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ACLU board member resigns after Facebook post about shooting people who...
Colorado Springs Gazette ^ | 12/11/15 | Megan Schrader

Posted on 12/11/2015 6:12:38 PM PST by markomalley

Loring Wirbel has resigned as co-chair of the Colorado Springs chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado after facing mounting criticism for a Facebook post that said people voting for Donald Trump should be told "I will have to shoot you before election day."

Wirbel told The Gazette Thursday night that the post wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

"It was intended totally as a joke," Wirbel said. "They are taking that stuff out of context. It's smear politics."

However, Wirbel said he could see how the post was offensive.

Daniel Cole, executive director of the El Paso County Republican Party, was the first to repost the comment on Facebook and ask if it was appropriate coming from the head of an organization that stands for things like free speech and equal access to voting.

"I think it's outrageous on its face," Cole said. "It's beyond belief that he would think it was acceptable to post something like that."

Cole said the post was particularly egregious in a community recovering from a mass shooting.

Wirbel had posted a USA Today opinion article accusing Trump of being a fear monger with the following comment:

"The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for trump and say, 'this is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before election day.' They're not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there's always force, as Laurie would say."

The reference is to Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propagandist who advocated for the "final solution," the murder of millions of Jews.

Donald Trump has been compared frequently to Hitler following his call to prohibit Muslims from immigrating to the United States.

Wirbel said he would never advocate for violence and that he sent in his resignation letter Friday, giving up his volunteer position with the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado.

Cole had called for Wirbel's resignation.

The ACLU of Colorado issued a statement saying that it did not "condone the recent personal Facebook post of regional volunteer Loring Wirbel."


TOPICS: Politics/Elections; US: Colorado; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 2016election; aclu; colorado; election2016; facebook; facebookisthedevil; newyork; petard; threats; trump
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To: GilGil

RE: “...she does have a face no one would vote for...”

With all due rrespect - Not cool at all. She’s one of Ours, agree with her or not.

Please save that stuff for the other side.


21 posted on 12/11/2015 6:25:21 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: NFHale

Come Loring,let’s play a new game.I’s called run and gun.


22 posted on 12/11/2015 6:27:30 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: markomalley
"It's smear politics."

Pot meet Kettle.

23 posted on 12/11/2015 6:27:31 PM PST by Fzob (Let the saving love of Christ be the measure of our lives.)
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To: Farmer Dean

It’s


24 posted on 12/11/2015 6:28:50 PM PST by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: Farmer Dean

Some of those folks really are psychotic.

Absolute lunatics. Who the f*** would say something like that and not expect it to get taken seriously???


25 posted on 12/11/2015 6:31:42 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: markomalley

Dead man walking.


26 posted on 12/11/2015 6:32:00 PM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: markomalley
“It was intended totally as a joke,” Wirbel said. “They are taking that stuff out of context.<<<

LOL....Live by PC...Die by PC......it only has to bite you in the ass once!!...You'll come around

27 posted on 12/11/2015 6:33:33 PM PST by M-cubed ( Their hope is to find a way to pick a nominee who, if elected, would actually stay the course the w)
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To: markomalley

when will we find out he was never a Lawyer


28 posted on 12/11/2015 6:35:32 PM PST by butlerweave
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To: markomalley
The American Criminal Lawyers Union shows its true stripes.
29 posted on 12/11/2015 6:38:54 PM PST by KarlInOhio (CNBC = Clowns Neutered By Cruz)
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To: markomalley
"Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh."

Not sure where I heard or read that but it seems to work...

30 posted on 12/11/2015 6:41:02 PM PST by OKSooner (Amendment 25...)
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To: markomalley

Resign means light duty in the rear or with another parasitic organization


31 posted on 12/11/2015 6:41:14 PM PST by ronnie raygun (If we dont stand we will fall hard)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear

32 posted on 12/11/2015 6:50:41 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: markomalley

If someone on the Lois Lerner Hit List, or the Obama Jarrett No Fly No Buy List, had said exactly the same thing substituting Hillary for Trump, their dog would be dead and their house trashed by now ...


33 posted on 12/11/2015 6:56:25 PM PST by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
See post 32 for pic. Probably never got a female date in HS.
34 posted on 12/11/2015 6:58:04 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: markomalley

Good thing he said that about conservatives, otherwise Lynch would have him in leg irons by now.


35 posted on 12/11/2015 7:12:16 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't really there....)
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To: 17th Miss Regt

Yep. No doubt about it.


36 posted on 12/11/2015 7:12:48 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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Yes, let's take it in context -

The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump, and say, "This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before election day"; They're not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there's always force, as Laurie would say.

Sound innocent now doesn't it? /S

37 posted on 12/11/2015 7:18:04 PM PST by az_gila
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To: markomalley

What did he do that forced him to resign? I don’t see anything there that would be objectionable to the ACLU.


38 posted on 12/11/2015 7:38:13 PM PST by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: TBP

He got caught.


39 posted on 12/11/2015 7:39:15 PM PST by tanknetter
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To: RummyChick

He looks like that guy that always played minor characters in big movies in the 1970s. You know, that guy.


40 posted on 12/11/2015 7:45:13 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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