The Not So Secret Service
I’m getting the details right now, but apparently the U.S. Secret Service is paying a visit to a Plainfield man right now over an e-mail he forwarded saying someone needs to “take out” Barack Obama.
I don’t have the e-mail yet or the name, but I’m understand the Secret Service was at the man’s house for at least three hours asking some questions. A relative reportedly forwarded the e-mail to them.
From what I’ve gathered the man is not a bad person but definitely exercised some bad judgment. Plus, I don’t think it helps to make threats regarding the life of any President, much less the first Black one; especially when you reportedly just bought a semi-automatic weapon a few months ago.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
All this does is fuel the flames of those who think there are groups out there that target black people or white. What nonsense….you know I may not like Barack being president, but he is the president. We must respect that.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I just read an indepth article on how the government is now monitoring most of our emails, so this visit comes as no surprise.
July 7th, 2009 at 5:30 pm
Shore, where DO you get this stuff? Listening to Pat Robertson again?
July 7th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
This will continue to happen as long as we have idiots like Rush Limbaugh, Greg Garrison and the like spewing hate on a daily basis ..much of it directed toward Obama……we even have one local blog that spends so much time spread hate and untruths about Obama…all it takes is one unbalanced person who decides to be a hero……free speech brings responsibility and some people either forget or ignore it in order to get ratings or readerships.
July 7th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
I understand why you choose Puzzled as a log in name, STUPID BLIND & UNINFORMED might have been better.
I tune in to Garrison most days. I have never heard him suggest that someone take out the President. Rush has never suggested it either. Suggesting that we stand up for our rights is not hateful, voicing our opinions in public or on blogs is not hateful. We could Goose step to the same tune, I’m sure Obama would appreciate the gesture …Hitler did.
As with most Americans I don't want Obama hurt in anyway. If needed I would physically defend him.
I want Obama healthy so when he is impeached or when America wakes up and he is politically castrated he will understand what came from his interfering with capitalism and the American way of life.
Public ridicule will be his downfall… he will be done politically for life. The only question will be… how long will it take for America to recover?
July 7th, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Ernie's your such a dud.
July 7th, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Even when I'm with him ideologically, Limbaugh's got a polarizing way about him that's more than a bit mucho. But, I wouldn't want to sit down to milk and cookies with Rev. Wright either. Sooner or later- we agree on some things, or we're gonna be told the way it's gonna be.
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Which way do you think we're headed now?
July 7th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Uncle Rushbo is a caring nurturer who's misunderstood by those left. Like Palin, generally speaking, he's good enough, he's smart enough & dog gone it, people like him. The language of socialism is foul mouthed hate speech, sourced from an abstract, gray dictionary “That Which Is Not Neccessarily” and “The Terminology of Deception & Condescension;” from which we get subjectively undefined & superficially defined notions, like rich, poor, underclass, elite, minority, environmentally conscious / green, public investment, fair, too big to fail…
July 7th, 2009 at 11:21 pm
Pat Robertson? Sorry bro, I don't listen to hypocritical propagandists.
Now I have a question for YOU. After all this time, have I ever – even one time – not responded to your skeptical inquiries with a full and complete answer and explanation?
Here's the story on government software used to snoop our emails:
http://www.theledger.com/article/20090619/NEWS/...
Why don't you just give up the goofy comments when I post something that conflicts with your perception of reality? Do you honestly think that I don't have a solid, rational, and spportable basis for my posts? Here's a newsflash: The world is a lot bigger than TA. Just because I constantly come up with something that YOUR perception hasn't absorbed as reality doesn't make it false. This is case in point.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:48 am
Obama is not going to get impeached. Although that birth certificate story won't go away.
Shorebreak…I adore you!
July 8th, 2009 at 10:55 am
Is “Puzzled” for real? Does that person live on THIS planet? Where were they for the last eight years while the entire democrat party machine (which includes ALL major media outlets) helped to destroy a President and his party?
July 8th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Shore, sorry for the delay. I read the article you posted, and some others. I have a close relative working at NSA for three decades, so I asked about this issue.
It seems the NSA routinely is able to “sweep” certain e-ail content, such as: emails to or from suspected trouble-makers, e-mail with certain key words that arouse suspicion, etc.
I have long been concerned about NSA's over-reaching capabilities, but our last president elevated it to an art form. Ask Cheney. And when AT&T, et al got pulled into the fray, Congress gave them a lawsuit exemption.
