Peter Fonda Threatens Obama

[Freddie Stubbs]

Source: International Business Times

Peter Fonda has made some vague threats against US President Barack Obama.

While attending the Cannes Film festival in France, the 71-year-old actor and star of classic cult movie “Easy Rider” suggested to reporters that he is training his grandchildren to use firearms in a potential showdown with Obama.

According to The Daily Telegraph newspaper, Fonda said: “I’m training my grandchildren to use long-range rifles. For what purpose? Well, I’m not going to say the words 'Barack Obama’, but …”

Then he cryptically added: “It’s more of a thought process than an actuality, but we are heading for a major conflict between the haves and the have-nots. I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war. Now, it’s about starting the world. I prefer to not to use the words, 'let’s stop something’. I prefer to say, 'let’s start something, let’s start the world’.”

Read more: http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/151082/20110524/peter-fonda-barack-obama-cannes-bp.htm

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Looks like the no-fly list will be getting an addition.

[closeupready]

1. What a disgrace.

:mad:

[Auggie]

2. Isn't he among the Haves?

[nobodyspecial]

29. Yes, and apparently the grandchildren

need to be ready to shoot the have-nots.

[JaneQPublic]

3. Has he been tested for Alzheimers? (nt)

[hlthe2b]

10. that was my thought... I've always liked Peter and this saddens me.

Jane? Calling Jane for an intervention....

[JohnnyLib2]

30. or another brain dysfunction.

Alarming.

[liberalmike27]

41. They should check

To see if his television is tuned to FOX!

[Dreamer Tatum]

4. He isn't too clear about which side he'd be on. nt

[LiberalFighter]

5. Never really thought much of him.

[KansDem]

7. I'm with you...

Always thought he was living off his father's name.

Never thought much of Jane either, for that matter...

[Scuba]

6. "Easy Rider" stopped the Viet Nam war? The man's delusional. n/t

[DevonRex]

18. Seriously. What an arrogant SOB. Nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

40. Just like how Red Dawn helped the US win the Cold War

[JAnthony]

8. Hard to believe he has a sister, Jane. This guy is definitely

off and something is wrong inside his head. Maybe it's the drugs he took back when.

[Bragi]

9. Stupid headline

The headline should be: "Elderly actor spouts gibberish".

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. WoW! Sounds like Ted Nugent. Doesn't sound like Henry's son at all. (nt)

[hlthe2b]

16. Henry was very abusive to the kids...

He had issues as well...

[LiberalEsto]

21. And their mother committed suicide

when they were fairly young.

Brooke Hayward's excellent autobiography, "Haywire" provides a lot of insight into her own life and that of the Fondas.

[Tarheel_Dem]

27. Very interesting. I had no idea. I just knew that the portraits on TCM,

paint a very different picture. He was a "liberal", whatever that meant then. But Jane & Peter speak so fondly of him. Guess you can't judge a book by it's cover, huh?

[rock]

12. His old man had problems in the parenting department

Jane turned out OK but a little squirrelly.

[jtuck004]

13. Obama has invited him to ride his chopper by the White House,

and just as he passes that beat up pickup truck with the two Secret Service agents inside...


:rofl:

[makhno]

14. ...

just saying

[DevonRex]

15. I won't be seeing his flick. Wouldn't put a dime in that asshole nutjub's pocket.

[gratuitous]

17. Better stock up on ammunition, Peter

Because when the have-nots come looking for the haves, you're going to find yourself greatly outnumbered. Do you really have the belly for shooting people by the thousands? Do you really want your grandchildren to develop the cardiac callouses necessary to shoot another person rather than share some of the fabulous wealth they had no part in creating?

[Old and In the Way]

19. Pretty f-d up Captain America. nt

[NightWatcher]

20. Fonda's grandkids vs Seal Team 6???

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

32. Seals will not be on the side of the have-nots

their orders come from the "haves". Not the overtly wacky, like Fonda, but "haves" all the same.

[TwilightGardener]

22. Trying to imagine a scenario in which Obama and Fonda's grandchildren

will meet up and have an OK Corral style gunfight. The old fart needs a CT scan.

[SidDithers]

23. Another actor with delusions of self-importance...nt

Sid

[booley]

24. He doesn't sound too much like a con

We probably shouldn't compare him to Nugent just yet. He seems to be coming from a very different place.

Don't like the implied violent rhetoric but other then that he isn't saying what a lot of people here haven't said.

[Codeine]

25. The D-List weighs in.

Seriously, who cares what that silly bastard thinks; he's never been as relevant as he seems to believe, and is utterly insignificant now.

[ClarkUSA]

26. What a fucking asshole. Secret Service are on their way as we read, I'm sure.

[MilesColtrane]

28. An armed Peter Fonda family is going to strike down the evil, repressive...

government black helicopters and usher in a new age of peace and enlightenment?

Ulee's Comedy Gold!

[yellowcanine]

31. "I came here many years ago with a biker movie and we stopped a war. "

What an odd statement. "Easy Rider" was counter cultural but not particularly anti-war. And Peter Fonda certainly was not active in the anti-war movement. Unless he is taking credit for his sister Jane's activities, this just seems like a real stretch. Actually the whole thing seems a bit ignorant and Peter Fonda comes across as not too bright, imo.

[24601]

33. Can't say I like anyone threatening any President. I'll wager the

Secret Service likes it even less.

[trueblue2007]

34. oh gees. i recommended this by mistake. THROW PETER IN JAIL !!!!!

[ramona come closer]

35. I don't know why he brought guns into it but I highly doubt he was actually

talking about Obama. Obama represents the United States. Look at what he said: "major conflict between the haves and have-nots." It is very possible that he meant that he's gonna have to teach his kids to defend themselves because they are the HAVES and it's becoming war out there. Yeah, maybe he's pissed that he sees Obama as continuing these policies; I dunno but I think this is all out of context.

[sendero]

38. It's amazing.

.... how many cannot read something like this and get any sort of real bead on what is being said. DU is getting stupider every fucking month.

[RaleighNCDUer]

42. Probably something to do with the number of RW trolls

dragging down the collective IQ.

[sufrommich]

36. Wow, that should win him a visit from the secret service. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

37. If they let him back into the country

[deutsey]

39. He's making me feel like I've never been born...

(reference to a line from the Beatles' "She Said, She Said", inspired by an acid trip Lennon was on with Fonda)