Michael Brown's Parents To Speak To UN? Really?

I have read some ridiculous things in the last few years but this one takes the cake. I read an article this morning that says the parents of Michael Brown, the young man who was killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in August, will be traveling to Geneva, Switzerland, to "take their case" before the The United Nations Committee Against Torture. Really?

The case hasn't even been settled yet in Ferguson. It hasn't been settled by the Justice Department, where Eric Holder is working hard to find anything he can use against Officer Wilson. Apparently Michael Brown's parents are simply not satisfied that Officer Wilson hasn't been charged and tried for murder just two months following the incident.

I'm sure the leak of autopsy information and the leak that the grand jury will most likely not be indicting Wilson in the case has led these grieving parents to make this decision but since Michael Brown was not tortured in any way, what possible reason would they have to take their desperate request to the United Nations? And why would the United Nations even be interested in hearing it unless they simply want an open door to involve themselves more deeply in the American government? Opening that door would be a mistake and a grave risk to our sovereignty as a nation.

Michael Brown's parents are hurting. I get that. No one knows better than I how it feels to lose a child to tragedy. What Michael was doing or had done up to the moment he was shot doesn't make the pain the parents feel any less. I get it. But these private citizens and their lawyers want to push their own "justice" to the outcome they desire without allowing local and federal authorities to complete their own investigations of the case. Theirs is an agenda that should not be - keep involving more and more people, agencies and organizations in the case in hope that at least one of them will eventually take their side.

What right or authority do Brown's parents have to take a local case to the United Nations anyway - particularly when they have not been settled here in the United States yet?

According to their web page - Ferguson to Geneva, "Our goal is not only to achieve justice in Ferguson, but to unite governments around the world against the human rights violations that result from racial profiling and police violence."

According to Saint Louis Public Radio, Brown’s parents, Lesley McSpadden and Michael Brown Sr., will go with a Saint Louis University Law professor Justin Hansford to plead their case. The law professor has written a 13-page complaint against the U.S. justice system specifically complaining about:

Leaving Michael Brown’s body in the middle of the street uncovered
Too many white police officers in Ferguson
Racial profiling
Militarization of police departments
Treatment of protesters
All U.S. police departments

And calling for:

Immediate arrest of Officer Darren Wilson
Firing Police Commissioner
Demanding an apology from Governor Jay Nixon for protester treatment
A firm definition of use of force
‘Front facing’ cameras at all police departments

Let's look at these one by one.

I have no idea why Brown's body wasn't covered. It seems to me they could have done that out of respect for his family if nothing else. It is common practice with most police departments.

The Ferguson Police Chief says he has tried (and failed) to hire and maintain black officers on the Ferguson PD. Is this true? We don't know. And neither do they.

Racial profiling is a phrase used all too often when law enforcement is white and a suspect is black. Did Wilson profile Brown? There is no evidence I've heard that indicates he did.

Police departments nationwide have acquired surplus military equipment through a government program that they use in accordance with the situation at hand. When they are confronting angry, violent mobs who are bent on breaking the law (and often attacking police) I see no logical reason why police should not use everything at their disposal to protect life and property. If you run afoul of the police who are well equipped it's most likely your own fault.

They also want the immediate arrest of Darren Wilson. On what charge? Murder? To arrest one for murder there must be concrete evidence that a murder was committed. So far that evidence hasn't panned out and the grand jury is not done deliberating. Arresting Wilson just to make some people feel better would not only be a mistake but it borders on illegal. Any intelligent attorney should know that.

They want the Police Commissioner fired. For what? What has he done that warrants firing?

Governor Nixon should apologize, alright - but not to the protesters. Violence begets violence. Governor Nixon should apologize to Officer Wilson for convicting him in the court of public opinion before the facts of the case were even close to being revealed.

