ACLU Board Member Resigns After Urging People To Kill Supporters Of Trump

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Source: CBS-TV Denver

A board member for the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado has resigned after urging people to kill supporters of presidential candidate Donald Trump.

Loring Wirbel’s Facebook post was captured by The Daily Caller – a right-leaning online newspaper.

The post states, “The thing is, we have to really reach out to those who might consider voting for Trump and say, ‘This is Goebbels. This is the final solution. If you are voting for him I will have to shoot you before Election Day.’ They’re not going to listen to reason, so when justice is gone, there’s always force…”

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It’s the second threat against Republicans in Colorado in one week.

Fern Delise, 54, of Fountain was arrested after police say she called Planned Parenthood saying, “It’s tempting to walk into a republican party meeting with my dead husband’s gun and just start shooting people.”

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Read more: http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/12/11/aclu-board-member-resigns-after-urging-people-to-kill-supporters-of-trump/

[Scootaloo]

1. Uh... wow.

[bananas]

2. "It was intended totally as a joke," Wirbel said.

http://gazette.com/aclu-board-member-resigns-after-facebook-post-about-shooting-people-who-would-vote-for-trump/article/1565495

ACLU board member resigns after Facebook post about shooting people who would vote for Trump

By: Megan Schrader
Updated: December 11, 2015 at 5:51 pm

Loring Wirbel has resigned as co-chair of the Colorado Springs chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado after facing mounting criticism for a Facebook post that said people voting for Donald Trump should be told "I will have to shoot you before election day."

Wirbel told The Gazette Thursday night that the post wasn't meant to be taken seriously.

"It was intended totally as a joke," Wirbel said. "They are taking that stuff out of context. It's smear politics."

However, Wirbel said he could see how the post was offensive.

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[Ex Lurker]

4. You don't joke about killing public figures

just like you don't joke about anything in airports. If you do, you suffer the consequences.

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thanks, bananas. Rec. n/t

[carla]

9. Offensive?

Threatening. As are the same kind of statements made by RWNJ's (2nd Amendment Solution, etc.). But Wirbel was not exhorting his followers to "Get him out of here!". It seems he was being ironic but no one cares for irony because you are all too scared to be able to think clearly anymore. AmeriKKKa, the terrorized and the terrified. GOTV!

[marble falls]

11. The same kind of things RWs say when some shooter takes their ill advised musings...

deadly seriously. In these crazy times our jokes become their provocations. We just have to be better than them.

[Chakab]

3. Seriously? How can any ranking member of the ACLU be this fucking stupid?

[pocoloco]

13. This is not the first fuck up, or the worst!

"Impeachment is a bad idea!"

[JI7]

18. i think it's the whole social media thing where some feel they must show

Everyone everything they are doing and thinking.

[mtasselin]

6. not funny

Isn't it funny how the gop candidates say all these lies about planned parenthood, a guy goes out and kills people and none of them apologize and stay silent, but this person speaks their mind and gets arrested, wtf

[AllyCat]

7. Resignation appropriate

[GGJohn]

8. What a dumbass.

When are people going to realize that Facebook is there for all to see?

[Demit]

10. Exactly. This guy was pretty clueless all around.

Plus, dry humor in print doesn't always work even with your close friends. Always put a smiley face in when in doubt.

[JI7]

19. i think the bigger problem is they can't see why people would have a problem

even if they saw it.

[mountain grammy]

12. Stupid thing to say and resigning is appropriate.

What's nor appropriate is the rabid 5 minutes of "news" time the poor, threatened Colorado GOP chairman got to whine about the ACLU, what he called a "good organization " but implied otherwise.
I'm sure over the next few days we'll hear plenty of rancorous coverage of the threats from the ACLU, while the terrorist who shot up Planned Parenthood is just some poor mentally ill American suffering under Obamacare.

[Android3.14]

14. Resigning is appropriate and kudos to Wirbel and the ACLU for walking the talk

The GOP would never self-police obvious mistakes like this.

[Kennah]

15. I want them alive and healthy to further splinter the already fractured GOP

Dumb to threaten people, even if it's a joke. It could ganvanize the GOP.

[Politicalboi]

16. BFD

He should have known better since he worked with the ACLU. He didn't call out to kill T-Rump supporters without telling them first. This is NOTHING compared to what Repukes have said about Obama.

[JI7]

17. idiots

[BadGimp]

20. that's messed up and worse than what a lot of right wingers are saying..

eom

[Bradical79]

21. Yeah, that's just idiotic.

Not much to say. Don't talk about violent retaliation on social media. You might get in trouble.