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Second Lawmaker Receives Threatening 'Death to All Marxists' Fax with Obama's Picture on It
August 12, 2009 |
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Last week, The Hill reported that Rep. Brian Baird’s (D-WA) office had received a fax that depicted President Barack Obama as the Joker and warned of “Death to All Marxists! Foreign and Domestic!” The Secret Service has said that the fax was “potentially an investigative intelligence matter.” Now, a second member of Congress is reporting that he received the same fax. On CNN this morning, Rep. David Scott (D-GA) — whose office was recently vandalized with a swastika — held up a printout of the fax, adding that the picture of Obama he received had “the swastika on his forehead.” Watch it:
Scott said that the fax also included racial slurs aimed at him and the statement “the Ethiopian cannot make himself white.”
Matt Corley is a Research Associate for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.
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