The use of force has been defined in most law enforcement agencies as "the amount of effort or restraint that one, usually a member of law enforcement, must use to gain control of an unruly situation or person." That force increases or decreases as the situation changes. When you have an unruly and violent mob you come out heavily armed to let them know what could happen if they persist. That doesn't mean you use it - unless the mob dictates that to be necessary. And then you use it until the situation is under control.

The last one I can agree with. In 2014, every police department should be using personal camera technology to alleviate any doubts about what happened. Had Darren Wilson been wearing one it may have shown full well that Michael Brown attacked him in the car and charged him before being killed. That said - does anyone really believe that a camera showing Michael Brown to be the aggressor and attacking Wilson would satisfy the mob in Ferguson? There would always be the "But he was unarmed!" crowd that would completely overlook the damage done to Wilson when Brown hit him. Cameras only resolve issues when people are open to them being resolved honestly.

Bottom line is the Michael Brown's parents will never be satisfied that "justice" was done for them unless the get the outcome they want - regardless of the facts and evidence. It's understandable in a way. Grieving parents will do anything to help alleviate their pain. But if Wilson is not indicted by the St. Louis County Police or the Justice Department, is the President going to allow the UN to step in and do something? Let's hope not. And if the UN doesn't do anything then what? How will the Browns and the mobs in Ferguson ever finally resolve this? I'm thinking winter might help some but what happens after that? If you don't believe the facts and evidence in the case, regardless of how overwhelming it may be, how will you ever resolve the issue?

VOTE!

Tomorrow is a day that should be celebrated across the country. It's a day that allows Americans to choose how they want their government to proceed and who will lead it. Sadly, it has also become a day of misinformation, dishonesty and, in some cases, intimidation. For others it is a day of complete disinterest.

Election day for federal offices was set aside by Congress in 1845 as the Tuesday immediately following the first Monday in the month of November. This means the earliest election day can be on November 2nd and the latest can be November 8th (if the first day of November is a Tuesday.)

Eight states plus the US territory of Puerto Rico have made election day a civic holiday. In Puerto Rico bars are closed on election day and drinking alcohol in public is against the law - something that might not be bad to initiate here.

Television coverage of the vote is at an all time high. Reporters and exit poll workers hover outside polling places in hopes of getting information about which way the election is going before anyone else.

In 2008, members of the New Black Panther Party stood outside a polling place in Philadelphia in their uniforms, carrying sticks, and intimidated white voters in an attempt to help Barack Obama become President. The Obama administration, particularly Eric Holder, refused to prosecute the case saying it was blown out of proportion. It was the beginning of a long controversy concerning the Attorney General's attitude toward crime and prosecution in the black community.

Election day is the chance for Americans to change the leadership of the country if they're unsatisfied with what they see in Washington. Some people say it doesn't matter who gets elected, that both parties are the same and all politicians are the same, but I think Barack Obama has proved that assumption to be incorrect. Obama's famous "fundamentally transform the United States of America" speech was something that some people thought was a good thing. We know now that Obama's plan for transformation was not good for America.

Obama's transformation has given Americans less freedoms. Period. Let's look at a few examples:

1. Government spying on citizens is at an all time high. The NSA stores data from everyone's phone calls in the name of national security.
2. President Obama has given himself the authority to indefinitely detain any American citizen he deems a threat to national security without due process.
3. President Obama has given himself the authority to kill any American citizen on foreign soil that he deems a threat to national security or deems to be assisting terrorists.
4. The Obama Justice Department has secretly and illegally wiretapped phone systems of media agencies as well as the private phone lines of at least one American journalist and his family.
5. President Obama has intentionally left our nation's borders open, allowing hundreds of thousands of people, including some Muslims terrorists, to enter the country illegally.
6. President Obama has forced Americans to buy health care insurance or be fined for not doing so.
7. President Obama has caused many Americans to lose their health care coverage because the new law deemed the plans they had to be insufficient.
8. He has caused religion-based organizations to challenge the law in court because they were forced to pay for birth control medications they rejected on religious grounds.
9. President Obama has lowered the number of Americans who participate in the work force and has increased the number of Americans on government assistance by nearly 100%.
10. President Obama has reduced the standing of the United States as the leader of the world to being ridiculed and dismissed by many nations.

