Facebook Page Prays for Death of President Obama;

[The Doctor.]

The group title;

"DEAR LORD, THIS YEAR YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTOR, PATRICK SWAYZIE. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE ACTRESS, FARAH FAWCETT. YOU TOOK MY FAVORITE SINGER, MICHAEL JACKSON. I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU KNOW, MY FAVORITE PRESIDENT IS BARACK OBAMA. AMEN"

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=188201860546&ref=search&sid=1118833209.2810941581..1#!/pages/DEAR-LORD-THIS-YEAR-YOU-TOOK-MY-FAVORITE-ACTOR-PATRICK-SWAYZIE-YOU-TOOK-MY-FAVORITE-ACTRESS-FARAH-FAWCETT-YOU-TOOK-MY-FAVORITE-SINGER-MICHAEL-JACKSON-I-JUST-WANTED-TO-LET-YOU-KNOW-MY-FAVORITE-PRESIDENT-IS-BARACK-OBAMA-AMEN/111712585523370?ref=sgm

These are sick people.

[Ozymanithrax]

1. Face book in not a living being and can not pray. The idiot responsible for the page can. n/t

[The Doctor.]

3. You know what I meant...

:silly:

[Mojeoux]

63. If You Are On Face-Book, Please Go and Complain About This Group!

I did, and you can only do it once.

[Mojeoux]

37. Dear Doctor,

I've been spending my extra Monday time sending messages to some of the people in this group.

This is what I said to "Kevin,"

"How disgusting.
When was the last time you laughed when someone said the "N" word Kevin?
No One should openly pray for the death of another person.
Go to an airport and "JOKE" about God "taking out" an airplane."

So this made me think about how the OJ trial hinged on the misuse of the "N" word. So I posted about how Tea Baggers go nuts when you call them racist, but is that word part of their everyday jargon?

[The Doctor.]

39. It really is something.

They really think that openly calling for the death of the President is 'free speech'.

[Mojeoux]

62. Dear Doctor

Those people are ickky. Plus I feel creepy just for having gone off at them. It's like I was just spreading more gak into the world.
Some of them were pretty pissed off and we had flame wars. But again, it's just more negativity.
I want to bring down the negativity, so just arguing with them is so fruitless.

I apologized to one lady who was civil. I told her the Group was still dumb and I bet she could make a classier group and she thanked me.

Anyway, I hope Face book takes this thing down, sooooooooooooooon.

[bluestateguy]

2. Sounds like a backdoor way to make threats

It is not free speech. Nor should it be.

[bbinacan]

4. Not even original

Union Memo Hints At N.J. Gov.'s Death

http://wcbstv.com/local/governor.christie.union.2.1621917.html

[SOS]

7. Wow

Exact same gibberish.
How embarrassing.

[Initech]

5. Hope the secret service knows about this.

[SOS]

6. If this had been directed at Bush a few years ago

The very same people applauding would have been screaming about respect for the Commander in Chief and treason.
But since it's Obama they think it's "humor".

It's exceptionally simpleminded, and yet the denizens of Brownshirt Land think it's clever.

:eyes:

[Maru Kitteh]

19. A few years ago & directed at Bush, many here would have laughed and cheered.

[SOS]

21. Praying for the Lord to take George Bush

would have garnered few laughs or cheers.

[LibertyLover]

28. Um, no - at least not those of us who knew about Presidential succession

George Bush was and is my least favorite president, right after Ronnie Reagan, but there is no way in hell or on the Gods' green earth (slightly dusty today) that I would have been up for President Cheney.

[The Doctor.]

43. And they would have been roundly castigated and likely tombstoned.

This site never tolerated openly advocating for the death of Bush.

[SalviaBlue]

51. Its not original to pray for your enemy's death.

The christofascists do it all the time.

It didn't happen here on DU regarding Bush because DU'ers would NOT think it was funny.

[Vickers]

8. Pray in one hand and spit in the other...

...see which fills up quicker.

:eyes:

Fucking fairy tale jackasses.

