I don’t think you can lay n pray the secret service.

I’d just like to say that I predicted Volkman would get a secret service visit in the original thread regarding his comments. You just can’t go around saying stuff like this about the POTUS.

Is it illegal for him to say he’d like to fight Obama?

-Sir did you say this?
-Yes. If Obama would agree to it, I would like to fight him.
-ILLEGAL (think PineappleExpress)

there is absolutely no way this story is true. like the secret service would really pay multiple visits to a chiropractors house and wresting camp because he expressed disinterest in obamas plan and said he wouldnt mind fighting him in the ring. complete bullshit, if anything, it was prob a couple of his buddies had people wear suits and ear peices and pretend to be ss to mess with him

amen, no one ever listens!! Especially on MMA websites

I didn’t see it so I am curious. Plus as a “socialist” Canadian, I can’t imagine how free healthcare is bad. Especially with the horrible HMO and insurance situation in the uS.

oh wait, you were serious about dat?

And he made ZERO good points. All he said was that Obama is an idiot and that insurance companies can decline payment to Chiropractors.

Clearly he’s looking at things through his own lense and not the overall outlook. The plan does not say that insurance companies can choose not to pay, it says that it will try to control the costs charged by the monopoly of the insurance companies.

Now, even this concept is something I don’t agree with. Canadians have their HC taken care of for free. Chiropractors used to be part of the coverage in certain provinces until it was discovered that most Chiros were overcharging ridiculous amounts to the government healthcare agency.

So in 2005, in Ontario, they were cut off for abusing the system. They are still covered by most providers, but the days of robbing taxpayers were over. I think Volkmann is just unhappy he won’t get to charge whatever he wants.

Is public healthcare perfect? No, but I wouldn’t give it away for anything.

So you are in the clear.

He said he wanted to fight him, there is a difference between that and saying his policies suck

Getting a visit from the SS after threatening the president has been standard practice for a long time.

Dictatorship lol

He wants his insanity back.

AN ASSAULT IS: The intentional creation of apprehension of immediate harm to another. It is not a threat of some future incident, but a threat of immediate harm. Any non-lethal violence that does not involve substantial risk of death will be an assault. You don’t have to actually touch someone, only make them think that was your intention. The degree of assault varies upon instrumentality, numbers, or difference in ability to inflict harm to someone else. For instance, shot at with a gun, the swing of a bat, or some other attempted serious act to harm.

By that definition the president was NOT threatened with assault, but with perceived threats, even future threats to the president are not treated lightly and all threats and perceived threats, imminent or future, require investigation by the secret service, especially when made by someone who theoretically could use his skill-set as a deadly or lethal weapon.

What is even more interesting is this:

TERRORIST THREATS: Any person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to another person, with the specific intent that the statement made verbally, in writing, or by means of an electronic communication device, is to be taken as a threat, even if there is no intent of actually carrying it out, which, on its face and under the circumstances in which it is made, is so unequivocal, unconditional, immediate, and specific as to convey to the person threatened a gravity of purpose and an immediate prospect of execution of the threat, and thereby causes that person reasonably to be in sustained fear for his or her own safety or for his or her immediate family’s safety, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not to exceed one year, or by imprisonment n the state prison. For the purpose of this section, "immediate family" means any spouse, whether by marriage or not, parent, child, any person related by consanguinity or affinity within the second degree, or any other person who regularly resides in the household, or who, within the prior six months, regularly resided in the household. "Electronic communication device" includes, but is not limited to, telephones, cellular telephones, computers, video recorders, fax machines, cameras, broadcasts (whether radio or televsion or internet) or texts or pagers. Terms as defined in subsection 12 of Section 2510 of Title 18 of the United States Code.

With all this in mind, although, we the “common folk” use our common sense to say that it was no big deal, the Secret Service would be remiss if they did not adhere to the codes and laws we have in place to insure the protection of the President. If you don’t like the law, lobby to change it or shut up.

Just look at all the fighters/wrestlers with legal issues and medical issues, like Chris Benoit the wrestler…they have to treat every individual as possibly an unstable threat, no matter how unlikely it may be.