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dmr

(28,347 posts)
Fri Nov 9, 2012, 07:50 PM Nov 2012

Fired & reported to the Secret Service [View all]

No self-awareness. No decorum. No remorse. No sense.

I truly worry about my president.


http://www.modbee.com/2012/11/08/2448491/obama-threat-gets-woman-fired.html

Thursday, Nov. 08, 2012
Obama threat gets Turlock woman fired, reported to Secret Service
By Marijke Rowland
mrowland@modbee.com

TURLOCK -- A Turlock woman who posted inflammatory comments on Facebook about President Barack Obama has been fired from her job and reported to the U.S. Secret Service. Turlock resident Denise Helms, 22, posted shortly after the president's re-election Tuesday on her Facebook page, "And another 4 years of the (n-----). Maybe he will get assassinated this term..!!"

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She told the Fox 40 reporter: "I didn't think it would be that big of a deal. … The assassination part is kind of harsh. I'm not saying like I would go do that or anything like that, by any means, but if it was to happen, I don't think I'd care one bit."

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Helms graduated from Placer High School in 2008, according to her Facebook page, and has the Romney/Ryan 2012 page among her "likes." She is not listed as a registered voter in the state registry database.

Helms could not be reached for comment by The Bee. She told Fox 40 she wasn't aware she could be investigated by the Secret Service for her post.

"OK, but what did I do wrong? That's fine if they want to," she told the reporter. "But I don't understand what I did wrong."


News video at link.

"But I don't understand what I did wrong." OMG! You stupid person, you!
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