By GottaLaff
Nut. Ball. But that doesn't excuse direct threats:
James Manning, the "ATLAHWorldwide" African-American minister so beloved by the birthers, has been in the birther movement for a while. [...]2:28 to 2:40
"If Obama lives, then the constitution, and America dies. Now listen to me very carefully, please hear me, please hear me: If we let Obama live, America dies..."5:12 to 5:35
"What we need to be focused on, if we allow Obama to live, in his present state as a criminal, then America is torn apart. God knows America is gone. America is gone, if we allow Obama to continue, then the nation is gone, so which, which is it? Obama lives and America dies?10:08 to 10:43
"Now what's it going to be? What's it going to be? Is it going to be Obama? He will live and ride off into the sunset as America's first African-American....President, which is a lie from the pit of hell. But are you gonna let that lie stand, and then the Constitution and America. I can tell you now. Five months from now America will no longer be. We must take immediate and decisive action now."
When did publicly calling for a president to die become acceptable? Or allowable? I don't recall this being the American Way we all okay'd.
UPDATE: And just who is this loon?
He is is chief pastor at the ATLAH World Missionary Church on 123rd Street in New York City.[...]H/t: agoraphobeblog
As a younger man, Manning burglarized homes, mostly on Long Island. He spent about three and a half years in prison in New York and Florida for burglary, robbery, larceny, criminal possession of a weapon, and other charges before his release in 1978. While in prison, he became a devout Christian.[1][...] Manning came to public attention in the 2008 presidential election after ATLAH posted several sermons of his that were harshly critical of Democratic candidate Barack Obama on the website YouTube.[8][9] Among other accusations, he called Obama a "good House Negro" in one sermon[10] while in another he referred to Obama as "trash" due to circumstances surrounding his mixed race heritage and accused him of being a "pimp" (pimping "white women and black women") and "long-legged mack daddy," and an "emissary of the devil", citing the viral video "I Got a Crush... on Obama".[11] He stated that Obama "has the cadence of an Islamic person,"[12] and he called Obama's mother "trash" for becoming pregnant by a black man out of wedlock.[13] Manning revisited this latter issue during a press conference at the National Press Club on 8 December 2008: "Generally the most noble of white society choose not to intercourse sexually with African men. So it's usually the trashier ones who make their determinations that they're going to have sex."[14]
Manning defended his sermons in an interview on Fox News, saying that "we also have to talk about his character."[15] He compared TV personality Oprah Winfrey, who supported Obama's campaign, to the Whore of Babylon,[9] the "Queen of the Universe", and an Antichrist.[16]
The sermons drew the attention of the Americans United for Separation of Church and State, who filed a complaint with the Internal Revenue Service objecting to alleged violations of laws granting tax-free status to churches on condition that they refrain from certain forms of political activity.[17]
UPDATE #2: Yes, for those who were asking, I called the Secret Service, per your requests. This time was much different than my previous experience. They sounded suspicious of ME!
She had never heard of the Facebook Poll threat that I'd reported.
At first they didn't understand why I was calling, which was odd after the immediate, positive response I got last time. I explained, and told them I wasn't even sure whether I should be calling, but I'd been asked to by several very concerned citizens.
I was asked why I posted the video. I explained that we at TPC try to expose those who wish harm on the president, and voice our alarm, with the intent of keeping hate speech like this to a minimum.
Then she asked what kind of comments we were getting on the post (she asked for a link to the YouTube and to TPC). She thought it was the comments I was worried about, that it was the comments themselves that were threatening. I responded, no it was the video, the man in the video.
She asked me to quote from it, so I did.
I explained that we are all very pro-Obama here, and that I was worried about the content of the video. That finally made sense to her, and she promised to look into it.
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