Paul LePage Urges Maine Residents To Shoot Drug Dealers

[maxrandb]

Source: Huff Post

Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) wants state residents to starting shooting drug dealers on sight in order to help alleviate Maine's heroin crisis.

"Everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry," LePage said Wednesday.
"Load up and get rid of the drug dealers."


Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-drug-dealers_us_56aa2a8de4b0d82286d50add

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How far over the line is this?

Does he want to set the limit on drug dealers, or are elected officials fair game too.

This guy either needs to be immediately frog-marched out of office, or sent to a Mental Health Center for evaluation.

This is some crazy-scary shit!!!!

[0rganism]

1. nice! i'm sure everyone in Maine can tell exactly who the drug dealers are

and the death penalty is definitely an appropriate punishment for anyone who looks like "drug dealers".

[Chemisse]

25. It's simple. If they are named “D-Money, Smoothie, Shifhis", Mainers can shoot.

This governor has really gone round the bend.

[tk2kewl]

2. sounds like incitement to me

worse than yelling fire in a crowded theater

[maxrandb]

4. When I first read this, I thought that it could not be true

then I remembered the ass-hat we are talking about.

Could you imagine if the Mayor of Flint, MI had said; "well, we have 2ND Amendment Rights, let's load up and get rid of anyone who poisoned our water"???

[valerief]

3. So he's urging people to commit felonies? He needs to be committed. nt

[cannabis_flower]

32. And impeached, ..

thrown out of office and put in jail.

[packman]

5. Heard other babbling from this governor -

but this is off the wall - drive by shooting of POSSIBLE drug dealers? If that happens will the gov. be cited in court as giving his blessing to the killer of possible drug dealers.

[Cassiopeia]

6. I have never wanted to see a politician caught with dope of some kind

more than this asshole.

[ananda]

7. He's still governor?

He should be locked up in a padded cell.

[progree]

8. LePage: those drug dealers, with names like Smoothie, impregnate young white girls

before they leave.... (that probably bothers him more than the heroin)

Maine governor blames media for racially charged language dust-up, CNN, 1/7/16
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/paul-lepage-maine-heroin/

LePage referenced new legislation aimed at traffickers, then delivered his roiling explanation.

"These aren't the people who take drugs," LePage said, in comments first picked up by the Portland Press Herald. "These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we've got to deal with down the road."

LePage denied using names like "Smoothie" for their racial connotation.

[tom_kelly]

9. Drug test him! n/t

[TeamPooka]

10. He's got a mental disorder. nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

11. Is he offering a bounty on their scalps?

[Kip Humphrey]

12. How to trash the rule of law in one easy lesson. And this guy is governor??? Unbelievable.

[crim son]

13. "D-Money has to be getting nervous." Had to laugh at that.

I'm a Mainer and this is more of the SOS from Paul LePage. The only thing that alarms me more than the garbage he spouts is my awareness that he still has a fair amount of support in our state.

[Gormy Cuss]

15. He just declared open season

and too many of the fools who support him tote guns.

Wonder how long before the first 'dealer' is shot dead by a good citizen.

[gregcrawford]

14. LePlague is a psychotic bully...

... who just guaranteed his impeachment. Incitement to commit murder most definitely surpasses the threshold for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Not even the scumbag Republicans in the legislature that support him can let this one go by.

The decent people of Maine deserve better than this piece of shit.

[leftynyc]

16. No arrest, no trial,

right to the death penalty? Is this one of those so called constitutional republicans?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

18. He doesn't believe in rule of law: prosecutor, judge, jury, executioner. So stupid & worse. nt

[dembotoz]

17. Would that defense work??? Plug someone u hate and use lepage as justification

Interesting....

[Bernardo de La Paz]

19. No. But watch somebody try it. nt

[Vinca]

20. I wonder who's dealing drugs to Lepage. The guy is either on drugs or batshit crazy.

[Akicita]

21. This sounds like an Onion piece. Besides, some undocumented pharmacists are decent people.

[cannabis_flower]

33. Not an Onion piece

Huffington Post Senior Political Reporter Amanda Terkel, who sites local sources like the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News.

[Akicita]

34. Amazing!

[meow2u3]

22. Sounds to me as LePew declared open season on blacks

We all know that "drug dealers" is nothing but a dog whistle that really means "black men." This thug is actually calling for lynchings! Outrageous!

If incitement to murder isn't grounds for impeachment, what is?

[Odin2005]

23. And by "drug dealers" he means Blacks and Mexicans.

[Chemisse]

26. Exactly. n/t

[jpak]

24. Breaking: Paul LePage declared drug dealer #1

Meth lab in Blaine House!!!!11111

[roamer65]

29. I was thinking how can we reverse it without getting banned.

You did it perfectly.

[jpak]

35. He Dee-Money

yup

[Political_Junkie]

27. Sorry, no can do!

Reagan closed all the mental health hospitals here. Nowhere left to send him, but the capitol. How were we to know he'd take over!

[olddad56]

28. what about pharmaceutical sales reps, are they fair game also?

[roamer65]

30. A governor advocating premeditated murder.

Sounds like grounds for immediate removal from office.

[valerief]

31. El Chapo urges anyone with a killing machine to shoot Paul LePage.

Probably.

[yrwehere]

36. He is such an embarrassment to the great State of Maine

I spent a decade of my adult life in Maine and still have strong ties there. All of my friends are mortified every time he opens his bile spitting mouth. I still feel it too. I cringe every time I see a headline about him. I keep reading them anyway hoping one day they say he has been removed from office and forced into exile.

[Judi Lynn]

37. How could this fool have ever been elected? n/t