Ted Nugent tells NRA audience he would like to gun down Harry Reid
Source: Salon
At the National Rifle Associations annual convention a meeting that featured appearances by legitimate Republican presidential candidates like Jeb Bush, Scott Walker, and Ted Cruz conservative firebrand and 70s rock icon Ted Nugent called Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid a lying prick and said, if the opportunity arose, hed shoot him.
Media Matters Timothy Johnson reported that during the question and answer section following Nugents speech, he was asked, How and why did the NRA ever endorse Harry Reid to serve as the front man of Osama Obama?
As Johnson pointed out, the NRA never actually endorsed Senator Reid but the organization did once contribute $4,000 to his reelection campaign. The relationship soured, however, after Reid introduced a bill that would have expanded background checks and closed gun show sales loopholes.
Nugent responded to this question about the minion of Osama Obama by calling this possibly the most important question we could confront here because it is so confusing and, on the surface, so diabolical.. . .
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Motor City Madman, indeed. I grew up in Detroit at the same time, and with all the rough spots, kept my sanity. He hasn't. Of course, as we all know, he crusted his pants for weeks to avoid the draft, is still the same COWARD he was then, with a big mouth.
heather blossom
(174 posts)Why isn't this ass hole in jail for making terroristic threats?
Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Dumb ass Tea freak can't get anything right.
KansDem
(28,498 posts)I believe publicly stating you want to "shoot someone" is grounds for arrest.
Am I incorrect in making this assumption?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)drray23
(7,637 posts)I know that is the case for making threats to the president. Does not this hold true for the senate minority leader as well ?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)After many phone calls and letters directly threating their lives and those of their families of all generations, such as their grand children and saying they'd kill them at their school and knew where they lived, it still took time and kept low-key.
Because anything else would rile up the potential armed killers, as Glenn Beck. People have been killed that listened to him and went crazy, and it was used as their defense in court.
All of that vitriol for doing the right thing to move healthcare insurance reform along, but it still had to be proved there were means available. Some are in prison right now.
So your example is true, but Nuggets is a pseudo-entertainer and a paid shill for the NRA. He got a visit from Secret Service about him killing Obama. They had a talk with him... apparently they believe he is full of hot air.
The unfortunate thing is that some who listen to these guys will act on it. And it destroys respect for good things. Obama has been more than lenient about the threats and insults than anyone else - in that respect he is a civil libertarian purist of the first rank. Can you imagine the uproar if he ever behaved as BushCo did, with free speech zones and arresting people for telling jokes?
drray23
(7,637 posts)As you rightly pointed out :
So your example is true, but Nuggets is a pseudo-entertainer and a paid shill for the NRA. He got a visit from Secret Service about him killing Obama. They had a talk with him... apparently they believe he is full of hot air.
The unfortunate thing is that some who listen to these guys will act on it. And it destroys respect for good things.
Its not Nugent that I worry about, its the effect he has on unstable nutjobs.
I think the justice department should prosecute cases like that to deter celibrity nutjobs like Nugent from arousing the insanes. What is the point of the law if it is just ignored ?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)JFK, the same. We can't win with the law, only with a majority in office to mute their voices with the good effects of our policies. Especially since the MIC MSM has gone after all Democrats with a vengeance, with only token anchors to object, when by far the majority of pundits are so far to the right they belong in the middle ages.
This the only way we will stop this, but I don't even see much of that here on this board, save by default. The anti-government and anti-Democratic rhetoric is so powerful at times, a person lurking this board cannot come away with an impression that Democratic leaders are worth supporting, much less living, but it's all done with the 'keeping their feet to the fire' caveat.
There are wrong things in this country, but those who do that uniformly do not ever attack the GOP who do much worse. It is the GOP into controlling our bodies and speech with buying out all the media, and that message is resonating because we live in an echo box. Quite small, and repeated often.
Even if the words are not the same, the end result is the same. It promotes giving into the authoritarian, thecratic mindset. Why do I say that?
Because no one is speaking of any solution that works and too many say they will not vote. Thus RWNJs win. If they win in 2016, we can kiss future elections, etc. goodbye anyway.
calimary
(81,443 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,601 posts)Lefties get investigated, infiltrated, harassed, even thrown in the slammer, etc.
Don't forget the "Freedom of Speech" zones created for Bush protesters, and the protesters who were literally thrown out of events when Bush activists saw they had stickers on their car showing they were Gore supporters. Don't forget the young woman who was a Democrat who was knocked down, and her head stepped on against the street curb by a male Republican, and the Democratic protester at the New York Republican Convention who was knocked down deliberately by a young Republican male, who boasted about it online. There were photos of both filthy attacks. Only two among so many.
Freedom of speech for pedophiles like this filthy Republican "entertainer".
Death threats are not protected by the First Amendment.
Sometimes I think I'm one of the few people who remembers that.
Coventina
(27,169 posts)That is a crime.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)If he made a death threat against his neighbor the law would be involved so what about a Senator?
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)some serious interrogation. To me, that was an outright death threat!
diabeticman
(3,121 posts)If a normal citizen said that it would be viewed as a terroristic threat.
Fritz Walter
(4,292 posts)I think not.
One (or two) hit wonder perhaps, but not an icon!
And if the stories about his visit to the SSS office are factual, he's more a one- or two-shit wonder.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)Coventina
(27,169 posts)wilt the stilt
(4,528 posts)REALLY. he was a nobody then and now.
treestar
(82,383 posts)some of these crazy right wingers are so rabid about guns.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)I grew up in the South, where this kind of talk was common. It was always said tongue in cheek in those days, when the federal government was fully funded and sent troops to enforce federal civil rights laws.
Now that they've 'starved the beast' Libertarian style for years, they are emboldened to speak more directly to what they want.
Rand Paul (R-weasel) danced around this when asked. He as lying, actually, the record is there in numerous videos. We must face the truth about this.
treestar
(82,383 posts)at least by implication.
freshwest
(53,661 posts)Remember the RWNJs in front of the White House with their Confederate flags during the shut down? And Cruz, Palin, etc. standing with them?
And the videos of the guys who wanted to lynch Obama, but first wanted to tar and feather him, so he would suffer before he died?
They laughed when they said that. They really did.
Many times the expression of tarring and feathering was used, and the meaning was the same. It was done to those in the South who supported Reconstruction, but in many other places for other things, too, so it wasn't unique.
It is death by agonizing means while being mocked, but not all died, some survived. Pouring hot oil on them all over and rolling them in chicken feathers.
Public torture and possibly ending in painful death. 'Riding them out of town on a rail,' is the other expression for this heinous punishment, some say it is less torture and more humiliation. But look at the description here of the temperatures needed for the tar:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarring_and_feathering#Petroleum_tar
This is what they want for PBO and anyone who opposes them.
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)would embrace and glorify a pedophile!
Judi Lynn
(160,601 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Turd Nugget, American's top coward.
Coventina
(27,169 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)freshwest
(53,661 posts)Just sayin'
roamer65
(36,747 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)enough with giving that sub human puss boil any attention .
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)and ask them if they will protest Ted Nugent's funeral when he dies. I mean he did a) sing rock music, and b) liked little girls so that's got to qualify for their shit list. If they did there would be a tinge of irony.
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Or not.
hack89
(39,171 posts)PassingFair
(22,434 posts)I put my clock radio on the dresser on the other side of the room.
When his voice came on, I would have to actually get up to shut him up.
VERY EFFECT ALARM!
I worked, peripherally, on an ad shoot here, I think it was
for Vernors.....he called the models in the ad "female debris".
Asshat, asshat, asshat.