ATF busts skinhead plot to assassinate Obama, murder blacks; Update: Complaint added; Update: Photo added
posted at 4:59 pm on October 27, 2008 by Allahpundit
Just a few details so far, but it sounds like some sort of Nazi Columbine fantasy with assassination as the capper. Not the first time white supremacists have had their guns out for Obama, although the immediate concern here was obviously the school:
In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads. Agents said the skinheads did not identify the school by name.
Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville field office for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 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, 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.”
They had a rifle, a shotgun, and three pistols and were planning to break into a gun store to grab more. Stand by for updates as local media jumps on the story.
Update: Here’s the ATF’s criminal complaint. The suspects met a month ago on the Internet, as so many terrorists do these days. Sounds like the feds decided to move in after they went looking for a house to rob.
Update: Look at this and you’ll see why the feds decided to move sooner rather than later. Plus, a new detail from the AP:
“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.”…
“They seemed determined to do it,” Cavanaugh said. “Even if they were just to try it, it would be a trail of tears around the South.”
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Time for BHO to fabricate more racists threats to make sure he retains the guilty-white-racists vote.
DeweyWins on October 27, 2008 at 5:01 PM
Okay. Good. Numbnuts foiled. Awesome.
Anything else?
Kensington on October 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Sen. Obama should be defeated on Nov 4th and not like this. It’s good that we have competent and professional law enforcement people to prevent this kinda stuff form happening.
tdavisjr on October 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM
They were going to rob a gun store? That’s very stupid.
That’s one of the few things GTA taught me not to do.
Esthier on October 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM
Do two guys really constitute a “plot”? This will get far more media attention than it deserves. Can’t wait to see the narrative the MSM creates.
DerKrieger on October 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM
How long till Jack Cafferty blames this on Sarah Palin?
D0WNT0WN on October 27, 2008 at 5:02 PM
This is going to be one crazy election
Vashta.Nerada on October 27, 2008 at 5:03 PM
And a black man actually killed Jennifer Hudson’s family in Chicago last week, including a 7 year old boy.
Which has done more damage?
Also, isn’t it true that people “plot” to kill every single presidential candidate?
This plot is disgusting and these creeps should be jailed forver, but the press coverage (spin) to come makes me sick.
Elizabetty on October 27, 2008 at 5:04 PM
So what now, then? I presume that the Left, which never takes any terrorism plots seriously (much less foiled terrorist plots) will want to act as if this one was not only real but successful, right?
Kensington on October 27, 2008 at 5:04 PM
Sorta on topic regarding racists.
via the ‘Busters
Voting McCain Doesn’t Make You Racist – It Means You’re Too Stupid to Know You’re Racist
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:05 PM
Will Rove stop at nothing to defeat Obarky?
Bishop on October 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Ha ha! Yes! You don’t make that mistake twice.
See? It’s educational! :)
Kensington on October 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Somebody mentioned this is older story resurfacing because the court dos were unsealed, anyone know?
Topsecretk9 on October 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Recycled story from August?
http://www.hillbillyreport.com/blog/shawn_robert_adolf/
Connie on October 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Boy,
Dubya better get going on that plan to get OBL to win the election for Mac.
(channeling any nondescript libtard)
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:06 PM
Good. What hideousness. Now two more criminals are off the street.
Abby Adams on October 27, 2008 at 5:07 PM
Do you think for a minute that this isn’t regular coffee talk at skinhead meetings? It’s what they do, dude. Vile idiots. Stickem in jail…. and now lets watch how many networks and newspapers decide THIS is the big story of the day.
Sugar Land on October 27, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Heh. That’s been the liberal line for the past month.
If McCain wins: Palin’s fault for being racist.
If McCain loses: Palin’s fault because she’s a woman who shops for clothes.
pt on October 27, 2008 at 5:08 PM
Yep, how dare Sarah Palin pose for this “artwork” in West Hollywood. Clearly the lynching imagery inspired these otherwise law-abiding gentlemen to try to revive the halcyon days of Robert Byrd’s KKK.
/sarc
Y-not on October 27, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Geees, Can’t a couple of guys drink a few beers and fantisize without it being against the law anymore?
1sttofight on October 27, 2008 at 5:09 PM
I hope to God nobody ever really hurts Obama.
