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Man, what kind of a free speech country do we even have anymore when a man holding an innocuous “Death to Obama” sign outside a contentious town hall meeting, one that goes about as poorly as the other meetings that featured GUNS AND KNIVES and lots of shouting, is detained by police? No wonder everybody wants their America back! This America blows.
The holder of the sign has not been identified, except as a 51-year-old male. Apparently he was taken into police custody and questioned by the Secret Service.
It’s unclear if he was holding one sign or two, but some other words he had on display included “Death to Obama, Michelle and his two stupid kids,” or something like that. But ha ha, the joke’s on him! Thanks to the lead-poisoned White House garden, all of the Obamas will shortly turn into insane babbling wrecks and then perish on their own.
Man with ‘Death to Obama’ signs detained at HCC forum [Herald-Mail]
‘Death to Obama’ sign holder in Md. detained [AP]
Someone needs to make lifelike dummies of Ted Kennedy for these people to take out their anger on. Actually the real Ted Kennedy is probably medicated up enough to stand it in person but there are too many town halls for him to handle by himself.
Step right up and belt a pinko, yell in his face and win a kewpie doll.
Don’t worry, Glenn Beck will soon start a legal defense fund for this poor soul!
What kind of socialist, autocratic, dictatorial dystopia are we crafting here that a man can no longer openly call for the assassination of our nation’s leaders without having the secret service all over his ass?!
I wish Barry Sargento would just hurry up and “disappear” these people already. What’s the point of having a fascist-socialist-communist tyranny if you have to put up with this shit?
Shittiest written story in a while.
The captain didn’t see the signs himself, he said.
Captain, you have the dude, but not the evidence?!
[Barbara] Golden said she believed that was the correct wording of the signs.
Ask the Captain, fer crissa… oh, wait, he can’t find ‘em either.
The Secret Service did not take the man into custody, Golden said.
Goddamn signs are missing. What’s the fucking point?
Am I the only one who feels a slight tinge of excitement over the rise of potential domestic terrorists?
Causality 1
Wingnut 0
I bet those points rack up fast.
It bears repeating. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?
Voyou Charmant: Yes.
everyone, everywhere is making baby jesus cry.
queeraselvis v 2.0: too much teevee. not enough time in crowded theaters when nuts scream “fire!”
The nutcase arm of the wingnut party is revving up for some action. Remember Waco? Ruby Ridge? HENGGH? They will be no more successful this time but will feel all the more justified also since ZOMG HES BLAAAAAACK!!!!!111!
queeraselvis v 2.0: The element that is showing now includes the paranoid and borderline types that are just dumb enough to attract this kind of attention. Then there are actual operator type people in the background (like McVeigh) who are willing and able to do bad stuff.
Let the bitch-slapping commerce.
Serolf Divad: Next thing you know, they’ll be telling us we can’t joke with the TSA screener about the bomb in our carry-on luggage. Sheesh.
When is someone going to pose as a right-wing blog nut, make up some ludicrous Obama nonsense, make their way to Glenn Beck’s show to promote it, then walk off the set and hold a press conference to make a point about how gullible and willing to espouse utter bunk that wack job is.
Police State is where you go when you can’t afford to get into that Ivy League police academy.
This is not nearly as bad, though, as when the Dixie Chicks said that George W. embarrassed them. That was overseas WHICH MAKES IT TREASON EXECUTE THE DIXIE CHICKS!!!!!!!1
Voyou Charmant: no, charming hoodlum, I don’t think you are the only one. I am kinda hoping that they start shooting, and then someone else starts shooting back. Since I have no health insurance and probably never will, I’d be more than happy to take a bullet for democracy, but then again no one would raise any money for me…the best I could hope for is a well-rec’d diary on the daily kos and maybe a petition. OK so it’s not a great idea, but I still want to see these fuckers get the firehose, or some pepper spray, or both.
Holding Out for a Hero: Commence, dammit, commence. Sheesh, I’m going back to work.
Let’s not be hasty. Maybe the sign said, “Dearth to Obama”, parsing the holder’s broader argument that the apparent paucity of public support for the President’s reforms may be cause for reflection and thoughtful modification.
