KIDK TV in Idaho is reporting that a busload of grammar school children adopted a chilling mantra aboard their school bus: Assassinate Obama. And Kate.
Whoolery and his wife couldn't believe it when their second and third graders got off the bus last week and told them what other students were saying.
"They just hadn't heard anything like this before," said Whoolery. "They were chanting on the bus, 'Assassinate Obama. Assassinate Obama.' Then adding in a name sometimes of a classmate on the bus, 'Assassinate Obama and Kate.'"
Authorities could not confirm rumors that they have seized a sizable cache of spitballs from the youngsters.
The "Concerned Parent" (they never interview "Parent Who Doesn't Give a Crap") is right to wonder where these kids picked up such a phrase. Maybe they had too hard a time with "Redistribution of Wealth!"
At its heart, of course, this is a sad story. It's very likely that one of these kids heard it from a parent, and that parent probably felt a perverted twinge of pride at the news. Here's hoping that kid learns better over the next 8 years.
Here's the full report from KIDK:
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I'd haul all their little butts off to jail. I don't care how old they are. We really need civics classes in this country so that children know that it is illegal to threaten the life of the President, President-elect, Congressmen and so on. If their parents have to bail them out then maybe someone will learn a lesson. I doubt it though.
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rick moss
9:14PM Nov 12th 2008
If this stories true - then it might be time to arrest a few parents and the schoool bus driver for allowing minors who don't know any better to become "budding terrorists" and forment treason!
The kids aren't to blame - the parents, school bus driver, and maybe even the teachers are to blame!
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Ms.Noel
9:14PM Nov 12th 2008
I wonder why the bus driver didn't intervene while this was happening? Or at least report it his/herself, that in itself is odd and inappropriate. Anyway, it's a shame that these children picked this up somewhere and that from the sounds of it there were more than a few of them chanting....really strange that this was not dealt with immediately by the driver. On a lighter note, as I sit here being subjected to watch Jon & Kate Plus 8 with my daughter, I may have to agree with the latter part of the chant. Just kidding...sorta, lol.
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Shirley
9:54PM Nov 12th 2008
Well, what do you expect in a country so hate-filled that it denies equal rights to its citizens???
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shirley
10:00PM Nov 12th 2008
Accountability! So many are so quick to blame the bus driver, who was probably BUSY driving the bus. Even children know right from wrong and should be held accountable, in an appropraite way, for their behavior. Trying to address some of these behavior issues through parents is often fruitless because the kids learned to be this way from their parents. Blaming the bus driver or teachers for the kids obnoxiousness only teaches the children that they don't have to think about how they behave because the are not responsible.
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diane
10:02PM Nov 12th 2008
you can't JAIL kids for free speech, what about all the evil things ADULTS say about bush and palin. You can't have it both ways.
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diane
10:04PM Nov 12th 2008
Someone had palin hanging from a noose and maccain coming out of a fire. Did THAT BOTHER YOU??? nooooooooO The kids shouldn't say it but dont be hypocrical....... jail pleaseeeeee how many murder their babies in abortion.. get a life.
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diane
10:06PM Nov 12th 2008
Why do people who hate christians want to jail. others who just say things..
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Wayne G.
10:07PM Nov 12th 2008
The children should go to jail just as soon as they haul the "Reverend" Jesse Jackson to jail for threatening to cut off certain body parts from Senator/President-elect Obama.
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bob
10:10PM Nov 12th 2008
Or it could just be written off to kids doing something stupid.
Some folks really need to relax the old sphincter a bit.
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Rightwing
10:11PM Nov 12th 2008
I HEARD THE SAME THING WHEN I WAS IN ELEMENTRY SCHOOL IN OHIO IN THE EARLY 60'S ABOUT J.F.K. EVERYONE WAS GOING AROUND SAYING " KILL THE COMMIE " AND SOMEONE CONNECTED WITH THE GOVERMENT HAD IT DONE! THESE KIDS CHANTING THIS STUFF ISN'T NOTHING NEW!
