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Kentucky Man Pleads Guilty to Threatening Obama in Poem
Lexington Herald-Leader
/July 7, 2010
A Kentucky man pleaded guilty to writing and posting on a white supremacist website a poem threatening the assassination of President Barack Obama with a sniper rifle.
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on July 8th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Once the right to free speech is lost to a racist it is lost to all…just depends on who is calling it wrong!!!!
on July 8th, 2010 at 4:24 pm
Once a death threat is made, that speech is no longer qualified as “free,” since it impinges on the freedom or security of another person´s life. It doesn´t matter whether a racist said it or anyone else.
on July 8th, 2010 at 4:27 pm
The problem with what you said, Bruce, is that it’s ILLEGAL to make speech that threatens the life of a U.S. President. That’s why there is a Federal prison term of up to 5 years attached to it. I thought “everyone” knew this fact, but you’ve shown me I was wrong about that.
on July 8th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
The website (i own the world) has made and is still making threatening statements aganist the president of the United states…They should be monitered. (Big Fur Hat )–web name? is the owner of the site.
on July 9th, 2010 at 7:48 pm
To punish someone after the fact is not a violation of free speech. The first amendment was written under the same assumptions as the second amendment was; that people using those rights would do so responsibly. If those rights are abused, then “We the People” (in the form of our legal system) have the right to use due process to correct the situation. It would only be a violation of free speech if the guy was censored before he could publish it.
Would you say that if a guy with a gun used it in an unsafe manner and someone got hurt or killed, the prosecution of said gun-owner was a violation of the second amendment?
on July 10th, 2010 at 8:45 pm
It’s against federal law to threaten the president. Anyone who breaks this law should be held accountable. With that said our federal government shouldn’t be allowed to pick and choose which federal crimes they are going to enforce. It’s against federal law to enter the U.S. illegally, but the feds are filing suit against Arizona for enforcing the law. It’s against federal law to stand at a polling place in military garb with clubs yelling racist remarks and threats at people, but they were aquitted. And I don’t know if it’s a crime, but it should be for a person of that group, once aquitted, to stand in public and call for the death and genocide of an entire race of people. I’m speaking of course of the Black Panthers’ Samir Shabazz. I hate racism in any form, but our government (Obama) has an agenda when it comes to matters of race. Prosecute the whites and pardon the blacks and hispanics. Hypocricy at it’s worst!
on July 15th, 2010 at 12:26 pm
There are people who would kill “Jesus” himself because he would be considered to soft if he tried to heal someone who had been shot by one of their own. these people are ignorant, they don’t know the difference between right and wrong, but thank God, ignorance is no excuse for the law. and yes these people are being infiltrated and monitored. We are watching you. right now they are just hiding in the anonymity of the mob.
on July 17th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Pretty tough with that gun in his hand.
It’s too bad he’s only 19… those under 35 do a lot of stupid things.
I wish him good luck… but only because he’s so young, I have 2 boys almost twice his age… so I feel for him, he’s still just a young boy.
on July 17th, 2010 at 8:15 pm
CORRECTION… those under 45.