Florida Man Arrested After Threatening to Kill Obama

The Smoking Gun ^ | 8-07-2008

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AUGUST 7--A Florida man is facing federal charges for allegedly threatening the life of Senator Barack Obama. According to a criminal complaint, Raymond Geisel made the threats while attending a recent bail bondsman training course in Miami. During that course, Geisel allegedly told another attendee, "That nigger, if he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself."

Another attendee told investigators that Geisel, 22, also said that he wanted to put a bullet in President George W. Bush's head. Confronted by federal agents, Geisel denied threatening Obama, but said that if he wanted to kill the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee "he would simply shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking," according a U.S. District Court affidavit. A copy of that document, sworn out by Secret Service Agent Paul Adie, can be found below. Searches of Geisel's car and hotel room turned up a loaded 9mm handgun, military fatigue uniforms, a machete, armor-piercing bullets, body armor, batons, a stun gun, assorted knives, and tear gas canisters.

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Would have linked the AP story but ya know.....

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[John123]

Where is Hillary?

[Carley]

Don’t you just love the headline.

Fact is that the man threatened to kill O and President Bush.

The media is skewing the story big time.

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Yeah nevermind that whole sitting President thing...oh and ANOTHER HUMAN BEING.

Just keep the ball on Obama.

[Always Right]

Obviously, just threatening to kill Bush is justifiable, but what kind of deranged racist lunatic would threaten the Chosen One????

[FFranco]

Yeah, that’s the MSM. To them, President Bush is already a dead duck. They only care about the coming of the Messiah in the person of Barry Hussein Obama.

[Tzimisce]

Oh god, here it comes. The media is going to insinuate that everyone opposed to Obama is just like this guy...

[2ndDivisionVet]

I can just see the commercial now: “No, I’m no Lee Harvey Oswald, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night...”

[My Favorite Headache]

"Annnnnnnnnnnd it begins"

[FlingWingFlyer]

You know America is in trouble when it doesn’t matter when someone threatens the President of the United States but the “secret service” goes ape feces over someone threatening a “community organizer.” Must be one of those Rodney King things. It does piss me off though.

[the anti-liberal]

"That nigga, if he gets elected I'll assassinate him myself"

That's it? That's what this is based on? If we held that standard against all the threats against President Bush by BDSers over the years our prisons would be bursting at the seams.

[Sudetenland]

How is it that a Secret Service agent stationed in Fla. for 6 years doesn't know what is legal to own and what is illegal for a citizen to own?

That being said, the Secret Service has never had much of a sense of humor when it comes to making those kind of careless remarks, even in jest...kind of like joking about having a bomb when you are going through air port security...not very smart.

[GQuagmire]

*pppffffttttt* water all over monitor

[Alia]

"Geisel suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome."

From what? Living in Maine?

[TKDietz]

Personally, I think it ought not to be against the law to talk smack about presidential candidates. People say crap like this all the time and it doesn’t mean anything.