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.
“Just the fact they lump us in and call our site racist”...
To them, this site is no different than Stormfront.
You’re correct, they know nothing about us.
Very good point.
Barry Hussein is a practicing politician, and is fair game for any and all disagreements and expressions of contempt. (Threats of death and grave bodily harm are, obviously, out-of-bounds)
Michelle has politicised herself, and to the extent that she has done so or continues to do so, she is fair game as well.
But the kids are kids. They will, one day, grow up. They're fair game if and only if they become political. If not ... bustin' on them only makes us look bad.
Thanks! That gif should be flown for the Republic of Leftard Hysterics.
Pardon me, I have to spray Alar on my crops now. And scrub my broccoli clean of aphids.
Yeah ... right.
All these pukes need now is a department of extermination run by a Reinhard Heydrich clone.
To answer their charge of lumping Conservatives with racists:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2202630/posts
Kos/DU’s next campaign to undermine the Constitution, and silence those with whom they disagree.
No one that I know wants violence to occur on any level, least of all to The Usurper. (Martyrs we don’t need - on either side.)
Consigned to the historical ash heap of irrelevance would be just fine.
Those turkeys have to be off their meds!
The smirking chimp is a protected species.
Oh yeah, and
Wonder if the FBI knows their files are being spread all over the Internet. Hmmm...
Cindie
The leftard starts by telling us how overwhelmingly popular Odumbo is....and then goes on to say how all kinds of hate sites are springing up all over the place. Which is it kook?
Simply delusional antics. The lefties need to do that.
When you come onto a conservative website like this, it makes you feel uneasy. When you read opinions opposed to your own, your first emotion is to want to Make It Stop.
We feel the same way when we venture onto your liberal sites.
But since we love our country and the Constitution, we recognize your right to believe, or, mostly, feel, the way you do. We would fight and die for your right to your politics. We don't like them, but we respect diversity of opinion.
Please learn tolerance.
These ‘people’ are hysterical. They all run around the interbutts screaming ‘the sky is falling’. IOW....typical libtards.
Carter had higher approval ratings at this time of his presidecy. 70% to be exact. Obama’s are not exceptionally high, they are average for a first term president. He did not win a clear majority, a clear majority we have not seen since Reagan.
Wonder if they ever looked into a group lead by Louis Farrakan?
I will be the first to report these groups to the fed’s if I believe there is a threat to the POTUS. I don’t want another national holiday for this communist.
We already have a street that was recently re-named too Barack Obama Blvd. here in St. Louis.
That’s because they assume all conservatives ARE racists deep down. Even blacks, asians, hispanics, etc... if they are conservative, they are self hating.
Of course I sort of feel the same way about jews voting Democrat...
So is it okay for there to be a clear and growing danger if he becomes unpopular? These people are just incapable of coherent thought.
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