Facebook poll: 'Should Obama Be Killed?' Pulled. Secret Sevice investigate
By John Amato Tuesday Sep 29, 2009 11:00am
A poll that appeared on Facebook which asked if President Obama should be murdered was pulled and now the U.S. Secret Service is investigating.
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating an online survey that asked whether people thought President Barack Obama should be assassinated, officials said Monday.
The poll, posted Saturday on Facebook, was taken off the popular social networking site quickly after company officials were alerted to its existence. But, like any threat against the president, Secret Service agents are taking no chances.
"We are aware of it and we will take the appropriate investigative steps," said Darrin Blackford, a Secret Service spokesman. "We take of these things seriously."
The poll asked respondents "Should Obama be killed?" The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.
The question was not created by Facebook, but by an independent person using an add-on application that has been suspended from the site.
President Obama will never allow himself to comment on this hatred, but this is serious stuff. If a poll like this was discovered when Bush was in office, it would be FOX News' number one story for weeks and weeks and would probably end up on Meet the Press in a roundtable discussion that would go something like: Should President Bush be worried? And are left-wingers fomenting this hate? I think the Secret Service has its hands full, that's for sure.
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...to sigh at the pure stupidity of these righty morans[sic], please?
I know the person that put it up has been suspended from the site (RIGHT!!)
I wonder if we'll ever hear what happens next?
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Had something like that been said about bush, we would be up to red on the terror alert scale.
...that says more about them than it does about us, the pack of bedwetters that they are.
All the same, threats against the prez should always be taken seriously.
Check out these two sites. One was copyrighted in 2004, the other has posts going back to Jan 06
http://www.43things.com/things/entries/17713?...
http://www.43things.com/things/people/2959
ETA That is actually against the law. Here is a video that explains it.(funny)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEQOvyGbBtY
acceptable because some nits said it about Bush?
What's your point, really?
"Had something like that been said about bush, we would be up to red on the terror alert scale."
"Had this happened in the years between 2001-2008, this story would be on the "news" 24/7."
"any of this shit the repugnuts are doing to Obama,if they did this shit to dip-shit george, they would have had a black plastic bag put over there head and shiped of to BFE."
"You would have been labled an enemy combatant and flown off to one of bush/chenny torture sites for some recreational torture.
republicanism is a mental illness! Commit one if you can."
Just amuses me to think that all these people think it didn't happen under bush. It did an they weren't punished. Look at this link. If I made up a bumper sticker that said "support Obama" with a picture of a noose next to it, what do you think would happen? Or most of the signs on there for that matter? Where was all the disgust and uproar back then?
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
And no its not acceptable because they did it to him, it's acceptable because of the 1st amendment, this poll did not threaten him, it just asked how many people thought he should be assassinated. If the poll would of been how many people are willing to join me in a attempt to assassinate him that would be different.
Just wow. So, if someone puts a poll on Facebook asking if you should be assassinated, then that's fine? So all the advocacy of killing Bush in the posters (some of which look shopped) is just fine with you because people are just practicing free speech? You are really saying it's all fine because it's protected speech?
I would have no problem with the poll if I was the one named. And I don't approve of the signs or the poll but I'm fine with them doing it. Yes that is what I'm saying, most of the signs were not overtly threatening although the one "I'm here to kill Bush" is, the rest well...
Are you actually comparing signs that say "kill bush bomb his f'en house" "death to bush" posters showing him decapitated, or his face with a bullet hole in his forehead along with the one above, are the equivalent of "do you want to assassinate Obama"? One is asking peoples opinions, the other could easily be construed as a actual call to arms to assassinate the POTUS.
But again where was the outrage about these? The coast to coast news coverage?
so it finally begins.
Did you just get here from Mars?
open talk of assassination of the sitting President has been this apparent until now. So no, I didn't just get here, but thank you for your kind interest.
Had this happened in the years between 2001-2008, this story would be on the "news" 24/7.
every democrat and progressive that could get a microphone shoved into his or her face would be decrying the treasonous behavior
http://www.zombietime.com/zomblog/?p=621
Fox News would have been foaming at the mouth.
"My dog did it."
Yes folks, people actually set up facebook for their pets. And you wonder why this place is so FUBAR.
Oh come now! Catbook/Dogbook/Petbook (whatever they call it) is cute. I'd rather people spend more time loving and goofing on their pets than watching FoxNews, for example. Fur therapy can save the world.
"If a poll like this was discovered when Bush was in office, it would be FOX News' number one story for weeks and weeks and would probably end up on Meet the Press in a roundtable discussion that would go something like: Should President Bush be worried? And are left-wingers fomenting this hate?"
I do not think thats true, not for one stupid facebook poll. There was after all that movie made about the assassination of george w. Bill maher had said something to the effect that he wished dick cheney dead. Not to say this poll is insignificant. The right has a big media problem because the fringe is taking up a larger share in the media. Either because they are screaming to spread their message, or because their numbers are growing, or maybe because its advantageous for the left to find them and point them out. One off death threats of george bush were largely brushed off. But the threats against Obama are not the same, they are mounting, and they are not rebuked by the moderates that these extremists claim are on their side with them.
because movies are JUST LIKE real life. Also the movie wasn't about the President being assassinated but about the aftermath and the search for the killer. It in NO WAY promoted the assassination of Bush and in fact was quite the contrary!!! There is NO comparison!
but its not like bush never got a death threat.
I wonder if the Republicans are full of shame. If i was a Republican i would be - and i'd quit the party.
Which is why you're not a modern Republican.
are the whack jobs
What about the First Amendment...the rights of the crazy person that posted this item are being infringed!!! What about his right to freeeee speech!!!
Ok...snark off.
