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Shot-Up Image of President Draws a Secret Service Inquiry

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The Secret Service said Thursday that it was looking into a photograph posted on the Internet that showed a group of young Arizona men posing in the desert with guns while holding up what appeared to be a bullet-riddled image of President Obama’s face.

The photograph showed seven casually dressed young men, four of whom clutched weapons and one of whom held up a T-shirt covered with small holes and gashes and bearing a likeness of Mr. Obama above the word “HOPE.” The weapons held aloft appeared to be a revolver, a bolt-action rifle and two assault rifles.

“We’re aware of it, and we’re conducting the appropriate follow-up steps,” said Ed Donovan, a Secret Service spokesman in Washington.

The photo, along with the remark “Another trip to the ranch,” was posted on Jan. 20 on the Facebook page of Sgt. Pat Shearer, a police officer in Peoria, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb. The image was removed from Sergeant Shearer’s page on Thursday afternoon shortly after inquiries about it to the Peoria Police Department. Sergeant Shearer, a decorated officer who was honored in 2007 for helping to save a driver trapped in a burning vehicle, did not respond to a request for comment on Thursday.

full: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/27/us/secret-service-looks-into-image-of-obama-riddled-with-bullets.html

Here's a GD thread about this. photo:

And a police officer willfully let this get posted on his Facebook? If so he should be fired. Why is he promoting violent threats to the President?

Oh yeah. Isn't the "Taxed Enough Already" Party supposed to be picketing the Peoria Police Department because their tax dollars are paying for a policeman who encourages crime? (But if it's Obama it's alright!

