Saturday, May 05, 2007

Pot makes would-be assassins stupid. Allegedly.


This is your political assassin.

This is your political assassin on drugs.

Doesn't he take a pathetic mug shot?


(Standard legal disclaimer: Louisiana State student Richard Ryan Wargo is presumed innocent until proven guilty, and nothing written here is to suggest that he is, in fact, absolutely, positively guilty and will spend a long, long time in jail because heads are screw-ups. Allegedly. After all, it all COULD have been a really sick joke -- particularly after Virgina Tech -- gone horribly, horribly wrong because alleged potheads allegedly lack the brain cells that once controlled good judgment. Some say.)

The details are in The (Baton Rouge) Advocate today:

An LSU student accused of threatening to kill U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., first approached a classmate about the plot April 20, LSU Police said Friday.

The classmate, after being approached a second time and then learning Clinton was due to arrive in Baton Rouge today for the National Conference of Black Mayors, alerted police of the threat, LSU Police Chief Ricky Adams said.

That information led to the arrest of Richard Ryan Wargo, 19, 10301 Evangeline, Shreveport. He was booked into East Baton Rouge Parish Prison Thursday night on counts of terrorizing, communicating false information of planned arson, simple possession of marijuana and possession of drug paraphernalia. State District Judge Mike Erwin set a $1 million bond Thursday.

Phone messages left by The Advocate at the Wargo’s family home in Shreveport and at Clinton’s Senate office in Washington, D.C., were not immediately returned.

Although Clinton, a declared presidential candidate, is scheduled to speak today at the mayors’ conference, the arrest warrant for Wargo issued Thursday by LSU Police does not mention the conference nor does it give a specific day or time when the alleged threat might be carried out.

Adams said Friday his office learned of the alleged threat at 6 p.m. Thursday when the student came in to report it to Officer Patrick Arden McCarty. Adams said the student told McCarty that Wargo first mentioned the alleged attack April 20. Wargo approached the classmate a second time three days later, the warrant says.

“He put one and one together after he saw (Clinton) was coming to town. That compelled him to come forward,” Adams said.

(snip)

The warrant says a classmate of Wargo’s told an LSU Police officer the two students were talking when Wargo made the alleged threat.

Wargo told the other student that he was interested in committing an act of terrorism, and that it would be a “national event,” the warrant says. Wargo asked if the other student was interested in participating, the warrant says.

When the classmate asked Wargo if the act of terrorism was politically motivated, Wargo nodded, and said, “Hillary Clinton,” the warrant said.

According to the warrant, the other student said he assumed Wargo was talking about Clinton’s headquarters and told Wargo, “You know that that’s only going to make her more popular.”

Wargo replied: “True, but have you ever heard of a dead president?” the warrant says.

According to the warrant, Wargo indicated that he would commit the act when Clinton, D-N.Y., was in Baton Rouge to campaign for the upcoming presidential election.

Under Louisiana law, a terrorizing conviction carries a sentence of up to 15 years in prison and a fine up to $15,000 while communicating false information of a planned arson carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.

According to a profile of Wargo on his Facebook page, he is member of Stop Hillary Clinton: One Million Strong Against Hillary. According to a Stop Hillary Clinton online page, also on Facebook, the group has 244,782 members.

Facebook is an online social network that links people with common interests.

LSU Chancellor Sean O’Keefe issued a statement after Wargo’s arrest.

“LSU is saddened to learn that one of our students has been arrested in connection with this case. But, the heightened security and awareness procedures we have implemented at LSU have contributed to averting a tragedy,” O’Keefe said.

Adams said the security and awareness procedures were implemented after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Those procedures were re-emphasized at LSU following the recent attacks by a gunman at Virginia Tech.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

whoever wrote this sucks in a real big way. i mean seriously... gay. you're a moron dude, even without the drugs.

The Mighty Favog said...

A well reasoned response by "anonymous." It's articulate and lays out facts and contradictory evidence for an immaculately crafted rebuttal of the original post.

P.S.: Anybody notice that the Qwest Dex white pages are really, really funny stuff this year? Dude, I was ROFLMAO all night.

Hand over the Doritos, will ya', man.

And don't forget, pass the kouchie from the left-hand side.

-- Ashley Roachclip,
High Times

Anonymous said...

ok mighty favog - i dont know who you are but you obviously do not know wargo personally. i do. by no means is he pathetic and he sure as hell has more brain cells than you do, even if he does smoke pot- he is one of the smartest people i know actually. so i think you should stop your judgmental comments that you are posting based on information that you got from the advocate. i hate to tell you - but the media is not always right, actually they seldom seem to be. they portray wargo as some psychotic kid on drugs which is the exact opposite. so stop making accusations. obviously he isn't some loner like the Virginia Tech kid, his friends are standing up for him all over the place - even people who don't know him very well at all. so shutup with all your little comments.
- a personal friend of wargo's

Anonymous said...

wow, you have no idea what your talking about.. you dont even know ryan so why dont you stick to writing what you so know about

The Mighty Favog said...

Oh, little prole who can't even post a pseudonym!

For someone who is against judgmentalism, you certainly are being judgmental. Not knowing me -- or my IQ . . . or my college GPA . . . or anything -- you have deemed me judgmental, and less intelligent than someone who is stupid enough to be IN POSSESSION of ganja AND whatever "drug paraphernalia" he got from the head shop.

Even Forrest Gump knew enough to listen to his mama when she said "Stupid is as stupid does."

Child, don't EVEN get me started on the amount of intelligence it takes to just JOKE (if indeed Mr. Wargo was joking) about killing Hillary Clinton a-tall, much less mere weeks after Virginia Tech.

Finally, this is MY BLOG and the only reason I even ALLOWED your semiliterate response telling me to "shutup with all your little comments" was so I could have the immense pleasure of BLISTERING YOUR ASS.

And it was fun, I admit.

Oh, while I'm thinking of it: Locate the shift key. Learn to punctuate.

And here I was, thinking standards had been raised in the decades since my tenure at the Ol' War Skule. I think, perhaps, I prefer the old paradigm of "Let 'em all in, then it's 'Root, hog, or die' time, boys."

The Mighty Favog said...

Dear Anonymous the Third,

If "your" in college, and if "your" passing, I'm moving, because the educational system has imploded and we're all doomed.

OH, WAIT. I did move out of Louisiana . . . 19 years ago.

You represent so well for my benighted home state.