I wouldn’t mind it if they got some photos of him with Barney Frank, though…
Star20 on October 27, 2008 at 5:09 PM
Is he still on air? Anyway, this will go into the narative of the racism in the race and that the people that oppose Obama are nothing but racist. Nothing new here. Another opportunity for David Gergen to have watery eyes on CNN.
clemycali on October 27, 2008 at 5:09 PM
LMAO +1!
The other thing is “don’t stand in front of a moving tank”.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:12 PM
What ever happened to the people who were allegedly planing an attack against Obama at the DNC?
Glenn Jericho on October 27, 2008 at 5:12 PM
And of course this will be blamed on conservatives.
Why is it that the socialists think that nazi’s are conservatives?
After all, NAZI = National Socialist German Workers’ Party
LegendHasIt on October 27, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Was it Jackie Broyles and Dunlap?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:14 PM
Yawn. Wake me up when there’s a credible threat.
SouthernGent on October 27, 2008 at 5:15 PM
Now, don’t we all feel guilty and should therefore vote for That One?
J.J. Sefton on October 27, 2008 at 5:16 PM
wait no questioning of the facts? 2 people? where they ron paul supporters? they were going to go on a national killing spree and somehow get to Obama? this is two loons with no plan for hitting Obama.
unseen on October 27, 2008 at 5:16 PM
I wish ill upon Barry.
I wish for him to be stuck with Michelle for a long, long time (back in Illinois).
omnipotent on October 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Grant Park will be a lovely place the night of Nov. 4
Crews take work home for Obama rally
ELECTION NIGHT | Firefighters, paramedics get order to have equipment ready
The cost is around $2 million for the overtime for security. His Holiness is picking up the tab.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM
I’m glad they got to these guys, but I’m cynical enough not to believe this entirely. To use that tired old phrase “how conveeeeeenient” 8 days before election day.
Guess we’ll see as more info comes out.
TeeDee on October 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM
Check the pedigree of the AP reporter Lara Jakes Jordan. Married to Jim Jordan, he of John Kerry camapign manager fame.
DanMan on October 27, 2008 at 5:17 PM
My first response: GOOD!
My second response: Obama’s going to milk this as much as he can. As much as he milks his skin color, funny name, etc. Where is the media going to take this, to the ends of the earth. Will the media point out the loons hanging effigys of Palin? No.
shick on October 27, 2008 at 5:18 PM
The media will love this
brak on October 27, 2008 at 5:19 PM
Unsealed today?
So how long have they had this? And who “unsealed” it?
More media cr@p for the one.
Wake me up when they go after Bill Ayers and Rashid Khalidi.
Let’s roll.
ex-Democrat on October 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM
Yawn. Two young guys talking crap with no overt act. Sounds like they just picked them up for threats to candidate.
Blake on October 27, 2008 at 5:20 PM
This kind of thing only helps Barack Obama politically. But of course it would be awful if anyone carried out something like this. I don’t like Obama and I will not vote for him, but this sort of thing is just barbaric.
Terrye on October 27, 2008 at 5:22 PM
Tru dat, playa. Here’s a little reminder of what Barry has said in the past. He milked this (and is still milking it) for a good long while.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:23 PM
I think calling it a “race” for the Presidency is racist!
Big John on October 27, 2008 at 5:23 PM
Wow. This gives the news an excuse not to cover the “redistribution” interview. Damn.
marklmail on October 27, 2008 at 5:23 PM
So these ATF files were unsealed today, but we can’t get Teh One’s birth certificate unsealed?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:24 PM
If only they’d planned on bombing the Pentagon, they could have lucrative tenures as university professors ahead of them. That being said, I hope they rot in jail for many decades.
trubble on October 27, 2008 at 5:25 PM
As I read comments from decent people on this subject, I can imagine what the KOS idiots would be saying if the plot was to be against McCain. I’d bet they’d all be saying things like too bad they broke up the plot.
This is what separates conservatives from the lunatics on the left.
orlandocajun on October 27, 2008 at 5:25 PM
I’m sure this was tossed out to deflect all the other crap raining down on that socialist tool. I’m also sure that the MSM will praise his bravery for carrying on his just fight.