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164 replies	Author	Time	Post
Shot-Up Image of President Draws a Secret Service Inquiry (Original post)	alp227	Jan 27	OP
God, they're stupid.	Ecumenist	Jan 27	#1
Refer back to the thread on low intelligence of conservatives	Gman	Jan 27	#13
Oh, I didn't realize that the 2006 movie, "Death of a President" was a right wing production	24601	Jan 27	#109
WTF are you talking about? First of all, it was MOCKUMENTARY NOT	Ecumenist	Jan 27	#112
good	LostinRed	Jan 27	#2
I do...going back to Reagan. Then again it was mostly dart boards	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#22
I seem to remember episodes of the sitcom 'Murphy Brown'	BrendaBrick	Jan 27	#82
This message was hidden by jury decision.	Cliffy44	Feb 1	#163
Eight dickheads in need of an asskicking	madokie	Jan 27	#3
if they do get jail time- the ass-kickings are certain.	stlsaxman	Jan 27	#6
Their combined IQ is 7, and their combined pee pee length is 5 inches.	NYC_SKP	Jan 27	#18
"Nice guns. Sorry about your pee pees." n/t	Beartracks	Jan 28	#137
Hyperbole	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#26
Just Wondering, Mr. "Progressive":	Paladin	Jan 27	#52
Just wondering if you have taken reading comprehension again	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#56
I think it's more like false equivalence than defending it	dreamnightwind	Jan 27	#126
Truly. It's not what our side does.	calimary	Jan 28	#129
Yeah, it's a seed you don't want planted	dreamnightwind	Jan 28	#131
Just members of the right wing "gun culture" having a big old time. Screw em.	Hoyt	Jan 27	#92
Check your grammar, "Professor." n/t	SunSeeker	Jan 27	#110
Thank you	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#115
Gunstremists.	onehandle	Jan 27	#4
The teabaggin' kkkluckers seem to forget something...........	TxVietVet	Jan 27	#5
Dumbasses n/t	deutsey	Jan 27	#7
Love the guy on the right, with the semi-automatic...	secondwind	Jan 27	#8
Yep. "JUST DO IT"	emulatorloo	Jan 27	#83
I'm wondering when the guy on the left is gonna shoot his own foot off.	caveat_imperator	Jan 27	#86
or the guy with pistol shooting the guy next to him	ThomThom	Jan 27	#88
"... LET this get posted"? Dumb Facebook question ...	JustABozoOnThisBus	Jan 27	#9
Pictures have been posted	The Wizard	Jan 27	#10
You can have your account settings not allow that	obamanut2012	Jan 27	#14
Posting on your wall is one thing	rocktivity	Jan 27	#48
You should be able to delete them. If you can't delete them,	MH1	Jan 27	#72
fixed (NT)	The Wizard	Jan 27	#80
You have to approve photos posted to your wall by others	obamanut2012	Jan 27	#12
You can post on other's pages	Mz Pip	Jan 27	#46
Is the idiot on the left about to shoot their foot off? It looks like it. n/t	fasttense	Jan 27	#11
Yep- that's bunch of real macho he-man badasses right there...	LeftinOH	Jan 27	#15
DU-Friendly adjectives fail me.	HughBeaumont	Jan 27	#16
Seven losers toting deadly weapons	TheCowsCameHome	Jan 27	#17
The fact that it's a tee shirt implies they did violence to an Obama supporter.	TalkingDog	Jan 27	#19
Look at them. If any ONE man every confronted them, they'd run like babies....unless, of course,	judesedit	Jan 27	#20
Just one more reason NOT to vote for a conservative. Need I say more?	judesedit	Jan 27	#21
There is no such thing as a conservative anymore	INdemo	Tuesday	#164
These are exhibits 1-8 (including the jag-off with the camera)...	Moostache	Jan 27	#49
If they want to shoot guns so badly, send them to Afghanistan. Tired of these	Liberal_Stalwart71	Jan 27	#23
Or Somalia.	calimary	Jan 28	#127
These	Madmiddle	Jan 27	#24
This has been going on for multiple presidents and other public figures since I can remember	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#25
What horseshit - this is not "political speech" It's gun nut douchebaggery	jpak	Jan 27	#30
Its right wing nuts behaving stupidly, but under the law, its political speech	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#32
disagree, firearms ARE a key point here. The numbskulls are holding guns with pic of shot up Pres.O	wordpix	Jan 27	#39
Not from a legal perspective or a practical one...	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#42
however, this being AZ, this should not be taken lightly IMO	wordpix	Jan 27	#50
