Posted on 11/14/2008 11:26:46 AM PST by lilylangtree
Edited on 11/14/2008 11:28:41 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
How can they tell it wasn’t, say, Sidney Portier that was depicted?
Then why didn't Craig Kilborn get arrested for his infamous snipers wanted graphic on national TV?
The double standard just gets to me.
My guess is that if you were to erect a sign on your property offering to execute or assassinate the current president, that you too would see your name in the newspaper and have the Secret Service kick in your door, crawl-up your butt and turn your life upside down.
He’s NOT the president yet!
>> Then why didn’t Craig Kilborn get arrested for his infamous snipers wanted graphic on national TV? The double standard just gets to me.
Please — the implication that the Secret Service has a double standard in the investigation of Presidential threats is entirely laughable. The Secret Service does their job ... no matter who occupies the office.
If memory serves, Craig Kilborn was visited by Secret Service. The threat was dismissed as not serious ... as it will likely be in this case. I said the schmuck warranted a visit ... not an arrest/trial/punishment.
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No, he will get a stern message, that is all.
What’s the problem?
The guy wasn’t planning on charging admission.
What’s the problem?
The guy wasn’t planning on charging admission”
No taxes for the Democraps to collect.
Oh, by the way, since we’re now being watched so closely; that WAS a joke.
I do not advocate making threats against others, whether they be president, president-elect, or regular citizen.
After they serve the search warrant on his home and start counting and measuring his weapons, inspecting the property and auditing his taxes, he will have some serious issue to deal with.
Good point.
A few years ago I saw a kid at Seattle’s Labor Day weekend “Bumbershoot” festival peddling t-shirts depicting President Bush being shot in the head. Nobody bat an eyelash, I never saw mention of it in the news, and I’m sure the Secret Service did NOT pay that kid a visit. I think there is definitely a double-standard. A few weeks ago when someone hung Sarah Palin in effigy down in Hollywood, public officials didn’t give a damn, and made excuses for the guy - a police spokesman cited “free speech” and all. Are you going to tell me it wouldn’t have been different if it had been Obama hung in effigy?
Obama does not plan on leading, the idea is for him to rule.
That stupid little sign is making national news, I imagined it was some billboard or something, good grief, any idiot can become famous today (and he is an idiot)
Bush can be hung, stabbed, burnt, castrated, decapitated in effigy and it can be broadcast world wide and considered “chic” to do so ...but one sign of discourse against Obama and that gets a great wailing and gnashing of teeth from the left and calls of racism.
He will 'rule' from the Whitehouse on YouTube. All his edicts will be issued via YouTube.
A sign that you can barely read from 15 feet away, posted by some Old English-guzzling geezer in the boondocks, gets the attention of the Secret Service, but I don’t think the SS ever looked into that hanging of the Sarah Palin effigy in the middle of Hollywood. If they did, it was very reluctantly.
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