When will the Secret Service start arresting these....

[Aviation Pro]

...motherfuckers for their actions? Maybe we should gather progressive gun owners in large groups and start making "jokes" like this about Two Shoes, Shitstain and other Republicants (afterall, they think they are protected by group think with guns).

Link here: http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/hunting-wolves-and-men/?pagemode=print


Hunting Wolves, and Men

They started hunting gray wolves in the high reaches of the Rocky Mountains on Tuesday, the first time in years that people have been allowed to shoot for sport this genetic cousin of man’s best friend.

For those who hate wolves and long for the era when they were wiped off the map, and for those who welcomed back this call of the wild, the last few days have revealed some dark feelings in the changing West — and some strength of character as well.

A Republican candidate for governor of Idaho, Rex Rammell, was at a political barbecue last week when somebody brought up the tags used by wolf hunters, and then made a reference to killing the president of the United States.

“Obama tags?” Rammell replied, to laughter, according to an account in The Times-News of Twin Falls. “We’d buy some of those.”

In the Idaho of the past, jokes about shooting a president could sometimes be dismissed without consequence. Indeed, the comment was buried in an initial news story about the gathering, and Rammell sloughed it off later, saying on his Web site that “Obama hunting tags was just a joke! Everyone knows Idaho has no jurisdiction to issue tags in Washington, D.C.”

Ha-ha. What a knee-slapper, these assassination jokes. And besides, he couldn’t hunt down Obama with out-of-state tags. Get it?

[zbdent]

1. I don't know of any Lefties who used the phrase "... blood of tyrants"

while wearing a visible, loaded weapon ...

[truebrit71]

2. Good question...sounds like a threat to me...

..hope fully these small-penised imbeciles will have a few hunting accidents and do the world's overall IQ a favour...

[BlooInBloo]

3. Probably not until a shot is fired.

[ProgressiveProfessor]

4. When its a credible threat

As distasteful as we find such humor, its not really illegal unless its credible threat to POTUS.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

5. What about the past 8 years with Bush? I'll bet the S.S. would already have them "silenced".

[ProgressiveProfessor]

12. Disagree The Secret Service is about as apolitical as you can get

The suppression during Bush's reign was mostly state and local.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. Well the asshole with the AR-15 in Phoenix is on record saying he wants the President to DIE

as does the meth-addled lunatic "pastor" of his church. Is that credible enough for you?

[ProgressiveProfessor]

13. Do you know what action if any was taken about that?

The OP was about hunting tags

[liberal N proud]

6. When its too late

[MercutioATC]

7. Based on the examples provided in this article?

Hopefully never.

[Aviation Pro]

8. Strongly disagree.....

...this falls under the yelling fire in a crowded theatre scenario.

[MercutioATC]

9. The law and I disagree.

This example creates neither panic nor an incitement to action.


It may have been a tasteless joke, but that's all it was...and there's no law against having a questionable sense of humor.

[Aviation Pro]

11. And I submit that in the echo chambers....

...that exist on both sides of the aisle that the definition of incitement has changed.

The total immersion environment of 24x7 right wing propoganda machine is the powder key and the fuse may be as innocuous as this "joke."

We agree to disagree here.

[MercutioATC]

14. Fair enough.

My concern is twofold.

First, I have a problem with expanding the realm of what is prohibited by law...especially when it's political. I feel that, at times, we're already stifling legitimate opposition for what I consider to be bogus "security concerns".

Second, legitimizing this issue over hunters joking about an "Obama tag" will, I believe, come back to bite us in the ass. If one is willing to argue that this is a legitimate threat that should be prosecuted under the law, how does one shrug off equally silly things like the Bush "pants on fire" cars? Isn't that akin to setting the President on fire?