Rammell isn't the first Rexburg resident who has drawn attention for making an anti-Obama comment. This is really sick and indicates how deep this hate mongering is going. Last November, second-grade and third-grade students on a school bus there chanting Assassinate Obama after he was elected. The mayor of Rexburg, Idaho publicly apologized for the incident but the damage was done. Remember the Aryan Nation? In the 1980's, the white supremacist Aryan Nations was headquartered in North Idaho. GOP gubernatorial candidate talks of "hunting" Obama
Sarcasm or threat: Did Rex Rammell cross the line? You bet he did! Calling for the President to be assassinated is illegal. Threatening the president is a felony punishable by five years in prison and a $250,000 fine and for good reason.
This is not funny! The atmosphere is too tense to tolerate explosive language like assassination. The following presidents have been assassinated in the United States: Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, William McKinley and John F. Kennedy. There were attempted assassinations on the following presidents: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush.
GOP blasts Idaho candidate's 'Obama tags' comment They were slow in coming out and slamming what he said. They let it fester for a day. I'm telling you, I do not like the way this is headed.
Yesterday I noted It gets more vile and vitriolic every day. I am blown away by the hate and the calls for Obama's death! We know it is because Obama is black and some whites are angry as they fear they lost control of their America! I know President Obama receives more death threats than any other President in history So far 400 in total 30 per day. I just can not believe it! I encourage you to read this link it is short. This is a so called Preacher and this is so vile and hate filled it is horrific as this idiot tells his flock he goes to bed every night praying that Obama be killed.
You know, that so called pastor a Preacher in Arizona named Steven Anderson said "I am going to pray Obama dies" " his wife should be husbandless and his daughters Fatherless" That hate and he is preaching it on the pulpit, Is too much. It is horrible for anyone to say that plus he he demands that all gays and lesbians face the death penalty. Then he said the country is run by faggots and he called Barney Frank a pedophile before praying for Obama to melt like a snail. Gospel of Hate: Arizona pastor Steve Anderson spews bile toward ...
This increasing hateful vile should be illegal and I do not understand how it is condoned because it is just getting worse and worse every day. Now there is no denying it is because President Obama is Black! We have got to reign this end before it is too late and Republicans get the second Revolution they have been asking for since Preident Obama was elected!
James Joiner
Gardner, Ma
www.anaveragepatriot.com
22 comments:
If Obama was white, with the same rhetorical power and personality, he would have won the general election by the biggest landslide of all time. I spoke to people before the election who told me, how much they hated how Bush had handled the presidency, and how they didn't like the McCain/Palin ticket, but they were going to vote for them anyway, because no way would they vote for Obama. Racism is alive and well and thriving, and increasingly, out in the open.
it isn't enough to vote him out of office- these folks talk about murder blithely. it isn't enough to outvote at the polls- the other side has to be exterminated. jim, if that isn't civil war- i don't know what is.
Didn't know what to say yesterday and today I agree is what I think and have been like you.
It's evident the tea baggers and any off chute organizations are happening for one reason only and that is because of skin color.
It will only get worse cuz the right will not call out their own kind and the left are pussy's.
I absolutely agree. This is intolerable! I am frightened.
I know Holte
I really am amazed that this just keeps ramping up and it is getting openly Militant and seemingly it is going unabated. This is what I was afraid of from day one. We can only hope much is being done behind the scenes on our behalf!
I know Billy! It is against the law to advocate assassination even under the cover of a joke. Issuing licenses to hunt down Obama, this is not funny! WTF?
Tom
This is what I was afraid of since day one. We can only hope something is being done behind the scenes. Republicans have been working hard for this and they will blame it on Obama. This is so screwed! Just imagine how different it would be today if Bush never happened!
I must say, I'm also amazed how rasistic Americans are.
My husband had an American boss once and we invited her home, but before she came she took my husband to one side and said "you know, my husband is an afro-american...?"
yeah so what?!
They were both really sweet people and I can't underrstand how some ppoeple wouldnh't like them, because one of them is black!
You know what is really ironic?
After the Nazi-time germans had such a bad contients about racismn that when I was young this was probably the place ion the world where all kinds of races were most welcome and when we got a kid from a different part of the world into our class everybody wanted to be friends with taht person, simply because we were so curious about what they would be like. it was exciting then. All that changed when the borders openend and then all of a sudden the some communists became neo-Nazis! isn't the world just totally insane?!
Billie
You will be alright but you have every reason to be. This is so friggen third world! What happens if the military turns on each other? Man some were stupid enough to think racism was over and a new age has begun. Racism will continue to get worse along with this breakdown that is just beginning. I will shut up! Take care
Hi Sarah
Racism is worse than ever and will get worse. I am a viva le differance kind of guy myself. I could care less what color or Religion you are as long as you are good people and doing a good job. They thought the Depression and WW2 were bad I have been saying for years now what is just beginning to take shape will dwarf them combined thanks to Bush's "success"
If Obama had been an ALL-White male, he would have won the Presidency with margins that exceeded FDR's. He would have had an irreversible mandate for change.
But instead of nominating a candidate who could actually have led the country toward 'change,' the Bosses installed a guy whose election made us feel good, and relieved some of the more obvious social pressures.
It was change--like changing the sheets, not changing the culture.
Sue-PRAHS, sue-prahs...
No, I was NEVER a supporter. Not after Obama praised Raygun, during the campaign, for damping the 'excesses of my generation, on whose shoulders that skinny, skeevy fucker is now standing, and on whose heads he is pissing...
Hi Woody
Such a disappointment! I was a supporter but he has had to placate so many opposite sides he is more of the same only window dressing instead of silly putty! I am bothered when anyone praises the Father pf this entire mess Reagan!
We're done. Cheney was right about death throes-he just had who was going through them wrong.
My advice to lefties: if you live in Dixie, Idaho, or Utah, move. While there's still time.
James,
Isn't inciting hatred illegal in the US? I thought it was.
One of the blogs that seems to have some active following is Malkin's and that blog, in my view, is close to a hate blog.
Hatred is like a cancer of the soul, if not treated early, it will consume the host.
JR
I do not think you will be able to get away from it anywhere. I am sick! I feel so bad for our kids and Grandkids. This is so unnecessary!
Hi Anna
You bet! Calling for the President to be assassinated is illegal. Threatening the president is a felony punishable by five years in prison and a $250,000 fine and for good reason.
Anna Malkin is only one that is a hate and fear monger that should be censored sadly many are in Congress. It is BS that this is part of Democracy. They better stop this and quick!
Brother you know you are right and I am convinced they have waited too long already. I refuse to believe nothing has been done yet and it continues to get worse every day. Not good Bud!
Wow, that Rev. Anderson is a piece of work! I feel very sorry for the children who are indoctrinated with such vileness and hatred. Historically, there have been worse times. Reading "Team of Rivals" by Doris Kearns Goodwin, I am shocked at the events in the period leading up to the Civil War as abolitionists were murdered or tortured. Of course, African-American slaves were treated worse, as sub-humans or property, and the political scene then was so intensely fractured, I now understand how Civil War was the final blow.
Hi Vicki
Welcome! It is stunning they can spew that hatred bile and get away calling themselves Christian. Sadly many believe that crap. This will get a lot worse every day until it blows and it is!
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