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Debra S.
10:25PM Nov 12th 2008
This does not come under the heading of "free speech". You cannot yell "Fire" in a public place. You cannot incite people to riot. And, you cannot promote the assassination of ANYONE, let alone Barack Obama. You can criticize policies, how an elected official dresses, and who individuals associate with, but you cannot promote violence. Get a grip on what the rules of our society are.
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Ann
10:45PM Nov 12th 2008
Come on, Shirley. ain't no massa holding anyone back for over 40yrs now. A black man. with a racist preacher and a wife who said she had never been proud of her country has been elected President of the United States. Just exactly how much more equal do oyou want to get?
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loumondelli
10:47PM Nov 12th 2008
Excuse me....Freedom of Speech....Nobody seemed to care when school children were singing praises to Obama like he was the Messiah....I'm not condoning what these kids did, however, I was called a rasist because I told somebody what I thought about Obama....the shoe fits on both feet people
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Ms.Noel
10:48PM Nov 12th 2008
While the driver may have been busy driving the bus at the time, the driver should have at the VERY LEAST reported this highly disturbing incident after the run was finished. While I don't think the kids should be jailed, I would hope that they are made aware of the seriousness of making hateful and threatening statements ( I guess I don't consider that freedom of speech ) I believe that if adults were publicly chanting to assassinate Bush, Palin, Obama or any political figure, they would be charged with making terroristic threats.(not freedom of speech)
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Ann
10:51PM Nov 12th 2008
The kids should have been called down on this immediately. But, Shirley, who said "Well, what do you expect in a country so hate-filled that it denies equal rights to its citizens???" I have to call you down as well. A black man whose mother may not have actually been married to his father, who had a racist preacher teaching him and his family to hate whites and America, just got elected President. Just how much more equal do you need to be?
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Ann
10:52PM Nov 12th 2008
Come on, Shirley. ain't no massa holding anyone back for over 40yrs now. A black man. with a racist preacher and a wife who said she had never been proud of her country has been elected President of the United States. Just exactly how much more equal do oyou want to get?
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belle
10:52PM Nov 12th 2008
You would not be upset if they were using Bush's name instead of Obama's name. So many of you were saying pretty much the same thing about Bush and McCain. So I guess it depends on who it is with the most of you. With some of the filthy language used in these comments it could be any of you that are their parents. the children need to learn from the adults in their lives and some of you are not good role models, just think about it.
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m. nelson
10:54PM Nov 12th 2008
holy crap!!! is this all we're going to here for the next 4 years??? OBAMA doesn't deserve all this hype from those of you in the "drive-by media" but you won't sit still until you have everybody believing that the republicans are out to assasinate this idiot!!!! maybe you "drive-by morons" should have voted for your "queen bitch" hilliary clinton so at the very least both democrats and republicans would have had a reason to want her gone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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nana
11:25PM Nov 12th 2008
I HAVE OFTEN WONDERED WHY REPUBLICANS CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS. SOME OF THE WORDS AND THOUGHTS THAT COME OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS DOESN'T SOUND VERY CHRISTIAN TO ME. THE KIDS ON THAT BUS HEARD THAT AT HOME AND IT IS NOT THE BUS DRIVER OR THE TEACHERS WHO SHOULD BE TALKING TO THEM, IT SHOULD BE THEIR PARENTS, AFTER ALL THEY ARE THE ONES WHO PUT THOSE WORDS IN THEIR CHILDREN'S MOUTH. LOOK OUT FOR THE DAY YOU FACE YOUR MAKER. HE WILL JUDGE YOU ON HOW YOU TREATED YOUR FELLOW MAN, AND BY THE LOOKS OF IT, HE WILL NOT BE TOO HAPPY WITH SOME OF THE PEOPLE IN MADISON COUNTY