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‘Moet Obama vermoord worden?’. Deze vraag verscheen in het weekeinde op de sociale netwerksite Facebook met verscheidene antwoordmogelijkheden.
Facebook (AFP)
De vraag is inmiddels verwijderd, maar de Secret Service is een onderzoek begonnen naar de zaak, meldden Amerikaanse media maandag.
‘We nemen dergelijke zaken ernstig’, zei een woordvoerder van de Secret Service, de beveiligingsdienst van de president. Facebook heeft zijn medewerking aan het onderzoek toegezegd, meldde een zegsman van het bedrijf.
De ‘moordpeiling’ verscheen zaterdag op Facebook. Op de vraag of Obama vermoord moet worden waren vier antwoordmogelijkheden: Nee, Misschien, Ja en Ja, als hij mijn gezondheidszorg inperkt.
Facebook verwijderde de peiling onmiddellijk nadat het bedrijf was ingelicht. Op dat moment hadden al ruim 750 personen op de peiling gereageerd.
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Conservatives Echo Assassination Fears
By Mara Gay on October 02, 2009 3:55pm
Concerns about the possibility of an attack on President Obama have risen on the left, with Thomas Friedman joining their ranks this week. By comparing the toxic political atmosphere to the conditions that preceded Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, he brought these fears into the mainstream and triggered an assassination debate. Though some conservatives faulted Friedman for hyperbole, on Friday two right-leaning writers say that the threat of political violence is real.
"Those Who Warn of Violence Are Right," Peggy Noonan writes at The Wall Street Journal. "Stop reading this and ask whoever's nearby, 'Do you find yourself worrying about President Obama's safety?' I do not think you are going to get, 'No.'" Noonan says the political discourse "tears the national fabric." But, she writes, it could do something far worse:
I see it this way. There are roughly 300 million people in America. Let's say 1% of them, only 1 in 100, are composed of those who might fairly be called emotionally unstable--the mentally ill, those who have limited or no ability to govern their actions, those who act out, as they say, physically or violently. That's three million people.
Let's say a third of them are regularly exposed to political media rants from right or left. That's a million people.
What effect might "they want to see you dead" and "the Republic is falling right now" have on their minds?
enz.enz.
WASHINGTON -
‘Moet Obama vermoord worden?’. Deze vraag verscheen in het weekeinde op de sociale netwerksite Facebook met verscheidene antwoordmogelijkheden.
Facebook (AFP)
De vraag is inmiddels verwijderd, maar de Secret Service is een onderzoek begonnen naar de zaak, meldden Amerikaanse media maandag.
‘We nemen dergelijke zaken ernstig’, zei een woordvoerder van de Secret Service, de beveiligingsdienst van de president. Facebook heeft zijn medewerking aan het onderzoek toegezegd, meldde een zegsman van het bedrijf.
De ‘moordpeiling’ verscheen zaterdag op Facebook. Op de vraag of Obama vermoord moet worden waren vier antwoordmogelijkheden: Nee, Misschien, Ja en Ja, als hij mijn gezondheidszorg inperkt.
Facebook verwijderde de peiling onmiddellijk nadat het bedrijf was ingelicht. Op dat moment hadden al ruim 750 personen op de peiling gereageerd.
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Conservatives Echo Assassination Fears
By Mara Gay on October 02, 2009 3:55pm
Concerns about the possibility of an attack on President Obama have risen on the left, with Thomas Friedman joining their ranks this week. By comparing the toxic political atmosphere to the conditions that preceded Yitzhak Rabin's assassination, he brought these fears into the mainstream and triggered an assassination debate. Though some conservatives faulted Friedman for hyperbole, on Friday two right-leaning writers say that the threat of political violence is real.
"Those Who Warn of Violence Are Right," Peggy Noonan writes at The Wall Street Journal. "Stop reading this and ask whoever's nearby, 'Do you find yourself worrying about President Obama's safety?' I do not think you are going to get, 'No.'" Noonan says the political discourse "tears the national fabric." But, she writes, it could do something far worse:
I see it this way. There are roughly 300 million people in America. Let's say 1% of them, only 1 in 100, are composed of those who might fairly be called emotionally unstable--the mentally ill, those who have limited or no ability to govern their actions, those who act out, as they say, physically or violently. That's three million people.
Let's say a third of them are regularly exposed to political media rants from right or left. That's a million people.
What effect might "they want to see you dead" and "the Republic is falling right now" have on their minds?
enz.enz.
