I'd just like to quickly say, whether you agree with who is running for president or whether you agree with who BECOMES the next American president, do you really, in your small pathetic brains, think that the best thing to do is go and KILL people? I mean seriously... you can hate people that much for the color of their skin knowing FULL WELL, NONE of us can chose what color we are born... it makes me ILL that people still feel this way... and whether you like barack or not, does that mean he should DIE because he is running for president? Isn't he still, besides a Presidential Candidate, a Father? a Husband? a Son? a Man that LOVES hit wife and children? Do they deserve to not have him around cause of these ignorant "people"? Come on people... wake up... why does everything have to boil down to COLOR and RELIGIOUS beliefs? I mean, as long as you are a good person, do good things, help others when you can, have a positive outlook on life and generally live life as a good human being, why isn't THAT all that matters?
Men Charged For Plotting To Kill Obama
WASHINGTON -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives said Monday it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee killing spree.
In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville ATF field office, said the two men planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
The men also sought to go on a national killing spree, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.
ATF said that Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark., were charged on Oct. 24 with the illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, conspiracy to rob a federal firearms licensee, and making threats against a major candidate for the office of president.
"The allegations set forth in this Criminal Complaint are serious and will be treated as such," Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee said in a statement. "The public can rest assured that federal, state, and local law enforcement are diligently working together to investigate and prosecute the alleged activity."
According to the complaint Cowart and Schlesselman met via the Internet about one month ago through a mutual friend. Both claim to have very strong beliefs regarding "white power" and "skinhead" philosophy, the complaint said. They began discussing going on a "killing spree."
ATF said that Cowart allegedly traveled from Tennessee to Arkansas on Oct. 20 to pick up Schlesselman in order to carry out their plan, and that they said they were willing to die in its execution.
Cowart and Schlesselman were arrested on Oct. 22 by the Crockett County Sheriff's Office in Tennessee.
"Once we arrested the defendants and suspected they had violated federal law, we immediately contacted federal authorities, " said Sheriff Troy Klyce. "The Sheriff's Department is committed to keeping Crockett County a safe place for our all of citizens."
Cowart and Schlesselman are scheduled for a detention hearing on Oct. 30 in Memphis, Tenn.