Facebook Poll Asking Whether Obama Should Be Killed

[Hissyspit]

Source: The Plumline

Secret Service Investigating Facebook Poll Asking Whether Obama Should Be Killed

The Secret Service is investigating the circumstances surrounding an eye-opening Facebook poll that asked whether Obama should be assassinated, a Secret Service spokesman confirms to us.

“We are taking the appropriate investigative steps,” the spokesman, Ed Donovan, told our reporter, Amanda Erickson. “We are aware of it.”

The poll asked: “Should Obama be killed?” It offered four choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care. The poll, of course, is only the latest example of the sort of viral incitment to violence that flares up when the sparks of anti-Obama hatred are fed oxygen by the bellows of the Internets. While anyone can put up such a poll, this kind of stuff is a sign of the moment — as David Kurtz put it, it’s akin to graffiti on the virtual wall of our times.

According to a source, the Secret Service has contacted Facebook and asked them to take the poll down. And, indeed, it’s already down.

Read more: http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/president-obama/secret-service-investigating-facebook-poll-asking-whether-obama-should-be-killed

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Screenshot showing poll can be seen here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/28/obama-facebook-poll-asks_n_301860.html

[Ian David]

1. See prior thread: SCREEN GRAB- Facebook poll: Should Obama be killed?

SCREEN GRAB- Facebook poll: Should Obama be killed?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=8673152&mesg_id=8673152

[kestrel91316]

2. If Facebook runs another poll like this, somebody needs to be prosecuted.

Oh, and the Secret Service needs to be tracking down and having a serious talk woth every single person who voted "yes".

[Posteritatis]

4. Facebook doesn't preapprove everything posted there

Nor should it.

Polls like that are put up by the users, exactly like they are here.

[Posteritatis]

3. Cue two-minute hate towards Facebook in general in five.. four.. three.. (nt)

[Stuckinthebush]

7. God, I hate Facebook!

Snark, snark, generalized statement!

[Posteritatis]

8. Outraged response! (nt)

[lapfog_1]

5. Secret Service should have left it up

and had facebook provide the userid and real names of every person that voted "yes" or "yes if he cuts my health care".

And then paid a visit to each and every one of those assholes.

[quiller4]

12. Facebook reported poll to Secret Service asked and

left it up for a period as requested then took it down when Secret Service gave the OK

[tblue]

6. But it got somebody a lot of attention, right?

Everyone's a shock-jock these days. The more outrageous, the more press they get. It's as though we as media consumers are so jaded and so numbed by the relentless onslaught of sensory input that the attention seekers have to reach to unspeakable depths to get the public face time they want. It's really an easy sell. Everybody buys it. Even we at DU are feeding their shameless egos.

Beyond that, this is the most revolting thing I've ever heard of and I hope somebody does some seirous jail time for putting that on Facebook. It's not a joke. It's not even remotely funny. And it should be treated as a threat and incitement to assassination. I'm a firm believer in first amendment rights. You can say whatever you want to say, but you are also responsible and should be held accountable for everything you say.

[angrycarpenter]

9. Facebook polls is down nt

[Fire1sKid]

10. FUCK FACEBOOK!!!!!!!!

This is why I refuse to get a facebook page.

[Pab Sungenis]

11. We here at DU were the ones who reported it to the Secret Service

and got Facebook to not only take down the poll, but remove the application entirely. Good work, DU'ers.