Secret Service Probing Obama Assassination Poll on Facebook
The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a “poll” posted on Facebook that asked users the most unsocial, unspeakable question: Should President Obama be assassinated?
Edwin Donovan, a spokesman for the Secret Service, said the agency will take “appropriate investigative steps” in connection to the survey, which was posted on Saturday and was quickly removed when Facebook employees were alerted to its existence.
“We are continuing our investigation,” Donovan told FOXNews.com, declining further comment.
The poll asked respondents: “Should Obama be killed?”The possible answers were “no,” “maybe,” “yes,” and “yes if he cuts my health care.”
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said a “third-party application” enabled an individual user to create what he said was an “offensive poll.”
“The application was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content,” Schnitt said in a statement to FOXNews.com.
Facebook is now cooperating with the Secret Service, Schnitt said.
Bob Beckel, a Democratic Party strategist and FOX News contributor, said the individual responsible for the poll should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
“This is the kind of garbage that’s generated from the extreme right against Obama, and it’s going way over the line,” Beckel told FOXNews.com. “It’s got to be stopped. Find him, prosecute him and put him in jail.”
It is wholly inappropriate, wrong and grossly immoral to even ask such a question, I am totally, unqualified against this sort of rank stupidity. But, a question occurs to me in reading the story that someone here might answer, “Is it illegal, unconstitutional or in the nature of a criminal threat to simply ask this idiotic question in a poll?” Remember I am against the poll and question and any such act, I am just curious about whether the question alone constitutes a crime?
It is also a matter of concern to me that Beckel, absent any evidence of the source of this poll, quickly blamed it on someone on the political right. Isn’t that to incite anger and possible violence against people on the Right?
Quite frankly, I am more than a little concerned that some nut case out there, not a conservative or liberal - an insane fool, might try to kill Obama and not only am I morally against such a vile act, I think it would almost destroy this country with subsequent riots all over America, directed at whites generally and I hope and pray it will never happen.