[AnArmyVeteran]

9. 181,812 sick, twisted fans on that evil site

It's sickening how the right pretends to be the party of 'values' and 'honor' and the 'American Way' and yet be so hateful they created a page like this. And the 181,812 fans of that site are just a fraction of the millions of radial mutants who want to harm to come to the president.

NOTE: Oliver North advocating harm to then-President Clinton: Right wing threats are nothing new. In 1995, when Oliver North guest hosted on the Rush Limbaugh show he said "If I knew of any harm that would come to the president (Clinton) I would do nothing to stop it". The traitorous North said this to Limbaugh's audience of gun toting radicals who are looking for an excuse to go kill someone. North swore to preserve and protect the US against all enemies when he entered the military. That oath is for life. But North violated that oath and committed yet another traitorous act.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

10. Has anyone reported it to the Feds?

[Darth_Kitten]

18. How does one do that?

Just curious.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

20. call them

fbi.gov has a tip line

[Quantess]

11. They can't even spell the names correctly.

You would think that the title of an official facebook page would be worth spell-checking. It's Farrah and it's Swayze.
:eyes:

[skepticscott]

14. Bad spelling is the least of these dirtbag's flaws

but it is at least a clear indication of how often they read, which is pretty much never.

[Quantess]

15. There are certain things that are more important to spell correctly and have good grammar

the title of a facebook page is one of them, along with tattoos, resumes, and neon signs.

Not being able to spell is understandable. But not double checking it is just... really bad.

[skepticscott]

17. Well, double checking only works if you've made

what you can perceive as an error. If you've spelled something wrong because you really think that's the way it's spelled, all of the proof reading in the world isn't going to help.

And the reason a lot of these people spell so many things wrong in such blissful ignorance is that they rarely, if ever, read things written by people who know better. You learn to spell largely by rote, by seeing words spelled correctly over and over. If your exposure to language is largely through TV and radio, your spelling is likely to be poorer.

[piratefish08]

12. sounds, um, effective.

the secret service could set up a double-secret super prayer warrior team to counterbalance these lunatics.

ooga booga!

[Raspberry]

13. Um,

did you think it was so awful a couple of weeks ago when it was the NJ teacher's union praying for the death of Gov. Chris Christie in the exact same words?

It's a joke. A stupid joke, but a joke nonetheless.

Someone needs to take a chill pill.

[The Doctor.]

24. Oh, didn't see that. Let's have a link.

Thank you!

If the NJ teacher's union is using the same tactics, then they should be STFU.

Right?

[The Doctor.]

27. Seriously... let's have a link.

Anytime now...

[progressiveinaction]

34. Unfortunately its true

http://wcbstv.com/local/governor.christie.union.2.1621917.html

[The Doctor.]

38. Thanks. How disappointing.

I don't find it funny either.

On the FB page, however, they are openly advocating for the death of the President. That is indeed a crime.

[laconicsax]

16. Maybe if we pray *extra* hard, we'll cancel their prayers.

:rofl:

[The Doctor.]

25. That much is evidenced by the 'unrecs' on this OP.

Is it time to reveal the truth of the unrec feature yet? Or should some interlopers remain paranoid?

[laconicsax]

32. And that truth is what exactly?

All I see is that not everyone likes your thread. Whining about it accomplishes nothing.

[The Doctor.]

44. Lame.

If one chooses to 'like' or 'dislike' this thread, they are performing juvenile exercise.

Bringing awareness of people suggesting harm to the President is not a fucking popularity contest. The fact that you see it that way says much about you. The only reason not to 'like' the post is if you either a) Support the advocacy of harm to the President, or b) you don't think there's anything serious about people doing so.

That's not 'whining'; Unreccers here fall into one of those two categories... which one are you?

Now, before you spout off about how they're 'just making a joke' or they 'can't be taken seriously', think back to the guy who made a joke about 'God speaking through a burning bush' and was sentenced to three years in jail for it.

If these shitheads thought that sentence was appropriate for that joke, then they should do thrice the time themselves.

Got a problem with that?

[laconicsax]

53. There are other reasons that seem to have escaped you.

Recommending a post means that you think it deserves to go on the Greatest Threads page. While I didn't unrec your post, I can think of a few reasons why your post doesn't deserve to be on that page.

