'a “domestic enemy” he planned to eliminate last winter: President Obama'

[spanone]

Officials Saw Spike in Threats on Obama Early

WASHINGTON — The young Marine’s rogue mission, laid out with maps and photographs, was as straightforward as it was chilling. He called it Operation Patriot.

The Marine, Kody Brittingham, a 20-year-old lance corporal, wrote that he had taken an oath to “protect against all enemies, both foreign and domestic.” In a signed “letter of intent,” tucked away in his barracks at Camp Lejeune, he identified a “domestic enemy” he planned to eliminate last winter: President Obama.

The details of this threat, which were revealed at his arraignment hearing in North Carolina, have not previously been reported. Mr. Brittingham pleaded guilty in August and awaits sentencing on charges of threatening to kill the president and attempted armed robbery.

It is one of the cases in a spike of threats against Mr. Obama before his inauguration and in the early months of his presidency, raising deep concerns inside the Secret Service and at the White House.

The threats have leveled off in recent months, officials said, and Mr. Obama now receives about the same as his two most recent predecessors. But several officials said they took no solace that the volume of reports had receded because it was the nature of the threats that concern them and because the factors behind the increase remain — Mr. Obama’s race prime among them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/us/06threat.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[Renew Deal]

1. DHS: Rightwing Extremism: Current Economy and Political Climate Fuel Radicalization & Recruitment

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6283951

[havocmom]

2. Are RW hate talk jocks like Rush still broadcast on Armed Forces Radio? Anybody know?

Cuz until that broadcast platform gets legal with the No Political part of their job (Hatch Act, I believe) we will be having too many Tim McVeigh wannabees thinking violence is the way to immortality. There are already enough RWingers and impressionable, but slightly naive, lambs looking for a shepherd in the military.

[14thColony]

4. Yes, Rush is still on AFN Radio

And Fox is a staple on AFN Television.

[havocmom]

5. Thanks for confirmation.

Folks, we gotta change this part of the machine. It will only get worse otherwise.

[alp227]

3. I can't believe how much radical right-wing loonacy has risen since Obama won

When Bush won, progressives applied their First Amendment skills wisely, not by using violent rhetoric but rather fact-based criticisms and actual campaigning work. When has a prominent liberal ever called on a coup or violence against the Reagan or GW Bush administrations? Correct me if I will, but isn't it "liberal bias" for the NY Times not to profile anyone with Brittingham's mentality, only replacing "Obama" with "George W. Bush" in target? (edited for grammar)

In fact, folks like Rush Limbaugh and Jim Robinson have called on coups/military action against Obama. That kind of speech can get you in legal trouble.