Democratic Socialist Students at Iowa State Call for Shooting of Trump
“Secret Service told Fox News it was “aware” of the comment.”
If we had an honest media, Bernie Sanders would be asked to comment on this.
FOX News reports:
Democratic Socialists at Iowa State University call for ‘shooting’ Trump
A Democratic Socialist student group at an Iowa college appeared to make death threats on Twitter against capitalists and President Trump — the latter message drawing the attention of the Secret Service.
“COMRADES: stay away from needle drugs! The only dope worth shooting is in the oval office [right now],” Iowa State University’s Young Democratic Socialists of America chapter tweeted in September.
The Secret Service told Fox News it was “aware” of the comment.
This month, YDSA tweeted to encourage the hanging and extermination of all “capitalists.” After the message drew complaints, Iowa State defended the group on Twitter, saying the tweet was protected speech, according to screen shots of the tweets taken by Campus Reform.
“The left has done a good job radicalizing juggalos, weebs, furries, but I will not rest until ‘hXc’ stands for hang+Xterminate capitalists,” the club wrote Oct. 4 in a since-deleted tweet.
“Juggalos,” “weebs,” and “furries” are slang for different types of fan groups, while “hXc” is a slang term that typically means “hardcore.”
When a student brought the tweet to the university’s attention, Iowa State responded via Twitter that the socialist club’s words “falls under free speech” with a link to available resources if any students “feel threatened or harassed.”
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“Juggalos,” “weebs,” and “furries” are slang for different types of fan groups
If juggalos, weeaboos and furry fetishists are who they’re recruiting, I don’t think we have anything to worry about.
“The only dope worth shooting is in the oval office” is clearly, without any possible question, protected speech. The Secret Service is “aware” of it, but I’m sure it is also aware that if its agents were to do anything that could have a chilling effect on such speech they will face a civil rights lawsuit with no qualified immunity. There is no way to distinguish “The only dope worth shooting is in the oval office” from “Next time I hope they get him” [referring to a failed assassination attempt on the president], which is firmly established as protected. This isn’t subject to debate. Any lawyer who knows anything about first amendment law will tell you so.