Website Calls Out Authors of Racist Anti-Obama Posts

stevegee58 writes "A tumblr blog entitled 'HelloThereRacists' is publicly identifying other online posters who make racist/assassination comments about President Obama. Beyond merely identifying online usernames, the blog's author is uncovering and publishing the real names and locations of offending posters. It's an interesting mess of legal issues. The outed posters are at risk of a Secret Service visit, but the trouble may not end there. The HelloThereRacists blogger himself may have some problems publicly identifying posters, who are frequently underage teenagers." Update: 11/16 19:17 GMT by S : The blog has already been taken down.

Re:so what if they're minors?

[Juanvaldes]

I saw the site yesterday and a number of posters exposed also included bits about how their parents shared the same views.

Re:What about threats to conservatives?

[ChipMonk]

You only need to do a Google search for "new civility" (include the quotes) to see the hypocrisy behind HelloThereRacists. But don't expect to see Diane Sawyer, Brian Williams, or Scott Pelley saying anything about the threats of violence and murder against Romney and Ryan. The "objective" news sources were silent this time around, just like they were four years ago.

Blog down: Google Cache instead

[Anonymous Coward]

Here's a cached version, [googleusercontent.com] since the site is no longer available.

Cached page

[GameboyRMH]

Replying off-topic but it's relevant:

https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahellothereracists.tumblr.com [googleusercontent.com]

Re:so what if they're minors?

[CanHasDIY]

What jurisdictions have these laws? Please name one.

I don't see how he put anyone in danger. These were copies of posts people made online. These folks were already telling the world this about themselves. He did not secretly record their bed time conversations.

http://www.splc.org/knowyourrights/legalresearch.asp?id=107 [splc.org]

As I said, it is a legal gray area.

Re:so what if they're minors?

[h4rr4r]

This mostly addresses the special concerns school publishing has to work with. It admits the government cannot limit the media to print youths names so long as they are correct and were legally collected.

Re:Free Speech

[scot4875]

Not under NDAA (Obama's Law)

You mean that thing that congress hashed out and sent him to sign?

It's funny how people's understanding of how government works goes right out the window as soon as they find a talking point to latch onto.

--Jeremy

Re:and salon

[Petron]

No that was the police, that were the first ones who took in the evidence, talked to witnesses, dealt with injuries.

Evidence overwhelmingly put Zimmerman in the clear. Trayvon had bruises on his knuckles that shows he was punching somebody. Zimmerman had no bruises on his fists, he wasn't, but he did have multiple wounds including a broken nose and bleeding from the back of the head. Eye witnesses saw Trayvon on top of Zimmerman, went to call the police - heard the gun shot and returned to see Trayvon on the ground. Interviews with Trayvon's girlfriend indicates Trayvon went back to confront Zimmerman, and what was said before (T: 'Why are you following me?" Z: "What are you doing here?" then a fight breaks out).

Liberal news agencies altered the 911 call to make Zimmerman sound racist (they apologized for this), filtered images to hide wounds on Zimmerman's head (after removing the filters they announced there were wounds...) They published a 6-7 year old picture of Trayvon as a 11 year old kid (helps draw sympathy), and an old mug shot of Zimmerman (Boy, helps the innocents there right? Didn't even mention all charges against him were dropped and he had a clear record).

All evidence collaborates with Zimmerman's story of self-defense. Trayvon did attack Zimmerman. Zimmerman's wounds were all self-defense style wounds.

Re:so what if they're minors?

[funwithBSD]

Really? Ok, I will bite...

King Henry asked "Will no one rid me of this trurbulent priest?"
Well, that is one version, there's are others reported, but the meaning was clear: someone cap that fucker.
That incited some of his knights to do exactly that. Went medieval on his ass with broadswords.

If you wanted an updated version, it is like Don Corleone commenting what a beautiful family you have, and what a shame should something happen to them.

So if some one with sufficient real or moral authority and/or infulence made the same sort of comments about a President, it could be taken as a serious threat.