"WANTED FOR TREASON"

[Heather MC]

In a McCain/Palin really earlier this week, someone in the crowd shouted that Obama is a traitor and guilty of treason.

This ad ran in a Dallas newspaper the DAY BEFORE the assassination of President John F. Kennedy

[goodgd_yall]

1. That crazy sh*t

sends shivers up my spine.

[Heather MC]

3. Me too, McCain knows what he was doing and today he found out he can't control his mob

[liberalmuse]

2. Jesus. This is all too familiar.

Are you posting this far and wide, because the connection is chilling.

[Heather MC]

4. Yess, and pass it on!

I found it, from another forum I post on

[Lerrad]

5. Chilling . . Kicked 7 Rec n/t

[POAS]

6. This is why we take

the current climate among the right wingers so seriously.

[Heather MC]

7. Exactly, Very Scary

[POAS]

8. My daughter just asked and I don't know but I bet someone here knows

if it is known who placed the ad in the Dallas papers.

[Heather MC]

10. Here you go, HI Daughter!

http://orwelltoday.com/jfkjbsdallasad.shtml
"...In 1963 the Dallas Morning News was published by a man named Ted Dealey . When criticized for it later, Dealey said that before agreeing to print the JBS ad, he'd read it meticulously and approved it, arguing that it 'represented what the Dallas Morning News have been saying editorially'....

[POAS]

14. As I recall Dealey was

an employee of the paper (editor?) but who purchased the ad? My memory tells me it was an anonymous cash purchase but my memory ain't so good no more!!!

edited to add Daughter says HI

[Heather MC]

18. I found this it has the name Bernard Weisman on it??

[Born_A_Truman]

21. That's the actual ad in the Dallas paper (from the link)

The link says the Wanted for Treason was a flyer that was passed around Dallas a few days before Kennedy arrived.

http://orwelltoday.com/jfkjbsdallasad.shtml

[Blue Diadem]

41. When searching for info on it, I come across one being sold with info on who

was responsible for the handbills and who was responsible for the ad:

from Ebay ad:

http://cgi.liveauctions.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...

John F. Kennedy) Original "Wanted for Treason" Handbill. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 35th President. On November 21, 1963 "Wanted for Treason" handbills were distributed on the streets of Dallas, before Kennedy's scheduled visit. These handbills bore a reproduction of a front and profile photograph of the President and set forth a series of inflammatory charges against him. Robert A. Surrey was eventually identified as the author of the handbill. Surrey, a printing salesman employed by Johnson Printing Co. of Dallas, had been closely associated with General Edwin Walker. Walker was known for his right wing political views and for having been an assassination target of Lee Harvey Oswald in April 1963. Bernard Wiessman, responsible for the black-bordered "Welcome Mr. Kennedy" advertisement in the November 22 Dallas Morning News, also an associate of Walker's and a prominent John Birch Society member, testified to The Warren Commission that he saw a copy of one of these handbills on the floor of Walker's car shortly after November 22nd. The commission found no evidence of any connection between those responsible for the handbill and Oswald or the actual assassination. However, Oswald attended a meeting held by Walker in Dallas one month before the assassination. An original 9" x 12" "Wanted for Treason" handbill, has uneven toning and age spotting. These handbills are excessively rare there are only three others known to exist.

[DeepModem Mom]

9. Robert Shrum referenced this with Tweety today as they discussed...

the danger represented by the McCain/Palin campaign.

[redstate_democrat]

11. kick

[demokatgurrl]

12. Wow. chills for sure. nt

[WinkyDink]

13. "Communist", "racial", Anti-Christian"......Yep, deja-vu.

[yodermon]

15. I did not know about that ad.

[IndianaGreen]

16. And Adlai Stenvenson was assaulted in Dallas days before

by a rightwing mob.

[FrenchieCat]

17. NOw that is something else......or perhaps, the same.

OMG!

[CitizenPatriot]

19. If anything happens to any of the Obama family....

that's all.

[Heather MC]

23. It's not just Obama's family in danger, it's Ours too

McLame has created an army of Angry people who will be happy to take that rage out on anyone supporting Obama

How many "My Obama signs got stolen" have we read and even ignored after while
or someone took my bumpersticker off my car post

How long before we read someone through a rock in my window.

[CitizenPatriot]

36. true enough

when I was volunteering, I had a white man (I am a white woman) threaten my life and Obama's life.

He said "why would YOU work for a n...? Oh, it doesn't matter. He won't be around for long and neither will you."

He was obviously a POS.
SCARY unbalanced racist freak.

I still have my sign in front of my house, though my car one is a magnet and I have to take it off for work. I'll do what I have to do to get along and keep my job, but I'm not going to be intimidated against working for Obama or putting a sign up in my yard. Fuck these people. that's how they win. they have to realize they are the fringe, not us. they are the crazy people.

You make a good point and I'm not trying to blow it off....at all. I'm just pissed. We all need to be careful, vigilant AND work our ass off to get Obama elected.

