Trump Advisor Says Clinton Should be Executed

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http://www.nbcnews.com/card/trump-advis ... ad-n613436

The man's going off the deep end.

I'm surprised this went so long without a response. They keep saying his appeal is that he'll surround himself with good people. He has clearly not done that so far.

Trump seems to attract the lunatic fringe--of a fascistic nature.

That's sorta scary

And some people actually disagreed that the far-right should be banned in the other thread... this is exactly the reason... right now the only one who could benefit the whole world by being dead is Trump, if it happened it would be poetic justice... but other than that, surely this needs to be legislated against...

We are a Democracy. We can't ban the Far Right. If we did ban it, we'd go down to Trump's level.

Just shows how the right has no respect for common decency.

This is what happens when you fire up thousands of people at rallies to chant "guilty!" and "Lock her up" Don't be surprised if some lone wolf tries to take the law into their own hands. We've seen this pattern far too many times to ignore the possibility.

Unrestrained mob mentality always leads to violence.

Yeah, which is why hate speech is normally banned... but not for political candidates, apparently.

How many people should die for his pathetic ego?

Why doesn't someone execute the leadership and candidates from both parties?

Whoa. Be Careful ....

Suggesting political leaders should be assassinated might get in a lot of legal trouble.

18 USC 879: US Code-Section 879:Threats against former presidents and certain other persons
http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/41/879

(a)Whoever knowingly and willfully threatens to kill, kidnap, or inflict bodily harm upon

(3) major candidate for the office of President or Vice President, or a member of the immediate family of such candidate;

Some people aren't so naive as to think that such a ban wouldn't be turned on their own beliefs some day. I don't particularly like people who agitate against free speech, why shouldn't I lobby to have that criminalized?

LoveNotHate, that is exactly the statute Trump himself should be charged over then, surely.

Dox47, it's not about turning on beliefs, it's like shouting fire in a crowed theater when there's none, and if calling for the opposition to be murdered isn't worse than that I don't know what could...

You should really look up the context of the 'shouting fire' quote, it really doesn't mean what you think it does. Shouting 'fire' is predictably likely to cause a dangerous stampede in those particular circumstances, while saying someone should be killed is simply voicing an opinion and does not rise to the level of incitement, outside of some extraordinary circumstance. You also made it clear that you want to criminalize right wing thought generally, so it's a bit too late for you to try and spin it.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/secret-s ... d=40743979

The extraordinary circumstance is that the guy was talking about a major Presidential candidate.

Doesn't matter, if he's not (say) in the middle of an angry mob surrounding the person he's screaming should be killed, it's not incitement. It's even more cut and dried in that he didn't say killed or murdered, he said 'executed', which implies due process. There are plenty of world leaders who probably should be executed, the fact that they're leaders doesn't suddenly render opinions about them illegal.