This shocks me. Is it legal to make this suggestion? I recall when people even sniffed at LBJ or Bush they went to jail...

they should arrest everyone who has voted yes

What I noticed on Facebook is that the majority of adults on facebook seem to be conservatives. I have seen plenty of STUPID polls were, when I voted in a manner that would be considered the Liberal of Moderate answer, I was always in the minority...

FWIW I just called my local Secret Service field office and reported it. The gentleman I spoke to was not aware of it, asked for my name and number, and said that their computer guys would look into who created the poll. I gave him the links to Josh's Incitement blog post as well as Pam Spaulding's website.

Don't know if it has anything to do with this one, but at Facebook it now says:

The application "Polls" is temporarily unavailable due to an issue with its third-party developer. We are investigating the situation and apologize for any inconvenience.

Wow.

But if you accept that Obama = Hitler (or the Joker), then it's a pretty short logical step to asking this question.

I hope this doesn't end badly.

I dunno. This sort of thing is apalling, yes. But for that very reason, I would like as much information about who posted that poll, how many votes it got, and what connections that person has, as possible.

Relentless, accurate exposure of the face of this kind of mentality is one of the best ways I know to drive normal people away in droves. I think there's great value in exposing this stuff, and the people behind it and their enablers in the media.

Someone needs to be arrested for this.

Imagine if it had happened during Bush's heydey, just after 9-11?

It may not have been possible to remove the poll quickly, once it was posted, but it sure would be easy to make a public example out of the miscreants who posted it.

Facebook is a totally neutral entity in this matter, and it's administrators can't be held accountable for offering an open forum. But HOW that forum is used is another matter.

Everyone responsible (I doubt it is a single party) should be brought to the public's attention, exposed for their treason and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I can only hope some of the creeps I suspect might have encouraged this will get caught up in that dragnet. No doubt, the wingnuts will call it a witch hunt, but methinks they will protest too much, to the point that their complicity will become much more transparent.

And counting down to comments from from conservative blowhards and/or the MSM equating this to, say, anti-globalization protesters or Cindy Sheehan.

2:1 Rush has something to say about it tomorrow and it won't be whole-hearted, unequivocal denuciation. 3:1 he blames it on liberals trying to discredit conservatives because, of course, only liberals use Facebook.

"Schnitt also tells us that it was not the Secret Service who brought the poll to Facebook's attention, but the social networking site did report it to them."

Viva la blogs!

This is the farthest extent of tyranny. It starts at the polling booth, when people go to vote against equal rights for people, like they did in Arizona, Florida and California, voting against marriagee equality for LGBT Americans. The next step is taking guns to health care townhall meetings. The next step is letting the propaganda from Faux Noise fire people up to show up at teagagger rallies with racist signs. The next step is posting a poll giving people the idea that they belong to a tyrannical powerful majority. Hopefully no one will take the final step. But it all starts when the seed is planted that tyrannical voting blocs rule. Who reading this now was part of the first step to tyranny.

This kind of stuff is going on all over the "authoritarian" (err--ubber conservative reactionary) world. It is what the "authoritarian dynamic" calls the rejection response. First those who call themselves conservatives but who actually are authoritarians, do so to gain cover, they know they are politically incorrect to their core, but in calling for the killing of a president is what was done with Kennedy and Lincoln. Authoritarians actually do not hold to constitutional or modern democracies---they are intolerant of all differences and diversities. In this case the kindling of their inflamed responses are the change in what they think America is---unequal and entitled to those who the look to as being "right-thinking". It is pathological and dangerous.

As for the Speech, actually Facebook and is surrogates have their own remedies when you click OK....as for the secret service investigating let us see what turns up.

These people have to be reined in; freedom does not mean no consequences. A vote was taken, a mna elected. Whoever doesn't agree does not have the right to anarchy without consequences. lThis is just crazy and someone needs to step in. The GOP is beyond contempt for not stopping their people. I would like to see "representative government" held accountable for this. Send all elected officials who do not attempt to contain this visibly, verbally and aggresively to jail. There are plenty of statutes for this.

Can you imagine the outrage by the Reich wing noise machine IF a "librul" had suggested this for booooosh?

Have all yea forgotten Thomas Beckets assisnation after King Henry the Young (according to Wikipeadia) is supposed to have asked "Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?" When some aids did they in turn executed because it was only a question.