Ken Germana Installs Sign Calling for a Public Hanging of Barack Obama, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, Al Sharpton, Feds Investigating

Well, the racist behavior continues. According to the Bonner County Daily Bee, the U.S. Secret Service has been asked to review a sign a Bonner County landowner put up which suggests a "free public hanging" of President-elect Barack Obama and several other political figures. According to the newspaper, the handmade cardboard sign also features a noose fashioned from a length of nylon rope.

"That's a political statement. They can call it whatever they want, a threat or whatever," said Ken Germana, who installed the sign on his property off Golden Gate Road in southwestern Bonner County.

Obama's name is the most prominent on the sign, although it also bears the names of former Democrat presidential nominee John Kerry, current U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and civil rights activist and former presidential candidate Al Sharpton.

Germana said he poses absolutely no threat to Obama, but admits he would not lose any sleep if harm did come the president-elect's way. He said he made the sign to protest hypocrisy in two high-profile incidents involving effigies of Republican vice president nominee Sarah Palin and Obama.

Of course, he says that there is no racial tone in his sign.

"If these Katzenjammer cops want to pursue it, God bless 'em. But I've got my rights just like everybody else does," he said.

Wow, what a hypocrite. If I hung a picture similar to that in my front yard with President Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, then I am sure someone would have called the cops. That's not the way to make a political statement.