The Secret Service Is Investigating a Conservative's Obama Assassination Tweets

[alp227]

Source: Daily Finance

As Congress entered the final round of debate Sunday over the controversial health insurance reform bill, a self-described conservative blogger used his public Twitter account to urge the assassination of President Barack Obama. U.S. Secret Service spokesperson Max Milien confirms to DailyFinance: "We are aware of the actual posting and are actively investigating." A request for comment from a Twitter spokesperson hasn't been returned.

As the blog Jezebel has reported, Soloman (Solly) Forell, apparently enraged by the impending passage of the health insurance reform bill, used his Twitter account to call for the assassination of Barack Obama, while also tweeting that since the country survived the assassinations of Lincoln and Kennedy, "we'll surely get over" this one, too.

Read more: http://www.dailyfinance.com/story/the-secret-service-is-investigating-a-conservative-bloggers-oba/19408303/

[strategery blunder]

1. The Secret Service does have its hands full

so many crazy, hate-filled whackjobs out there :(

[elehhhhna]

21. shame about their budget being cut by the BA

[Hawkeye-X]

2. Domestic terrorist

he needs to be detained and sent to Gitmo ASAP and denied all access to anything he wants.

Fuck him and his ilk.

Hawkeye-X

[ladywnch]

5. welllllllll, calling for the assassination of a sitting President should

qualify as "terrorist" behavior. And following the clear guild lines set forth by the Bush administration ol' Solly should be immediately stripped of his US citizenship and given a free ride to Gitmo where he can be held indefinitely without outside contact, lawyer or trial.

[CLANG]

9. Appropriately, it doesn't matter what we call it

It's still a felony.

[cstanleytech]

18. If it did happen it would be irony with a dash of karma to boot.

I would though of course have to oppose that being done.

[ladywnch]

23. I agree. Please understand, I'm not advocating this action

although I do agree it would be a delicious irony for teagaggers to fall victim to their own decisions(ie: Bush policies that the applauded and endorsed).

And, sadly, I would enjoy watching it happen.......if only for a few days.......yes, I do enjoy me some schaudenfreud.....and I am a little ashamed.....only a little tho' :-)

[awoke_in_2003]

3. The stupid runs deep...

on that side of the political spectrum.

[Bitwit1234]

4. About time they stepped in and stopped this stuff.

[Lorien]

7. Ame. So far they only seem to think that peace and civil rights activists are worth arresting

the teabaggers get away with everything short of outright violence.

[groundloop]

6. If he's arrested it'll have been "politically motivated"

And I hope everyone understands this without me adding:



























:sarcasm:

[CLANG]

8. Teabaggers are not vewy bwight...

[ChicagoSuz219]

10. I hope they investigate his followers, as well. Scary. n/t

[liberal N proud]

11. I do hope they find and prosecute who ever

This is a disgrace

[bertman]

12. Whatever happened to those two guys who just mentioned something about Bush being whacked

and ended up in prison?

Lock this idjit up and throw away the key!!

[Xenotime]

13. Those protecting the president need to rest up. I feel this is just the start.

[pundaint]

14. How out of touch do you have to be to post that sort of shit on the internet?

[dogfacedboy]

15. This guy needs to go to the "special" FEMA detainee center.

You know, that "special" one where the bags are going to get "special treatment".

[47of74]

16. Someone might want to tell this asswipe Forell about...

18 USC 41 § 871. Threats against President and successors to the Presidency

You know, the one that reads as follows;

Whoever knowingly and willfully deposits for conveyance in the mail or for a delivery from any post office or by any letter carrier any letter, paper, writing, print, missive, or document containing any threat to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States, the President-elect, the Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President of the United States, or the Vice President-elect, or knowingly and willfully otherwise makes any such threat against the President, President-elect, Vice President or other officer next in the order of succession to the office of President, or Vice President-elect, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

[prolesunited]

17. They really need to make these people do some time in jail

Such threats to the life of a president should not be allowed to escalate.

And, sorry to say, if anyone here called for the assassination of Bush, I would have turned them in. Calling for the assassination of the president, no matter the party, is a threat to our democracy.

[The Wizard]

19. A candidate for

extraordinary rendition.

[Ian David]

20. See prior thread: Another day, another horrific death threat on Twitter

Another day, another horrific death threat on Twitter
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7971113

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. They'll investigate, but, ...

I'm guessing they'll find a "keyboard warrior" who's no threat to anything but a baloney sandwich. Nothing to see here.

:hi:

[Hell Hath No Fury]

24. If a guy can get jail time for ---

a bar incident involving talk of a "burning bush", this guy should be looking at some serious prison. :(

[MicaelS]

25. Maybe he should be waterboarded....

He might be a member of a terrorist cell. :sarcasm:

Better safe than sorry, right? That what conservatives believe.

[classysassy]

26. Find the criminals and send them to gitmo

the hateful republican thugs want to keep it open,so keep it open to serve as their new home,the evil bastards.

[sonias]

27. Round up the idiot and interrogate him forcefully

Take all threats to POTUS absolutely seriously.

[No Elephants]

28. I'm sorry to see some of the thug like posts on this thread. .

The Constitution applies, no matter what.

[Vinca]

29. The Secret Service must be a growth industry at this point in history.

When, in years past, have we seen things such as men with sidearms at presidential appearances?