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| ATF Arrests Arkansas, Tennessee Men in Plot to Kill Obama |
| 2008-10-27 |
| MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - Two men have been charged with making threats against presidential candidate Barack Obama. Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tennessee and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena were charged in a federal complaint last Friday of 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. According to the complaint, Cowart and Schlesselman met via the Internet through a mutual friend last month, with both men claiming to have very strong beliefs regarding "White Power" and "Skinhead" philosophies. The complaint said the pair discussed robbing a gun shop in order to gather weapons and ammunition to use in a 'killing spree.' On October 20, 2008, Cowart allegedly traveled from Tennessee to Arkansas to pick up Schlesselman in order to carry out their plan. According to the complaint, the defendants further discussed their killing spree to include targeting a predominately African American school, and to continue their spree until their final act of violence, which would be to attempt to assassinate Obama. Officials said Cowart and Schlesselman stated that they would be willing to die during their attempt. The pair was arrested on October 22, 2008 by the Crockett County, Tennessee Sheriff's Department. Cowart and Schlesselman appeared in court Monday, and are scheduled to appear again at a detention hearing on October 30th. Note: This is NOT the same mess of inbreds who were arrested in Denver in August. The right-wing bloggosphere is alive right now with rumors that this is just a repeat of the August story, recycled by the usual suspects to help Obama. This foolishness originates from Free Republic, where some fool posted pics of the August perps, with no link or explanation, and others quickly assumed they were the same as today's perps. This was helped along by the notorious inability of Freepers to post links. Again, THIS IS NOT THE SAME ALLEGED PLOT OR THE SAME PERPS. |
| Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy |
| #14 Duno what 14 is, but 88 stands for the 8th letter of the alphabet, "H". HH = |
| Posted by: Pancho Thaimp7764 2008-10-27 22:56 |
| #13 Ugh, products of our wonderful education system. A good thing they were caught now before an innocents were hurt. I'm sure that somehow the liberal illuminati will blame McCain for this. |
| Posted by: Big Boom 2008-10-27 22:23 |
| #12 Actually, to my mind the mere fact that ATF arrested these guys says to me that the Obama factor in this is just window dressing. If it was a serious plot, the Secret Service of the FBI would be more likely to be lead agency on it. |
| Posted by: Silentbrick 2008-10-27 22:15 |
| #11 I agree that this is a thing that is completely off the charts re: reason and i am also glad these nutcases were caught, but where is the similiar outrage about the Palin effigy hanging out there in California; can't that also be considered a hate crime? what would the MSM be doing if it were Obama? not sitting on their hands that's for sure. |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2008-10-27 21:39 |
| #10 These idiots are unbelievable. All it takes is one of these fools to get to him and this place will go up in flames. As much as I despise the guy, killing him will not help in any way, shape, or form. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2008-10-27 19:39 |
| #9 And 14 would be right too: 10 fingers, 2 ears, 1 nose, and 1 doinker (that they put their hands on every two minutes, undoubtedly to make sure it's still there). Their feet must stink too much for them to take off their boots.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-27 19:28 |
| #8 I'll agree with you, tu - if you mean they can't count past 14. "88" must mean 8, and 8 again. ;-p |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2008-10-27 19:26 |
| #7 Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF's Nashville field office, said the two men planned to kill 88 people, including 14 African-Americans by beheading. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community. Probably because that's as high as they can count... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2008-10-27 18:41 |
| #6 Got locked out of Rantburg for a while today. This is incredibly frustrating. LGF has been screwed up all day, as it is for part of EVERY day. The little spinning arrow starts up when I try to refresh or post, and when it stops nobody knows. I have to close the browser window when it does this, btw. The site takes forever to load, vital features sometimes fail to load at all, and it has disappeared entirely for the last half-hour or so. I love LGF but I am going to stop going there until I have some assurance the site is fixed. Enough is enough. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-27 18:40 |
| #5 General prison population - should take care of this problem pretty quick. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-10-27 18:37 |
| #4 Angry and high(?) and sawed off shotguns are a bad mix; These morons definably need a 10-year+ stay in Federal Prison. I do wonder how these masterminds actually planned to get to a Presidential Candidate after killing all those kids in the school though. |
| Posted by: Minister of funny walks 2008-10-27 18:27 |
| #3 That is the last thing we need is to make this communist a martyr. He needs to be defeated because his ideas are so repulsive to the average American that he is rejected by who he is, not by what his melanin count is. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-10-27 18:15 |
| #2 ...Thank GOD these idiots were caught, I shudder to think what this country would have been like had Obama been killed. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2008-10-27 18:01 |
| #1 Suspect Paul Schlesselman's MySpace page. NSFW, seriously diseased filth here. Don't say you weren't warned. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2008-10-27 17:27 |