The public authority had asked if someone could “shoot” America’s new president.
“I believed that Donald Trump would calm down after he became the president [of the US]. But how wrong I was! He exceeded my worst fears! Could anyone shoot him?”
Swedish Social Democratic Party member Roland Peterson, a municipal official in Kalmar’s Soedermoere district, called for murder on his Facebook page on Sunday, but he quickly removed the incriminating call for deadly violence an hour later.
The embarrassed Peterson has decided to step down as member of both his party and the Soedermoere Municipal Council and Planning Board after his incitement to a crime, announcing his resignation on Monday morning.
“After my blunder on Facebook, there is a risk that I will become a burden for the Social Democrats in Kalmar. I do not want it, so I chose to leave all my posts,” Peterson wrote in a letter to his party members, the local Oestra Smaland newspaper reported.
Person’s resignation came as a relief to his party members and fellow councilors: “It is good that he [Peterson] removed it [the post].”
Councilor Johan Persson explained what should have been obvious to Peterson and his liberal ilk all along, that people should “never call for violence” regardless of their opinion of Donald Trump or other issues.
The Social Democrats’ leader in Kalmar, Roger Holmberg, denounced the post as “inappropriate” and “idiotic,” while stressing that “even thinking about the idea of violence is completely wrong”.
According to Swedish broadcaster STV Holmberg said that new party members would receive “training” in working with social media, but did not elaborate on the glaring lack of ethical composure and moral decrepitude.
Holmber said that Peterson “is deeply remorseful,” adding that he “did not understand the impact of the post in the social media”.
Peterson told STV that he “would have never written” the post if he had considered the consequences, while promising he “will never do it again”. He also explained to Oestra Smalan, without irony, that it was Trump’s environmental policy that had prompted him to call for murder.
“He [Trump] risks the future of the entire Earth,” he said, adding that “now, when the world has started going in the right direction.” Peterson did not comment on his own “right direction” in calling for the killing of a fellow human being.
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