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Showing Original Post only (View all)THE CHOICE: When 16 Year-Old Alyssa Douglas Calls For The President's Assassination on Twitter [View all]
THU SEP 06, 2012 AT 10:15 PM PDT
THE CHOICE: When 16 Year-Old Alyssa Douglas Calls For The President's Assassination on Twitter UPDx3
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Alyssa Douglas@Alyssa_Douglas
Someone needs to assassinate Obama...like ASAP #DieYouPieceOfShit
September 7, 2012
Someone needs to assassinate Obama...like ASAP #DieYouPieceOfShit
September 7, 2012
President Barack Obama tonight spoke, in the most stark, pressing, and persuasive way I've ever heard from him, of The Choice we face as a nation in this election: between an America where we all come together and one in which we're on our own; between an America that believes in keeping our jobs here and one in which we send jobs to other countries; between an America that believes in the fundamental right for people to live free from fear of ill health or of insurmountable college loans and one in which we have to give up our rights just so that a few can be given even bigger tax breaks; between an America that affirms its commitment to truth and science and one in which we shun the facts of our ailing planet and our impact on it; between an America filled with daughters who advance just as far as sons and one in which that reality never gets realized; between an America in which young immigrant children who've arrived without a choice can pursue the full extent of choices we as citizens should all be able to and one in which those same young boys and girls spend their lives reigned in by unfulfilled potential vitiated by the threat of deportation; between an America that is filled with hope for a brighter future and one in which we live within the shadows of the past.
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Because when a 16 year-old white girl takes to Twitter to openly call for the assassination of our President, you have got to wonder where we, as a society, have gone wrong; why we, as a society, have failed; how we, as a society, have allowed hatred to incubate within such a young, malleable mind. It is a choice that, as President Obama paralleled tonight in his invocation of our rights and responsibilities as a nation and as a society, we all shoulder the burden of making, because the consequences of that choice will shape a future of our own making.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/07/1128805/-THE-CHOICE-When-16-Year-Old-Alyssa-Douglas-Calls-For-The-President-s-Assassination-on-Twitter
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THE CHOICE: When 16 Year-Old Alyssa Douglas Calls For The President's Assassination on Twitter [View all]
kpete
Sep 2012
OP
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leftyohiolib
Sep 2012
#110
She's a Bully schoolgirl growing up to join the adult bully Repugnants. Cyber bullying, and then?
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2012
#9
I think the ledger is definitely on the right wing side but here are some to think about
exboyfil
Sep 2012
#107
I'm sure you are aware that John Hinckley's family were friends of the Bush's?
Horse with no Name
Sep 2012
#127
The unabomber was an anarchist. Would probably be a teajadist these days
Horse with no Name
Sep 2012
#129
I wanted them both executed for war crimes and crimes against humanity after trial and conviction
Occulus
Sep 2012
#111
Has that sixteen yr.-old been talked to by the Secret Service? Just yesterday, some delegate
sinkingfeeling
Sep 2012
#14
I was on Twitter when she posted that. so many of my progressive feeds homed right in on it....
NRaleighLiberal
Sep 2012
#15
Wow. you run with a tough crowd. Never, in my LIFE, have I or my friends or family EVER said that..
progressivebydesign
Sep 2012
#24
post 32. and then there is parenting and teaching our children. our responsibility.
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#33
I would wager a guess that her "frustration" comes from the color of the President's skin
MagickMuffin
Sep 2012
#87
Makes you wonder if they even teach anything about the Kennedy era...
progressivebydesign
Sep 2012
#28
A culture of Cyber-Bullying; it's pandemic in the schools & out of control. Vile, vicious, damaging.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2012
#44
and it is feeding into society as a whole, feeding into who we are as a people.
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#52
Best wishes and strength to your son. His eyes are open; no need to make him afraid. He's brave.
Bernardo de La Paz
Sep 2012
#74
Tho some people are defending her saying that it wasn't "inciting violence" her hashtag is telling.
progressivebydesign
Sep 2012
#34
This all has probably begun before she turned 16. Usually kids are products of their environments..
nc4bo
Sep 2012
#37
The GOP celebrates hate & fear & calls for violence, and this is what they've wrought.
mother earth
Sep 2012
#38
good. parents can read thru the trash tweets her daughter has posted. and be humiliated
seabeyond
Sep 2012
#75
"Bloggers and Twitter users followed the incident today with a discussion of hate speech."
AsahinaKimi
Sep 2012
#76
Or Carrie Prejean - "Waaaaaahhhhhh...my freedom of speech has been taken away!"
bullwinkle428
Sep 2012
#80