Paul LePage Urges Maine Residents To Shoot Drug Dealers
Source: Huff Post
Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) wants state residents to starting shooting drug dealers on sight in order to help alleviate Maine's heroin crisis.
"Everybody in Maine, we have constitutional carry," LePage said Wednesday.
"Load up and get rid of the drug dealers."
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-lepage-drug-dealers_us_56aa2a8de4b0d82286d50add
How far over the line is this?
Does he want to set the limit on drug dealers, or are elected officials fair game too.
This guy either needs to be immediately frog-marched out of office, or sent to a Mental Health Center for evaluation.
This is some crazy-scary shit!!!!
0rganism
(23,952 posts)and the death penalty is definitely an appropriate punishment for anyone who looks like "drug dealers".
Chemisse
(30,811 posts)This governor has really gone round the bend.
tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)worse than yelling fire in a crowded theater
maxrandb
(15,330 posts)then I remembered the ass-hat we are talking about.
Could you imagine if the Mayor of Flint, MI had said; "well, we have 2ND Amendment Rights, let's load up and get rid of anyone who poisoned our water"???
valerief
(53,235 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)thrown out of office and put in jail.
packman
(16,296 posts)but this is off the wall - drive by shooting of POSSIBLE drug dealers? If that happens will the gov. be cited in court as giving his blessing to the killer of possible drug dealers.
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)more than this asshole.
ananda
(28,859 posts)He should be locked up in a padded cell.
progree
(10,907 posts)before they leave.... (that probably bothers him more than the heroin)
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/07/politics/paul-lepage-maine-heroin/
LePage referenced new legislation aimed at traffickers, then delivered his roiling explanation.
"These aren't the people who take drugs," LePage said, in comments first picked up by the Portland Press Herald. "These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty. These type of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, then they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave, which is a real sad thing because then we have another issue we've got to deal with down the road."
LePage denied using names like "Smoothie" for their racial connotation.
tom_kelly
(959 posts)TeamPooka
(24,225 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Kip Humphrey
(4,753 posts)crim son
(27,464 posts)I'm a Mainer and this is more of the SOS from Paul LePage. The only thing that alarms me more than the garbage he spouts is my awareness that he still has a fair amount of support in our state.
Gormy Cuss
(30,884 posts)and too many of the fools who support him tote guns.
Wonder how long before the first 'dealer' is shot dead by a good citizen.
gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... who just guaranteed his impeachment. Incitement to commit murder most definitely surpasses the threshold for High Crimes and Misdemeanors. Not even the scumbag Republicans in the legislature that support him can let this one go by.
The decent people of Maine deserve better than this piece of shit.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)right to the death penalty? Is this one of those so called constitutional republicans?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)dembotoz
(16,803 posts)Interesting....
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Vinca
(50,270 posts)Akicita
(1,196 posts)cannabis_flower
(3,764 posts)Huffington Post Senior Political Reporter Amanda Terkel, who sites local sources like the Portland Press Herald and the Bangor Daily News.
Akicita
(1,196 posts)meow2u3
(24,761 posts)We all know that "drug dealers" is nothing but a dog whistle that really means "black men." This thug is actually calling for lynchings! Outrageous!
If incitement to murder isn't grounds for impeachment, what is?
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Chemisse
(30,811 posts)jpak
(41,757 posts)Meth lab in Blaine House!!!!11111
roamer65
(36,745 posts)You did it perfectly.
jpak
(41,757 posts)yup
Political_Junkie
(1,998 posts)Reagan closed all the mental health hospitals here. Nowhere left to send him, but the capitol. How were we to know he'd take over!
olddad56
(5,732 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Sounds like grounds for immediate removal from office.
valerief
(53,235 posts)Probably.
yrwehere
(4 posts)I spent a decade of my adult life in Maine and still have strong ties there. All of my friends are mortified every time he opens his bile spitting mouth. I still feel it too. I cringe every time I see a headline about him. I keep reading them anyway hoping one day they say he has been removed from office and forced into exile.