The United States Secret Service is investigating Facebook, which is a global social networking site in which users can socialize with their friends, because there was a third party poll which was developed which had inappropriate content on it. There was a poll which posed the question "Should Barack Obama be killed?" The United States Secret Service sent an email to Barry Schnitt, the Facebook spokesman asking for the poll to be removed. Schnitt told CNN that some vigilant users reported it to him and he had it removed. Some of the responses to the poll were, "yes", "maybe, if he cuts my healthcare", and "no". Schnitt said the poll appeared to have been posted over the weekend. Schnitt says the content was removed and they're going to monitor the situation and try to be more cautious in what's posted on Facebook.
Facebook allows third party users to create contents such as polls and quizzes to be made available to the users. The users can determine whether they want to make the content available to all the Facebook public or just make it private to show only to a select group. It was a Facebook user that made the poll available to the public.
I for one didn't vote for Barack Obama nor am I a fan of Barack Obama. I vehemently disagree with most of his policies. I believe in publicly disagreeing with our elected leaders when they are wrong. I am thankful for the First Amendment right to free speech. I consider that sacred and something not to be taken for granted. I believe the First Amendment not only covers popular but unpopular speech as well. However, prudence and discretion should be used when it comes to the matter of free speech. Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said around a century ago that you can't stretch free speech to the point where you can hollar "fire" in a crowded theater if there is no fire. Even though Americans should express their views regardless of how unpopular they are, there must be boundaries to free speech. The Facebook user that crafted the poll asking whether Obama should be killed is very foolish to say the least. I believe he/she is a moron. There's no excuse to ask such a foolish question as that. You don't take the law in your own hands and assassinate the president of the United States. I don't care how evil and despicable a political leader may be. Our election process allows for us to vote for our leaders. In 2012 we'll have another presidential election. That's the time when Americans will have the privilege to vote out President Obama. That's the proper channel when it comes to removing our leaders from political office. The truth of the matter is, President Obama was elected by the American people rightly or wrongly. Assassinating the president won't solve anything.
Assassinating President Obama isn't going to stop the march toward socialism. That will continue onward with or without Obama. Removing Obama isn't going to solve all the problem. The plan to create a socialist America was crafted long before Obama was ever in the political arena--probably before he was born. Obama is just a figurehead for those that helped place him in office. It's the people that prop him up that are the problem. Who are these people? It's a group of elitists strung out in all kinds of places. People such as the Federal Reserve, the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, the Bildebergers, George Soros, and other groups nobody knows about. They're spread out everywhere across the globe. Our politicians are just puppets fulfilling these elitists new world order goals. Whether it's Bush '41, Bush '43, Clinton, or Obama, they're all marching to the same drumbeat. If Joe Biden was to become the new president, he will continue down the same path. If a Republican gets elected in 2012, he will take America down the same path. A Republican may not take us down the sewer as quickly, but he will surely take us down there. Bush '43 paved the way for an Obama presidency. Killing President Obama or even our Congressmen and Senators won't solve anything. They will be replaced with people with the same kind of mindset.
There's no excuse for users or third party developers on Facebook or any kind of social network presenting those types of polls. You can disagree vehemently with a president without taking the law in your own hands. Committing murder is against the Bible. You don't right a wrong with a wrong. Assassinating Obama isn't going to help matters any. It will give the Left fuel and ammunition to say that the reason why he was assassinated was because of racism. If he was assassinated, that's what the Left would be saying. They would be saying it's because America's still a racist country. It's also a federal crime to assassinate the president. We must respect the office of the president regardless of how wrong Obama may be. God says in his word that "Vengeance is mine."
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