Secret Service Visits GOP Candidate Who Advocated Obama's Execution

[highplainsdem]

Source: Talking Points Memo

The U.S. Secret Service paid a visit to the Florida state House candidate who advocated for President Barack Obama's execution on Twitter.

Joshua Black, a Republican who is running in Florida House District 68, told the Tampa Bay Times that Secret Service agents had come to his home following the uproar over his comments.

"I'm past impeachment. It's time to arrest him and hang him high," read a message on Black's campaign Twitter page Monday.

"It was not a threat," Black told the Times, asserting that the comments were a response to Obama ordering drone strikes that had killed Americans.

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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/florida-gop-candidate-obama-execution-secret-service

[Wait Wut]

1. I couldn't be in the Secret Service.

I'd walk in, slap him across the head and say, 'Whataya? Stupid or sumthin'?' And then spend the next 20 minutes ridiculing him.

[hlthe2b]

2. I'd imagine an African American secret service officer would have an even harder time with this i

raging moron.... How on earth could anyone--but especially a black American say something like that, given our history?

[1StrongBlackMan]

19. People do strange things to ingratiate one self to "others." n/t

[Nika]

5. He sounds pretty thick skulled

I wouldn't recommend hitting him on the head. You might hurt your hand on the moron.

[L0oniX]

3. I expected this.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=703676

[Bluzmann57]

4. These clowns have to learn that the Secret Service doesn't mess around

They take their jobs very seriously as they should. Whomever the POTUS is, he or she needs to be protected at all times.

[freshwest]

30. They take their jobs seriously, but it seems like no one is ever arrested. The legendary 'visit'

did not silence Ted Nugent after his threats to kill Obama in 2012. Now he's saying the same for all intents and purposes:

Outdoor Channel's Ted Nugent Says "Subhuman Mongrel" President Obama Should Be Convicted Of Treason

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014704673

There is nothing to convict Obama on, but the RWNJs have called for his removal from office by law or without it and the sentence for treason has been death. One may quibble about how it's phrased, but the intent is the same. This guy calling for an execution is saying the same thing, essentially.

[canuckledragger]

33. "by bullet or by ballot"

...is a meme I've heard kicked around for awhile.

I think the intention is clear on that one.

Another example:

Myself and other liberal facebook trolls nailed a guy to the wall after he posted a picture of a chair hanging from a noose the day after Clint Eastwood gave his famous RNC speech.

There's all sort of thinly veiled threats subtle or not made in the last few years.

[freshwest]

36. PIctures calling for Obama to be lynched have been a RW mainstay since 2008, calling for a race war

which is old American Nazi Party and KKK language. Their intent was publicly stated for many years, to incite blacks to fight from outrages and wage a war of ethnic cleansing in the USA.

I've argued with / had to hear these effers for half a century. Their intent is to create chaos in which they'd overthrow the federal government and install their fascist state. It's the same poison inspiring libertarian and bagger talk about 'freedom, liberty, restoring honor and taking their country back'.

They have said they would have political purges and deport POC. And first on their kill list were always whites they call traitors to their race. First as they see them able to resist.

Then go for the allegedly helpless and brainless POC and set up their fascist state. I've see all the memes played out since Palin, but before that with Rush. We have hideous minds at work. I never expected to see this again, but have watched it build up in horror.

Different names, same games.

[mbperrin]

6. Too dumb to serve, even in this Congress,

if he has no more knowledge of law than that.

[hlthe2b]

7. I believe he is running for state legislature...(Florida House)

Many states have individuals with the most minimal of education (sometimes not even HS graduates) in these posts, I was pretty shocked to learn

[QuestForSense]

23. Stay away from Louisiana if you're at all sensitive to such shocks.

[mbperrin]

27. Oh, he may have a piece of paper from somewhere

saying something about how he graduated.

