Posted on 03/09/2009 10:16:59 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
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As you all know, Skyewriter recently wrote about the dangerous incitement to violence and direct threats at Free Republic. I also posted and directed you to Skywriter’s blog. Skyewriter and I were deluged with gun bloggers and other right wingnuts (and just nuts) who denied that this was a direct threat.
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One week after Skywriter posted and I directed those on my blog to the post, the Daily Kos posted on the same topic. They detailed a thread in which the wingnuts were ranting, no doubt with white froth at the mouth, about our duly elected President who enjoys exceptionally high approval ratings in this country and who most of America thinks is doing a great job. You can see the post here.
Daily Kos Noted that while wingnut talk like this is nothing terribly new, it is more of the same started by Sarah Palin at her divisive qand hateful rallies and similar to Alan Keyes call for action to “stop” President Obama.
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But it is not just a question of a Republican leadership and moral vacuum. Where is the media? CNN is more interested in showing homes paid for by the USPS than exposing this clear and growing danger to a man who was elected by a clear majority of this country and who the majority approves of to this day. The rest of the media is equally irresponsible in failing to cover this story and Fox is the grandaddy of them all as they are constantly whipping up the angry white men out there with their no fact based news. The garbage that they spew is delusional. Talk about hijacking democracy!
Today the Daily KOS posted a follow up because like Skye and me, they reported that thread at the Free republic to the FBI. Contrary to all of the nastiness that Skye was subjected to that what she quoted on her blog was really nothing, the FBI and Secret service do think it is something indeed. You can see that post here. Here are some excerpts from the FBI about the wingnuts:
"The number of threats to Obama as an individual, not the office, since election day is unprecedented. The Secret Service typically handles this stuff exclusively, but has had to look elsewhere for help."
"The FBI monitors and investigates all the white supremacist groups and websites and the guy I know in NY told me that Obama’s election has turned into the best recruiting tool they have ever used. Membership is up for the first time in I don’t know how long, and new hate websites are emerging every week. Some of the websites actually call for Obama’s assassination in their title!"
"The only solace I can offer is that, typically, these assholes are usually just that: a bunch of bored blowhards, terrified by the pace of a world that is passing them by, who have nothing better to do than complain, blame others for their shitty lives and spew their hatred and pitifully ignorant views online."
"This is not to say that Obama isn’t in constant peril…"
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I’m preaching and this has all been said before. I guess I’m just venting because the level of ignorance in this country actually still astounds me. We act horrified and shocked at the uneducated peasant masses blindly following crazy Muslim clerics when we have essentially the same thing going on here.
I could not agree more. It doesn’t matter whether the wingnuts are right wingnuts or left wingnuts. This is not acceptable and puts the people making the threats against President Obama in the same position as Osama bin laden - flat out murderers.
According to the post, the FBI (and I know the secret service as well) has requested our help in exposing the militia groups and the wingnuts threatening our democracy.
He also invites us to help “expose these morons whenever we can”. Distasteful as it is to have to venture into the belly of the beast, let’s keep an eye on the wingnuts and report any and every instance of hate speech, particularly threats of violence, whether against our President or anyone at all. The Secret Service and the FBI actually do investigate these people, as The Red Pen’s rec’d diary from yesterday attests. Reporting them works. So let’s keep the heat turned up. While we’ll probably never change their minds, we can at least stigmatize the hell out of them, make it less attractive to fence-sitters to be associated with them, and make their lives a little more miserable than they already so clearly are.
Here is the contact page for the US Secret Service.
Here is the contact page for the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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These people are blind, ignorant racists for the most part who cannot stand the fact that an African American family is in the White House. As for the rest of them, from what I have read, they seem to be buying into the socialism/marxism/communism rants of people like Limbaugh, Beck, Coulter and all of the other “Republicans” who are spreading the same garbage in a desperate attempt to hang onto their dittohead base. As far as I am concerned, if they do not step up and denounce this behavior, should anything happen, they should be investigated and/or prosecuted for their part in whipping up a crown of wingnuts who don’t read and apparently can’t think too clearly either.
I’ve never aimed violence at anyone. I do, however, revere and defend our rights, duties and recourse as envisioned and set forth by our Founding Fathers in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
Jim, you just might be Target no. 2 after Rush Limbaugh.
It’s pretty amazing that these socialist desire to use the power of the government to silence critics. After all their fake cries about censorship.
Amazing. But not suprising.
So does this mean we can’t quote the Founding Fathers about things like the tree of liberty?
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence."
-- Charles A. Beard, Historian (1874-1948)
Oh, don’t misunderestimate what they’d REALLY like to do-
they would love to KILL those with differing political views, like their beloved Che did.
ROFLMAO!
As an aside (I agree the posts were over the line), it’s pretty funny the DUers are saying said posters are racists when they are posting in support of Alan Keyes (who is black).
Well, with the recent increase in gun & ammo sales, they may want to re-think that...
I think the gun and ammo sales are reflective of your average citizen’s recognition of the fact that we’ve got a bunch of Che-wannabes in this country, and they’ve just got one of theirs elected.
Remember the line in the sand:
“Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than he is, so he can do something to you that you wouldn’t allow him to do if you were equipped to prevent it. This goes for burglars, muggers, and rapists, and even more so for policemen, bureaucrats, and politicians.”
-Alexander Hope, from the novel “Hope” by L. Neil Smith and Aaron Zelman
Oliver Stone gets a pass because his fantasy involved the death of a President uniformly detested by the Left. If he were to even propose making a similar film about Obama, there would be riots in the streets, and I mean that quite literally.
Yep...sad.
Right is wrong and wrong is right. End times?
The founders included the first amendment for a reason. And it wasn’t free porn.
And they included the second amendment for a reason. And it wasn’t duck hunting.
Tyranny sucks.
I've read that. So I decided I won't live in a system like that. My grandkids ain't gonna either. Period.
prelude thereof.
As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man.
God said that. I will believe it.
“It doesn’t bother me that an african american family is in the White House.”
Me either (except that I refuse to use the term “African-
American as hyphenated Americans are not Americans at all, per Teddy Roosevelt). If having a black family in the White House would have bothered me, I’d have not voted for Alan Keyes. However, having a sociopathic communist in the White House breaks my Mayflower/DAR heart. I spend more time praying for our country than ever before.
We are actually very fortunate that this black nationalist racist, who is leading what represents the most significant assault on civil liberties in American history, is a completely unqualified affirmative action beneficiary that will prove to be an epic failure.
We are actually very fortunate that this black nationalist racist, who is leading what represents the most significant assault on civil liberties in American history, is a completely unqualified affirmative action beneficiary that will prove to be an epic failure.
"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
It’s all Snowball’s fault!
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