The US Secret Service is investigating reports that high school students in western Georgia posted threatening entries against President-Elect Barack Obama.
The Facebook group is called Not My President. Some of its nearly 400 members attend Columbus High School.
A number of them allegedly made racist and possibly threatening comments against Obama.
Valarie Fuller of The Muscogee County School District:
"There's one thing to have freedom of speech. But there's a whole other thing when you start making threats against president elect – or against anybody. And I think that has to be taken seriously, and under no circumstance will that be tolerated in the school district per se, as far as making threats on anybody here. But like I said, when you have the Secret Service investigating – that's a pretty serious matter."Fuller says that the school district and the police also investigate such reports.
The principal of Columbus High School refused to comment on the report or the ongoing investigation.
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