It is unbelievable that these people think the color of their skin is relevant to their own worth. How....it boggles my mind. Really??? they're serious about this? Do they know we all are related to a common ape family and we are just waiting to find the missing link? Jesus. Someone should tell them...quick like.

Um, duh -- We are all the same, morans. No, wait. I so take that back.

DEAR MORANS,

You fucks are clearly the part of the human race who has not evolved. Thank god you will be extinct soon.

Sincerely,

the rest of the fucking world.

p.s. Wake UP!

[Jennicut]

20. Wow, disturbing.

This is why stirring up this crap fest of hate is so so wrong. We know better, we have seen young men shot down in their prime because of hatred. WHY start this again?

[VoodooGuru]

22. I'd never seen that before.

Thanks for showing it to us.

I think.

I'm going to go be scared now.

[DeSwiss]

24. A very good example...

...of the lengths that the stupidity of the Right can travel. And where it can end up.

- K&R!!!

BTW Heather, you got a cite on HuffPo from Larisa Alexandrovna!!! (Link)

[PretzelWarrior]

25. wow. there are many sick, sick people

[Cali_Democrat]

26. That is some scary shit right there

When Obama is elected they're really gonna go after him.

[laststeamtrain]

27. This is getting around. Good work.

Playing with hate as a political strategy...

McCain-Palin have been rather busy this week endorsing the view of some of their psychotic supporters who chanted "Obama is a traitor," among the other hate-filled rants. Well, DU blogger Heather located this document - a political ad that ran in Dallas the day before John F. Kennedy was assassinated - from the national archives:...
http://www.atlargely.com/2008/10/playing-with-ha.html

It's up at HuffPo, too
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/hate-...

[tanyev]

28. Of course, if one believed that there was a pre-existing plot to kill JFK,

then getting stuff like this out there in advance would be a logical thing for the perpetrators to do in order to make the "one lone hate-filled gunman" scenario plausible.

[alsame]

29. I am speechless. Apparently there was a lunatic fringe then, but

nowadays they are larger and more powerful thanks to the GOP. This is extremely frightening.

[Dinger]

30. Scary Shit

I heard of something scary going on in my area , and it's too hot to post here, but I have alerted the authorities. All I can say.

[npincus]

31. K & R

[milkyway]

32. Bob Shrum said the same last night on MSNBC. Strongly pointed out the last time we heard

a major candidate called a traitor was on November 22, 1963 in Dallas, referring to this ad. Thanks for finding this.

[faithfulcitizen]

33. My mom reminded me last night that JFK being a Catholic was so controversial and "scary"

to many Americans, that my great uncle had a heart attack the night he was elected.

[milkyway]

34. Obama's demeanor in the face of this stuff is amazing. Moments ago in Philly, he was

telling the story about his visit to a diner in Ohio yesterday, where he met the die-hard republican owner. As Obama tells of the owner serving Obama the slice of pie that he had ordered, someone in the Philly crowd yelled out, "don't eat it!," obviously referring to the idea the owner might have poisoned it. Obama burst out laughing, even needing a couple of seconds to calm down, and he told the rest of the crowd what the man had just said. Never for a moment did Obama show that the thought somebody might try to kill him was a concern of his.

Barack appeals to the better angel in us, but some people are so far gone, so lost inside their twisted minds of fear and hate, that McCain and Palin have let loose forces that can't be controlled. McCain should hang his head in permanent shame.

[Ian_rd]

35. K&R. This is absolutely relevent. We have to consider the logic these freaks work from.

McCain and Palin are peddling the idea with underhanded language that Barack Obama is a terrorist sympathizer, or worse - some kind of sleeper agent for domestic radicals. If someone actually believes that, then doesn't that mean that Obama is at war with America? And therefore, doesn't that mean he needs to be stopped at all costs?

This is what McCain is unleashing. I never thought it possible, but McCain has sunk lower than Karl Rove - far lower, and that's not easy. He is potentially stirring up real violence, American vs. American violence that could have deadly consequences, with his presidential ambition.

[Phx_Dem]

37. The only treasonous act was by the Dallas newspaper for

running this despicable "ad." Pigs. It's still hard to believe.

Let's see, #5 can be attributed to Bush, and #5 and #7 can be attributed to McCain.

[RamboLiberal]

39. And how many newspapers this year put the anti-muslim DVD

"Obsession" in their Sunday papers? Seems to me things haven't changed that much in 60+ years.

[Phx_Dem]

42. Sad isn't it? But worse, it's very dangerous.

The GOP does this shit they are the party of hate, and they have nothing else to offer (except war and financial disasters). The right-wing rags who publish the GOP propogranda of lies and hate are nothing more than disciples of the party of hate.

[vaberella]

38. Can someone send this to MSM to let them know what's going on is SERIOUS!! n/t

[Essene]

40. stop kicking and recommending something implying Obama will be shot, thanks

[judasdisney]

43. But Obama in Dallas earlier this year was targeted by Secret Service

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=obama+dallas+secret+se...