Town official who called for Obama to be shot resigns committees

[Judi Lynn]

Source: UPI

Town official who called for Obama to be shot resigns committees
Published: Aug. 29, 2013 at 4:30 PM

SABATTUS, Maine, Aug. 29 (UPI) -- A Maine man who was questioned by the Secret Service after calling for President Barack Obama to be shot says he resigned from three volunteer town committees.

David Marsters, 68 -- a retired police officer who is running for town selectman -- said he notified the Sabattus Board of Selectmen by email Thursday he is quitting his assignments on committees dealing with budget and ordinance review and town charter matters, the Portland Press Herald reported.

The board was scheduled to meet Thursday night to consider removing Marsters from the committees because he had posted "Shoot the [N-word] ... ," accompanied by a photo of Obama, on his Facebook page Aug. 23.

Secret Service agents questioned Marsters Tuesday.

Town Manager Andrew Gilmore said in a news release Thursday the town accepted Marsters' resignation. Gilmore thanked Marsters for "sparing the town and community further spectacle," the newspaper reported.


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[livetohike]

1. 68 years old and a life consumed by so much hatred. Go quietly Marsters and enjoy your 15 minutes

of fame. Idiot.

[Wait Wut]

2. It's Obama's fault.

If he hadn't have been black and a Democrat, poor Mr. Marsters could have kept his racism in the closet with his robes and flags.

[Cha]

9. Your post is painfuly true. Go to his end blaming Obama.

[onehandle]

3. Pretty sure about half of the Republican House has mumbled that under their breaths. nt

[bobGandolf]

27. Got that right! n/t

[FSogol]

4. He told the newspaper Tuesday the response to his online post is "a lot of hogwash."

Typical Republican who is completely unable to take the blame for his own misdeeds.

[dem in texas]

5. Where is this country headed?

I am 74 years old and I don't think I have ever seen the level of hate in this country, not even in the 1960's with the racial riots and war protests. It is starting to worry me, why we are go divided. Yes, there has always been arguments, name calling and protests, but I have never seen as much disrespect shown for our President. To have a member of congress call out in the chambers -"you lie" to our president is unheard of. The compare him to a Nazi or Hitler or a monkey - it makes me sick. To use a picture of him for a gun target, - how could they - what are they teaching their children. I very much disliked G. Bush, I did not vote for him for governor and certainly not for President. I was very opposed to the Iraq war, but he was still our president and I would never call him a bad name, I have too much respect for the office and for our country.

[Cha]

10. I'm thinking it's because a Black man has never

been President before, dem in texas.

Oh, I had plenty to say about bush.. but, I sure as hell didn't wish him dead.

[asjr]

14. I feel the same as you. Every time I see and

hear all the terrible things that are being said and shown I wonder what country I am living in. What really worries me is nothing seems to be done about it. All that is done is talk and more talk. I fear that it will continue and a Republican crowd will take over our country. The meanness will continue. I will be 81 years old Sept.1st and never in all my years would have believed what is happening.

[lumpy]

16. We see disrespect against our president on DU also, labeling him as a liar,etc. Disheartening.

n

[Marrah_G]

32. Calling someone out on a lie is NOT the same as saying "shoot the ****"

[Octafish]

38. Thank Reagan.

Reagan declared his candidacy in 1980 in Philadelphia, Mississippi.



Remember the story from Terrel Bell, Prunefaces's shocked Secretary of Education, who heard White House staff refer to Dr. King as "Martin Lucifer Coon"?



The guy made it OK to be a racist, again.

[Submariner]

20. why we are so divided

In 2002 Karl Rove said "this is the beginning of a PERMANENT republican majority". Then the guy the republicans voted for went and did the unspeakable, the unimaginable....he went and LOST 2 freaking wars, and ended up kicking the can down the road that ended up with a Black guy cleaning up the mess.....imho.

[MH1]

29. To be fair,

you weren't here at DU during the Bush years.

While I see your point and do appreciate it:

There were lots of references to Dubya as a chimp (you may still find usernames referencing that). And where do you think the website "Smirking Chimp" got its name? Personally, I think it's an insult to chimpanzees, who can be quite intelligent. But I agree in theory at least, it's very disrespectful to the office and the country. On the other hand, IMHO the country deserves some disrespect for allowing that charlatan to get anywhere close to enough votes to steal the election like he did. Oops, there I did it again.

All that said - if I haven't completely lost you by now - it's common sense not to post stuff about shooting the president, regardless who he is and how much you despise him. And as long as we claim to support democracy and accept that we have at least a quasi-semblance of one, people need to accept the results and just work to change the results the next time around, rather than going around talking about shooting elected officials.

[indepat]

6. Mr. Marsters might pray that he is not made an example of what happens when one

advocates violence upon the President.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. Good riddance to very bad rubbish!

[Agnosticsherbet]

8. Perhaps some so out touch that he thinks he can do that on facebook...

should not be working on even local government committees, even as a volunteer.

[GeorgeGist]

11. A picture's worth something ...

[Judi Lynn]

12. Oh, Jeez! Isn't he pleasant? Yeouch. Thank you. n/t

[msanthrope]

13. Can't hide the crazy. nt

[Pommie Dinko Cirtbag]

18. Hey, what did Mr. Marsters say above? I missed it.

[leftynyc]

22. I see you're new here

The way it works is you read the Original Post (called the OP), open the link, read the story and then discussion ensues. It's pretty simple, I'm sure you'll catch on.

[leftynyc]

24. Apparently so (n/t)

[Blue_Tires]

35. welcome back!

[bobGandolf]

28. What scares me is...

he looks completely normal.

[Skittles]

39. I bet that is his attempt at smiling

yes INDEED

[Tx4obama]

17. Kick n/t

[hatrack]

19. Good riddance - hate-riddled asshole.

FUCK I am tired of clowns like this guy.

[blkmusclmachine]

21. So much for bipartisanship...

[bobGandolf]

26. What about being arrested? n/t

[jpak]

30. He's from Mass. - he's not a Maine native.

just sayin'

[Marrah_G]

33. We do have our fair share of RW kooks in MA

[Paladin]

34. Yeah, we Texans use that one on the Bushes and Ted Cruz.

Never does a damn bit of good.

[riqster]

31. Sic semper assholeus. nt