Current NRA Board member has advocated Obama's assassination on at least three seperate occasions

[Bjorn Against]

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The NRA currently has Ted Nugent sitting on their Board of Directors, Nugent has advocated the assassination of Barack Obama on at least three seperate occasions yet the NRA continues to allow him to sit on their Board and speak for the organization.

You may view the three assassination threats made by Nugent below...

He first threatens both Hillary Clinton and Obama in this video...

He then stands by his comments here...

Then he goes on to make another threat and this time the NRA provides him the microphone to advocate assassination at their convention...

And what was the NRA's response to Nugent using their microphone to announce he would be dead or in jail if Obama got reelected?

This is what the NRA had to say about him on the official NRA blog the very same day he made those comments...

Nugent was recently reelected to his third term on the NRA Board of Directors where he has done innumerable deeds to help us utilize the Second Amendment and, thanks to his reelection, appears to be intent on continuing so for a long time to come. Thanks Uncle Ted

http://www.nrablog.com/post/2012/04/16/Ted-Nugent-amps-up-the-NRA-Annual-Meeting.aspx

Can someone please explain to me why we allow a small number of DUers to post in support of an organization that gives an advocate of assassination a platform? We don't allow people to post in support of the Republican Party here, I find it absurd that we allow people to promote an organization that has a Board member who advocates the assassination of Obama.

[PoliticAverse]

1. That Ted Nugent is a board member is indicative of how far the NRA has gone off the deep end.

(And I see Olliver North is also a board member)

[Tumbulu]

2. I am completely fed up about this

there is a suggestion in Meta that we OCCUPY the gungeon....I went there and posted a bit- that place is full of these creeps and the few normal DU'ers are outnumbered.

I suppose we could post a petition to the admin- I would sign it!

Good OP, thanks for bringing this up!

[bongbong]

3. They're like Gollum

People with the G.M.C (gun mental condition) need their Precious as much as Gollum needed the ring. Most need their guns more than food, some more than sex, a few even more than air.

[Baitball Blogger]

4. Time to take this shit seriously.

[glinda]

24. Agree.

[freshwest]

5. Nugent, Romney, the NRA and the rest of the wingnut cults and DU don't mix. Get out.

[Logical]

6. No REAL organization, like Red Cross or Planned Parenthood have IDIOTS like Nugent....

on their board of directors.

I am 100% for any DU member who defends the NRA being tombstoned.

[6502]

21. ++1 - I knew I felt something change here...

... but I wasn't sure how to mention it to others.

Yes...
Hunt...
Find...
Tombstone.

[Logical]

22. 6502 processor?

[Cha]

7. ASSHOLE. NRA better rethink that now that they're

under the mircroscope NOW.

[Bjorn Against]

28. It is time to not only put them under the microscope but to make them answer some explain themselves

The NRA bills themself as a gun safety organization, they need to be grilled on whether or not they think their board member is practicing proper gun safety himself. I want to see every NRA spokesperson grilled on whether they believe people like Ted Nugent who wave guns around in the air threatening to shoot Obama and Hillary should be allowed to own guns.

[AnotherMother4Peace]

8. He sounds like a dangerous man & a chickenhawk coward who hides behind a gun. nt

[Doctor_J]

9. And there are scores of Duers who think Obama should remain silent

on gun control so as not to "piss off the NRA". they are low-life cowards and it sickens me that the president will probably listen to their advice.

[iandhr]

10. I was under the impression that threatening the life of the President is a crime.

[Bjorn Against]

11. It is supposed to be, but he has friends in high places

This is a prime example of how the 1% is treated differently under the law than the rest of us.

[spanone]

12. nugent should be escorted to the border and his ass should be kicked out

[SheilaT]

13. Don't we have laws against that sort of thing?

I mean, even if the NRA were a reasonable organization, which it is not, it's not okay to advocate assassinating the president. Any president. No matter who he is, what the party affiliation is, anything.

