Shot-Up Image of President Draws a Secret Service Inquiry
The Secret Service said Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appeared to be a bullet-riddled image of President Obama’s face.
The photograph showed seven casually dressed young men, four of whom clutched weapons and one of whom held up a T-shirt covered with small holes and gashes and bearing a likeness of Mr. Obama above the word “HOPE.” The weapons held aloft appeared to be a revolver, a bolt-action rifle and two assault rifles.
“We’re aware of it, and we’re conducting the appropriate follow-up steps,” said Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman in Washington.
The photo, along with the remark “Another trip to the ranch,” was posted on Jan. 20 on the Facebook page of Sgt. Pat Shearer, a police officer in Peoria, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb. The image was removed from Sergeant Shearer’s page on Thursday afternoon shortly after inquiries about it to the Peoria Police Department. Sergeant Shearer, a decorated officer who was honored in 2007 for helping to save a driver trapped in a burning vehicle, did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.
full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us/secret-service-looks-into-image-of-obama-riddled-with-bullets.html
Here's a GD thread about this. photo: 
And a police officer willfully let this get posted on his Facebook? If so he should be fired. Why is he promoting violent threats to the President?
Oh yeah. Isn't the "Taxed Enough Already" Party supposed to be picketing the Peoria Police Department because their tax dollars are paying for a policeman who encourages crime? (But if it's Obama it's alright! 
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which periodically showed a dartboard on the back of her office door, though I can't recall any of the images 
Still, not nearly as graphic (or fatal) as the OP.
Yes I did. I went there.
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"What's to stop one of them in some macho lather from trying to prove how much more alpha-male he is than all the other Yosemite Sam wannabes?"
Indeed, or one of the thousands of small-brained big-gun Loughners who never had an original thought of their own that are chuckling at this pic on the internet then deludes himself into thinking he has a brilliant idea...
Some of their opposition have been trained in the use of weapons of war, own them and will not hessitate to return fire.
The comments in the OP indicated that Sgt Shearer "let" this get posted on his Facebook page. Can other people post a picture on somebody's Facebook page, or is that limited to the "owner" of the page? I figured if it was on Sgt Shearer's page, then Sgt Shearer had to post it.
This seems like weak security in Facebook. Or is it a "setting"?
I'm not a Facebook user, though I admit to sometimes enjoying "Failbook".
First, we had photos from Abu Graib, then Marines pissing on corpses, now this. Dumb.
The article doesn't say if it was part of a post on his wall or in his personal gallery.
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what a sickening thought.
Oops! The dumb fuck in the middle is about to blow red-shirt away - Correction: make that six losers.
Let 'em enjoy all that anarchy they think they worship, adore, and yearn for, so much. Gee - maybe they'll go for that self-deportation thing of romney's?
douchebaggery.
Or does it have to involve firearms?
At least one GOP presidential candidate will say "they're just kids".
... and that it is clearly protected political speech ...
"What do you mean, I'm a bigot?"
Not racially motivated?
They hated Clinton - but never took to the streets in protest of him.
They claim they didn't approve of Bush's spending - but never took to the streets in protest.
But for Obama, somehow they just feel the need to take to the streets. There's also the whole "birther" debate which is most definitely racist.
to a "burning Bush."
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And I guess the cops had enough of a citation in context to get a conviction.
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whether you consider it legally justified or not:
"I said that God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," Humphreys, 50, later testified in federal court. "I thought it was funny. It was prophetizing."
Knowing President George W. Bush was scheduled to visit nearby Sioux Falls the next day, a bartender reported Humphreys' comment to local police, claiming that Humphreys alluded to the possibility of someone pouring a flammable liquid on the president and lighting it. Local police took Humphreys into custody at his Sioux Falls motel just hours before Bush arrived.
http://www.wweek.com/portland/article-1622-no_laughing_matter.html
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Campaign against her was so vicious, even a black GOP official resigned because of intimidation at the time.
After she was shot, one of the shooting victims who protested a man yelling at a meeting about how Giffords' group should have been armed, was the one arrested and charged for disorderly conduct, not the belligerent bully.
Then came the call nationally from the right for her to give up her seat to someone who was competent, when the GOP has held wheelchair bound senile leaders in office for decades, or taken vacations for months on end.
From Sarah Palin's gunsights on Giffords' district after years of hate radio calling for all liberals to be killed, they achieved their aim, as a teabagger will likely take her seat. Stochastic terrorism works, and the thugs smell blood in the water of our consciousness. This won't stop.
From terrorist threats and acts against liberals nationally, Gabby's leaving is a victory for them. These are the same ilk that want to shoot immigrants from helicopters like hunters shoot wolves in Alaska. Like those who kill on video games and earn points, after a time, there is little difference between the game and the fantasy and the act itself. Like watching snuff porn, imagination will no longer satisfy, it will have to be carried out in real life.
Jesus said that what we feel in our hearts is what we will be condemned for, long before the act wanted is committed, or even if it is not. On some level, these people with the help of the GOP are making their reality ours, and we are being led like lambs to the slaughter.
Like cheering the death of the little nine year old girl by Loughner, posters on Sarah Palin's page said:
"It's ok. Christina Taylor Green was probably going to end up a left wing bleeding heart liberal anyway. Hey, as 'they' say, what would you do if you had the chance to kill Hitler as a kid? Exactly."
Written by young people, taken down eventually, but left there long enough for many of them to still feel the rush of victory over the evil liberals. The link to the blog with the screenshots has now been deleted by AOL, but the tenor of the time is described halfway down the page here at this link:
http://www.the-richmonder.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
But, nothing to worry about. We have the editor of a paper in Atlanta calling for Obama to be killed, a child's pet slaughtered and other acts of terrorism. All of these people are rightwing, and it'll be worse as the election nears.
Just repeat after me:
There is no connection between speech and action, there is no such thing as a mob mentality. 'It can't happen here.' 'I try to believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.'
