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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: Wretched Excess on October 28, 2008, 11:57:34 PM
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the headline is misleading; it should say the the 18 and 20 year old cretins hatching the "plot" weren't fully formed. but this thing was about as much a threat to The BarackStar! as that rainstorm he was speaking in this afternoon; he could have caught a nasty cold, after all.
Authorities say skinhead plot wasn't fully formed
BELLS, Tenn. (AP) — Two white supremacists charged with plotting to behead blacks across the country and assassinate Barack Obama while wearing white top hats and tuxes were likely too disorganized to carry out the plot, authorities said, and their planning was riddled with blunders.
Paul Schlesselman, 18, of Helena-West Helena, Ark., and Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells are accused of dreaming up the plan. While authorities say they had guns capable of creating carnage, documents show they never got close to getting off the ground.
Among the blunders: They drew attention to themselves by etching swastikas on a car with sidewalk chalk, only knew each other for a month, couldn't even pull off a house robbery, and a friend ratted them out to authorities.
"Certainly these men have some frightening weapons and some very frightening plans," said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who studies the white supremacy movement. "But with the part about wearing top hats ... it gets a bit hard to take them seriously."
Despite making sure the plot was stopped, authorities did not believe Cowart and Schlesselman had the means to carry out their threat to assassinate Obama, said a federal law enforcement official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the case publicly.
More (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jsCEnrVzDQoU5tg63njLNy0UTDNAD943QFD80)
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Still, it doesn't pay to ignore dangerous and armed assholes, there's an excellent chance they'd have ended up killing some innocent folks if they hadn't been snapped up, even if their plot was unworkably stupid for its intended purpose.
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Still, it doesn't pay to ignore dangerous and armed assholes, there's an excellent chance they'd have ended up killing some innocent folks if they hadn't been snapped up, even if their plot was unworkably stupid for its intended purpose.
I absolutely agree. I simply wanted to combat, to the extent this it is possible, the way this story was initially played.
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About as much chance as smelling a gnat fart in a CAT 5 hurricane.