Not just a poll: Facebook is a hotbed of threats to kill the President.

[Are_grits_groceries]

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Facebook Groups: Facebook currently has a number of social networking groups each with an accumulated membership that are seemingly set up to promote, organize, and discuss the future killing of the President. One such group is named DEATH TO OBAMA!!! and they apparently ask the question, “who whats to kill obam ” . This group has existed untouched on Facebook since at least November, 2008 and has 22 active members. One of the administrators of this Facebook group attempts to protect himself by publishing in his own words the following “legal announcement”:
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"We, whoever joins this group, are in no way serious about assasinating Barack Obama. When you join this group you are simply expressioning your strong republican opinion against this bastard and his "carismatic" opinions about "power to the Goverment!!!!!". So if any FBI/CSI agents are reading this, know that we are NOT serious."

Another Facebook Group that apparently leaves no question as to its intent is the group named OBAMA is a jerk and i shall murder him! yeah This group has 8 active members.
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Still another group promises that they will kill the President if their membership reaches five members. This group, named if this group reaches 5 i will kill the president , now has 13 active members. After the group exceeded five members, one member encouraged the creator of the group to make a plan, set a goal, and carry it out. Since this is still posted on Facebook, it presumably has never been investigated.
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Facebook Comments: There are a number of comments by Facebook members strewn throughout Facebook that just blatantly state that they are going to kill the President.
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The threats against President Obama’s life mentioned in this article aren’t the only ones on Facebook, nor are the threats limited to President Obama. There are threats posted against President Bush as well that have been on Facebook for quite some time.

http://www.thespinkiller.com/2009/10/breaking-news-not-just-poll-facebook.html

There's more at this site. I think FB needs to tighten up some things. These were reported to the SS, but I'll bet there are a lot more.

They're like cockroaches.

[skepticscott]

1. It is a federal offense

to publish threats against the president, whether they are serious or not. The Secret Service needs to make an example of more of these people by rooting them out of Facebook and dragging them into court, and then to federal prison.

[Uben]

2. You can bet they are on it!

The SS don't mess around. You make a threat, you will get a visit form the guys in the black Suburbans. Report every one you find. I know a guy who was posting on a private forum who said the best way to kill a bush was with Round Up. This was about 4 yrs ago, and he got a visit from the SS. It's not a joking matter, and they take all threats seriously.