But he is too dumb even for the Texas Legislature (the Laboratory for Bad Government, copyright pending

So in Florida? They surely must have some intelligence to keep the lights on at DisneyWorld. Don't they?

[ReRe]

35. Sorry...

...No they don't.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

21. Or history,....or the intertubes....

He claimed they killed Benedict Arnold for treason.

[Lint Head]

8. So not only is he loud mouth idiot he's also a coward.

[giftedgirl77]

9. Shit, you know you're screwed wwhen Rick Scott

is calling you an embarrassment & wants you to drop out of the election.

[Cha]

15. Haha.. rick scott embarrassed by christie, too

[George II]

25. But Scott didn't mind Christie raising money for him this weekend.

[spin]

10. Good. (n/t)

[fantase56]

11. tee hee

[SkatmanRoth]

12. He's a Republican - what do you expect? n/t

[arely staircase]

13. it is important in a democratic society to give wide latitude to anyone, especially a candidate

for public office, in the arena of public speech. This guy's statements cross any reasonable lines when it comes to the minimal intrusion of a visit by agents asking "so what did you mean by that?"

[Cha]

14. There is Logic! I mean wth!

"not a threat"? then keep your damn mouth shut, asshole.

[47of74]

16. If we get a Democratic Congress...

...one of the first things they should do is make violations of 18 USC § 871 punishable by 15 to life in prison with a one million dollar fine. Then have our government actually enforce the goddamn thing.

[Skittles]

17. thanking the Secret Service for doing their job

this kind of stuff is crazy and scary

[TexasTowelie]

20. It's too bad that this guy isn't a participant at DU.

'Cuz I want Skittles to kick some ass!

[Paladin]

18. I get the impression that the Secret Service has to work harder than it ever has. (nt)

[RKP5637]

28. Yes, it would certainly seem that way, there have been so may wackos coming out of

the woodwork against Obama.

[DFW]

22. "It's time to hang him high" is NOT a threat? What then? A casual suggestion?

It's time for this idiot to crawl back into whatever hate-filled cave he crawled from.

[freshwest]

31. But DFW, he invoked the magic word, 'drones.' That makes it all okay...

[DFW]

32. Of course, how silly of me to have overlooked that.....

[AAO]

44. Not sure what you mean by that?

SS: What did you mean by that - "time to hang him high"? FFS, does the SS understand the English language. Even I know what he meant by that!

[lastlib]

24. Did they take him away? Or were they waiting for the guys in white coats?

"...to the Happy Home, with trees and flowers and chirping birds, and basket-weavers who sit and smile and twiddle their thumbs and toes..."

[heaven05]

26. I hope every agent

that visited this racist pigshit smuck was black.

[blogslut]

34. The candidate is a black man.

Home schooled, fundamentalist type fellow.

[heaven05]

47. shows it's not wise to assume anything

I forget that there are black RWnutters. Well I hope they were all very intimidating, big Caucasians.

[blkmusclmachine]

29. And this is news???

[Scuba]

37. Stochastic terrorism.

[bobGandolf]

38. About time they threw a few of these A-holes in jail! n/t

[sinkingfeeling]

39. Good, hope they continue to keep an eye on the lunatic.

[AllyCat]

40. How is that NOT a threat?

[Dopers_Greed]

41. Faux and talk radio are going to go haywire over this one.

"They are persecuting ordinary conservatives for opposing the president!"

"The Secret Service are coming for you!"

I can hear Rush blubbering already.

[Coyotl]

42. I hope they have two large, tall, athletic black agents with deep, authoritarian voices

who get to go around and confront the unbending racist pricks they have to deal with. Might as well give them a little taste of what they despise,
and present them with an opportunity to get to actually meet a black person

[Fumesucker]

43. The candidate in question is black

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/21/gop-florida-house-candidate-on-obama-its-time-to-arrest-and-hang-him-high/

[AAO]

45. Oh, never mind...

I guess since he's black he can say that.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

46. you will find it hard to win election in prison, jackass