Man gets 33 months for threatening Obama in poem

[RamboLiberal]

Source: SF Chronicle/AP

A Kentucky man who acknowledged threatening President Barack Obama in a poem has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison.

Johnny Logan Spencer apologized for writing the poem, which described a fatal sniper shooting of the president.





Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/12/06/national/a140047S17.DTL&tsp=1

[Cirque du So-What]

1. What's his freep username?

You just know he's registered at that clown circus.

[notesdev]

2. Here's another one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sniper_%28poem%29

Clearly a terrorist!

[eleny]

3. kr

[Judi Lynn]

4. Ky. man who wrote threatening Obama poem sentenced

http://3.bp.blogspot.com.nyud.net:8090/_Vs1uvLo8-5w/S383MkPPc0I/AAAAAAAAA6E/DsXakucDZwQ/s320/logan.jpg

Johnny Logan Spencer
Ky. man who wrote threatening Obama poem sentenced
Dec 6, 2010 4:33pm

~snip~
"The bullet that he has chambered is one of the purest pride, And the inspiration on the casing reads DIE negro DIE," the four-stanza poem reads. It does not name Obama.

"The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death, and where there was once a face there is nothing left..." the poem said.

An attorney for Spencer, Laura Wyrosdick, argued that Spencer's threat was a "one-time deviation from his normal life."

"I don't believe and I'll never believe that this was a credible threat to the president," Wyrosdick said.

Some members of Spencer's family attended the sentencing and cried after the sentence was announced.

Spencer used the online moniker "Pain1488," a reference to a phrase used by white nationalists as well as an homage to Adolf Hitler.

More:
http://www.necn.com/12/06/10/Ky-man-who-wrote-threatening-Obama-poem-/landing_politics.html?&blockID=3&apID=732756e3497a4b8d851bc96ef12376b5

[Ian David]

5. Have fun in prison, stupid Neo-Nazi. n/t

[Judi Lynn]

6. He does have that "supremacy" look, doesn't he?

It would have been great if "Ma" had been the one who blew the whistle on his stupid death threat poem just before she traveled to sing with the choir celestial.

[Ian David]

7. His screen name has "1488" in it.

Racist Skinhead Glossary
Common terms of the movement


14/88: Common white supremacist code. 14 stands for the "14 words" slogan coined by David Lane, who is serving a 190-year sentence for his part in the assassination of a Jewish talk show host: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children." 88 means "Heil Hitler," as H is the eighth letter of the alphabet.

More:
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2006/fall/motley-crews/racist-skinhead-glossary

[Judi Lynn]

8. Useful link. It shows us what we saw a Teapartier do to harm Lauren Valle's head

was a lazy, underhanded vicious act these guys do to people they have downed. It aims to break jaws or worse, if they get "lucky."

http://tucsoncitizen.com.nyud.net:8090/three-sonorans/files/2010/10/RandPaulStomp-300x210.png
Thanks for posting the link. What an unworthy bunch.

[Ian David]

12. Yes, it does...

[ncdemclt]

13. Really?

You are going to post a pic from American History X? While I in no way shape or form agree with this piece of shit, you ought to rethink your pic’s in your post.

[Ian David]

14. American History X is an anti-nazi movie.

The fact that neo-nazis appropriated some of its imagery is just further proof that racists are not it-getters.

You also don't get the idea of my poster, do you?

The idea is that the Paultard head-stompers were taking their cues from the American History X curb-stomping scene because they themselves are (probably) neo-nazis.

[24601]

11. Moran! He coulda made a movie instead - showing it that way has

already been OK as just artistic expression.

[rasputin1952]

9. I have no empathy for nazis...

and judging by his picture above, I am justified in saying, if this is the "best" nazi's can come up with, I'll sleep well tonight.

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[No Elephants]

15. He's a racist POS, but why does he get 33 months while other inciting speech

on talk radio and in wingnut churches goes unchecked?

[NikRik]

16. I hate all that are racist however

What happen to the Americian right to free speech . Now remember I have not read this speech and really do not care to .I have a list of quotes on my computer and this is one I find fitting for this thread.
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”
Voltaire quote