I could go on but this post isn't about Obama. It's about the election and the importance of voting. It is also, as he has said recently, about his policies.Republicans want to take control of the Senate to make it more difficult for President Obama to effect more of his changes on us. The President wants to grant amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, thus gaining that many new Democrat voters. It is expected that he will do so but only after the election so it won't hurt Democrats' re-election chances.

Some Democrats have already made public their intent to vote Republican in this important election to send President Obama a message. Republicans and conservatives don't care about their reasons if Democrats want to do this. The more the merrier. Republicans maintaining the House and taking control of the Senate is essential if Obama is to be stopped from making more changes.

Whatever you do - do not stay home tomorrow thinking the Republicans don't need your vote! Tomorrow is your chance to stop the madness! Republicans need your vote. The country needs your vote. It's time to stop the "hope and change" and bring some sanity back to the federal government!

VOTE!

Visiting History

Yesterday, Arden and I went to breakfast in Granbury, Texas, followed by a short walk around the historic town square. There was a hot rod show going on (a small one) with about 15 cars, ranging from the early 40s to the mid 70s. All of them were beautiful with my personal favorite being a white over red 1956 Chevy Belaire. We walked through a store that sells home furnishings and knick knacks - everything from new furniture and accessories to overpriced antiques. Nice place to visit. Wouldn't want to shop there.

As we were headed back to the car I noticed the historic county jail museum was open. Given my career in corrections I had always wanted to tour it but had never found it open. Yesterday I finally got that chance.

The old jail was built with local stone in 1865. There are three cells on the second floor. One is more like a room (with a steel grate door and another, solid steel outer door.) It was used to house the female "visitors" and is behind the dark window on the left side of the picture. Originally glass with bars over it, the window was covered with sheet steel by one of the modern sheriffs who decided it was too easy to effect an escape with just bars. (It had been done effectively in the past.) The inside of the cell is pictured here. The toilet has been removed but the drain is visible under the bed.

The men were kept in a separate area on the other side of the building. The dark window on the right side denotes the men's area. There are two cells in that area that are side by side with a secure walkway in front of them. Each cell secures separately. The walkway secures with the door pictured. Inside the walkway is one toilet and one sink for all of the inmates. Each cell has two sets of bunk beds in it.

The lever pictures allowed the deputies to open and/or secure the cells from outside the secure area. It was quite modern for its time. The locking hardware was made in St. Louis. The cell walls are solid steel with barred windows on the side and on the back that allowed the deputies to see inside the cells by means of a walkway that goes around the entire structure. The windows to the outside of the building are covered with sheet steel.

The tower that is the front of the building was built specifically to accommodate gallows in the event there was a court ordered hanging. Historic records show that while no inmate was ever officially hung on the gallows inside the jail, seven inmates hung themselves with bed sheets during the time the jail was open. It is rumored some of their ghosts still live there. 

The only official hanging sanctioned by the court took place about a mile from the old jail and was done outside. It occurred in 1876. There is no explanation of why it did not take place inside the jail, although one reason may be because historical records say about 2000 people were there to witness it.

Upon entering the jail through the front door you are inside what was the sheriff's office and the intake area. Once the prisoner was processed he/she was escorted up a very narrow and steep stairway, through a large trap door and into the cell area. I can only imagine how much fun it was escorting a large, drunk man up those stairs. Sadly, I failed to get a picture of those stairs.

From that front office, through a large, heavy, steel door, was the sheriff's living quarters. All Hood County sheriffs were required to be married because it was the wife's duty to feed the inmates. Imagine how that would go over today.

