Missouri state representative Warren Love found himself in the middle of a controversy yesterday after posting a message to his Facebook in regards to a Confederate statue that was defaced. Individuals had painted over the Confederate flag to make it black instead, covering up the elements that would identify it from any distance.
Other legislators openly questioned whether or not it was reasonable to call for the lynching of individuals in regards to a misdemeanor crime.
This was not the first time that Rep. Love has went over the edge.
In February, Love managed to get in trouble on similar issues, saying Abraham Lincoln was a “despot”, and culminating in this tidbit:
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Warren Love, an Osceola Republican, shared the post, which concludes with a lament that "John Wilkes Booth did not act four years earlier," on his Facebook account. Stephen Webber, the chair of the Missouri Democratic Party, took a screenshot of Love's post that he shared on Twitter.
The article, "The Terrible Truth About Abraham Lincoln and the Confederate War" was written by Michael Hutcheson, a conservative blogger in Atlanta with 73 followers on Twitter. Hutcheson is the kind of writer who thinks it's clever to state, "I oppose Barack Obama because he's black" only to then expose the "true" racists — the "blindly loyal supporters of Obama who ignore all of his disastrous policies and their terrible consequences," etc., etc.
When he initially shared Hutcheson's essay, Love cut and pasted a passage from the article in his status update without putting the words in quotation marks. Love said he would edit the Facebook post to make it clear the words were the writer's, not his.
Love has since maintained that these articles were just “thing he shares” and they are not written by him.
Still, the continued behavior highlights a scary pattern of devaluing life and making implied threats against the law.