My kids knew from the time they were 6 or so, that if the police asked them anything, ever, they were to ask for their parents or an attorney. I showed them examples of times when the police acted inappropriately, and explained to them what their rights were.
That and good/bad touches.
Incredible!! Some dumbass kid posts something on Facebook that sets off security alarms. Then the Secret Service foolishly assumes that someone posting on Facebook may not be who he says he is (that never happens). They go to check it out. Turns out its’s a dumbass kid. For some strange reason they want to be sure he was the one actually posting on Facebook (because nobody ever posted anything on someone else’s facebook page). So they go to his school, talk to the school authorities, and the kid is brought down to the office so the Secret Service can check this out (those slackards should be busy taking bullets for the president). Then the kid’s mom is informed about this, and she goes bat shit because she thought her son was safe and sound in school (where no harm ever comes to children) and instead finds out he is in the evil clutches of the Secret Service (where no one is ever safe).
I’m outraged. We should shut down all the schools, and get rid of the Secret Service (why is it secret? They must be up to no good). And just because you hear something that could be a terrorist threat, you should assume it’s the harmless words of a child, and just ignore it. If we had intelligent people in charge, this wouldn’t happen. Like George Bush. What if he had started acting irrationally like the Secret Service and checked out every threat by terrorists to use airplanes as weapons to attack the US. Imagine the number of dumbass 13 year olds and their palinish mothers who would be slightly inconvenienced by that.
Without only the available evidence, I don’t believe the kid’s characterization of what he wrote. Mainly because I don’t believe the Secret Service would waste its time over something that in clearly not a threat.
I could be wrong, and to a point I blame the SS for not releasing the specific text in question. It’s possible they didn’t do so because it was innocuous and the would look like idiots, but it’s far more likely they were following a policy about not commenting on ongoing investigations. Unfortunately that means the kid is free to claim whatever he wants.
Perhaps this SS will decide the investigation is closed, release the quote in question, and get a little payback from the kid. There’s nothing I like more than a huge Federal security apparatus crushing a small child. 
Really? I told my daughter about the ‘good bad touches’ thing, but not in those words, but it never occurred to me to tell her to not talk to the police. Given that she has had to talk to the police, about attacks on her, it’d probably go across a bit wrongly if she said ‘my Mum said I’m not allowed to talk to you.’
And its Service is terrorizing young children. THAT makes them worth every tax penny spent on them!
