Obama Campaign Hosts Wish for Clintons to be Lynched and Shot

The Husaria: For Our Freedom and Yours ^ | 9/8/08 | Winged Hussar 1683

[Winged Hussar]

Marilyn Wright's "Fire Bill and Hillary," posted at my.barackobama.com on January 21 2008 and online as of September 8, 2008, expresses a wish for Bill and Hillary Clinton to be "lynched" and "shot." It also wishes that Bill Clinton would die from a heart attack, and it refers to him as "white trash." This hate speech is "Paid for by Obama for America."

...Here is what Marilyn Wright has to say about the Clintons (Google cache in case it "disappears" now that it is becoming an Internet-wide scandal). We believe (not legal advice) that this falls short of being reportable to the U.S. Secret Service because the writer just wishes that Bill and Hillary Clinton would be killed (or, in Bill Clinton's case, die from a heart attack) as opposed to saying that she is going to make it happen. Today's Wall Street Journal reported a similar situation, in which a fan who was disappointed by a delay in the next Harry Potter movie wished that the person responsible would choke on his own saliva--which is about as threatening as a wish that Lord Voldemort would cast the "Avada Kedavra" curse on him, although even wishing death on someone for delaying a movie is extreme to say the least.

On the other hand, there is no doubt that Wright's wish that the Clintons would die from violence and/or natural causes is hate speech, and this hate speech is "Paid for by Obama for America." (Here is the Google cache in case the Obama campaign throws the posting under the bus, now that it has become an Internet-wide scandal. We also downloaded the page and took a screenshot.)

[mkjessup]

“I will not follow McCain through hell. I will start a movement of people who gather in Washington DC around Barack Obama and proclaim him THEIR PRESIDENT. If we have to fight a civil war over this, SO BE IT. If the “United” States splits into two countries, FINE BY ME.”

Kind of sounds like a threat to overthrow the duly elected government. You could call it a Terroristic Threat, I do believe. Someone want to forward that information to the FBI? It IS a Terroristic Threat.

I agree with you FRiend. Unfortunately, in this watered down second term of the Bush Administration, I doubt that any serious action would result. In the immediate weeks and months after 9/11, perhaps so. But as these final months of this so-called 'compassionate conservative' administration wind down, I doubt there is any will or inclination in our Justice Department to so much as pick up an outgoing 1-800-WEIS-FBI WATS line to ask that broad if she "really means" what she's saying.

I'd like to think an incoming McCain Administration might take a different view on all this. We'll see.