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People were asked whether Obama should be killed. AP Photo Ron Edmonds
The Facebook poll asking whether President Obama should be killed has now been taken down but the furor over the poll is still present. Facebook quickly took down the poll and barred the application allowing the poll until better content supervision could be installed. In addition the creator of the application which allowed for the poll tweeted about a future conversation with the Secret Service. The Secret Service now evidently knows who created the poll and is investigating the incident fully.
Now that the poll itself has been addressed a larger conversation is occurring about what should be done. It is less than a year into the President Obama's presidency and already many have called for the President to die either through natural causes or through violence. The law prohibits someone from threatening a President but the question remains whether merely talking about something constitutes a threat. Many are calling for the creator of the Facebook poll to be arrested but many may see this as a violation of first amendment rights. While nearly everyone can agree that polls like these is morally wrong it now must be determined if government should play a role in punishing such behavior.
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Oh good grief, some people simply cannot take a joke, just like the right wingers who couldn't handle the Hollywood movie about Bush being assassinated or Bush being portrayed as the Joker (before the obama version).
Please spot with the Facebook PR. The poll went up sometime late Saturday night or early Sunday. Hundreds notified Facebook. Facebook didn't take the poll down until after 1 p.m. Monday and only after the Secret Service inquiry started.
Facebook did not act "quickly."
If the Facebook poll is considered a joke, it is very, very sick, as are the people who think it’s funny. There is no humor in it. Making fun of someone is not the same as talking assassination. Dying of natural causes is a separate thing.
Well, he had a "No" choice.
Obviously, if he was out to kill the president, he would have asked, "What's the best way to yada yada."
I think it is silly to arrest the person. Let's remember that Obama has no problem discussing if unborn babies should be killed and coming up with a "Yes" answer. Heck, he has no problem coming up with that answer for newborn babies that live through botched abortions.
Funny how all of those liberals who tell us conservatives to just "love the person," turn into raging wolves the minute it is one of their own that is the receiver of a pot-shot. --That's just an expression of speech, by the way. Goodness knows that I don't want the CIA showing up at my door. Gosh, what would I wear for something like that?
Loosen up, libbies. I am sure if a person REALLY wanted to plot to kill the present, he would not take a poll first. Jeepers!
Debra J.M. Smith
of
InformingChristians.com
This kind of stuff happens all the time. Weren't they out to get Roger Rabbit at some point or other???
Well, he had a "No" choice.
Obviously, if he was out to kill the president, he would have asked, "What's the best way to yada yada."
I think it is silly to arrest the person. Let's remember that Obama has no problem discussing if unborn babies should be killed and coming up with a "Yes" answer. Heck, he has no problem coming up with that answer for newborn babies that live through botched abortions.
Funny how all of those liberals who tell us conservatives to just "love the person," turn into raging wolves the minute it is one of their own that is the receiver of a pot-shot. --That's just an expression of speech, by the way. Goodness knows that I don't want the CIA showing up at my door. Gosh, what would I wear for something like that?
Loosen up, libbies. I am sure if a person REALLY wanted to plot to kill the present, he would not take a poll first. Jeepers!
Debra J.M. Smith
of
InformingChristians.com
So true Debra, even worse it's not accademic, he does nothing to stop those Newborns from being killed as we speak.
As to what to wear when the CIA "comes to dinner"... that's easy.....a JFK mask.
So true, Jaime.... So true... :o)
"When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat" -- George Carlin
Yes Beckbot,
And when you're "Born a Democratic member of congress" you get to be Master of Ceremonies.
jaime you're tonights 'entertainment.'
George, Ridicule will get you everywhere and everything.
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