Posted on 08/13/2009 3:21:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
There were signs comparing President Barack Obama to a Nazi and showing him with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, but federal officials believe another sign referencing the president and his family went too far.
A man who was holding a sign reading "Death to Obama" Wednesday outside a town hall meeting on health care reform in Hagerstown, Md., has been turned over to the Secret Service.
Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Peter Lazich said the sign also read, "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids."
Lazich said U.S. Secret Service agents took the unidentified 51-year-old man into custody Wednesday afternoon after deputies
Obama was not at the meeting held Wednesday by Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin.
Barbara Golden, special agent in charge of the agency's Baltimore field office, said Thursday that an investigation is ongoing but declined further comment. A spokesman at the agency's Washington headquarters also declined to discuss the investigation.
Police said there were no other arrests among the nearly 1,000 people, some carrying protest signs, who came to the college for the meeting or demonstrated off-campus.
Cardin's national communications director, Sue Walitsky, called the incident "unfortunate." She said she was unaware of it until Thursday morning.
Lazamataz?
Probably a liberal plant to make us look like extremist loons.
What a fool.
We will not hear another word about this - I feel fairly certain the guy was a plant and once that is outed, the story will disappear.
While this is an ugly sentiment to express, I’m not sure how this is a crime and how it justifies arrest.
Moveon Plant!! Look how he hides behind sunglasses and the sign.
Compare to the Patriots with real signs.
No, just a moron.......
Subsequently proved to be an Obama supporter. He was later filmed handing out pro-0bummerCare(tm) flyers.
SELF-CENSORED
That would be a common liberal tactic
“We will not hear another word about this - I feel fairly certain the guy was a plant and once that is outed, the story will disappear”
Now I don’t have to post this ;-)
Were all of the liberal, extremist Bushhaters carrying ‘Death to Bush’ signs arrested by the SS? The guy who had the poster of ‘Bush with a gun pointed to his head’?
What was his name? Why did they include his name?
I hate that a million Americans can calmly and rationally protest the obscene attempted expansion of the Federal government, and one fool with a sharpie and a scrap of cardboard is able to bounce the day’s news cycle toward himself. Idiocy has a massive gravitational pull on the media.
BTW, anyone noticed the "Birth Certificate" issue has been sidelined b/c of the town halls and the "manufactured" outrage? Meanwhile, BHO still can't produce an AMERICAN LONG-FORM Birth Cert, and has paid appx $1M in legal fees to avoid producing said BC. Anyone with a brain can see that the "birthers" obviously have something significant here, or BHO would have taken care of it for $10...in 10 days or less.
Interesting that I didn’t see the whacko’s name in the article. Why do I get the feeling that if his name was released it would be found out he’s a liberal plant. Call it a hunch but we’ve seen a few plants in the last few days.
I love post #12....a white guy who hates white people ;-)
Ditto.
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