Gag me.
anniekc on October 27, 2008 at 5:25 PM
When I posted Dick Cheney’s email address earlier for us to write and ask him to take a time out from hunting and shooting friends to request Barack Obama’s Hawaiian birth certificate (due to them being related), I didn’t expect him to take all his friends… just sayin’…
NightmareOnKStreet on October 27, 2008 at 5:26 PM
Remember what the douchebags at Kos, DU and other libtard sites said when the base in Afghanistan was attacked during Cheney’s visit?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:26 PM
This morning, ABC News was on some story that brought up “memories” of “the dragging death of James Byrd”.
Now, these people are despicable and should pay whatever price we can slap on them if they’ve done what they’re accused of doing – but we are going to see an all-out blitz of racial stuff by the media.
Meanwhile, the lefties sport a guillotine and hang an effigy of Sarah Palin from a noose on a tree, and it’s just no big deal.
capitalist piglet on October 27, 2008 at 5:26 PM
I wonder if they used the Patriot Act to bust them?
Buy Danish on October 27, 2008 at 5:27 PM
Had they been muslims not skinheads you would not take this so lightly. Two years ago here in Virginia a bunch of muslims were sentenced to long terms in jails for shooting paintballs and planning to go to Kashmir to fight the Indians.
factoid on October 27, 2008 at 5:28 PM
When did this thing actually happen? Was this conveniently made public today, by an Obama-sympathetic judge? When did they get these guys?
capitalist piglet on October 27, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the dems who refuse to vote for Uuuuuuhbama.
thekingtut on October 27, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Oh, I don’t know. I think I’d kinda like to bounce one of those red balls from gym class off his noggin. Hope the Feds don’t pick up on this. /sarc
Big John on October 27, 2008 at 5:29 PM
I wasn’t into blogs then. Care to enlighten me?
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:29 PM
Call me cynical but I think that the same people who dismissed the plot to destroy the Sears Tower and defended the accused as being entrapped, or that this did not constitute a threat because they couldn’t carry any of it out .. will be the same people to point to this as evidence that America is dangerous, that Obama was a moment’s away from harm and that this is evidence of a systemic threat to all black people from all white people.
Let’s see if I’m right.
wise_man on October 27, 2008 at 5:30 PM
Right.
A couple of bonehead racists talking shit at the tavern, and they’re so stupid that ATF can catch them. This is the same DoJ that couldn’t be bothered with a Mohammed Atta who threatened to decapitate a Federal government lender because she wouldn’t finance a crop dusting plane for him.
The same DoJ that couldn’t find Nancy Boy Ayers, and then decided it couldn’t prosecute him, but apparently never considered just shooting him.
Screw this nonsense story.
Jaibones on October 27, 2008 at 5:30 PM
I would give more serious attention to this if it were coming from the Secret Service. ATF? Not so much.
Fletch54 on October 27, 2008 at 5:31 PM
We may hear another DNC radio ad along the lines of ‘when I heard that Bush didn’t support hate crimes legislation, it was like he was lynched/dragged to death all over again’ – but re-tooled for this now to take best political advantage out of this and blame McCain/Palin.
wise_man on October 27, 2008 at 5:33 PM
Cheney Background.
Douchebaggery at Kos.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:33 PM
According to the Hartford Courant, these guys are really stupid.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:34 PM
Fun stuff.
I hate the Kos.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Add more to the White Guilt vote…
pherrman on October 27, 2008 at 5:36 PM
And just ask Jessica Savage when you say words that Dear Leader (or his minions) don’t like.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:36 PM
heh
JetBoy on October 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM
I’m still not voting for Obamessiah. Yep. I’m just that stupid.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:37 PM
Hmmmmmm……I wonder what the sermon will be this Sunday at TUCC?
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:39 PM
Somehow…….I feel like this is all my fault.
How`d that happen?!
