As Americans honored the memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Monday, a Republican candidate for Florida House District 68 said President Barack Obama should be hanged for war crimes.
"I'm past impeachment," Joshua Black wrote on Twitter. "It's time to arrest and hang him high."
Really? You are going to go there? Today?
Black, 31, of Pinellas Park, moved to Florida in 2007 after practicing street evangelism in St. Louis and works as a taxi driver. According to his campaign website, Black entered politics in 2012 when he tried influencing the presidential primary.
The website says: "Republicans have a serious communication problem. Everything we say sounds like spears."
Hours after the tweet, Black defended his comment.
Obama should be held responsible for ordering a drone strike that killed an American citizen overseas, he said.
"He should be executed for treason," Black said. "I think the appropriate punishment is death. They killed Benedict Arnold. (Obama) shouldn't be allowed to kill Americans without a trial."
The political newcomer said he doesn't fear U.S. Secret Service agents showing up on his doorstep. Many voters might agree with his position, he said, adding: "I guess they're going to call me a racist now."
...or sadly, a typical teabagger. Your choice.
How's that rebranding going, GOP?
Threatening the President of the United States is a class D felony under United States Code Title 18, Section 871
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ReplyDeleteBTW, Matthew 7:2 doesn't say YOU get to judge. The measure meted is reserved, as always when judgment is mentioned in red letters, for the Final Judgment, not some earthly kangaroo court that gives you and your Fox-drenched buddies tiny little erections at the thought of executing President Obama.