Maine candidate questioned by Secret Service after posting Obama photo labelled ‘shoot the ni**er’

[phantom power]

You see, everybody is overreacting, because 'ni**er' isn't really a racial epithet. And captioning a picture of the president saying 'shoot (them)' isn't really a threat. It's all just a misunderstanding...

A conservative candidate for Maine town selectman received a visit from the Secret Service after he posted a photo of President Barack Obama on Facebook that was labelled “Shoot the ni**er.”
According to the Bangor Daily News, David Marsters of Sabattus, ME has taken the post down, but remains defiant in the face up the uproar sparked by his remarks.

“(The Secret Service) didn’t see no pictures of Obama with bullet holes in his head,” Marsters told the Daily News. “It’s not a threatening statement, in my opinion. People take it out of context as a threat.”

“I didn’t say I was going to shoot the president, or kill — Shoot the ni**er. Shoot the ni**er. — that’s what I said,” he continued. “I’m pissed off at the system, OK? We’re about to lose our benefits because of this asshole.”

...

“I would say, ‘Shoot the ni**er,’ because white people are ni**ers, too,” he insisted, claiming that in his native Massachusetts, the racially charged epithet is applied equally to whites and African-Americans.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/08/29/maine-candidate-questioned-by-secret-service-after-posting-obama-photo-labelled-shoot-the-nier/

[rdharma]

1. Isn't it amazing that RW teabaggers like this guy can say "they aren't racists"

And they do it with a straight face!

[phantom power]

2. I think it's because they mostly talk to each other...

so they gradually develop the incorrect perception that (a) it's OK and (b) they're in the majority. Then reality intrudes, and they're left with stammering and word salad.

[nxylas]

14. You forgot the other defense

"You know who's the real racist?"

Clue: if you have to ask that question, it's probably you.

[rdharma]

15. Better known as the PeeWee Herman "playground snap"!

"I am rubber you are glue, whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you".

[Bonx]

3. This can't be true

Since it didn't happen in the south.

[Bake]

5. Maine was part of the Confederacy, right?

I mean, it had to be ...



Bake

[rdharma]

8. No. Not all dumbass racists are from the south. nt

[eShirl]

18. This particular racist is a transplanted Mass-hole.

As a Mainer I felt compelled to point that out.

[WI_DEM]

4. seems like since Obama became president the racists have had no problem

showing their true colors.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

6. "We’re about to lose our benefits because of this asshole.”

John Boener? Eric Cantor? Paul Ryan?

YOU'RE the fucking asshole, dickhead!!!

[Andy823]

7. Yep

I bet this idiot listens to faux news, Limbaugh and Beck on a daily basis! I also bet if you ask him he can' name one thing has lists because of this president.

[Buenaventura]

9. Why the FUCK do we use the word "conservative"

for scum like this. I have no problem with conservatives, or with conservation for that matter. I try to conserve. I'm conserving my ammunition for the fucking fascists ... waiting 'til I see the whites of their eyes.

[rdharma]

16. "Regressives" is a more accurate term.

They want "their" country back like in was in the early '60s.

The early 1860's that is.

[nxylas]

17. Or just plain fascists

The word has become debased through overuse, but I have no problem labeling the Tea Party a fascist movement. It bears all the hallmarks: an authoritarian mindset, a "them and us" mentality, a merging of corporate and state power etc etc etc.

Baggers argue that they can't be fascists because they support "small government". People usually use the war on women as a counter-argument, but that doesn't necessarily need a big government apparatus - those ultrasounds etc are carried out in the private sector, all it needs is a legislative body to make them compulsory. But do they really think a "government small enough to drown in a bathtub" could carry out the grands projets they're so fond of: permanent warfare, a wall along the Mexican border and so forth?

[Pretzel_Warrior]

19. Let me guess. Ron Paul has some good ideas.

Ugghh. DU is a joke to Wade through sometimes.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

10. I would have liked to have seen his face when there was a knock on the door...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. Wait, what.

"...claiming that in his native Massachusetts, the racially charged epithet is applied equally to whites and African-Americans."

Let me quote that again:

"...claiming that in his native Massachusetts, the racially charged epithet is applied equally to whites and African-Americans."

Would this me Massachusetts state, on the north-east coast of the USA, or Massachusetts crater, on Mars, that he comes from?

[AsahinaKimi]

12. And he rationalizes it....

Like as if, he might have some kind of intelligence. No sir, you are a racist Moron.

[LWolf]

13. Inciting violence

is not protected by the first amendment. Nail his ass.

[wordpix]

20. "We’re about to lose our benefits"- he thinks due to O??? In fact, it's the R obstructionists

The Kocheads et al. don't want us to get any of the benefits we've earned through our years of employment. I guess they want that $ to go to further corporate welfare. Our benefits are not a free gov handout---we have put aside Medicare and Soc. Sec. $ to collect when we're older and can't work or no one wants to hire us b/c despite our experience and knowledge, we're "too old." This guy is so stoopid he doesn't know it's O and D's who are trying to keep these benefits for people. What a racist, idiotic asshat.

[red dog 1]

21. "White people are ni**ers too"???

I didn't know that!

[Boomerproud]

22. "The Secret Service didn't see no pictures of Obama with bullet holes in his head..."

His grammar is school-aged. What a intellectual and emotional moron.