Obama Assassination Plot, No Big Deal? Bushies Squelch News of a Threat (updated)

You have to wonder why the big broohaha was raised over security in Denver if they don't take the hint of an assassination attempt seriously.   Maybe Homeland Security really did build those extra security cells in uninhabitable warehouses just to jail people expressing their God given right to freedom of speech after all.

I agree (with McCainites who dearly want to recreated the scenario) that riots like those which happened in 1968 did wonders to help elect Richard Nixon, but reports also note that 1968 was actually a police riot,not a natural "homeland security threat".  Luckily for the Republicans the altercation engendered deep hatred for the Democratic nominee.  Unfortunately, for the young males of the nation though most of the American deaths in Vietnam came from the Nixon years, though the great poser promised to end the war with dignity through both of his campaigns.

But now a real threat seems to have emerged, an assassination plot against the presumed  Democratic nominee may have been uncovered and the Secret Service and FBI just can't wrap their heads around the threat?

Just a bunch of methheads?  I dare say that James Earl Ray was probably a meth head.  In fact the white supremacist militias are often deeply involved in drugs as they sell the stuff to help support their lifestyles which require too much time spent on hating for many of the members to do much work.   

I hope the Secret Service does a better job screening for Senator Obama's speech than they've been doing in the past, and better than their statements over this plot indicates their natural inclinations lead to.

Apparently, whether or not there is a plot to kill Obama, his Bush administration provided security team doesn't care much about their work.  And the Denver US Attorney Troy Eid who, I guess, passed the Bush administration loyalty test again as he did in December 2006, seems to be working hard to make sure that no 'sympathy bounce' from being the target of supremacists is headed in the direction of the man who is likely to be the first black nominee from one of the two main parties.

Excerpt report from New York Daily News "Four arrested in possible plot to assassinate Barack Obama ":

Four people with links to white supremacist groups are under arrest in connection with a possible plot to kill Barack Obama at his Thursday night acceptance speech, a U.S. counterterror official confirmed Monday night.

Secret Service investigators don't consider the suspects, one of them a woman, as serious threats to the Democratic presidential candidate, they said. All are being held on either drug or weapons charges.

The FBI is investigating, but officials said they don't believe the plot was real.

"We're absolutely confident there is no credible threat to the candidate, the Democratic National Convention, or the people of Colorado," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said in a statement.

"It could also turn out that these were nothing but a bunch of knuckleheads, meth heads," a U.S. government official told the Associated Press.

And, indeed a check at Google News, my shorthand check of "popular news topics" shows no other links to report about the subject, most likely due exactly to the downplay by Bush administration security officials.

John McCain's appearance on Jay Leno is obviously much more important according to mainstream news, thanks to the Bushies' Homeland Security people.

(*Caucasian candidates only need apply).

Rocky Mountain News has a few more details in "Suspect talks of Obama assassination 'plot '".   One of the suspects said, "He don't belong in political office. Blacks don't belong in political office. He ought to be shot,".

And to be fair the local police took this threat more seriously than the feds 

Excerpt:

Aurora police alerted federal officials because of heightened security surrounding the Democratic convention, Aurora police Det. Marcus Dudley said.

"Clearly we feel that there are federal implications -- otherwise we would not have notified those agencies," Dudley said Monday night. "The weapons clearly would cause great concern."

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