The living quarters originally had a living room and two small bedrooms. The kitchen was in a separate building in the back with a dog run in between. That area was eventually closed in to make one large living room/kitchen area. The building is not air-conditioned and in the summer the heat from the stove inside the house must have made it unbearable. Tour guides say as bad as that was it was even worse for the inmates upstairs with no outside air coming in.

The jail was in operation until a new one was built.... in 1978. In 1968 the extra bedroom was turned into a dispatcher's office with the installation of a radio and phone center. I don't know how long the rule was in effect that the sheriff had to be married and his wife had to feed the inmates.

Graffiti on (and carved into) the walls is original, as are the fixtures. At least one inmate visited the jail three years in a row, consecutively, and carved the year under his name each time.

If you're ever in Granbury and the jail is open it's well worth the whopping $2 entry fee to see it for yourself. I wonder if I can get a job there? I do have some experience....

Selfishness Personified... In Medical Staff?

Remember when Thomas Duncan left Africa, knowing full well he had been directly exposed to the Ebola virus, and came to the United States, presumably to get treatment if he became sick? Mr. Duncan's actions caused at least two more people to become ill with the virus. And while Mr. Duncan succumbed to the disease eventually, his selfish act of traveling to the United States for treatment is at least understandable. He was hoping to save his own life.

Enter the new faces of selfishness. Doctor Nancy Snykerman, Doctor Craig Spencer and Nurse Kaci Hickox.

These three health care workers all have been to Africa and were possibly exposed to the Ebola virus. Dr. Spencer definitely was since he currently has the virus and is hospitalized.

Unfortunately, Dr. Spencer decided not to quarantine himself when he returned from Africa. He passed the CDC mandated screening (which is basically useless) and had no symptoms for several days. During those days he was out and about in New York, riding trains, hitting restaurants and he even went bowling. Five days after clearing the CDC screening Dr. Spencer was in the hospital with Ebola. After he was admitted he lied to police about what he'd done during those five days. How many people did he expose in his selfishness? And he's a doctor.

Dr. Snykerman, the physician turned NBC medical correspondent, returned from an assignment in West Africa several weeks ago where she had been in close contact with the cameraman who had contracted Ebola. As such, Snykerman and her crew were placed in a voluntary quarantine for 21 days. During that quarantine Snykerman and her crew decided to go to a restaurant to get some take out food. Snykerman didn't get out of the car - one of her crew members actually went in and picked up the food, but he/they were recognized by people in the restaurant and the authorities were notified. Snykerman and her crew were then forced into quarantine by the court and they stayed put. Again - how many people did they expose during their little outing?

Finally, let's take a look at the most vocal, belligerent and most selfish of the quarantine breakers - Kaci Hickox. Ms. Hickox returned from Sierra Leon last week and was found to have a low grade fever when she went through the CDC screening at Newark International airport. She was taken to a local hospital and placed in quarantine, where she immediately began her rants.

“I believe that the forehead scanner used to take that temperature was completely inaccurate,” Hickox said. “I didn’t take any anti-fever medicines while at the airport and when I arrived in the isolation facility they took my temperature by an oral thermometer and it was completely normal."

“You don’t get rid of a fever without taking something within a couple of hours, so I think we need to discuss also the instrumentation that officials are using,” she said.

So because Ms. Hickox decided the scanner was inaccurate, she gets to make her own rules and change the procedures at the airport screening stations? How arrogant is that?

With the help of her attorney, who just happened to be a guest of the President at a state dinner a couple of weeks ago, Ms. Hickox was released from quarantine after "testing negative for Ebola for 24 hours." Yup - a 21 day quarantine is really effective if you institute it for a whole 24 hours.

Basically, Governor Christie caved in to White House pressure and allowed Ms. Hickox to leave. She then went to Maine where the state immediately told her she needed to remain in quarantine inside her home for the rest of the 21 days. Ms. Hickox began screaming once again about her rights being violated because, she declared, she isn't sick and does not have Ebola!