The users and Facebook people would be facing GITMO (or worse)
Ya, the bushies are despicable criminals.
And I'm cynically amused at the folks who try to paint this as a first amendment issue. Out at Twitter, it's all teabaggers.
their train of thought starts to be strained at 144 characters
Total Information Awareness, we would be investigating ALL Facebook users, because you never know what connections might exist between one subscriber and another.
Once the Secret Service Agents get through bending this moron over he won't think his stunt was so funny.
Will that be on Youtube? Perhaps he will Twitter the experience.
his boorish behavior made him a hero, I think the same thing could happen here
I think with the current mood and atmosphere by some on the right this person felt emboldened to put something like this up. That's the scary part.
I cling to the hope that the wingnuts won't actually do it if only out of fear that it'd marginalize their party permanently.
1. they don't believe that, they think they are America.
2. they aren't thinking that far ahead anyway, but, if they did...
3. "when there's blood in the streets, there's money to be made", they think they can profit from chaos.
Anyone who would actually do something that unthinkable, would probably not be thinking party at all but instead see themself as some sort of hero who saved the country or something.
Most wouldn't act on it, but it only takes one deranged individual to make the attempt. And it seems quite likely that unstable individuals who are taking in all this talk of killing and Obama's "illegitimacy" could be motivated to act.
I'm sane (I think ;-)), but I remember how upset I was when Bush was lying us into war. I can imagine how a person whose grasp on reality is more tenuous would not only get angry but also decide to act.
n/c
A member of Congress, Rep. Trent of AZ gave a speech in which he called the president a murderer and "an enemy of humanity" as well as attacking the legitimacy of his presidency.
If a member of Congress can do that with impunity, why should this surprise us?
I was 13 when President Kennedy was assassinated. I remember being shocked at people who were thrilled that he had been murdered. THRILLED.
We better wake up.
Speaker Pelosi needs to sanction, or bring charges, against any member of Congress who commits sedition and threatens the president.
No member of Congress should expect to be able to say that in public and then go back to Congress with no consequences.
Silence is complicity.
I remember when it was announced that President Kennedy had been killed, some kid in the hall of the school that I went to at the time yelled, "The n----- lover is finally dead!" At the time I just couldn't believe what my little ears were hearing.
"Should the idiot who posted the Obama assassination poll receive the death penalty?"
a) Yes
b) Only after a speedy trial
c) Maybe
d) Of course not, Sarah Palin is a Patriot
Awesome
I can't wait for the next right wing whharrgarbl meme: "Obama is costing taxpayers millions in Secret Service costs! Why should this president be given far more protection than any previous president? Does he think he's better than those that came before him? If this makes you as angry as it makes me, you know where to send your death threats!"
It would not surprise me at all if the wingnuts complained about a situation that they themselves are creating.
It's their way of proving boosh was threatened sooo much, by doing the same and worse to President Obama, whether it actually happened to boosh or not.
And if we try to call them on it, they'll get into a snit and say, "Freedom of Speech!" whilst ignoring Clear and Present Danger Doctrine.
Did David Addington have a Facebook account?
This is probably a scared, bedwetting, Reslug, hiding with a thousand guns and ammunition in his basement.
I think that we forget how historic the election of Obama was/is. There are too many narrow-minded racists out there who just won't accept a non-white Prez. I'm so incredibly proud of our nation that we DID vote a good man in office and it just breaks my heart that people can't let go of their fear, anger & hate and support our nation's leader (as well as be proud of the history we've made). They are a total disgrace (understatement, I know!).
If we can post such threats online, the terrarist can post such threats online!
Because we're dumber the cow flop on hot tarry Texas highway in August.
So if you get rid of database sweeps you're helping the terrarists win!!!
well if you are on facebook, YOU do. facebook has ties to the repugs. like people have said, any of this shit the repugnuts are doing to Obama,if they did this shit to dip-shit george, they would have had a black plastic bag put over there head and shiped of to BFE.
You would have been labled an enemy combatant and flown off to one of bush/chenny torture sites for some recreational torture.
republicanism is a mental illness! Commit one if you can.
My favorite talk show host, John Rothmann, did an hour on this topic last night. He is on KGO radio, San Francisco.
If you want to listen, click here:
http://bayradio.kgoradio.com/kgo_archives/m3u...
Link is good for one week. Program starts about 7 - 8 minutes in.
Richard Humphreys spent three years in prison after a kangaroo court falsely convicted him of "threatening to kill" George Bu**sh**. Humphreys allaged "threat" was to say "god might speak to the world through a burning Bush".
That was the sole alleged "threat" that Bu**sh** ever received throughout eight years of war crimes, violations of human rights, and the US constitution. Who the hell are the reichwing to get uppity about investigating an advocation of murder? Or is it because they see Barack Obama as "uppity" for "not knowing his place"?
Payback for liberal hatred? I don't think so.
Since we were unwilling to join the International Criminal Court, we passed our own war crimes legislation. You know, war crimes. Things like making up a reason to preemptively invade a country and killing thousands of our own soldiers and hundreds of thousands of the natives in collateral fire, disease and displacement in the process. Like Hitler did to Poland. Those sorts of things.
Since this is an execution state, our penalties for war crimes include execution. So saying the Bush White House should be tried, and could be executed, for war crimes isn't radical. It's the law of our country -- not to mention the treaties we have agreed to which have the force of law under our constitution.
Some dipstick who posts "should the president be killed" is a fascist, knuckle-dragging moron with no respect for law and humanity. If you can't see the difference, do you think you might be a fascist, knuckle-dragging moron?
I saw on CNN that the Secret Service found who made the poll, via talking with the person who coded the application used to create it.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2009/09/2...
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