Posted on 08/15/2009 6:25:10 PM PDT by pissant
The message was clear. The sign carried by a 51-year-old man last week outside a raucous town hall meeting on healthcare in Hagerstown, Maryland, read "Death to Obama". Just to emphasise his point, a second message was also scrawled on the cardboard placard. "Death to Obama, Michelle and 2 stupid kids," it stated.
Welcome to the disturbing new face of the radical right in America. Across the country, extremism is surging, inflamed by conservative talkshow hosts, encouraged by Republican leaders and propagating a series of wild conspiracy theories. Many fear it might end in tragedy.
Obama has been labelled as a threat to democracy and an anti-white racist by senior presenters on the TV channel Fox News. Republicans, seizing on the fierce debate over Obama's plans to reform healthcare, have called him a socialist who plans "death panels" for the elderly. Rumours have circulated that Obama was not born in America and that he plans to ban firearms. Despite having no basis in fact, they have become widely believed. A recent poll in Virginia showed only 53% of voters believed Obama was born in the US. In neighbouring North Carolina, 54% of voters shared that opinion.
Such extremism is becoming a major security issue, prompting fears of an attack on Obama's life or some other incident of domestic terrorism. "This is a very dangerous situation that can spin off 'lone wolf' individuals who decide now is the time to act against people they see as an enemy," said Chip Berlet, author of a book on rightwing extremists.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Consider the source. The Guardian is THE socialist rag of Great Britain.
Obama is a communist serial liar who lies with purpose.
These sicko left wingnuts are pathological liars
When I first read this article, thought it must be sarcasm, because NO ONE in the States believes that the conservatives are dangerous.
Everyone in the States knows that the thuggery from where the obamanation came, from Douglas to Ayers to Wright to Soros.... THE mob is alive and well, and doesn’t mind which means it uses to supress freedom. And the name is the Liberal Democrats in America!!
God Bless America! Keep the Fascist LIES Away From America!
His own union thugs is who they should be worried about.
I find this hard to believe. It would have been all over the local news down here if this was the case. This sounds more like another pro-0bama plant.
A Democrat plant.
He could always STFU, stay home and drop all his socialist ideas. If he would do so, all the fears for his safety would go away. JMHO
I would bet that sign belonged to one of Obama’s Acorn or other.
Electing Obama was always going to end in tragedy
“A Democrat plant. “
Yes.
Combine union thug mentality with Axelrod and Rahm tactics and ethics (lack of them), and you get things like this.
Look for more.
Actually, the original source was ABC. This is just a re-write.....
Nobody wants Joe Biden for POTUS....
Not even the Dems.
I SMELL B.S. !!!
If someone carried a sign like that I want pictures AND i think the Secret Service would be paying him a visit
I am guessing DEMOCRAP PLANT
I was at a protest last weekedn- the crowd was pleasant and even jovial - if someone had a sign like that we would have stopped him
hahahahah good point!
ObamaCare IS extremism. Throwing the baby out with the bath water always is.
Regarding this particular guy, I don't think the "fibbies" have yet revealed his name and that's the sort of thing that makes it certain that he's an Obama supporter.
Like a Constitutional Restoration, terminating Fedzilla's life support. What a "tragedy" for the ~550 corrupt self-serving politicians in DC and their pimps on K-Street.
Yeah, and David Berkowitz once wore a New York Yankees cap. Tells me all I need to know about George Steinbrenner. /s
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