Feds Disrupt Skinhead Plot to Assassinate Obama

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Seriously? Did you really have to go that route?

I have no doubt that there are sickos out there, and it's good that they were able to stop this group of idiots before they hurt someone. But these rumors of right-wingers stocking up is just as ridiculous as the rumors of people leaving the country after Bush was elected the second time (the "I'll leave the country if Bush is elected" people).

Seriously....and I asked them that same question....realize...that it's all just talk but if you take 10 that are even 'jokingly' talking about this....there are at least 2 that may really follow thru no matter how you cut it. As a matter of fact, pay attention to my last passage, I did say 'discussing'. Hell you got these nuts right here in this article that plotted to kill Obama and how did they meet? ONLINE. These are the nuts that weren't joking!

then...you have this article: http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/...008-10-21.html

and you have: http://www.theroot.com/id/48479

[RU OX Alum]

did anyone else hear the Clash's "White Riot" when they read that article?

[preciousjeni]

I loled at:

With dreams deferred, can angry whites do what Langston Hughes taught us—to let it fester like a sore, even to let sag like a heavy load? Or will the dream of a perfect streak of white men in the White House, if deferred, cause white people to explode?

[NutBrnHair]

Why, oh why, do these nuts have to be from Tennessee??!??

[DaemonSeid]

...and Arkansas

[Elephant Walk]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

...and Arkansas

I'm pretty sure there are far more serious Obama assasination attempts than this one.

Plus violent racism isn't indicative of the new South, mostly indicative of the West Coast and Northeast.

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I'm pretty sure there are far more serious Obama assasination attempts than this one.

Plus violent racism isn't indicative of the new South, mostly indicative of the West Coast and Northeast.

Violent racism certainly occurs in all parts of the country, but how is it "indicative" of the Northeast?

ETA: This link is about 4 years old, and it deals more generally with "hate crimes," but it seems like the distribution is pretty well spread across the country (if you're looking at reports per agency): http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offen...ime/index.html

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I'm pretty sure there are far more serious Obama assasination attempts than this one.

Plus violent racism isn't indicative of the new South, mostly indicative of the West Coast and Northeast.

What is the new South? I've heard this term and was confused. Please explain. /hijack.

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

I'm pretty sure there are far more serious Obama assasination attempts than this one.

Plus violent racism isn't indicative of the new South, mostly indicative of the West Coast and Northeast.

wait...there is such a thing as non-violent racism??

and ditto to that question about the 'new' South

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by Elephant Walk

Plus violent racism isn't indicative of the new South, mostly indicative of the West Coast and Northeast.

Please explain. As someone who grew up in the South, went to college and now lives in the Northeast, and spends a lot of time on the West Coast (and plans to move there soon), I do not agree. There is more racial and economic segregation in the Northeast, but that is de facto segregation and not de jure the way that it was in the South until fairly recently.

No place is perfect, but until black men are dragged by trucks in Connecticut, please spare me on how "violent racism isn't indicative of the new South, mostly indicative of the West Coast and Northeast."

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by DaemonSeid

Gun sales are up.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/...n4547564.shtml

http://www.khou.com/news/state/stori...1587b0297.html

But these stories give very cogent reasons for the rise in gun sales, and those reasons don't include this:

Originally Posted by preciousjeni

My father *suggested* that Obama is going to declare martial law from day one so he can use the police against citizens. Someone told him (or he heard) that gun sales were up because people were going to have to shoot police officers to protect their property.

[Velocity_14]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Why, oh why, do these nuts have to be from Tennessee??!??

That's the same thing I said...


Some people need to kick rocks with some open-toed shoes...

[I.A.S.K.]

Originally Posted by Velocity_14

Some people need to kick rocks with some open-toed shoes...

LOL.


His name is Alain Locke. I know it's not that big of a deal, but I hate it when people forget the E in Locke or the S in Douglass. This is just an annoyance of mine.

I would also like to know why violent acts of racism only include race riots. Especially since all of these race riots involve people of color as the rioters. What do you call violent acts toward a person solely based on his or her race? There must be a different term used in the new south.

[LightBulb]

Originally Posted by Velocity_14

That's the same thing I said...

Ditto...

Originally Posted by Velocity_14

Some people need to kick rocks with some open-toed shoes...

Haha, that's such a GC insult.

[WinniBug]

Originally Posted by NutBrnHair

Why, oh why, do these nuts have to be from Tennessee??!??

my first thought too