There is no tie to Giffords. It could have happened in any state in the union	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#55
I did not state there was a tie to Giffords, I said it was AZ (land of the gun-toting nutcases)	wordpix	Jan 27	#64
My point is that it is AZ has nothing to do with it	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#65
Thanks for the regional bigotry.	PavePusher	Jan 29	#146
It's not bigotry when I read news from AZ & draw my own conclusions	wordpix	Jan 29	#158
Apologizing for teabagger douchebaggery is just plain stupid	jpak	Jan 27	#53
Then you should quit doing it	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#59
lol	jpak	Jan 27	#76
Professor,	kurtzapril4	Jan 27	#123
douch	stonecutter357	Jan 27	#99
Then you need to brush up on your "legal and practical" skills.	Hassin Bin Sober	Jan 28	#139
There will be no investigation since there is no threat	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 28	#142
If I posted a picture of myself holding a gun and a shot-up orange juice bottle...	PavePusher	Jan 27	#116
Is your orange juice bottle a SS protectee?	Hassin Bin Sober	Jan 28	#144
Is a t-shirt a Secret Service protectee?	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 29	#148
not horseshit.	onenote	Jan 27	#91
Please provide examples of this happening with previous presidents	Hugabear	Jan 27	#78
Does a bunch of irate Canadians throwing shoes at a burning effigy of George W. Bush count?	slackmaster	Jan 27	#96
Show me an example of a bullet-ridden image of Bush, where the Secret Service did not investigate	Hugabear	Jan 27	#98
So, punching holes in a 2-dimensional image is morally worse than burning a 3-dimensional one?	slackmaster	Jan 27	#101
Actually I asked for a data since I could not find one	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#106
Lots of things are legal, but best left undone. Like a bunch of punks shooting off their weapons.	Hoyt	Jan 27	#94
You are letting your weapons phobia interfere with a marvelous PR opportunity for Obama	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#105
Your love of weapons is keeping you from getting outraged at this kind of junk, that is too common.	Hoyt	Jan 27	#111
Hardly, I see this as an opportunity	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#117
Well it would be nice to see a little outrage, rather than defense of a bunch of punks blasting away	Hoyt	Jan 27	#118
So urinating or defecating on it would have been okay by you just as long as it wasn't firearms?	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#120
Just by looking at the pic...	Wait Wut	Jan 27	#27
Prediction:	Ken Burch	Jan 27	#28
No doubt claiming that they are "progressive" too ...	Nihil	Jan 27	#40
GOP/NRA gun nut thugs	jpak	Jan 27	#29
Painting with sort of a broad brush aren't we?n/t	Johnson20	Jan 27	#71
OK - I will redefine them - teabagger douchebag GOP/NRA gun nuts	jpak	Jan 27	#75
Nope. Rather bigoted in my humble opinion. n/t	Johnson20	Jan 27	#77
The bigots are holding the guns	jpak	Jan 27	#93
Exactly. And bigots and guns seem to go together in this country.	Hoyt	Jan 27	#95
Tell that to the Pink Pistols	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 28	#143
Where did you read anything about that, not in the OP's article?n/t	Johnson20	Jan 28	#135
What's bigoted about a group of armed white men shooting up a photo of a black president?	Hugabear	Jan 27	#100
Sorry, but I won't leap to	Johnson20	Jan 28	#136
Do you deny that most of the anti-Obama hatred is racially motivated?	Hugabear	Jan 28	#138
Yes, I do. I believe, for the most part, it is politically, not racily motovated. n/t	Johnson20	Jan 29	#150
You have got to be fucking kidding me.	Hugabear	Jan 29	#157
If this would have happened when Bush was President ..wouldn't these idiots be in jail already?	INdemo	Jan 27	#31
No	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#34
Yes - People were sentenced to jail time for far less during the Bush regime	jpak	Jan 27	#35
And you have on point citiations for that?	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#36
I do recall someone getting sentenced to nearly three years in jail for making a reference	rocktivity	Jan 27	#41
Do you have a citation in context?	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#43
