And Sarah Palin is their poster girl:
Federal agents have broken up a plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco Firearms and Explosives said Monday.
In court records unsealed Monday in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school in a murder spree that was to begin in Tennessee. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of ATF’s Nashville field office, said the two men planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.
The men also sought to go on a national killing spree after the Tennessee murders, with Obama as its final target, Cavanaugh told The Associated Press.
“They said that would be their last, final act — that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”
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For the Obama plot, the legal documents show, Cowart and Schlesselman “planned to drive their vehicle 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,” the court complaint states. “Both individuals further stated they knew they would and were willing to die during this attempt.”
For the record, I do believe that the release of this information may be timed to make people fear voting for Obama will lead to violence and carnage. An ATF run by BushCo could be expected to do nothing less 7 days from this election.
But that said: What is it about these people that the threat of equality brings them to violence?
Last night, I told J. that if Obama wins, I will finally feel like an American. I’m the whitest of white women, but I grew up in the South, and the fact that my black friends were not allowed to swim with me in the Country Club pool – that they weren’t even comfortable coming over to our side of town – made me feel like I was living in a stealth dictatorship that no one around me would acknowledge. And I have never lost that feeling, because true equality has never been a part of these United States. As far as I am concerned, until we all have a chance to reach our highest potential, we have not fulfilled the promise of this country, and it will not truly exist until we do.
But for one bright moment on January 20, 2009, I may feel what it’s like to be patriotic, for the first time.
But it seems that for others, that moment will only fill them with hate. And McCain/Palin and the whole right wing media nuthouse, from Limbaugh to Hannity to O’Reilly to Savage to Reagan, have been midwife to that rage.
Last night I heard that polling showed that race has diminished as a factor in people’s thinking – or at least what they’ll admit to – over the last five months. If that’s true, perhaps an Obama presidency will not only bring change to government, but also to the incendiary hatefest that is right-wing radio and teevee. Perhaps their audience will dwindle to just a few scared, small assholes like these two Clockwork Orange wanabees.
I live in hope.