Obama Pool
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I giggled...
According to the great FOX News..
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,456455,00.html** The owner of a Maine store has sparked intense local and national outcry over a sign that invited customers to bet on a date when President-elect Barack Obama would be assassinated, but authorities say no charges are planned.**
After the post-election incident in Standish, Maine, town officials were bombarded with angry e-mails from around the country. And on Friday, hundreds gathered at a "Rally Against Hate" in Portland to denounce the racially charged sign and to appeal for unity, the Portland Press Herald reported.
Cumberland County Sheriff Mark Dion said Friday that Steve Collins, owner of Oak Hill General Store, denied any knowledge of the "Osama Obama Shotgun Pool" sign. The sheriff added that the sign was nowhere to be found when a deputy visited the store to investigate a report of it on Nov. 7.
Dion also said posting the sign would not necessarily constitute a threat or a terrorizing incident.
The handwritten sign on an eraser board inviting the $1 bets ended with, "Let's hope someone wins," according to two journalists for The Associated Press who saw it while checking out a tip of its existence.
A description of the sign was included in an Associated Press national roundup of post-election incidents, many of them racially charged, decrying the election of the nation's first black president. That story appeared Nov. 16, bringing national attention to the controversy, the Press Herald reported.
''Whatever the intent of his expression was, we never located the evidence of it,'' Dion said in the Nov. 16 Associated Press story.
Collins told his landlord last weekend that he was going hunting and has been unreachable since. His store was closed this week, which isn't unusual this time of year, customers told the Press Herald. He has not spoken publicly about the incident and may not be aware of the publicity.
After fielding the angry e-mails, the Standish Town Council passed a resolution Thursday criticizing the sign, the Press Herald reports, and on Friday evening, Gov. John Baldacci and other state and local leaders spoke of the incident at the anti-hate rally in Portland. -
02AccordEXV6 wrote:
denounce the racially charged sign...
racially charged?
02AccordEXV6 wrote:
posting the sign would not necessarily constitute a threat or a terrorizing incident.
when i last checked, we still had the freedom of speech. has this changed? -
out there;247544 wrote:
when i last checked, we still had the freedom of speech. has this changed?Only time will tell, like in the next four years. Everybody playing the "race card" game will be pulling royal flushes out of there ass, I can see it now.
Sterling Archer: Oh my god! You killed a hooker!
Cyril Figgis: Call girl!
Sterling Archer: No Cyril! When they're dead they're just hookers!
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out there;247544 wrote:
racially charged?when i last checked, we still had the freedom of speech. has this changed?
Not yet, but soon...
-Eric
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Funny...
The outcry for this is far larger than the one over someone depitcing Republican candidiates hanging from nooses...
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out there;247544 wrote:
when i last checked, we still had the freedom of speech. has this changed?NickB;247519 wrote:
The handwritten sign on an eraser board inviting the $1 bets ended with,<u>*** "Let's hope someone wins,"***</u> according to two journalists for The Associated Press who saw it while checking out a tip of its existence.
A description of the sign was included in an Associated Press national roundup of post-election incidents, many of them racially charged, decrying the election of the nation's first black president. That story appeared Nov. 16, bringing national attention to the controversy, the Press Herald reported.When you are promoting/encouraging the murder of someone it is no longer a free speech issue.
Try calling the white house and saying that you have $10 that says Bush gets assassinated by January 20th and see how well your free speech holds up.
As of right now, this is just a story w/ no photos or anything of substance backing the claim. I have no doubt, however, that there are people who are making bets on this.
What disturbs me more is that is seems that a majority of the people on this website seem to think this is a good thing and that it is acceptable. I can take a racial joke as well as anyone...and tell them better than most, but I take them for what they are: JOKES! Not a serious threat to someones life. Not a wager on someones life.
This past election cycle ALMOST had me voting republican across the board, until I met/heard the dipshits calling for (or implying that they were all for) the murder of a candidate who shared a different view politically than they do. The fact that anyone wants to be associated with that is fucking absurd to me. I'm done with this topic, I'm done with the people who feel like this, I'm done with this site.
Brian/Jim, please remove me from the members list and remove my section from the forum.
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