ThePrez on October 27, 2008 at 5:40 PM
Goodie, the media has an excuse to not report on Obama’s massive campaign fraud, or his saluting a PLO frontman, or his love of redistribution. They’ll put this front and center ’til his infomercial.
awesome
Theworldisnotenough on October 27, 2008 at 5:40 PM
What compete, utter morons — the only surprise is that these pieces of human refuse are smart enough to take their next breath. After all, who would ever suspect a white supremacist of formulating a plan to kill the first black man to be nominated by a major party for the office of POTUS? Anyone emitting even the slightest whiff of race based hate is almost certainly already under surveillance.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on October 27, 2008 at 5:41 PM
All I really need to know I learned in
KindergartenGTA.Don’t run over a cop, even by accident, it’ll still get you stars. You can’t take down a helicopter with a pistol, and standing in front of a tank will always get you killed. Prostitutes will restore your health after you’ve been shot. And never, never try to steal from a gun store. They’ll kill you before you can even pull out your gun.
Esthier on October 27, 2008 at 5:42 PM
Eight days… c’mon, just eight more days… Am I wrong for wanting this overwith?
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:43 PM
Those PUMAs are a passionate bunch. Save it for the voting booth, kids.
Ronnie on October 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM
Big deal. So what? Who cares?
HornetSting on October 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM
LMAO
I actually have a shirt that says on the front “All I ever needed to know I learned from video games” and on the back a laundry list of stuff. One of my favorites for non-work days. :)
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM
‘cauz u R a stoooopidd raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaacist.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on October 27, 2008 at 5:44 PM
No, I just want the demise of my beloved Repbulic to be over with as quickly as possible.
ThePrez on October 27, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Any room in the attic, I wanna get away too.
HornetSting on October 27, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Yeah, me neither.
My collie says:
CyberCipher on October 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I call bullshit on this one. They’ve doctored their diary already. Jay Leno says another vice president is a hunter back on Feb 28, 2007 at 02:00:27 AM PDT? Looks like the douchebag forgot to turn off his tagline.
Big John on October 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM
ThePrez on October 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Nope…can’t hurry this along fast enough.
*drinks…heavily*
Wyznowski on October 27, 2008 at 5:46 PM
Guess that makes two of us, Collie.
Yes, but it’s BYOG (Bring Your Own Gun).
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:47 PM
Oh, yeah, these guys were the real deal. Writing racial epithets and swastikas on the outside of their car and driving around town clearly demonstrated the kind of pathological, stealthy threat that everyone should take seriously.
Clearly the KKK is back.
WTF.
Jaibones on October 27, 2008 at 5:48 PM
I’ll bring three and a moonbat fried in garlic butter sauce.
HornetSting on October 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM
I think Kos has a signature application, and the signatures in old posts update when the users change them.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM
It is very convenient, isn’t it?
Is it OK if I question the timing?
LegendHasIt on October 27, 2008 at 5:49 PM
Just wait til Obama and the Lib Super Majority start to dismantle the Constitution. You`ll have every back-woods militia locking and loading for battle.
ThePrez on October 27, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Sold, I’ll even waive first month’s rent.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:50 PM
Sure, but I personally wouldn’t.
Anyone who wants Obama dead would need to act soon, and time is running out.
Esthier on October 27, 2008 at 5:51 PM
Don’t get me wrong – on the rare occasion that DoJ catches outlaws threatening normal humans for any reason, I do a little dance in my mind. It strikes me as exceedingly rare and almost random.
As for the real threat against HRH The One, I call BS. Still, glad the nutboys are disarmed.
Jaibones on October 27, 2008 at 5:52 PM
**sigh…..**
Bradky on October 27, 2008 at 5:53 PM
What?
ThePrez on October 27, 2008 at 5:55 PM
You seem to relish the thought of this kind of scenario. Exactly how will the constitution be dismantled?
Bradky on October 27, 2008 at 5:58 PM
You just watch, the MSM will spend the next week totally focused on this and the Senator Stevens guilty verdict and try to completely ignore and drown out the 2001 Obama wealth redistribution storey.
Dreadnought223 on October 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM
I think Prez is in full doom-and-gloom mode.
*eats*
Grue in the Attic on October 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM
Leftest Supreme Court Justices that legislate from the bench and don’t interpret the constitution.
HornetSting on October 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM
These scum deserve to spend a long time behind bars. We use the ballot box not an ammo box.
rbj on October 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM
I did not get a chance to read all the comments, more scum off of the streets. I was more worried about these idiots going into schools and creating some havoc.
Conagher on October 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM
Thank you.
And no relishing, I assure you.
ThePrez on October 27, 2008 at 6:00 PM
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