“Assasinate Evo Morales” Group Banned By Facebook

Facebook deleted a popular group seeking money to assassinate the president of Bolivia because apparently they don’t think it’s “cool” or “funny” to threaten presidents with death.

The Facebook group, titled “Global collection to hire a sharpshooter to liquidate Evo Morales,” was created by a 20-year-old Bolivian kid named Hony Pierola who claims it was meant sarcastically. Given its success (8,069 members) and the fact that the group’s page was filled with violent, ranting comments by members, others didn’t see it as quite so innocent, but Pierola maintains that he just wanted a forum where people could “laugh a little,” and air their grievances concerning the controversial socialist President.

One thoughtful comment made by a member said that Morales should be “tortured and made to suffer, like he’s doing indirectly to many Bolivian people.”

Of his criticism of Morales, Pierola said, generously: “In my honest opinion as a human I think it’s not his fault he’s such an imbecile-I hope he doesn’t do stupid things and that Bolivia doesn’t turn into a communist state.”

Facebook bans threatening violence, even if it’s supposedly meant in jest, so the group was removed within 90 minutes of their being alerted to its existence. A spokesman for Morales in Bolivia said the government hadn’t known about the group but were now looking into the threat.

Lesson of the day! Don’t post stupid shit on Facebook.

Facebook nixes group seeking Morales ‘liquidation’ [AP]