Right? It could be that, couldn’t it?
J05H: A perennial problem with any terrorist group is that they always attract the nut cases. They don’t understand the actual issues, they’re just attracted to the blood and gore. Same thing happening here.
Janet Reno II: Enough Of This Shit.
I hope he’s fond of body cavity searches.
Like the Pautards, the Wingnuts lack a sense of scope.
queeraselvis v 2.0: Tut-tut! They like to be called ’special’ people.
nbawriter: wasn’t that exactly the plot of last night’s episode of Leverage?
I say we send them all to Guantanamo. Or whatever secret bunker prison can hold them.
I notice that the Herald Mail has disabled comments on that story, probably worried about more death threats. Because, you know, people suck.
nbawriter: Never, at least in terms of the press conference. It’s the “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you” principle. I mean, do you really want to forfeit the royalties to your upcoming blockbuster “Executive Order 1132: Obama’s Plot to Blow Up AM Radio Towers”?
Serolf Divad: This is where the First Amendment comes up against the Second Amendment. Or to put it another way: these scary shitheads have a lot of guns.
It’s too bad America can’t sell anger and stupidity, because our economic problems would be solved by now. But man — I remember when Clinton was president and that asshole Jesse Helms said something about how Bill better not come visit North Carolina, implying he’d be risking his life. And at that point I thought the crazed violent fantasies were at their peak. Little did I imagine what would happen when a smart, liberal black man got elected president. These people really need to fucking calm down.
earnestcivilservant: Yup, only it was Nancy Grace getting skewered, instead of Glen Beck.
What’s amusing is POTUS Bush-2 militarized the police, and now the police will most likely be dealing with Bush supporters.
Voyou Charmant: You mean like that dude who bombed the building in Oklahoma? No thanks, I’ll pass.
Let the NYC police handle this. From what I’ve read, they have a unique and effective way of dealing with suspected subversives. Like either riddling the body with bullets or sodomizing it with a baton.
nbawriter: I volunteer you!
SayItWithWookies: It’s too bad America can’t sell anger and stupidity
Oh, but we do. It’s called defense contracting.
There’s no reason to worry until someone trots out the “Wanted for Treason” poster.
hobospacejunkie: Not a nice polished, well sanded police baton; a knarly, raw wood plunger handle.
SayItWithWookies: “It’s too bad America can’t sell anger and stupidity.”
wait, i’m confused. isn’t that all we’ve been selling for the past, oh, i dunno, sixty years?
WHY aren’t they detaining OBAMA for setting up those FEMA DEATH-CAMPS?
It’s the ones who don’t stand on street corners with threatening signs or scream crazy with their threatening crazy or crazy the crazy on their crazy book page or crazy the email to their crazies or mutter the crazies to my cantalope crazies
that worry.
Man, Secret Service must be workin’ overtime. Work out.
desertwind: Years ago in Germany when I was a very small boy, zere was a lot of people standing around on ze corners asking questions: “Why are you standing on ze corner, acting ze way you act, looking like you look? WHY DO YOU LOOK THAT WAY?” And they ask me and I only would say: “I don’t . . . I don’t know, I’m just standing ’round ze corner waiting here . . . just in . . . in ze evening, and . . . and it’s so nice outside . . . the night is so nice . . . why . . . are you just asking these questions . . . “
chascates: I’m just about as pink as it gets in US AMURRICA. Nevertheless if someone yells in my face I will punch them in the throat. For socialism and Muslin who is my god.
The Wonkiverse seems like it could use a triple meth-spresso this morning. Or a visit from The Most Interesting Man in the World: “He has been known to cure narcolepsy, just by walking into the room.”
J05H: Cruising (Manchester, NH) Union-Leader.com on a story about the news that the state passed a “Dark Sky” bill (intended to reduce light pollution, enhance star-gazing, etc.), I found this wingnut comment:
“Gambling and Lights Out is the Democratic Party solution to the economic downfall of the USA. See Chuck Schumer, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and any other high powered liberal, Republican or Democrat, for detail. They authorized all of it, signed it into “law” and now you are going to pay for it, dearly.
