- SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota
(AP) --A man who made a remark about a "burning Bush" during
the president's March 2001 trip to Sioux Falls was sentenced Friday to
37 months in prison.
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- Richard Humphreys of Portland, Oregon was convicted in
September of threatening to kill or harm the president and said he plans
to appeal. He has said the comment was a prophecy protected under his right
to free speech.
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- Humphreys said he got into a bar-room discussion in nearby
Watertown with a truck driver. A bartender who overheard the conversation
realized the president was to visit Sioux Falls the next day and told police
Humphreys talked about a "burning Bush" and the possibility of
someone pouring a flammable liquid on Bush and lighting it.
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- "I said God might speak to the world through a burning
Bush," Humphreys testified during his trial. "I had said that
before and I thought it was funny."
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