This happened back in December and this guy is a Libertarian. I am not as shocked about what he said about Obama as what he inferred about the general public. I will comment below the article:
Libertarian who called Obama a 'monkey' probed by Secret Service
The Secret Service is investigating threats made against President Obama on Facebook by a former libertarian city council candidate in Carson.
"We are aware of the incident and are going to conduct appropriate followup," said Secret Service spokesman George Ogilvie.
In his post, Jules Manson calls Obama a a racial epithet and suggests he should be assassinated.
Manson, who ran for office on a Libertarian platform in the Carson race in March, called Obama a "monkey" in an online screed on the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act. The act has raised the ire of activists because it permits indefinite detention without trial for some terrorism suspects.
In a comment on the Facebook post, Manson added: "Assassinate the [president] and his monkey children." He used an obscenity followed by a racial epithet to describe the president. The post had been removed from Manson's Facebook page Tuesday, but the blog
Your Black Politics captured and posted a screenshot of it, including the coarse language.
Manson described the comments on his
Facebook page as "careless, emotionally driven remarks that had no real substance" and wrote, "Not including my regular friends whom I converse with often or have in the past and always welcome their comments and posts, I do not believe many of you are concerned citizens. Most of you were simply looking for drama to demonstrate your politically correct righteousness."
In another Facebook post, Manson said he had been visited by U.S. Secret Service agents.
Manson lost the Carson council race by a wide margin, garnering only 550 votes.
My comment: Obviously this guy made some stupid remarks. What scares me most though this comment:
"Most of you were simply looking for drama to demonstrate your politically correct righteousness."
This guy may not be a prototype Libertarian if indeed there is any such thing but something drove him to make remarks that the "most of you" would never have made much less publicly. I would suggest it was he that was using drama for whatever reasons.
I don't have a problem with Libertarianisms and agree with them about many things but they are a political minority. Fletch I am not lumping all Libertarians with this idiot but from the outside looking in being a Libertarian is much more than an uphill battle as far as effecting change goes. I think they deserve a voice and that Libertarians make much more sense then Democrats in many ways. I guess my biggest problem is with your comment that there is not much difference between Obama and the Republican candidates.
This recent decision by Obama on health care pissed off Catholics but it was about taking away a freedom. If someone claims to be a Libertarian how can that person support Obama in light of this latest "drama" alone. Ron Paul has some great ideas, so do all the other candidates including Obama. But the secret is to get elected. I saw Stossel on Good Morning America this morning talking about how he was suppressed by the lame stream media before he got to Fox. He described the lame stream as "like minded people" who basically had no tolerance for those who thought differently. My question is how can a Libertarian endorse someone who is not a Libertarian and how does that differ from the "like minded people" description of the lame stream liberal media. There is no one candidate that can be all things to all people.
