Posted on 01/27/2012 3:50:41 AM PST by tobyhill
A photograph showing a group of men with guns posing with a bullet-ridden image of Barack Obama's face is to be investigated by the Secret Service, a spokesman confirmed to NBC News.
The New York Times reported that the picture showed seven young men, four with weapons, one of whom was holding a T-shirt with the president's face on it, above the word "HOPE." The T-shirt was covered in holes and gashes.
The Times said the photograph was posted on the Facebook page of a Peoria, Ariz. police officer, Sgt. Pat Shearer, on Jan. 20.
"We are aware of it. Anytime information is brought to our attention that a group or individual expresses an unusual interest in one of our protectees, we conduct the appropriate follow-up," Secret Service spokesman Max Milien told NBC News.
"We respect the right of free speech and expression but we certainly have the right and obligation to speak to individuals to determine what their intent is," he added. "We treat anything (any potential threat) seriously. We can't dismiss anything."
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How many times did we see Bush hung in effigy?
How many times did we hear about threats to Bush’s life?
How many times did we see veiled hints about killing Bush from Hollywood?
How many times did we hear about prosecutions/investigations into these threats?
Hundreds
Thousands
One
Veiler? They made a feature length movie fantasizing about Bush being assasinated
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0853096/
A fictional “What if...?” movie about killing the president, and how things might go if that happened.
If they made one about Obama instead of Bush, you know they wouldn’t complain, right? Right?
Don’t forget Baldwin’s lovely rant about stoning Bush and Cheney!
SS will hopefully meet, shake hands with, comment on the nice groupings and ask if they can particpate in the next target shoot.
Gosh, I hope our overlords don’t learn of my Obama urinal target.
I wonder how many new officers the Secret Service has had to hire since Zero became president to follow up on possible threats? Perhaps this is what he means when he says he is doing something to reduce unemployment......
>>Don’t forget Baldwin’s lovely rant about stoning Bush and Cheney!
Are you sure you don’t have your leftist death threats mixed up?
I remember his ‘call to arms’ to stone Henry Hyde and his children to death, but I don’t remember him ranting about stoning Bush.
I can’t imagine how badly it would suck to be paid to defend this Saboteur. Imagine your job description entaing the duty to jump in front and take the led for him.
sorry, jon description - entailing.
job - i give up.
Seems I recall them hanging Sarah Palin as well.
This pesky little freedom to speak our minds problem has got to go, but thugs can hang out and openly intimidate voters, and Holder’s gang yawns.
Have some more coffee. :^)
gimme a break, the left went so far as to make a freakin movie of a hypothetical assassination of Pres. Bush.,
that drew a shrug from the media.
Don’t post a picture of it on Facebook.
Be advised......every time I flush the toilet, I drown an Obama to its demise!
Oh, good grief. If they’re worried about this they’re also going to have to investigate every private shooting range in the country. There are probably scads of *joke* targets of Obama, Reid, Pelosi and their ilk all over the place (along with Barney the Dinosaur, the Teletubbies, and Dora the Explorer).
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