Our President Dearest, the one who now has our kiddies in school singing of him “and all are equal in his sight”, yes, just like the Sunday School hymn to Jesus, and has tried hard and often to scare us into buying his Bailout and Health plans, must be starting to get a little nervous.
The million-plus march in Washington D.C. that got almost no coverage, (compared to the massive coverage of Jesse Jacksons so-called “million man march” of blacks that got maybe 10,000 people), the Tea Parties and all the heavily attended and often raucaus Town Hall meetings that are still going on, have to have gotten his attention.
The latest indication of that is a Secret Service investigation of what they’re calling a threat to the president. This supposed threat is a poll posted on Facebook last Saturday with the question “”Should Obama be killed?” The four possible answers: Yes; Maybe; If he cuts my healthcare; and No. It’s since been taken down.
While the poll is defintely on the edge, it still doesn’t go over it. It’s against the law to threaten the president, but this is no more a threat than a poll asking if he should be subjected to the sound of a thousand screaming nuns. For one, only the people who answered “yes” to this could be considered to be making a threat. The person asking the question can’t. For two, everyone involved, the one who posted this and those who responded, are all anonymous. So where is the actual threat? A lot of people in this country and abroad would be very happy to see Obama out of the picture by any means, just as a lot would give their lives to protect him. That doesn’t make anyone a threat for giving their opinion in an anonymous poll.
Laws that prohibit Freedom of Speech go too far. I’m all for prosecuting to the grave any fool who screams “FIRE” in a crowded theater, when there is none, or similar acts likely to cause great harm or death. I think threatening to kill anyone should be a crime. But that means a public or recorded and proven declaration by a known person, not some “do you think we should?” poll on the Internet. There’s an obvious difference, and while that poll is certainly an insult to Obama, it hardly comes close to being an actual threat to his well-being.
What we have is the current administration doing it’s level best to strike more fear into the hearts of Americans. He wants our children to sing paens to him as if he were Jesus, he wants to be adored like one of those insane dictators of yore, and We Are Warned, speaking out against him may bring down his wrath upon us. Wow. What have we done?