So why hasn't this man been picked up by the Secret Service?

[Mr.Bill]

16. Actually, they went over and had a little talk with him after the last incident.

They also cancelled a gig he had scheduled at a concert on a military base just to give him a little kick in the wallet. He's been relatively quiet since then.

[defacto7]

19. Because the other threat to America

besides the 1% who want to buy it, are the gun nuts who threaten to start a war or other insurrections of various kinds if anyone tries to make them follow the laws of the people. They want America to be the wild west of the 1860's and they don't care how they keep it that way.

The government of the people is standing between two monoliths, the wealthy 1% corporate barons and the fearful, mis-educated, arrogant, gun worshipers.

[world wide wally]

14. I saw Ted Nugent at the Kickapoo Creek Rock Festival back in about 1971. The asshole was so fucked

up... he fell off the stage...(maybe someone can take him rock climbing now).

[cantbeserious]

15. Indeed Why Do We Allow Gun Advocates At DU

eom

[MotherPetrie]

17. I wonder the same thing. They are enabling assholes like Nugent.

[Godot51]

18. Coward

Little man Ted is a coward and a blowhard.

He had his chance to go to war in the 60s and he opted out in a typical warhawk's cowardly fashion, feigned insanity.

"Anal warts? 5 Deferments? How about I shit myself?"

[defacto7]

20. Cowards usually need weapons

to make themselves feel powerful because they actually can't stand on their own feet without a crutch and they never learned to get along with the other children.

Oh, how close cowardice is to mass murder.

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. The fact that the NRA allows someone like nugent to sit on their board tells me

that they have no desire to be viewed as anything but in-your-face bad boys who like to go out of their way to antagonize people. This would be a perfect time for them to announce that they've probably scheduled their 2013 convention to be held in Danbury, CT -- just because they can, and what're you gonna do about it, huh? We're the NRA. We're badasses.

They've become the Hells Angels of advocacy groups (which I know is an unfair comparison, since the Hells Angels never even pretended to be respectable). It's sad that a once-worthwhile organization has been hijacked by loonies.

[Jamaal510]

25. Off topic but

why did Ted wear a hat on an interview? Doesn't he know clothing etiquette?

[navarth]

26. No worries. Precious Little Poopy-Pants Teddy Boy will be

dead or in jail if Obama gets elected. We're waiting, Teddy, you numb-nuts bastard....1.....2.....3.....

AND PLEASE don't associate this fuck with Michigan. We disowned him long ago.

[Renew Deal]

27. Wasn't he supposed to be "dead or in jail" by now?

What's the hold up?

[MinM]

29. If close to 70% of NRA members believe in gun safety laws, contrary to NRA executive board...

then why shouldn't NRA members change board?

https://twitter.com/EllisonCampaign/status/280015390388654080

?@AlterNet: The NRA’s Wayne LaPierre Has Blood on His Hands http://www.alternet.org/nras-wayne-lapierre-has-blood-his-hands …

https://twitter.com/AlterNet/status/280401961801613314

[axetogrind]

30. This worthless piece of garbage should have been in prison along timo ago for child rape.

Why he's still walking free I'll never know. He should be in jail again for threatening the POTUS.

[spanone]

31. any current tweets from nra? from wayne lapierre? from ted nugent? naw, chickenshits one and all

[MinM]

32. Hey NRA, We Are Getting Tired of Prying Your Guns From Your Cold Dead Hands.

https://twitter.com/ElayneBoosler/status/279700705894342657

https://twitter.com/ElayneBoosler

[MinM]

33. The Face of the NRA.

[MinM]

34. The NRA gives the motor city madman a makeover?

Ted Nugent Pens Open Letter To Vice President Joe Biden on Gun Control

“I concurred with you back in 2008 when you stated, ‘If [Mr. Obama] tries to fool with my Beretta, he’s got a problem,’” Nugent writes. “I trust you still maintain those sentiments.”

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/ted-nugent-open-letter-joe-biden/