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Bozita

(26,955 posts)
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 02:59 PM Aug 2012

Teabagger Sterling Heights city councilman gets visit from Secret Service

Secret Service visits Sterling Heights city councilman who made violent, derogatory comments about President Obama, Jennifer Granholm, Nancy Pelosi (VIDEO)
Published: Friday, August 10, 2012
By Gordon Wilczynski
For The Press & Guide

Two U.S. Secret Service agents on Thursday interviewed Councilman Paul Smith, one day after the Sterling Heights City Council voted 6-1 to ask the freshman councilman to resign over derogatory statements he made at a Tea Party rally in 2009 against President Barack Obama and other political figures. Smith said he won’t resign.

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Smith said someone told the federal agents he was caught on tape with a group of Tea Party protesters. He had two signs that read: “He (Obama) changed America into Uganda,” “S..t on a stick” and another saying “One more day is one too many.”

He carried a large sign with a picture of former House speaker Nancy Pelosi with bullet holes in her face and a hammer and sickle, symbols of the Communist Party. The verbiage on the sign said, “Extreme left bitch,” “We won’t die soon enough,” and “She hates America, God, You and Capitalism.”

Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm was depicted in a hangman’s noose. Smith called the three (Obama, Pelosi and Granholm) communists, and said they are worse than any enemy America ever fought against.


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more with video ...
http://www.pressandguide.com/articles/2012/08/10/news/doc5025114cb4507180344349.txt?viewmode=fullstory

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LongTomH

(8,636 posts)
1. Damn, I would hope he got a visit from the Secret Service!!!!!
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 03:02 PM
Aug 2012

If they didn't check him out, they wouldn't be doing their jobs!

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ThomThom

(1,486 posts)
11. hopefully he will stop acting like the clan after the visit from SS
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 04:07 PM
Aug 2012

really you approve of this hate? you are in the wrong place check the rules and begone

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
15. I'll reply here, since I cannot reply to the hidden post.
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 12:04 AM
Aug 2012

I knew a person that got a visit from the FBI, not the Secret Service, who are a little more, shall we say, 'intense' than FBI agents, over a violation of federal labor law concerning reserve military employees getting called up for active duty.

Anyhoo, after the interview by the FBI, the cocky bastard that thought they had the world by the balls before the interview had turned pasty white, was shaking and wobbly on their feet.

I'm fairly certain that the idiot who got the visit from the Secret Service shat himself.

Those guys from the S.S. do not have a sense of humor whatsoever, they play hardball, and play to win.

ThomThom

(1,486 posts)
17. that is right they take their job very seriously
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 06:35 PM
Aug 2012

I think our poster is no longer with us, he did not last long

eomer

(3,845 posts)
12. The article neglects to mention the part that triggered the SS visit.
Fri Aug 10, 2012, 05:05 PM
Aug 2012

Which is the depiction of the President's severed head on a pike.

The video shows it but the copy, for some reason, doesn't mention it.

eomer

(3,845 posts)
16. Yes, that pic. And then article leaves that out of its otherwise detailed explanation...
Sat Aug 11, 2012, 09:27 AM
Aug 2012

of the reasons for the Secret Service visit. Why didn't they mention the real reason in the text?

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