BREAKING on MSNBC
ATF (Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms)said it has disrupted Skinhead plot to assassinate Obama and kill 102 African-American students
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree.
Apparently some sick fucks were planning to break into a gun store, steal guns and go into an AA High School and start murdering kids - 102.
Apparently 102 because of the significance of the numbers 14 and 88 to Neo-Nazis. From Urban Dictionary-
14 representing 14 words written by David Lane, "We must secure the existance of our people and a future for white children."
88 representing David Lane's 88 precepts, or sometimes the eighth letter in the alphabet (H), to represent Heil Hitler.
Here is the ATF agent's affidavit
http://www.scribd.com/...
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville ATF field office, said the two men sought to go on a national killing spree that included an unnamed African-American school, with Obama as their final target.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville ATF field office, said the two men sought to go on a national killing spree that included an unnamed African-American school, with Obama as their final target.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
As a reminder, Rep. John Lewis' warning:
"What I am seeing reminds me too much of another destructive period in American history," Lewis said in a statement issued today for Politico's Arena forum. "Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are sowing the seeds of hatred and division, and there is no need for this hostility in our political discourse."
"George Wallace never threw a bomb," Lewis noted. "He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama."
"As public figures with the power to influence and persuade, Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin are playing with fire, and if they are not careful, that fire will consume us all," Lewis said today. "They are playing a very dangerous game that disregards the value of the political process and cheapens our entire democracy. We can do better. The American people deserve better."
Plots like this are bound to be planned and prayerfully always discovered early considering the historic nature of this election, and potentially an Obama Presidency. We all know this. It is our unspoken fear. The hateful words spoken at McCain/Palin events likely didn't cause this (the plotters are Neo-Nazi Skinheads and were crazy long before McCain/Palin started with their crap), but their words certainly haven't helped. In my opinion, knowing the history of this country and the historic nature of Sen. Obama's success, John McCain, Sarah Palin and any other elected official and public media have a moral responsibility to the People to stay away from hateful, divisive political speech which can, and has all to often in the past, incited violence. Regardless of political affiliation - using loaded speech, dog whistles and cultural divisions, there is a danger of putting The Obamas and innocent Americans in harms way, - and THAT is Un-American.
See jaifinesse's rec listed diary of what happened at a Palin rally today
here
You know, it is reasons like these that PISS ME OFF when I hear McCain and Palin talking about Ayers and "palling around with domestic terrorists." The fact is, NO ONE has been a bigger victim of domestic terrorism than African-Americans. The fact that they are trying to falsely tie Obama to domestic terrorists puts Obama MORE at risk to real violence from domestic terrorists!
Domestic Terrorism against African-Americans and Politics
During Reconstruction lynching and violence against blacks began to function as a means of crushing the new threat of black freedmen's political mobilization. Terrorism, intimidation and outright assassinations were used to suppress African-American leaders and voting in the 1870s during Reconstruction and to regain power.
Almost 100 years later, terrorism, intimidations and assassinations remained the preferred tactic to suppress black political mobilization as evidenced by the murders of James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, and Michael Schwerner, Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (whose holiday Sen. McCain twice opposed), and the Four young girls (Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Addie Mae Collins) who were killed as they attended Sunday School when a bomb explodes at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church, a popular location for civil rights meetings. The domestic terrorism perpetrated against those fighting for Civil Rights and voter registrations resulted in over 1,000 deaths.
This takes me to McCain ads and Ashley Todd...
The unholy race-baiting combination of two of the most vicious and frequently used permissions for black hate crimes - victimization of white women and political mobilization of blacks seems to be being used by the mentally unstable Ashley Todd, but more disgustingly promoted and dramatized by the PA McCain Campaign communications director, and the ads McCain has been running of a darkened Barack Obama and frightened white women in some of his commercials. The parties listed are all more than well aware of the history of this country's fragile race relations and of the terrorism committed against blacks when certain portions of the American population feel that white womanhood or their political power is threatened - let alone BOTH at the same time.
UPDATED: OK, these 2 people were obviously freaks and perhaps mentally unstable. They planned to rob gun stores and dealers for weapons and rob houses for money so that they could target predominantly AA schools and shoot students and also planned on shooting Barack Obama while they were wearing white tuxedos. WOW. This comes from court documents being reviewed by on Hardball by Pete Williams.
Suspect Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., MySpace page HERE
PS: Looks like Tweety VOTED today! He has his sticker on. HAVE YOU?????
They will try to make us afraid, and to a generation that has lived through that pain before, it will be hard to pull that lever for Barack, knowing the negative side of what could be...BUT WE MUST. AND WE WILL. AND WE WILL WIN. We will win over fear, hatred and division. HOPE will win.
"You can't make decisions based on fear and the possibility of what might happen." -Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama's thoughts on Fear.
This makes me fight harder for our guy to get elected, fires me up even more to donate, make more calls, drive on the 4th and anything else I can! And I know it makes millions of us that more vigilant to have his back even more!
Thank Goodness for government agencies who can actually do their job! The ATF, FBI, and Secret Service are all doing heroic jobs protecting ALL of the candidates and well as the President and Vice President. A sincere special thanks for the job that they are doing protecting our guy and his family!
Must See NYT photo essay on the Badass SS who protect our Badass Candidate.
And then this: The truly reassuring presence of the Secret Service keeping our next First Family safe.
Then just a few minutes after eight; something like a shift in earth’s gravity occurs. To the casual observer, nothing in this scene has changed. That pull of the earth’s power must have been imagined.
The true city dweller will feel it first, before they even see it. Blink your eyes and they appear.
Ringing the shadows of this soccer field are people with guns. Serious people with guns. Like oak trees that move. The phrase, "Not on my watch" flashes through your head.
You have to look hard to make sure they are even there. You never really see a gun. You’re not even sure they are moving. But when you blink your eyes, somehow their positions have changed. Something about the way they just appear calms your breathing. Instinctively you know.
These are the good guys.
Check out the beautifully written full story on Barack at Malia's soccer game on Oct. 19 here
UPDATE II: (warning - purely selfish bragging mother update)
I just told my five year old son that 2 people wanted to kill Barack Obama (the update came on tv). He asked "Why?". I told him that some people don't like Obama and don't want him to be President. He asked "do they want to be President?" I told him no. They just don't want Barack to be President. He said, "Well I DO! And you do, and Will does (his brother) and so does daddy. So that makes 4 of us and only 2 of them, SO WE WIN!"
You just gotta love the logic of kids ;-)