The McShame campaign worker who staged the hoax last week made us think about the Emmet Till Murder in 1955.
FYI, Emmett Till was a 15 year old Black Youth from Chicago, visiting his family in the south. he made the mistake of being Black in a time when it was totally fatal for your health. this recent drama reminds us so much of that horrible wrong. mostly it makes us wonder if her intention was to insight violence ? why is Barack Obama the 2008 Emmett Till – because John McShame wants to Lynch Him.
How much things DON”T Change.. is really sad. does anyone remember Susan Smith, and her Figment of a Black Man ? in this day and age, we need to more closely examine the craziness springing forth from individuals and directed at national figures, before we adopt it as an urban myth.
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in case you’ve not seen the robocall video – check this out, and see who’s spewing lies
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and finally his response to the robocalls, listen closely – “What’s That All About ?”
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and to put the icing on the preverbial cake, lets take a look at todays thuggery from McShame Supporters – “Racists Planned Mass Murders ending with Barack Obama”
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Hey McShame, Enough is Enough Damn It.
A neo-Nazi plot to assassinate Barack Obama has been uncovered days before the American presidential election.
Last Updated: 3:55AM GMT 28 Oct 2008
US government agents say they have thwarted a plan by two conspirators to kill the White House front-runner and shoot or decapitate 102 black people.
Daniel Cowart, 20, and Paul Schlesselman, 18, were arrested in Tennessee on Wednesday and charged with possession of firearms, threats against a presidential candidate running and conspiring to rob a gun store, the Department of Justice said.
The plot is understood to centre on Tennessee where Martin Luther King was assassinated exactly 40 years ago.
Details of the conspiracy were contained in court records unsealed on Monday by members of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives – America’s specialist law enforcement agency.
ATF agents said they disrupted plans by white supremacists to rob a firearms store and attack a predominantly black school.
According to the ATF, the men planned to go on a killing spree across the United States with Mr Obama, the Democratic nominee who is poised to become the country’s first black president, as their final target.
Brian Weaks, an ATF agent, told a Memphis court on Monday that the pair had men discussed a “killing spree to include targeting a predominantly African-American school”. The ATF said that the two men did not identify the school by name.
He continued: “They further stated that their final act of violence would be to attempt to kill/assassinate presidential candidate Barack Obama,” he added, as the two men appeared before the federal court.
Cowart, from Bells, Tennessee, and Schlesselman, from Arkansas, met on the Internet a month ago and have “very strong beliefs and views regarding ‘White Power’ and ‘Skinhead’ views,” Mr Weaks told the court.
He said that Cowart had bought one rifle and stockpiled two handguns, both stolen from his grandfather. They planned to steal another high-powered rifle from a gun store in Jackson, Tennessee, as well as a series of robberies to finance their bloody actions.
“Schlesselman stated that they planned to drive their vehicles as fast as they could toward Obama shooting at him from the windows.”
“Both individuals stated they would dress in all white tuxedos and wear top hats during the assassination attempt. Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.”
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville field office of the ATF said the two skinheads planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14. The numbers 88 and 14 are held to be symbolic by white supremacists and relate to nationalist leader David Lane as well as Adolf Hitler.
Details of the alleged plot emerged just before Mr Obama arrived in Pittsburgh for a campaign rally after an earlier visit to Canton, Ohio.
Advisers remained tight lipped but said there were no plans for the candidate to make any reference to the ATF’s announcement.
It was not known how detailed the alleged plot was, how far advanced it was or how feasible the plan. Agents said that the two men did not identify the school by name.
“They said that would be their last, final act – that they would attempt to kill Sen Obama,” said Mr Cavanaugh. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”
In August, three men with suspected links to white supremacist groups were arrested with rifles and a telescopic sight amid fears of a plot to assassinate Mr Obama during the Democratic convention.
It was reported that one of the suspects had told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a … rifle … sighted at 750 yards”. When one of the suspects “was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama”, a police source said, “He responded in the affirmative”.