If any of them had a brain housing group that functioned properly, then they would not know how to use it, properly.
Infantry Advice, Free of charge: Clean your pistols, rifles, shotguns and keep a large store of ammunition nearby, ladies and gentlemen. You will need it all.
By the time the knuckleheads running the government are done with their stupidity, there will be a lot of blood on the streets, You and yours will most likely spill the most.”
- John Krats, Manchester, New Hampshire
It’s barely decipherable, but the part about wanting to kill anyone associated with the government is quite clear.
Hagerstown is one of those places - like Aberdeen or most of Route 40 in MD- in Maryland where you don’t want to stop to use the bathroom at Walmart(or any place). I don’t fit in-my car has Obama and other Democrat stickers plus I weigh under 140, have all my teeth and I don’t wear stretch pants or an American flag pin.
So when will Beck give him a blow job or wreck his anal canal?
What? No fine tazer action?
jeez, at least under Bush those contrary people were put into free speech zones circled with razor wire and tazed for good measure.
well, it’s true isn’t it?
Finally!
http://marmel.com/2009/08/enjoy-the-body-cavity-search-jackass/
slappypaddy: Well, while we manufacture plenty of it, there’s probably not much of an export market, as people tend to prefer the local stuff.
x111e7thst: Yesterday the pervert-and-the-young-child taught us the correct modern spelling of quid pro quo is: If someone jams it down my throat I will stick it up their ass.
“The holder of the sign has not been identified, except as a 51-year-old male.”
Have 51-yr-old white males become the new 18-20 yr old minority male…must they all be watched at all times?
Death to Scruffy. Death to Smoochy. Death to the infidels.
What do you call an out of control, angry wingnut behind bars?
A good start.
SayItWithWookies: But WE DID! We just sold it to… ourselves.
pattycake: How long have you been sitting on that joke? You can tell me.
Scruffy_The_Janitor: You’ve joined the Futurama Avatar Caucus.
Death to Cape Clod.
bitchincamaro: “You and yours will most likely spill the most.”
Even the most lackluster National Guard unit would go through these assclowns like a hot knife thru butter. In my more depressed moments I sort of wish they would all pour into the streets waving their AR-15s so we could have a bloodbath and be done with it. If they all came out at once it might last as long as 3 or 4 days.
This whole thing is way overblown. In Hagerstown, “Death to Obama” is just the local equivalent of “Hello!”
Serolf Divad: What kind of socialist, autocratic, dictatorial dystopia are we crafting here …
after he spends time in GITMO, do he go to Kansas or Michigan or Bermuda?
Mahousu> Does that greeting come with a raising of the right arm at a 45 degree angle??
hobospacejunkie: I live in the precinct where that went down, and I gotta tell ya, it wasn’t the cop’s fault, the baton was clearly gay.
What I want to know is when are the Repugs gonna apologize to Janet N. for boohooing her for that HS memo that came out a few months ago about the right-wing crazies? Rachel Maddow had a good show last night about all the right-wing nuttery that has gone down the past few months….its crazy shit. Much scarier to me then a roomful of one-nut al queda agents.
We’ve always had wingnutz. Give ‘em a reason and they’ll start the dyin.
ie. taxing their whiskey = totalitarian dictatorship = DEAPH @ teh GUBMINT!
oops..
here’s the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Rebellion#The_insurrection
hobospacejunkie: Yes, yes they do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soundweapon1.jpg
finallyhappy: …my car has Obama and other Democrat stickers plus I weigh under 140, have all my teeth and I don’t wear stretch pants or an American flag pin.
So just how long have you hated America and Freedom™?
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Insult someone and ask them, “what are you, some kind of republican?” You’d be calling them a psychotic, racist, inbred loser.
Where are the S1Ws when we need em?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeX7gmvcpSM&feature=related
Scruffy_The_Janitor: Only on formal occasions. On an everyday basis, it’s more like this.
GreatOldOnesParty: There’s only so much DeBarge a city block can take..
populucious: “Have 51-yr-old white males become the new 18-20 yr old minority male…must they all be watched at all times?”