Now, I want to prevent terrorist action as much as the next guy. That delicate balance between needed information and civil rights, was shattered to hell by the last administration. These kinds of pendulums tend to end in the middle, over time, which is where they belong. But you said “most of our emails.” Not even close. I said Pt Robertson because I make it a point to watch him once a week and a few weeks ago, he mentioned this exact situation. And he, too, pushed the limits and said “most of” or “nearly all.”
Melyssa my dear–the birth certificate thing has gone away, except in the Hannity World, because it was never “a thing.”
That ship has sailed.
July 8th, 2009 at 5:37 pm
Thanks for the link. “Congress” is on to the problem? Whew! Sleep easier at night. According to the article I'm wondering how the Plainfield guy came under scrutiny? Plainfield isn't “foreign”. Or, is the excuse found in tolerable error? Anyone reminded of Big Brother?
July 8th, 2009 at 8:06 pm
Until our President's sailed ship stops spending like they recovered Blackbeard's booty instead of our hard-earned tax dollars, I too am waiting on a box to be opened in Hawaii…and college records…and health records…the campaign expectations of “responsibility”, “self-reliance”, and “accountability” from ALL Americans….
You don't have to be a right-wing terrorist find the spending utter madness.
July 8th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
OKm Taxpayer, this really intrigues me: what in the world do you need ot see about Obama's college records? I'm not sure transcripts are any of your business or mine. He clearly went to college and graduated, passed the bar and taught.
I don't need to see George W. Bush's transcripts to know he was a C student. He had the attention span of a gnat and the economics background of a few monopoly games, at best, but he got tow Ivy League degrees. Go figure. C Students everywhere rejoice, but pardon me if I insist on a higher academic standard. And just a smidge of intellectual curiosity. If for no other reason than to be able to juggle more than one large problem at a time.
Health records? With just a few limitations, those are important.
But this deeply-suspicious far-right-wig obsession with the birth certificate completely escapes me. Hannity's theory has been thoroughly discounted. I wish I understood it. It borders on the absurd.
July 8th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Melyssa – this link's for you. I think you'll appreciate it:
http://www.wimp.com/thegovernment/
July 12th, 2009 at 8:15 pm
When one of us does something “bonehead” around our house, the expression, “What were you thinking?”, sometimes comes up. I didn't want to experience that after voting for the most important office in our country. I tried to read and watch a lot of stuff, including a Frontline documentary. In watching that, I became disillusioned with both Senator McCain based on the particulars of his divorce and then-Senator Obama based on the Democratic party grooming him to only vote “present”, to stay off the radar.
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I don't understand why one has to be “far-right” to think Presidential candidates should and typically do share educational, health, and birth records. Maybe that's a high bar compared to applying for Dairy Queen, but I think essential given the power of the office- particularly for those in the armed forces. I also think it's telling when one candidate choses not to comply. Much like when kids are rattling-off what they did at camp this week, but your child only has monosyllables. Hmmm.
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I don't think college records and writings are lone determinant of a voting decision, any more than embracing religion or personal conduct within the oval office itself. But, given the dramatic increase in debt and deficit, reprioritization of bankruptcy, and the continuation of government expansion well past anything Constitutional, I'm no less curious about our President's past and credentials.
July 13th, 2009 at 1:15 am
When one of us does something “bonehead” around our house, the expression, “What were you thinking?”, sometimes comes up. I didn't want to experience that after voting for the most important office in our country. I tried to read and watch a lot of stuff, including a Frontline documentary. In watching that, I became disillusioned with both Senator McCain based on the particulars of his divorce and then-Senator Obama based on the Democratic party grooming him to only vote “present”, to stay off the radar.
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I don't understand why one has to be “far-right” to think Presidential candidates should and typically do share educational, health, and birth records. Maybe that's a high bar compared to applying for Dairy Queen, but I think essential given the power of the office- particularly for those in the armed forces. I also think it's telling when one candidate choses not to comply. Much like when kids are rattling-off what they did at camp this week, but your child only has monosyllables. Hmmm.
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I don't think college records and writings are lone determinant of a voting decision, any more than embracing religion or personal conduct within the oval office itself. But, given the dramatic increase in debt and deficit, reprioritization of bankruptcy, and the continuation of government expansion well past anything Constitutional, I'm no less curious about our President's past and credentials.