Monday, December 06, 2010
Kentucky Man Sentenced After Poem Threatens President
KENTUCKY....
Twenty-eight year old Johnny Logan Spencer, a Kentucky man who acknowledged writing a poem threatening the life of President Barack Obama was sentenced Monday to 33 months in prison. Spencer apologized for writing the poem, which depicts a fatal sniper shooting of the president. Spencer said he was upset at the time over the death of his mother and had fallen in with a white supremacist group as a way for him to cope with things, but he went a little too far. Spencer said the group helped him kick his drug habit. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening the life of the president, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Spencer will be on supervised release for three years after he completes the sentence. Spencer has already served 10 months in prison, more than four of those months in solitary confinement.
The poem, titled “The Sniper,” was posted on a website called NewSaxon.org, first in 2007 and again in 2009 after Obama took office. “The bullet that he has chambered is one of the purest pride, And the inspiration on the casing reads DIE negro DIE,” the four-stanza poem reads. It does not name Obama.
“The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death, and where there was once a face there is nothing left...” the poem said. Spencer used the online moniker “Pain1488,” a reference to a phrase used by white nationalists as well as an homage to Adolf Hitler.
Twenty-eight year old Johnny Logan Spencer, a Kentucky man who acknowledged writing a poem threatening the life of President Barack Obama was sentenced Monday to 33 months in prison. Spencer apologized for writing the poem, which depicts a fatal sniper shooting of the president. Spencer said he was upset at the time over the death of his mother and had fallen in with a white supremacist group as a way for him to cope with things, but he went a little too far. Spencer said the group helped him kick his drug habit. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening the life of the president, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison. Spencer will be on supervised release for three years after he completes the sentence. Spencer has already served 10 months in prison, more than four of those months in solitary confinement.The poem, titled “The Sniper,” was posted on a website called NewSaxon.org, first in 2007 and again in 2009 after Obama took office. “The bullet that he has chambered is one of the purest pride, And the inspiration on the casing reads DIE negro DIE,” the four-stanza poem reads. It does not name Obama.
“The bullet screams toward its mark bringing with it death, and where there was once a face there is nothing left...” the poem said. Spencer used the online moniker “Pain1488,” a reference to a phrase used by white nationalists as well as an homage to Adolf Hitler.
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