-It isn't thought provoking.
-There's no substance to it.
-It doesn't elicit discussion. All discussion on this thread has been people either agreeing with your post or telling related stories. This is because there's no real content of your post to discuss.

I'm sure there are more.

Your comment above, is far more deserving of being on the Greatest page than your OP for some of those exact reasons.

You never answered my question though. You said, "Is it time to reveal the truth of the unrec feature yet?" and I asked what that truth was. You've yet to explain what you meant. Offering quotes and admonishment for imagined behavior isn't an answer.

[The Doctor.]

54. I never post with the intention of getting an OP to TGP.

You seem to be suggesting that people rec or unrec a post based on it's aesthetic value. I can't disagree with that, but if a post is about something as outrageous as people openly advocating for the death of the POTUS, then I really do feel a great deal of shame for the "Liberals" that are oh-so-sophisticated that not having enough 'flair' or 'sophistication' is enough to dismiss a post.

It really compounds the 'elitist intellectual' perception of Liberals.

Make no mistake, this issue deserves as much visibility as possible. I'm glad you can agree with that. I intend to utilize the insight you've kindly given me to do just that.

As for your question, that's a 'project x' issue. If you've been around DU for a while, then you know what that is by now.

[laconicsax]

58. If that's true then you shouldn't give a rat's ass how many recs you got. eom

[The Doctor.]

64. The point is about people UNreccing a thread about wishing death

on the POTUS.

Not about whether "I" 'get recs' or not.

Little perspective here.

[The Doctor.]

48. Here's a quote for you;

"Dear lord i hate obama and he is definetly not my fav president but kill him anyways...AMEN!!!"
-Christian G.

Just let it slide, right?

[jmowreader]

22. We do the same thing, you know...

Most of our favorite congressmen are Boner and Bachmann. Same deal.

The differences: We can spell Patrick Swayze and Farrah Fawcett's names, and if there's a one of them in that group whose record collection contains anything but Ted Nugent's Kiss My Ass and Hank Williams Jr's "McCain-Palin Tradition," I'd be shocked.

[The Doctor.]

23. When did "We" pray for God to 'Take' George W Bush?

I sure as fuck didn't.

[jmowreader]

29. Well, we knew there was no point

Do you REALLY, seriously, in your heart of hearts, believe Bush is going anywhere but hell when he dies?

But seriously, this group is all a bit of (somewhat sick) bullshit, okay? I've seen the same prayer with Republican politicians, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and anyone else we don't like. I don't really think it's worth worrying about, and the Secret Service won't give a shit...telling God that after he took all your favorite celebrities he should take your "favorite" politician (you know, the one you love to hate) or even that "Pray for President Obama--Psalm 109.8" bumper sticker don't exactly rise to the level of giving the teabaggers an exact map of the beach he's going to next week including the location of a really good place to set up a sniper nest and a list of ammunition dealers within 50 miles of the place. There are threats to the president's life but this Facebook group really isn't one of them. It's just stupid, repulsive, trite, boring, moranic, and very, very old.

[JCMach1]

26. Reported them...

to FB

[GoneOffShore]

30. Did the same.

[Oceansaway]

31. sick fuks....n/t

[deaniac21]

33. We'd never do anything like that

http://www.binscorner.com/pages/d/death-threats-against-bush-at-protests-i.html

[The Doctor.]

40. And who precisely is "we".

I do not condone openly advocating for the death of the President.

Do you?

No?

Then who is 'we'? Some moron with a sign?

How'd that happen?

[deaniac21]

50. The left doctor. The point being no political persuasion is

short a supply of morons with stupid bumper stickers and signs. It's a simple concept that most can see without having to ask questions but I'm happy to help!

[The Doctor.]

55. So... "The Left" called for the death of a sitting President?

I'll be happy to quote you on that around here.

Unless, of course, you'd like to revise your point.

I'm patient like that.

