Irving Miqui's mother and principal insist the 14-year-old was only kidding when, he told the reporter at Bayard Rustin Educational Complex in Chelsea that he wanted to shoot the president to become "a national hero."
But the "joke" was no laughing matter to the Secret Service, which paid the teenager a visit at his Washington Heights home two weeks ago to grill him about the remark, published in a student magazine last month.
"I was like, 'Oh, my God!' " said Irving's mom, Ingrid Miqui, of the arrival of a federal agent at her door. "I didn't think much of [her son's statement] because it was just gibberish. We're talking about a child who doesn't know what he's doing."
The comment appeared in the 29-page publication under a section titled, "How long does it take to really live?" in which five students answered questions of how they would spend their last 24 hours alive.
In addition to saying he would like to spend time with his mother and brother, the item quotes Irving as saying, "But before all of that, I would like to shoot George W. Bush, because in my opinion he is the worst president ever. After that was accomplished, I would be known as a national hero.". Does anyone not think that Bush is a political terrorist?
The U.S secret service had little on at the time one supposes. Anyway a total bunc h of tossers are they
Bayard Principal John Angelet said in an interview that the statement inadvertently slipped past three levels of faculty screening - including himself - and that he has since ordered a review of the vetting process for student publications.
He added that he was shocked last month when a teacher alerted him to the remark, as well as another statement in which a Spanish teacher was quoted as endorsing underage drinking as being "OK."
"I said, 'Oh, my God,' and wondered how it happened," he said, adding, "I know how it happened - I didn't read it carefully. I should not have done any skimming."
Angelet said it never occurred to him to notify the Secret Service because he was satisfied, after a staff member interviewed Irving, that the boy was not a danger to the president or anyone else. The principal confirmed that the Secret Service questioned the boy, but could not say how the agency learned of the remark. He said Irving would not be disciplined.
Michael Seremetis, spokesman for the New York City office of the Secret Service, would neither confirm nor deny that Irving was questioned, but said the agency would always respond to such a threat.What a bunch of wankers are our colonial cousins
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