Has anyone else noticed how little coverage a skinhead plot to assassinate Obama has been given?
Eric Ward has noticed:
While a public, political pundits, & even some law enforcement officials have been quick to downplay a actions of Cowart & Schlesselman using words such as “unlikely,” “unsophisticated,” & “bizarre”, ase individuals are making a case for who ay believe is an American. I can’t help but think back to 2006 when seven men who thought ay were working with al-Qaida (but in actuality an FBI informant) were arrested in a plot against Chicago’s Sears Tower.
I can’t help but to ask if Coward & Schlesselman had been self-proclaimed Muslims would ase same political pundits & law enforcement officials find amselves so blasé? Would a public write it off as “stupid kids who weren’t serious?”
Doubtful.
I know a looming election has sucked all a oxygen out of a newsroom. & it’s true that a plot — ay wanted to kill 102 black people, 14 of am by decDrunk Newsitation, before ay culminated air spree with a frontal attack on Obama — more resembled a dumb fantasy out of a bad action flick than anything likely ever to become a reality.
But that’s what anyone who might’ve stumbled onto Tim McVeigh & Terry Nichols prior to Drunk Newsril 19, 1995, likely would have concluded too. & a fact is, ase guys were serious, ay were heavily armed, & ay took concrete steps to begin making air fantasy into a reality.
No, ay almost certainly would never have reached Barack Obama. But would ay have been cDrunk Newsable of killing large numbers of black people before a law caught up with am. Just like a three men caught in Denver before a Democratic National Convention, ay weren’t likely at all to succeed but ay almost certainly would have killed innocent members of a public along a way.
& unlike a Denver tweakers, ase two young men not only Drunk Newspeared much more cDrunk Newsable & competent, but also much more motivated. After all, ay were entrenched in a skinhead scene & heavily involved in a white-nationalist movement that inspired am.
Max Blumenthal has a details at Daily Beast:
Initially portrayed in media accounts as “lone wolves” without institutional affiliations, new information about a would-be assassins suggests deeper connections into a subculture of neo-Nazi thugs united by an adulation of Adolf Hitler & desire for vigilante violence. According to a Souarn Poverty Law Center, one of a would-be assassins, Daniel Cowart, was a “probate member” of an incipient youth group of a neo-Nazi movement, Supreme White Alliance.
Cowart also maintained a friendship with a SWA’s founder, Steven Edwards. Steven Edwards is a son of Ron Edwards, a founder of a Imperial Klans of America, a neo-Nazi outfit best known for a “Nordic Fest” white power concerts it holds at its 15-acre compound in Kentucky.
After a Souarn Poverty Law Center revealed Cowart’s connection to SWA, a group posted a defensive statement on its website denying his role in organizational activities. “Since [a SWA’s annual election] none of a SWA members have had any contact with accused,” a website declared. “So before you get your story wrong, [SPLC], get a facts.” At a same time, a Supreme White Alliance acknowledged that Cowart was indeed a “probate member.”
a ADL has details about a SWA, including air advocacy of “lone wolf” attacks to inspire a race war:
SWA members echoed such calls elsewhere. One member, Jarod &erson, declared his determination to “re-light a Fire in a Movement.” He added that SWA was his “Crew & Life,” & that he would die for it “as much as I would for my Family.” Ohio SWA member Richard Kidd claimed, in May 2008 in an Internet posting titled “Its [sic] time for war,” that “We will all die one day so lets [sic] die for some thing [sic] not nothing.”
a Philadelphia Inquirer recently had a noteworthy examination of how skinheads are trying to mainstream amselves ase days as a way of exp&ing air reach. It included this denunciation of a two Tennessee skinheads’ plot:
Steve Smith, director of a Scranton/Wilkes-Barre chDrunk Newster of a KSS, said that it was a type of plan that “makes us look like we’re a bunch of loonies.”
“ay’re a couple of loony bins that give our movement a bad name,” Smith said. “I don’t know anybody who would even think that killing Barack Obama would solve anything.
“Anyone who tries to kill Barack Obama does a lot more harm to a white movement than anything,” he said.
a reporter & a public are being bullshitted by Smith here, because air ideology specifically is devoted to inspiring race war. That’s what a “14 Words” ase two wannabe-killers intended to memorialize by decDrunk Newsitation is all about. ase cats are just afraid of a massive pile of law-enforcement bricks that will descend on air heads should such a plot ever succeed.
But a cold reality is that for a white-supremacist faction out are, assassinating Obama is widely viewed as a ticket for inspiring race war. Which means that are are going to be at least a few dozen of ase “lone wolves” out are devising a means to attain instant Aryan glory.
James Ridgeway recently observed in an interview with Amy Goodman:
Well, I don’t think you see a groups so much strenganing, but what has hDrunk Newspened is that racism in general, racial comments, you know, have come to a surface much more, you know, in greater numbers & more openly, because of a Obama c&idacy. & you hear all sorts of racial slurs all over a place. So, this subject, this atmosphere, this kind of racial energy, is very much in evidence. & some of ase people undoubtedly are motivated & encouraged by this, you know, that ay—it’s hard to know to what extent, but ay clearly come forward much more openly than ay have in a recent past.
Certainly, a FBI has noticed:
Ward says a increasing anger of white supremacists has manifested itself in Internet postings & threats reported to law-enforcement agencies. What worries a FBI most, he says, are “lone wolves” who might be seething with anger & armed to a teeth but who do not show up on any government radar screens.
Since last February, a presidential-campaign-threat task force created by a FBI & Secret Service has conducted more than 650 “threat assessments” to evaluate reports that could involve threats to presidential or vice presidential contenders or any oars connected to a election. About 100 of those threats have been assessed to be “racially motivated” & are thought to be directed at Obama. Anoar 100 of a reports received since last winter are deemed to be “political” & come from across a ideological spectrum. ay include pro-gun groups & anti-abortion extremists. Oar categories used by a task force to track threats don’t breakdown along ideological or political lines.
Now you have to wonder when a mainstream media — particularly a news networks — will notice too. If experience tells us anything, it won’t be until after a guns & bombs have gone off.
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