So there it is. Kaci Hickox has declared herself Ebola free and non-contagious so that's the end of it. While the state of Maine works to get her confined with a court order, Ms. Hickox leaves her home to take care of an essential need - riding her bike around the neighborhood with her fiance'. She has flat out stated she will not abide by a quarantine and has vowed to sue anyone who tries to impose it on her. 

Ms. Hickox stated matter-of-factly that you one cannot catch Ebola from a patient who is not symptomatic. I guess she did the research on that while she was in Sierra Leon because the CDC has flat out stated they have not done any studies to make that determination. We apparently should be listening to Kaci Hickox rather than the CDC when it comes to Ebola. She's the expert. Just ask her.

Mary Mayhew of Maine Center for Disease Control would prefer Ms. Hickox simply adhere to a voluntary quarantine but said they will take action as necessary to cause her cooperation.

"We do not want to have to legally enforce an in-home quarantine. We are confident that the selfless health workers, who were brave enough to care for Ebola patients in a foreign country, will be willing to take reasonable steps to protect the residents of their own country. However, we are willing to pursue legal authority if necessary to ensure risk is minimized for Mainers," Mayhew said.

So the state will force Hickox to abide by the quarantine or what?  

Wait.... 'Mainers"?

Kaci Hickox is a nurse. Nurses are generally known to be compassionate, caring and selfless. Ms. Hickox must have skipped those classes in school. I wonder if her fiance' is watching closely? Does he really want to marry someone so selfish that she will do whatever necessary to get her own way - even if it's reckless and self centered? Hmmmm...

Will Illegal Aliens Help Democrats Win Next Week?

The mid-term election is on Tuesday. According to nearly all of the polls Republicans are poised to take control of the Senate and maintain control of the House. Already there is evidence that Democrats will do anything to maintain Senate control.

Advertisements in some states are being aired that basically say if Republicans win the election and control two of the three Houses of Congress black people will lose all of their rights. Others say women will lose access to all birth control. Still others say some Republicans voted to allow Ebola into the country because they didn't support an initial bill for pandemic and emergency preparedness in 2013. (The bill was restructured and was later passed with bipartisan support.)

In the last week there have been reports from two states that touch screen voting machines have been tampered with so they change Republican votes to Democrat votes. Election officials say these are "calibration issues" but it's interesting that none of the machines have been reported to vote the other way around. One expert said the machines had definitely been "rigged" to vote Democrat. Imagine if only a few hundred machines in areas densely populated with Republicans were rigged to vote Democrat.,,,?

Most recently, the Washington Post, under the guise of "keeping the public informed of their own voting requirements" posted a chart that tells which states require ID to vote, which states request ID but don't require it, and which states don't require any form of ID to vote. 

Said the Post: “Voter ID laws are at-issue across the country, with newly Republican-controlled legislatures having passed them in numerous states after the 2010 election. Most states still request some form of ID, but don’t require it. Another 20 states don’t require identification. In case you’re wondering where your state is at in all of this, a helpful graphic from the Post’s graphics team.”

So what's the problem with that? Well - within hours La Raza, the radical Hispanic activist group that promotes illegal immigration and amnesty, had broadcast that information nationwide. Now any and all illegals who want to vote know exactly in which states they can do it.

There have been several articles published recently about how easy it would be for non-citizens to influence the election. Voting without ID is one of the best ways for them to do it. Non-citizens who take advantage of government handouts vote Democrat. It is estimated that there are 12 million to 15 million illegal aliens in this country today. It is also estimated that up to 14% of illegals have actually voted in past elections. If you average their total at 14 million here in the country, that would be nearly 2 million votes cast by illegals. The popular vote of the 2012 election was won by only 5 million votes.

So between illegal alien votes and rigged voting machines how hard will it be for Democrats to control elections? The major reason Democrats oppose voter ID laws is because it could eliminate up to 2 million of their votes. They deny it, of course, but it's not difficult to figure out.

