Oct 27 2008
Skinheads Held Over Barack Obama Assassination Plan
This campaign is getting way out of control. Just today, we have had Sarah Palin hung in effigy and now; an apparent Obama assassination plan has been foiled by the ATF
Federal authorities in Tennessee announced today that they have arrested two alleged white supremacists in an alleged plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama by driving their vehicle at top speed and firing high-powered rifles at him from their car windows.
The plotters also allegedly discussed shooting 88 African Americans to death and decapitating 14 others in a killing spree across the country — choosing the numbers 88 and 14 because, officials said, “they have special significance within the White Power movement.”
If being a skinhead was not disturbing enough, check out the plans they had made for the killing spree
The suspects met over the Internet about a month ago, said an affidavit filed by Brian Weaks, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
“The individuals began discussing going on a ‘killing spree’ that included killing 88 people and beheading 14 African Americans,” Weaks said in the affidavit.
The men stole guns from family members and also had a sawed-off shotgun. They planned to target a predominately black school, going state to state while robbing individuals and continuing to kill people, Weaks said in the affidavit.
“They further stated that their final act of violence would be to attempt to kill/assassinate presidential candidate Barack Obama,” he said.
These are some seriously disturbed individuals. Check out one of the suspect’s MySpace photo from the AP:
This undated photo obtained from a MySpace webpage shows Daniel Cowart, 20 of Bells, Tenn. holding a weapon. Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday Oct. 27, 2008. In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. The men, Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman 18, of West Helena, Ark., are being held without bond. (AP Photo)
Please let this be the end of this insanity.
