Reuters is reporting that ATF agents have arrested two individuals in connection with a proposed plot to assassinate Senator Obama. The report is a stub so I’m posting it in its entirety:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Authorities have foiled a plot by neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and kill black people in Tennessee, the Associated Press reported on Monday.
The AP said the plot had been broken up by agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
The Obama campaign had no comment on the report.
Obama, who would be the first black U.S. president, is leading Republican John McCain in opinion polls ahead of the November 4 election.
I seriously doubt this is the only group of crazies out there planning Obama’s murder. Security better be very, very good the next week and probably thereafter because the storm of angry racists bent on Obama’s death is just beginning.
Update [2008-10-27 17:42:56 by Steven D]: More details on the plot that was disrupted from this report by a local Tennessee TV station:
In court records that were unsealed on Monday, ATF agents say they disrupted the plan by two “skinheads” to rob a gun store in Tennessee and target Obama and a predominately African-American High School.
The planned murder spree would aim to shoot or decapitate 102 African-Americans at the high school, which has not been named.
So, not only Obama was targeted, but 102 African American high school kids were also supposed to die as well. This is very ugly stuff. If I were an African American parent I would hold my kid out of school on Election day and the day after, as well. There are some very angry, crazed, racist individuals with guns out there and an Obama victory may be the one thing that pushes them over the edge into committing race based murder sprees.
Second Update [2008-10-27 17:50:28 by Steven D]: Full AP report here. Apparently the two Neo-Nazi punks involved planned to kill the high school kids first as part of a murder spree they hoped would end with their assassination of Obama.