Feds disrupt skinhead plot to assassinate Obama

[Kefka]

WASHINGTON – Law enforcement agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 88 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.

In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.

Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF's Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 black people, including 14 by beheading. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_el_pr/skinhead_plot

[Jorddyn]

This is actually nothing more than a ploy by Obama to take TV time away from McCain.


The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.

... because the best way to get close enough to murder the president is to ensure half the country is looking for you after you commit mass murder.

I'm so glad most criminals are stupid.

[Gelston]

Theres no telling how many people have plots on Obama for racist reasons.

[ClydeR]

The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

What kind of person would entice us with that fact without explaining it?

[g++]

What kind of person would entice us with that fact without explaining it?




The numbers 14 and 88 are symbols in skinhead culture, referring to a 14-word phrase attributed to an imprisoned white supremacist: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children" and to the eighth letter of the alphabet, H. Two "8"s or "H"s stand for "Heil Hitler."

From the linked article

[Crazy Bard]

People like that still exist? like in numbers ..I thought their weren't enough of

those idiot to actually do something.

[Gan]

So we dont get to look forward to any riots?


:(

[Mabus]

So we dont get to look forward to any riots?


:(

Give it a week or so.
;)

[Gan]

I picked up 5 extra boxes of shells just for any pre-election festivities (not to mention there was a damn good sale last week on ammo).

[Jorddyn]

I picked up 5 extra boxes of shells just for any pre-election festivities (not to mention there was a damn good sale last week on ammo).

I thought about doing that, but then I realized I live in Iowa and I'd be more likely to have my arms ripped off by a tractor than get injured/killed/robbed in a riot.