Secretary of Homeland Security Michael Chertoff seems to be giving helpful tips and emotional support to individuals planning on disrupting Obama's inauguration and/or assassinating the President-Elect (or the President, depending on exactly when any potential chaos occurs).
From MSNBC.COM, Nightly News w/ Brian Williams, 1.8.2009
"The hardest thing to detect is the individual who is disturbed, or has an axe to grind, or maybe he's a racist, who wants to carry out an individual act of violence, whether it's a home-made bomb or a gun. You're going to have millions of people, potentially, in and around the area; it's impossible to guarantee that no one in the city of Washington is going to have bad intent or a weapon of some kind."
Thanks for the tip, Secretary Jackoff.
Should we be worried? Well, theoretically any lone wolves out there might hear this news and feel validated in their silence. Which sucks because then no one can hear about (and thus potentially avert) any diabolical plans. And they KNOW there are some twisted individuals out there, threats have already been received.
From MSNBC.COM via the AP:
According to the intelligence assessment, a so-called lone wolf poses the greatest threat during the inauguration because such criminals are generally not affiliated with any specific group or act without the direction of a group. There have been some lone wolf threats reported, but nothing points to a well-planned plot, the assessment said.
I may be a crazy, horrible bastard but I know for a FACT there are people way nuttier than me, and many of them are armed.
So here's my thinking: considering the Obamas are staying in the Hay-Adams hotel instead of the FAR more secure Blair House; considering Obama is the first African-American president-elect in America's history; considering racism is still alive and well in America; considering individuals have already made lone-wolf threats...
...why on EARTH would Secretary Chertoff detail the singular best method of assassinating Obama or otherwise disrupt one of the most significant days in modern history?
Sources: NBC Nightly News, MSNBC.COM, San Francisco Examiner