"Obama in Physical Danger from Crazy Rightwingers"

[RepublicanElephant]

Obama in Physical Danger from Crazy Rightwingers

“Since Mr. Obama took office, the rate of threats against the President has increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret Service,” reports the Telegraph of London.

Obama is facing more than 30 death threats a day, the paper said. And the Secret Service doesn’t have the resources to handle them all.

“We have half the agents we need,” one Secret Service member told Kessler.

Fueling the threats is a resurgent rightwing movement.

The Southern Poverty Law Center just released a study that says the militia movement is growing rapidly.

“All it lacks is a spark,” one ATF agent told the center, adding: “It’s only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."

The militia movement today is not exactly the same as the one that created Timothy McVeigh, however.

“A key difference this time,” says the Southern Poverty Law Center, “is that the federal government — the entity that almost the entire radical right views as its primary enemy — is headed by a black man.” This has “helped to racialize the Patriot movement.”
http://www.progressive.org/wx081209.html

"HALF THE AGENTS WE NEED"

this is deadly serious!

[BlooInBloo]

1. And Liberman oversees them. (shudders)

[Cha]

4. Well, Lieberman better get on

the stick then because we're watching him. Don't tell me he got caught with his pants down?

[TxRider]

2. So dip into the stimulus and create more SS jobs! N/T

[Cha]

3. Sounds like what the Economy needs

Right Now.

[PretzelWarrior]

10. a new cottage industry. dealling with the rise of the nutjobs.

they will march under the flag of Junior Sample

[theothersnippywshrub]

5. There was a "Death to Obama" sign at a townhall today.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6287438#6288493

[vaberella]

6. Are you fuckin' kidding? Motherfucker!!

I think this is the first time I might suggest that Black people leave the country if they want to live. These people are madmen and out of control. Shite!

On one level I'm used to this. On another level the stupidity these people exude to even have such a poster says so much about our country. They're proud of being racist. They're proud of hating people for no reason. That sort of pride...is fearful.


Edited to add more.

[theothersnippywshrub]

9. The party of Lincoln has become the party of John Wilkes Booth. n/t

[Fire1]

11. It depends on the city, I think. They wouldn't dream of going

to Detroit! It won't happen in Oakland County, either. Now, Macomb county, maybe.

[nc4bo]

7. ..

It feels like momentum is building. Too many hot emotional, willfully ignorant and hateful people creating lots of static electricity with the air full of gasoline fumes.

Or a pressure cooker with no relief valve. THAT's how it feels.

Something's been building since the primaries when the black guy started to win, more when he became 1 of 2 choices in the GE and even worse now that the black man has the reins (How DARE he?).

sigh.

[RepublicanElephant]

8. ed show reminding us that homeland security warned up about hate groups and militias, months ago.

and napolitano got a lot of flack about it.

[mnhtnbb]

12. The Telegraph of London--where are the US News outlets?