Voter fraud is real. ID don't prevent all of it, obviously, but if it can be cut down by voter IDs why would anyone be opposed to it? Oh wait - I think I answered that question.

The Ten Commandments, Good Judgement And Common Sense

I read something posted on Facebook yesterday about a grandfather talking to his grandson. The boy had asked his grandfather what he thought about school shootings, the computer age and things in general.

The man went through a long list of things that were not around (or not available for every day use) when he was born in 1952. (Scary that those of us born in the 50s are now old enough to be grandparents, huh?) Many are things we take for granted today including television, penicillin, polio shots, frozen foods, Xerox, contact lenses, Frisbees, the pill, credit cards, laser beams, ball-point pens, pantyhose, air conditioners, dishwashers, etc.

Then he began explaining more about the way things were back then. You could by a new car for $600 (if you had $600.) Gas was 11 cents a gallon. Ten Cents stores (or five and dime) really sold things that cost 5 and 10 cents. Families included both parents. We called our elders, and anyone with position or authority, Sir or Ma'am.

He went on with some other things but the ones that struck a chord in me the most were the following three statements:

"Our lives were governed by the Ten Commandments, good judgment, and common sense."

"We were taught to know the difference between right and wrong and to stand up and take responsibility for our actions."

"Serving your country was a privilege; living in this country was a bigger privilege."

I was born five years later, in 1957. While many of those things had been invented by then still few were available to the average American. But those three statements were true when I was growing up as well.

Our parents taught us to love and respect God, to follow the Ten Commandments, and to use our brain more than our mouths in every day life. They taught us respect for others, for our country, and our President.

I remember once as a high school kid calling Richard Nixon "Tricky Dick." My father immediately corrected me saying "That's the President of the United States you're talking about. Be respectful." How that has changed, huh? Beginning as far back as Jimmy Carter, the attitude and comments of the American people toward the President has gotten worse and worse. In my father's generation, regardless of personal feelings about the President, he was shown respect.

People criticized Presidents but not so vocally, not so wide publicly, and not in the disgusting ways that we've seen in the last 15 years or so. I believe George W. Bush was the first to be so brutally attacked by those who opposed his policies. And it seems to be that Obama is getting even worse treatment today from many on the right. 

We were definitely taught to take responsibility for our actions, to always try to do the right thing and to apologize to those we offended. We were taught to earn our own way and there was never a thought of not working and living off of the government unless we were physically unable to work. We were taught the joys that come with giving to others instead of greed and selfishness.

In today's society it seems more and more people believe they are entitled to a living rather than feeling the responsibility to earn it. Forty-seven percent of Americans are now on some sort of government assistance. It seems most of those have no plans to change their situation as long as the government keeps putting money in their pockets. Some people say "Most people on welfare don't want to be there but have no other choice." At one point I would have agreed with that. But I truly believe the numbers of those who use welfare as a career are growing.

Since the beginning of the experiment that was the United States of America, we have been one of the greatest, most powerful, most generous nations in the world. We have done so much for other countries. Yet there are those living here who hate the United States and/or believe she is evil and needs to change to fit their views of the world. These people don't seem to realize that the reason they are allowed to voice those opinions is because we are such a great nation that enjoys freedoms that many other nations on Earth do not. The freedom to say what you want is often taken for granted.

The point to all of this is simple - if we could return to living by the title of this piece (whether you believe in God or not) we'd be better off as individuals and as a nation. The 10 Commandments are great rules to live by. Numbers 5 through 10 would even work for atheists. Good judgement and common sense certainly would make life easier. Imagine, if everyone lived by these rules, what a peaceful nation the United States would be.

A special shout out goes to my brother, Mark Atterson, who provided me with the idea for this post. Thanks buddy. Keep 'em coming!

