These guys would be right at home in North Korea, or informing on their neighbors to the
Geheime Staatspolizei for listening to unauthorized radio in Nazi Germany.
"Thank you for the extra rations, Dear Leader. I live to serve!"
SalviaBlue (1,542 posts)
I just called the Secret Service about the Dear Mr. Obama sign in my neighborhood.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021366133
The agent had not heard of Psalm 109.8 before but took the info and said he would look into it.
I couldn't stop thinking about it and had to do something.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021393240Here's the "threatening" sign:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021366133This is Psalm 109:8, BTW: "
Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
DonViejo (219 posts)
1. I assume you are referring to the Secret Service
by calling them the SS. Please use the appropriate lettering, USSS. Thanks!

SalviaBlue (1,542 posts)
5. I am not familiar with the entire Psalm. I heard the Rachel Maddow/Frank Schaeffer's discussion and
I think they are right about this issue.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x403386
MADDOW: "'Let his days be few and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.' This is such strong language in secular terms about President Obama. Can you tell me if this means something less threatening to people hearing this in a Biblical context?"
SCHAEFFER: "No, actually it means something more threatening. ...snip..... Really, this is trawling for assassins. And this is serious business.
Jbradshaw120 (6 posts)
7. To be fair
Psalm 109.8 in its entirety is "Let his days be few; and let another take his office". Psalms 109.8 does not mention his children or his wife. That is the next verse.
SalviaBlue (1,542 posts)
9. The next line is: Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
How stupid do they think we are?
Pretty damn stupid, as a matter of fact.
vanlassie (1,302 posts)
11. To be fair, is this the way Christians use the bible?
Seriously? Just pull out a sentence that works and forget the context or the rest of the verse?
Yeah. I mean, who else does that? Let me think, now. Members of a certain web site who pull verses out of context to try to prevent Christians from praying in public, or to try to convince people that Jesus was a liberal and a Socialist, etc., etc.? The name's right on the tip of my tongue...
vanlassie (1,302 posts)
17. Let's hope the Secret Service visits Anlin and has a little chat with them.
Fascist arrogant assholes.
The irony is obviously lost on this one.
SickOfTheOnePct (1,160 posts)
27. Wishing people dead
is hateful and tasteless, and doing so via a Bible verse makes it even more so, IMO.
A threat? I don't see it as such, but to each his own.
SalviaBlue (1,542 posts)
29. Maybe not. But the fact that Frank Schaeffer thinks its a threat
Is good enough for me.
Oh, well then, if
Frank Schaeffer said it, by all means count me in.

SickOfTheOnePct (1,160 posts)
30. Like I said, to each his own
But I think we're treading on dangerous territory when we turn people in to federal agents because we don't like what they think.
With that attitude, I'm surprised you've lasted as long at DU as you have.