Right to shoot 'Illegal' voters sought by two Florida Republicans

[dixiegrrrrl]

I honestly cannot tell if this is a joke or the truth..which says a lot about Fla. repugs these days.

Update: Lone Star Dem ( see below) found this story is a hoax.

"The right to shoot illegal voters is being sought, or so it would seem, by Floridians Robert Stevens and John Nelson.

“I think a gun owner should be able to ask for ID and help us police the poll, protect the polls,” Stevens told media.
The two, according to Arun Gupta of AlterNews, who spoke to the petitioners at a rally to protest voter suppression at Tampa's Centennial Park, do have a sense of fairness. Not only would you have to have a registered firearm with an operating permit to shoot the illegal voter under their proposed law, you'd in fact have to be certain that they were an illegal voter.
But under this law, called the 'Protect the Polls' law in their pamphlets, should a voter's I.D.. seem fake, and if they looked "shifty" and "Illegal", you could shoot them. Again though, you'd have to have that registered gun and a permit. “I think a gun owner should be able to ask for ID and help us police the poll, protect the polls,” Stevens told Gupta.

Upon getting a pamphlet from the two 28-year-old GOP supporters, Gupta, who describes them as looking like they were "straight out of central casting for Young Republicans," was incredulous enough that he couldn't be sure they weren't pulling a prank or in the midst of a performance art piece. They assured him they were not, though it seems possibly they were really good at pranking or performance art and their response was simply part of the show.
Here's what Gupta wrote of his attempts to clarify their 'Protect the Polls" proposal: "Stevens claimed that 'illegals and other people without government IDs' were committing voter fraud. I outlined a scenario, 'I’m a gun owner. I go to the polls. I have my gun. So, how does it work? There’s this guy who looks like an illegal alien, and he looks pretty shifty...'
'And you shoot him,' Stevens said, cutting me off."
While the two young men wore Romney and other Republican buttons there was no indication they were in any way affiliated with the party, nor is there anything pointing to the two having any support whatsoever from the GOP. "

http://digitaljournal.com/article/331850

[rbrnmw]

1. Voter Intimidation at it's extreme Sick

[LeftinOH]

2. "...this guy who looks like an illegal alien." We know what that means, huh?

[apocalypsehow]

3. A couple more "law abiding gun owners." I'll bet they could tell you all about "RKBA"

and talk your ear off about how the 2nd amendment means any gump has the right strut about town with a pistol perched in his pants any where any time.

Their "logic" isn't too far off some the NRA talking points I've seen spewed down in the Gungeon to much acclaim and applause from our "pro gun progressives."

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. It was two attention seeking hoaxers.

UPDATE: The group appears to be a hoax. A HuffPost reader pointed out that the two who disrupted Tuesday's protest look like the ones who formed the phony Occupy Occupy Wall Street group last year. For that stunt, they posed as Wall Street-types looking to "take back what is rightfully ours." The two managed to get on a CNN segment. But in that stunt, they did not advocate violence.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mobileweb/2012/08/28/voter-suppression-florida_n_1838059.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

Idiots.

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Good catch..I will edit my OP

We laugh when people like "the Blue Men" hoax the other side..guess I can find *some* appreciation for the sardonic
humor in this story.