening the President can similarly be seen as offensive and thoroughly unfunny. But my guess is that they will at most be given a fine for their [bad joke | threat | daft behavior].

And of course, they will have gained 15 minutes in the limelight. There is after all some people who consider any publicity good publicity.

heir reasoning for doing this

[ZorroXXX]

Their reasoning for doing this is the following:

If Bush/USA can put out a reward for killing other people, why should not other people be able to put out a reward for killing Bush?

It is some years since I studied formal logic, so I will not attempt to put up a full argument, but it would include a predicate like "It is acceptable that a person, group of persons or governments puts out a reward for killing another person."

This predicate is of course false and they are trying to pinpoint the logical f

hyper-commercial

[GQuon]

Calling them "hyper-commercial" is by all means wrong.

You're right. That part was HYPER-bole from me. :-)

I listened to a free MP3 from Madonna. Isn't she commercial?

My point is that they make money from this too, and this stunt was probably a PR stunt to sell more records and get people into concerts. And I'm giving them free PR. Oh, my.