Obama's Facebook Assasination Attempt?

procure11

Apparently US secret agents are investigating a poll posted on social network site Facebook where members where asked to vote on whether Obama should be killed.

Source:http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Barack-Obama-Facebook-Assassination-Poll-US-Secret-Service-Investigates-Survey-Threat/Article/200909415394465?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_4&lid=ARTICLE_15394465_Barack_Obama_Facebook_Assassination_Poll%3A_US_Secret_Service_Investigates_Survey_Threat

The survey was subsequently removed because of its sensitive nature.

While I think that the security of the US president would be paramount to the FBI/CIA etc but I feel sometimes they take things too far.
Yes there are some nutters out there that would be influenced by the survey but encroaching on websites just isn't right.Everyone is entitled to their own kind of fun/amusement.
I dont know if Ireland has its own version of FBI/CIA....(stupid question )because if they had one Boards would have been closed long time ago with the amount of abuses rained on Cowen...That is what I would consider a mature society...just my opinion!

G_R

procure11 wrote: »

Apparently US secret agents are investigating a poll posted on social network site Facebook where members where asked to vote on whether Obama should be killed.

Source:http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Barack-Obama-Facebook-Assassination-Poll-US-Secret-Service-Investigates-Survey-Threat/Article/200909415394465?lpos=World_News_Top_Stories_Header_4&lid=ARTICLE_15394465_Barack_Obama_Facebook_Assassination_Poll%3A_US_Secret_Service_Investigates_Survey_Threat

The survey was subsequently removed because of its sensitive nature.

While I think that the security of the US president would be paramount to the FBI/CIA etc but I feel sometimes they take things too far.
Yes there are some nutters out there that would be influenced by the survey but encroaching on websites just isn't right.Everyone is entitled to their own kind of fun/amusement.
I dont know if Ireland has its own version of FBI/CIA....(stupid question )because if they had one Boards would have been closed long time ago with the amount of abuses rained on Cowen...That is what I would consider a mature society...just my opinion!

we do have similar agencies (SDU i believe its called) but the difference is over here, every nutjob and his brother doesnt have the right to bear arms so they dont have to be as worried as the FBI or CIA

orestes

Posting about killing the American president on a site with documented connections to the CIA, very clever

SoupyNorman

procure11 wrote: »

Apparently US secret agents are investigating a poll posted on social network site Facebook where members where asked to vote on whether Obama should be killed.

It's political correctness gone haywire.

I myself am being investigated by officials due to my ridiculously high score in Bouncing Balls.

genericguy

if our police were as paranoid as theirs, biggins would already be living in shackles on spike island.

Epic Tissue

orestes wrote: »

Posting about killing the American president on a site with documented connections to the CIA, very clever

links for that?

Kold

Well they made the First Amendment first... You'd think they'd save first for something important..

orestes

Epic Tissue wrote: »

links for that?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/jan/14/facebook

The third board member of Facebook is Jim Breyer. He is a partner in the venture capital firm Accel Partners, who put $12.7m into Facebook in April 2005. On the board of such US giants as Wal-Mart and Marvel Entertainment, he is also a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Now these are the people who are really making things happen in America, because they invest in the new young talent, the Zuckerbergs and the like. Facebook's most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock's senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA. After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions".

An Fear Aniar

procure11 wrote: »

While I think that the security of the US president would be paramount to the FBI/CIA etc but I feel sometimes they take things too far.

The Kennedy family would disagree.

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Overheal

All threats to the president are taken very seriously. Whoever started the poll can expect some prison time, if and when they're found. No less than anyone who sends a death threat letter to the white house. Dumbasses.

You don't see boards.ie being used as a staging front for assassinations either come to think of it.

orestes

Overheal wrote: »

You don't see boards.ie being used as a staging front for assassinations either come to think of it.

I dunno, it certainly seems like there is no shortage of people on here who definitely wanna kill Cowen, if they manage to organise themselves hell knows what could happen

An Fear Aniar

It goes beyond the bounds of free speech, though. Disagreeing is one thing but this is like incitement.
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humanji

An Fear Aniar wrote: »

The Kennedy family would disagree.

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Why would Brian Kennedy care about it?

K-Ren

I'm pretty sure there was a case in America a few years ago where a student was pulled out of class by the FBI for a blog post or something to that effect he made 'heavily criticising' Ol' Georgie W.

Zey have ways of making you talk.

Bonavox

Hm, I see where they found the concern - he's been a threat to himself when he decided to run for pressie.

Also, yes we have similar agencies. They have the CIA, we have the CIE

Dragan

orestes wrote: »

Posting about killing the American president on a site with documented connections to the CIA, very clever

They will end up changing to Twitter for it's ease of use on missions though.

D.Q

orestes wrote: »

. After 9/11, the US intelligence community became so excited by the possibilities of new technology and the innovations being made in the private sector, that in 1999 they set up their own venture capital fund, In-Q-Tel, which "identifies and partners with companies developing cutting-edge technologies to help deliver these solutions to the Central Intelligence Agency and the broader US Intelligence Community (IC) to further their missions"

feck their involvement in facebook, id be far more concerned about their time machine...