But there were no charges in connection with any assassination plot and the authorities later indicated that the men were drug addicts and petty criminals who had no plans to kill anyone.
The civil rights leader Dr Martin Luther King, was assassinated in the southern US city of Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968 where he was to lead a march of sanitation workers protesting against low wages and poor working conditions
He was shot in the neck as he stood on a hotel balcony and died in hospital soon afterwards.
Five years earlier, John F Kennedy was hit in the head and throat when three shots were fired at his open-topped car in Dallas, Texas.
The numbers 88 and 14 are significant to white supremacists because of the American white nationalist leader, David Lane, who died while serving a 190-year prison sentence for murder, racketeering, and conspiracy in May last year.
During his incarceration he wrote an essay entitled ‘88 precepts’ in which he put forward his plan for establishing a white society.
The essay is used by white supremacist groups as the basis of their beliefs.
Lane’s ‘88 precepts’ was an expansion on his 14 words which he said summed up his views. Lane said: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for White children.” He added that this was necessary “because the beauty of the White Aryan woman must not perish from the earth”.
It is also thought that the number 88 is also used by white supremacists to represent “Heil Hitler”, because “H” is the eight letter of the alphabet.
Alleged white supremacist plot to kill Obama is foiled
By Jeff Coen | Tribune reporter
11:45 PM CDT, October 27, 2008
Federal prosecutors in Tennessee have charged two self-described white supremacists with making threats against Sen. Barack Obama, alleging the men talked about wearing white top hats and tuxedos when they would try to kill the Democratic presidential nominee.
The two planned a massacre that would have killed scores of African-Americans and ended with an assassination attempt, according to an affidavit filed in the case. No specific time or place was outlined in the document for the attack.
Daniel Cowart, 20, of Tennessee and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of Arkansas, also were charged with possessing a sawed-off shotgun and conspiring to rob a gun dealer. The two met online about a month ago, authorities said, discussing the views of the “white power” movement.
According to the affidavit filed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the two talked of attacking a predominantly African-American school and killing more than 100 students, including 14 who would have been beheaded.
Officials said they were taking the case seriously. No attorneys for the two could immediately be reached for comment.
Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki, who is traveling with the nominee, said the campaign had no comment on the alleged plot.
The men planned to shoot at Obama from a car while wearing the tuxedos, the court document said, and “they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.” They were arrested last week in Tennessee after shooting out the window of a church and they remain in custody.
Both men are scheduled to appear in court Thursday for a detention hearing, said Lawrence Laurenzi, acting U.S. attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
Tribune news services contributed to this report.
jcoen@tribune.com
Whenever a plot emerges targeting Senator Barack Obama there is, with good reason, a collective sharp intake of breath in the United States.
By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 3:54AM GMT 28 Oct 2008
Four US presidents have been assassinated, while Ronald Reagan was extremely lucky to survive being shot in 1980. That unfortunate past, combined with lingering presence of white supremacist groups has created a nagging fear that at some time someone will make a move against the politician now on the verge of becoming the country’s first black president.
Mr Obama received protection from the Secret Service in early 2007, the earliest ever stage of an election for a presidential candidate, after threats to his life were received. The details were never released, but a bevy of burly, well-armed agents has been at his side ever since.
Among the African American community, the murder of Martin Luther King, gunned down in 1968, still haunts Mr Obama’s candidacy.
The reforms that Dr King gave his life for – the end of segregation in the south in 1964 and improved legal protection for the black community – have seen a reduction in racist violence over the years.
But there are numerous neo-Facist groups across the United States that pursue an agenda of hatred for all immigrants, Jews and African Americans. The oldest such group, the Ku Klux Klan, remains in operation.
Their loathing is also directed at the US government. The far-Right domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh was executed for the 1995 Oklahoma bombing which killed 168 people. The Southern Poverty Law Centre, which tracks racism, claims that since then the radical Right has produced some 60 terrorist plots. These have included plans to bomb or burn government offices, banks, refineries, clinics, synagogues and mosques; and to assassinate police officers, judges, politicians and civil rights figures.
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