Found a link to the story that works.	rocktivity	Jan 27	#45
Then post it	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#47
This what he was busted for	rocktivity	Jan 27	#51
Interesting read	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#61
yes, a man made a joke about a burning bush	newspeak	Jan 27	#58
The link above was an interesing read about that	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#62
Um - a MOVIE was made about Bush getting shot.	Dreamer Tatum	Jan 27	#87
There was also a movie made about the earth being smashed by an asteroid...	Hassin Bin Sober	Jan 28	#140
Yeah...let anyone make a faux documentary about Obama being shot	Dreamer Tatum	Jan 29	#152
Are you kidding?	Spirochete	Jan 27	#125
Is there something in the air or water	COLGATE4	Jan 27	#33
AZ does appear to be a wingnut magnet	peace frog	Jan 27	#37
Terrorists.	Loge23	Jan 27	#38
If Bush was in office...	SpankMe	Jan 27	#44
"And a police officer willfully let this get posted on his Facebook?" Do we know that?	yellowcanine	Jan 27	#54
More TeaTerror	Ian David	Jan 27	#57
Not very good shots either, from the looks of it. nt	mistertrickster	Jan 27	#60
And as others have pointed out, their gun safety is not so hot either.	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#63
Loughners in training. Giffords' father said if she got hurt, it'd be by a Teabagger, since the...	freshwest	Jan 27	#66
Amen.	2kevlane	Jan 27	#85
Thanks. Like your profile. Welcome to DU.	freshwest	Jan 27	#124
The bigger the gun, the smaller the penis. nt	bathroommonkey76	Jan 27	#67
And just how would you know that? Just curious is all. n/t	Johnson20	Jan 27	#89
Arizona	MountainLaurel	Jan 27	#68
"trip to the ranch"????	GoldenOldie	Jan 27	#69
Gee, I wonder how Nike feels about all that promotion (the green shirt on the doofus to the right)?	SoapBox	Jan 27	#70
So will Jan Brewer shake her claw in the faces of these violent gun thugs?	NBachers	Jan 27	#73
Looks like they're going rogue	JJW	Jan 27	#74
Not sure whether to rec this for its sheer stupidity or hide it because its so sickening. eom	tawadi	Jan 27	#79
Now I really don't feel safe	DreamSmoker	Jan 27	#81
Minor point on CA law	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 27	#108
Damn glad I don't live there.	2kevlane	Jan 27	#84
Hell I won't even travel there...	bayareaboy	Jan 27	#90
sorry	BVL1994	Jan 27	#103
Douchebags. I hope the SS kicks their ass and takes names.	Initech	Jan 27	#97
Hey Tough Guys? So What was the Point/message?	fascisthunter	Jan 27	#102
These dittoheads have never known a time without hate radio.	Faygo Kid	Jan 27	#104
It's just today's threat of violence by conservatives..	dsharp88	Jan 27	#107
God. This is frightening! When will this incendiary rhetoric stop?! haven't we had enough tragedy?	tropicanarose	Jan 27	#113
How about this?	PavePusher	Jan 27	#114
Nope. Try looking up the definition of "burned in effigy". Here are a couple:	That Guy 888	Jan 28	#132
Distinction without a difference?	PavePusher	Jan 28	#134
You are trying to compare the "shooters" to people who burned bush in effigy, right?	That Guy 888	Jan 29	#145
I'm pretty sure that shooting a picture of someone...	PavePusher	Jan 29	#147
Try reading my posts a little more carefully	That Guy 888	Jan 29	#151
Try reading history a liitle more carefully	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 29	#153
Professor, please cite your historical evidence	That Guy 888	Jan 29	#161
It seems way more threatening to those who might WEAR such a shirt	Nevernose	Jan 27	#119
this is a real problem	gopiscrap	Jan 27	#121
This message was hidden by jury decision.	jake123	Jan 27	#122
I'm worried about the guy on the right.	Bette Noir	Jan 28	#128
Yep, bad idea	Zippydo77	Jan 28	#130
for those who say both sides do it	newspeak	Jan 28	#133
They should have read the story of Sir Anthony Babbington	SemperEadem	Jan 28	#141
Looks like someone's getting a visit from the NSA.	Fearless	Jan 29	#149
Huh? What would the NSA have to do with this? n/t	PavePusher	Jan 29	#154
This message was self-deleted by its author	Fearless	Jan 29	#156
I meant Secret Service.	Fearless	Jan 29	#159
Ah. I thought my alphabet soup had run away with itself for a minute. n/t	PavePusher	Jan 29	#160
Wsn't there someone back in the Shrub Era...	BiggJawn	Jan 29	#155
That's sick! n/t	New7up	Jan 29	#162

