Infowars continues to report on the death threats against Romney by black Twitter users.
The MSM has been silent about this issue. Only Matt Drudge has made me aware of it. There’s obviously a double standard. If, for example, “neo-Nazi whites” were tweeting similar threats about Obama, it would be a really Huge Issue that the MSM and the Secret Service would be taking very seriously.
That's not fair, there's some White people in there too... ;P
Posted by: JayMan | October 23, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Indeed, the FBI has made visits to veterans due to posts on Myface that they made about the President.
Posted by: AllanF | October 23, 2012 at 12:49 PM
It was recently announced that "racist" Twitter accounts would be banned. Of course - as with everything else regarding race - this only applies to "racist" white Twitter accounts.
Blacks can still tweet like little birds as they make their racist threats to riot and kill Romney.
Posted by: Bernie | October 23, 2012 at 02:11 PM
IIRC, there is a specific law that criminalizes threats against the sitting President, and the courts have upheld it. AFAIK, this law does not extend to presidential candidates.
The Secret Service has little choice but to investigate any and all threats against the President, no matter how trivial. This includes paying visits to people who say dumb shit in public or on the Internet, even when it's very clear that no real threat exists.
So, yes, conservative idiots blowing off steam and threatening to shoot Obama get a visit from the feds, while liberal idiots threatening Romney may get away with it.
Posted by: John | October 23, 2012 at 05:04 PM
I hope they do riot, that would be the best thing to happen to America
Posted by: anonymous | October 23, 2012 at 05:19 PM