Worried About America - Be Careful What You Wish For

I'm very much concerned about the ever-growing number of Americans (mostly white) who verbally and publicly wish President Obama dead. Not that they are physically threatening him but their comments about hoping someone will shoot him, wishing the family had been home when the man jumped the fence so he could have killed them all, wishing the armed security guard had shot him in the elevator, and hoping in general that someone assassinates him, are frightening. Some of these people profess to be Christians yet they're hoping for the death of a sitting U.S. President!

Granted it's not the majority of Americans expressing such wishes. As bad as Obama's approval numbers are today and as badly as many want him out of office, I don't think the majority of people want him dead. And for those who express that wish - I wonder if you realize what could happen if your wish comes true?

Lest anyone get the wrong idea - I am no fan of Obama. I knew from the onset of his campaign that he was going to be destructive to the United States and divisive of her people. He campaigned on "fundamentally transforming" the greatest nation on Earth! How anyone trusted him is beyond my comprehension. And the fact that he was re-elected is simply unbelievable. There is no defining "liberal logic."

Obama has lived up to his campaign promise - at least as much as he has been able to. He has eroded our freedoms away. It's funny - liberals all across the nation complained that George W. Bush took away our freedoms with the Patriot Act. Not only did President Obama renew the Patriot Act but he gave himself some new powers to limit your freedoms even more, such as killing Americans overseas who he declares enemy combatants without due process or indefinite detention, also without due process, of Americans right here at home. Even the Affordable Care Act took away some of your freedom. Everyone must now purchase health care insurance as mandated by the federal government. If you don't you will be fined... taxed. Yet you don't hear Obama fans screaming about their loss of liberties - even though they're being taken away by their hero-in-chief.

Obama has increased entitlement programs in this country, has presided over one of the greatest unemployment periods (with millions dropping out of the workforce completely) and has increased the number of people on food stamps by 100%. Basically, Obama has been the worst president since Jimmy Carter and will likely surpass him as the worst ever by the end of his presidency.

But that doesn't mean he needs to be dead. Aside from the personal loss his two daughters would face, (and I'm not interested in the whole "those aren't his kids" theory. Save that for someone else.) the country as a whole would be damaged by the assassination of the President. Despite what the President likes to say, this nation was founded and continues to be guided by Judeo-Christian principles. They are built into our Constitution and Bill of Rights. Assassinating a sitting President because he happens to be doing a poor job, whether it is intentional or due to ineptitude, is not in the character of our nation.

Problem #1 - Joe Biden. Who in their right mind would want Biden to be the President of the United States? Some say he's a buffoon who could be easily controlled but who is going to do the controlling? Many believe President Obama is controlled by outside sources, such as George Soros or the Monsanto corporation. Do people believe Joe Biden will suddenly and miraculously be controlled by Republicans or conservatives?

Problem #2 - if something happened to the President and the act was not committed by a black liberal, the black community would erupt into violence like we've never seen. And understandably so. Some will say "Let 'em," but do we really want an all-out race war in the United States? Do we not have enough to worry about with the influx of Muslim terrorists and illegal aliens without begging for a war between American citizens based on race?

I know some who hate Obama and wish him ill will disagree with me and that's OK. I'm good with standing by my opinion against those who wish him ill. If you're one of them - I would ask you to look deeply into your personal morals and beliefs and ask yourself if that's really something you want to happen. Is it something you want to teach your children - that if  they don't like or agree with an American President it's OK to want him dead? Really?

Americans needs to be working together to save the nation we love, not destroy her based on hatred. Obama is a man, that's all. He may be a destructive President but that will end in two more years. If the Republicans take control of the Senate and maintain control of the House Obama could likely be impeached within those two years. (If we can replace the spineless wonder that is our current Speaker of the House.)

No - I don't want President Obama to meet with an ill fate. My Christian beliefs won't allow it and my personal integrity won't either. Killing an American President takes reality to a whole new level. It's not something we need as a civilized nation and as civilized people. Period.