President Obama faces an increase of 400% in death threats a day

[meegbear]

As the mounting weirdness that is emanating from right wingers continues to flow, an increasing amount of death threats follow.

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.

Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee late last year to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.

Most, however, are kept under wraps because the Secret Service fears that revealing details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts. Although most threats are not credible, each one has to be investigated meticulously.

According to the book, intelligence officials received information that people associated with the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab might try to disrupt Mr Obama's inauguration in January, when the Secret Service co-ordinated at least 40,000 agents and officers from some 94 police, military and security agencies.

Being black has definitely increased the number of nut jobs on the prowl, but because he's in the Democratic party that number is much higher. And it's only going to get worse from here. The violent rhetoric from talk radio and FOX News continues to throw gasoline on the fire. Remember Dr. Tiller?

http://crooksandliars.com/john-amato/president-obama-faces-increase-400-deat

[TexasObserver]

1. The GOP nut job base is dangerous.

[xultar]

2. They willl not be satisfied until they kill him. Then Rush, Beck, and all the other idiots

will say that they didn't have anything to do with it.

Black folk in this country will go fucking medieval on repug asses if anything happens to Obama. You can bet if they kill Obama it will be the beginning of the end for the USA.

[Voltaire]

3. Which will be the other shoe dropping

These radio bastards and their bankers are funding these birther nuts and idiots at the town hall meetings to create an environment where its okay to kill the president because, after all, he ain't even an American! Then when that happens, the minorities and progressives who vote him in get angry and move against the well-armed and painfully stupid conserva-jerks. Its the RAHOWA those assholes have been praying for for YEARS!

Laughing at the bastards is not an option.