You have no idea. On the forums I frequent, some sound like The Man has been keeping them down since forever. I keep telling them they’re ignorant but they don’t believe me.
Just a reminder: “Death to Obama, Michelle and his two stupid kids.”
No joke. His sign really said that. He wants Sasha & Malia dead.
I’m going to go destroy something now before I find myself departing for Maryland in a murdered out, fertilizer-laden El Camino on a suicide mission straight up that fucking guy’s motherfucking ass. Threatening those girls should result in a zero-tolerance automatic Death Panel disembowlment by flaming badgers, if not worse.
I’m sorry. I like them kids, and this story makes me very angry.
bitchincamaro: This is par for the course for the Manchester Useless-Leader.
Was he in a designated Freedom of Speech zone? Did he sign a loyalty pledge?
Extemporanus: Agreed. “Death to [current prez]” is an older than dirt slogan.
But when you start calling for the death of his wife and kids…?
Something is seriously fucking wrong with these people.
When David Frum, the shame of Canuckistan where he is considered kind of a frother (relatively speaking), is the spokesman for sane and moderate Republicans, you know the end times are near. Or something….
http://www.theweek.com/bullpen/column/99474/The_reckless_Right_courts_violence
First they came for the pasty, middle-aged, threatening treason and assassination dudes…
Extemporanus: Obama legalized empathy, so it is ok for me to say:
This whole thing bummed me out too. UGH.
UGH. UGH.
YUCK!
GreatOldOnesParty: The most disturbing part of your link:
“Tom the Tinker” assumed the leadership of the Whiskey Rebellion in the early 1790s.
Just when thought it was safe to hire a plumber again….
This was all just a simple misunderstanding. He meant Barack SEAMUS O’Bama, the special envoy to the White House from Ireland. Get a grip, Sheeple!
Canuckledragger
I wish that the douchbag frums sainted mother would come out of the grave and strangle his
dumbass.
chascates: You’re a tasteless jerk. Stick your hand back down your pants and carry on.
WIDTAP: And the great irony of it all is one of our infallible found fathers, some guy named George Washington, decided to institute MARTIAL LAW and use Pensylvannia as a testing ground for a federally-funded smack-down of whacky wingut hijinks.
“The men were imprisoned, where one died, while two, including Philip Vigol (later spelled Philip Wigal), were convicted of treason and sentenced to death by hanging. Washington, however, pardoned them on the grounds that one was a “simpleton,” and the other, “insane.”
What Would Stalin Do?
GreatOldOnesParty:
Michael Steele and Glen Beck should read that story, you know, just in case….
I like how the ad in the newspaper linked to the post is an ad for Free GUNS!
I had hoped that the male menopausal craze for Harleys would completely eliminate those boomers long on testosterone and short on brains, and the accident rate for hogs did skyrocket — but a few always seem to skate by, darn.
Since he’s white, we don’t need to see his birth certificate.
nbawriter: A most EXCELLENT idea!
Is there any way we can ship the Town Hall Cranks off to Gitmo?
chascates: I gather you used to write for that cancelled Fox News comedy show.
Hey, remember that time when that slovenly looking black guy showed up on the grass in front of a church in front of W’s motorcade, and he had a gun strapped to his thigh in plain sight, and was holding a sign with “By any means necessary” written on it, and everybody around him was like, “No biggie, he’s within the law,” and nobody did anything except invite the guy to be on Chris Matthews’ show?
I didn’t think so.
AbstinenceOnly Ed: Sure, say there’s a town hall meeting in Gitmo and that the preznit will be there. Then when they all get there, they’ll be locked outside…in Cuba.
ENJOY THE SOCIALIST MEDICINE!!
First, Obama = Nazi.
Next, the Paultards think the US is building internment camps for them all across the US.
Arrrgh macht freedom….
http://www.rightsidenews.com/200908115913/editorial/why-are-internment-camps-being-built.html
Next…I don’t even want to think about it.
facehead: Yea, even in foreign countries amidst all the “Hang the War Criminal Bush” signs, I never saw much mention of Laura and the twins, let only their worthiness of death.
american mutt: Sorry, but I don’t think Jesus wanted socialized health care. If you read your bible, you will clearly see that the Jewish/Roman Government’s bureaucrats and their “Leper Squads” were unable to do anything for those poor lepers and were only cured of their leprosy by Jesus. The lesson of this– government intervention in health care– lepers everywhere. Health care given by a health care provider/alleged Son of God– no lepers.
