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Gun-Toting Obama Protester Is a Birther

Secessionist group included among his MySpace friends

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(Newser) – William Kostric, the man who showed up to protest at Obama’s town hall meeting yesterday with a loaded gun strapped to his leg, told Chris Matthews that he wasn’t affiliated with birther groups. But a web user by the same name has left a digital trail that proves otherwise: "William Kostric" is listed as a “team member” of We the People, a right-wing group that joined a lawsuit challenging Obama’s citizenship, reports Joan Walsh for Salon.

The chances that the two are not the same person "seem slim to none," she notes. Kostric’s other digital footprints mark him as an ardent libertarian. His MySpace page lists among his heroes We the People’s founder, Ayn Rand’s John Galt character, and white supremacist Randy Weaver. He signed a pledge to move to New Hampshire and, with like-minded Libertarians, work to secede. There’s no sign he’s violent, though "William Kostric" once wrote on a libertarian site that drug dealers were justified in shooting police who came into their homes to arrest them.

William Kostric wears a 9mm pistol as he stands outside a town hall meeting on health care held by President Barack Obama, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, in Portsmouth, NH.
William Kostric wears a 9mm pistol as he stands outside a town hall meeting on health care held by President Barack Obama, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009, in Portsmouth, NH.   (AP Photo/Joel Page)
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If people can't see why it's immoral to trespass and destroy someone's property, kidnap and lock them in a cage for growing a plant in their backyard then perhaps a body count is what's required. - William Kostric, defending drug dealers who shoot police

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TheSniperZero
Aug 12, 09 11:12 AM CDT
"Christ Matthews"? Wow, there's a Freudian slip. Someone's got their nose up MSNBC's backside. Reply
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gabo
Aug 12, 09 11:13 AM CDT
I am shocked, shocked. Reply
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DJM420
Aug 12, 09 11:45 AM CDT
lol...me too, to the nth degree
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Robert_Dada
Aug 12, 09 7:11 PM CDT
William Kostric, strong candidate for president of the 'merican idiocracy. I'm sure the conservatives lunkheads who post on newser gonna vote for that mavericky gun toten' mofo.
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BlueAyez
Aug 12, 09 11:18 AM CDT
We all have the right to bear arms. This isn't in dispute. However, taking a loaded weapon to an event where the president it in attendance is in extremely poor judgement. Had he taken this gun into a courthouse he would have been arrested or turned away-- permit or no. Weapons were routinely carried in early America because of the danger of Indian war or wild animal attack. Neither possibility exists today and especially in a large city. Reply
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