[michreject]

35. Kick

[Old Troop]

36. Ignore it - they're idiots

[Tailormyst]

41. It's the internet.....

[Fla_Democrat]

42. Wasn't there a dust up about

the New Jersey governor and a union recently.. that was the exact same thing? :shrug:

I don't remember all the details, but recall one side wailing and bemoaning the hate and the other side saying it's a joke, no sense of humor, too thin skinned.

Come to think of it... wasn't it on facebook.. as well?

[The Doctor.]

45. That would make neither of these instances less deplorable.

Except that one openly advocates for the death of a sitting President.

[BlueGirlRedState]

46. I unfriended someone over this

My friend and I never met but we adopted from the same orphanage in China and have been on the same yahoo group for several years. When I saw that she had joined this FB group, I commented to her that it was not funny, it was disgraceful and said "bye" before I "unfriended" her. She immediately wrote back:

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I'm sorry that my becoming a fan of that group offended you. You are right; it was a sick joke and not at all funny. It struck me as entertaining at the moment.

I hope you know I would not wish any harm to any of our governing officials, despite my intense dislike for their policies. Can we just agree to disagree and still be friends? Again, I apologize for offending you. I'd sure hate to have this pall over our relationship over a dumb group I joined.

Sorry... :(

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I have not "friended" her again, I want to respond but I can't find the right words to express how angry and upset this has made me. People have to know that words have consequences -- it only takes one crazy person to carry out these actions because they don't see it as a joke.

[SalviaBlue]

52. Yea, I know how you feel, it popped up on my Facebook

because one of my sisters joined. :cry: Words fail me.

I have to just ignore it... I can't help her, she is too deeply indoctrinated at this point. When I see her, I talk about cooking, TV and dogs.

[The Doctor.]

56. If I may....

You should talk to her.

Start with questions. They are the way to the truth. Ask your 'un'friend just what policies she opposes.

She will either have no concern that you cannot address by asking why and from where it comes...

-OR-

She will have a knowledge and understanding of how those policies may be harmful.


Either way, someone will attain enlightenment.


"The only losers in communication are the ones who stop listening." -Garthism '10

[WolverineDG]

59. at least she admitted she was wrong

but I'd ask her if she's left the group yet before "re friending." My brother posts shit like this & gets mad when I respond with Snopes or the truth, yet feels it's ok to attack my friends & call them names when I post political stuff. He never apologizes, which is why he's now in "time out."

I just post something along the lines of "Yay! I love to see Christians praying for someone to die! Just like Jesus tells us to do!" Makes their heads spin. And if it makes 'em defriend me, good. If they say "we're not really doing that," I ask them just what exactly ARE they doing then. :crickets:

dg

[BlueGirlRedState]

47. I unfriended someone over this

My friend and I never met but we adopted from the same orphanage in China and have been on the same yahoo group for several years. When I saw that she had joined this FB group, I commented to her that it was not funny, it was disgraceful and said "bye" before I "unfriended" her. She immediately wrote back:

-------------------

I'm sorry that my becoming a fan of that group offended you. You are right; it was a sick joke and not at all funny. It struck me as entertaining at the moment.

I hope you know I would not wish any harm to any of our governing officials, despite my intense dislike for their policies. Can we just agree to disagree and still be friends? Again, I apologize for offending you. I'd sure hate to have this pall over our relationship over a dumb group I joined.

Sorry... :(

-----------------

I have not "friended" her again, I want to respond but I can't find the right words to express how angry and upset this has made me. People have to know that words have consequences -- it only takes one crazy person to carry out these actions because they don't see it as a joke.

[Haole Girl]

49. This is really sick. Why hasn't this page been shut down? nt

[The Doctor.]

57. Because calling for the death of a Democrat must be OK...

While making jokes about a 'burning bush' is horrific.

http://www.tribemagazine.com/board/tribe-main-forum/25939-man-sentenced-burning-bush-comment.html

[bridgit]

60. My hope is that no-less than the FBI had *better* be watching all these exchanges

[Amonester]

61. US Secret Service phone numbers here.

In my sigline.

Don't let even just one of these wackos go unchecked.

Even if it's just to make sure they get a 'wake-up' call, like 'Hello there, this is the US Secret Service calling...'

I'd pay to see the idiot's face!