Response to alp227 (Original post)

Fri Jan 27, 2012, 04:32 AM

Ecumenist (4,100 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore

1. God, they're stupid.

Funny how you didn't see things like this from us during Idiot McCrackpipe's residency and seems like we see at least 2 a week.

Shot-Up Image of President Draws a Secret Service Inquiry

1. God, they're stupid.

13. Refer back to the thread on low intelligence of conservatives

109. Oh, I didn't realize that the 2006 movie, "Death of a President" was a right wing production

112. WTF are you talking about? First of all, it was MOCKUMENTARY NOT

2. good

22. I do...going back to Reagan. Then again it was mostly dart boards

82. I seem to remember episodes of the sitcom 'Murphy Brown'

3. Eight dickheads in need of an asskicking

6. if they do get jail time- the ass-kickings are certain.

18. Their combined IQ is 7, and their combined pee pee length is 5 inches.

137. "Nice guns. Sorry about your pee pees." n/t

26. Hyperbole

52. Just Wondering, Mr. "Progressive":

56. Just wondering if you have taken reading comprehension again

126. I think it's more like false equivalence than defending it

129. Truly. It's not what our side does.

131. Yeah, it's a seed you don't want planted

92. Just members of the right wing "gun culture" having a big old time. Screw em.

110. Check your grammar, "Professor." n/t

115. Thank you

4. Gunstremists.

5. The teabaggin' kkkluckers seem to forget something...........

7. Dumbasses n/t

8. Love the guy on the right, with the semi-automatic...

83. Yep. "JUST DO IT"

86. I'm wondering when the guy on the left is gonna shoot his own foot off.

88. or the guy with pistol shooting the guy next to him

9. "... LET this get posted"? Dumb Facebook question ...

10. Pictures have been posted

14. You can have your account settings not allow that

48. Posting on your wall is one thing

72. You should be able to delete them. If you can't delete them,

80. fixed (NT)

12. You have to approve photos posted to your wall by others

46. You can post on other's pages

11. Is the idiot on the left about to shoot their foot off? It looks like it. n/t

15. Yep- that's bunch of real macho he-man badasses right there...

16. DU-Friendly adjectives fail me.

17. Seven losers toting deadly weapons

19. The fact that it's a tee shirt implies they did violence to an Obama supporter.

20. Look at them. If any ONE man every confronted them, they'd run like babies....unless, of course,

21. Just one more reason NOT to vote for a conservative. Need I say more?

164. There is no such thing as a conservative anymore

49. These are exhibits 1-8 (including the jag-off with the camera)...

23. If they want to shoot guns so badly, send them to Afghanistan. Tired of these

127. Or Somalia.

24. These

25. This has been going on for multiple presidents and other public figures since I can remember

30. What horseshit - this is not "political speech" It's gun nut douchebaggery

32. Its right wing nuts behaving stupidly, but under the law, its political speech

39. disagree, firearms ARE a key point here. The numbskulls are holding guns with pic of shot up Pres.O

42. Not from a legal perspective or a practical one...

50. however, this being AZ, this should not be taken lightly IMO

55. There is no tie to Giffords. It could have happened in any state in the union

64. I did not state there was a tie to Giffords, I said it was AZ (land of the gun-toting nutcases)

65. My point is that it is AZ has nothing to do with it

146. Thanks for the regional bigotry.

158. It's not bigotry when I read news from AZ & draw my own conclusions

53. Apologizing for teabagger douchebaggery is just plain stupid

59. Then you should quit doing it

76. lol

123. Professor,

99. douch

139. Then you need to brush up on your "legal and practical" skills.

142. There will be no investigation since there is no threat

116. If I posted a picture of myself holding a gun and a shot-up orange juice bottle...

144. Is your orange juice bottle a SS protectee?

148. Is a t-shirt a Secret Service protectee?

91. not horseshit.

78. Please provide examples of this happening with previous presidents

96. Does a bunch of irate Canadians throwing shoes at a burning effigy of George W. Bush count?

98. Show me an example of a bullet-ridden image of Bush, where the Secret Service did not investigate

101. So, punching holes in a 2-dimensional image is morally worse than burning a 3-dimensional one?

106. Actually I asked for a data since I could not find one

94. Lots of things are legal, but best left undone. Like a bunch of punks shooting off their weapons.

105. You are letting your weapons phobia interfere with a marvelous PR opportunity for Obama

111. Your love of weapons is keeping you from getting outraged at this kind of junk, that is too common.

117. Hardly, I see this as an opportunity

118. Well it would be nice to see a little outrage, rather than defense of a bunch of punks blasting away