Don Juanquete: what a retard thinking those are internment camps…they are clearly concentration camps, duh!
Barrelhse: BobTheBuilder: Accusing a Wonkette commenter of being tasteless? You must be new around here. Come back when you’ve tuned your irony and snark detector to the appropriate channel.
You have to admit there’s something troubling about a country where a man with a sign is detained, but a man with a gun is allowed to hang out within shooting distance of the president. I guess there’s no money in a National Sign Association.
Extemporanus: Drunk flaming badgers, actually!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090708/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_germany_badger
hobospacejunkie: That only happens if you’re black.
user-of-owls: Aw shit. Tag FAIL. No mice for you, asshat.
nbawriter: These guys would do it in a heartbeat.
Or better yet, DiY…
TGY: A lack of Scope, Ban and Aspray.
Voyou Charmant: No. I’m embarrassed to say it, but I have the same reaction.
Hey American Mutt sure I was for socialized health care - in fact I invented it. Do you think if one of the boys came down with so much as a hang nail or the clap for that matter they had to worry. Why do you think they kept hanging around - it was all about the health program. Now that I think about it we had some fine looking camp followers so there was that. Oh yea I should mention none of us put in what you might call a real hard work day so that too. Wine we had plenty of wine. Except for that one rough patch at the end those were pretty good days.
norbizness: Remember one-to-six years ago, when it was *Lefties* who were scared of the FEMA camps?? Didn’t seem like much of a stretch, given the kinds of things they were arresting the RNC protesters for. I had permaculturist/ecofreako friends in the St Paul/Minneapolis area who were picked up for supposedly making Molotov cocktails, just for having cans of gasoline and paint thinner, some old newspapers and rags, and some old glass bottles in their garages.
For Christ’s sake, doesn’t *everybody’s* garage have that shit in it, especially if you mow the lawn, or paint the hallway, or recycle?
The Right keeps trying to ape Lefty protest tactics, seeing it as somehow appropriate, without realizing that … well … Obama really *hasn’t* yet done anything that’s killed another 4000 Americans for no goddamned good reason. I especially lose my shit when they talk about Obama disregarding the Constitution.
Were those fuckers in a *COMA* during the past 8 years? WTF? They don’t remember the PATRIOT Act, the warrantless searches and wiretaps? Or they’re fine with that as long as the machinery of the State is doing that shit to the Left, and not to the Real (aka Fat White Stupid) Americans?
The “He’ll take our guns!” is just unsubstantiated rumor.
The “He’s listening to our phone calls!” was actually happening. Where was their fucking outrage *THEN*?
GreatOldOnesParty: Malcolm got himself an M1 Carbine with taped hi-cap clips.
Barack has the Secret Service, the FBI, BATF…feel lucky, punks?
I’m mad as hell and I want my America back!!!
That’s the America before I had a wife & kids & mortgage and I used to sleep in late & watch tv all day while playing my guitar and drink coffee until it was time to drink beer & get my laundry done when I felt like it & no lawn to mow & if I didn’t want to shave for a while it was cool & we had lps back then & the cover art was a whole other thing & I had a ‘72 Impala which I could tune up myself & gas was real cheap & so was beer and—–oh wait, what was I pissed off about?
Some nut just had an opinion and put it on a sign. Happens everyday, on pretty much every corner in America. People say this crap all the time in conversation, debates and in forums. Have they found YOU yet? Just sayin’
chillpill: i will take one of you
Lou Dobbs just got called out by Karen Finney on his own show about stake thru the heart comment about poor little H. Dean. I thought he was gonna call her a black bitch or somethin. Classic!
Voyou Charmant: No, you aren’t.
SayItWithWookies: Just wait until “John and Kate Plus 8″ hits syndication.
Whether you add stupid to violent, or you add violent to stupid, it’s never a stable mixture.