Posted on 08/26/2008 1:24:12 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Obama assassination plot fears as armed men arrested
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US police are investigating whether they have foiled an assassination plot against Barack Obama after four people were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver in the possession of high powered rifles.
One of the suspects told police they were "going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle ... sighted at 750 yards," Denver television station CDS4 is reporting. Police have told the television station that one of the suspects "was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama. He responded in the affirmative."
The suspects were arrested on Sunday when local police arrested a man, identified by the television station as Tharin Gartrell, 28, who was driving a rented pickup truck erratically. CDS4 is reprrting that in his truck police found two high powered rifles with telescopic sites, as well as camouflage clothing, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, a high powered spotting scope, licences in the names of various people, and the drug methamphetamine. One of the rifles is listed as stolen from Kansas.
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Some losers from the Nazi groups are going to give Obama a few percentage points in the polls over this stupid little stunt.
And you know Obama is going to play the Victim Card now that he has overplayed the Race Card.
Expect this to be in the headlines for at least 2-3 weeks.
Now Obama can (like Hillary) claim to have dodged sniper fire.
BZZZZT! : Registered Democrat!
He will play this incident all the way to November now.
Watch for his numerous references to Dr. King, and the media will exaggerate everything.
White American males are the unjustifiably hated people in the Republic.
Obama will make things even worse now that this stupid stunt has been uncovered.
Probably a semiauto. Meth heads can’t rack a bolt and keep their pipe lit at the same time.
what if they miss and hit hilary instead.
I don’t believe this.
If Tharin Gartrell, 28 ever existed. May be a plot alright. To gain a few points and keep the voters in line. I wouldn’t put anything past this bunch.
Wonder who was bankrolling them? Remember, the KKK started out as the military arm of the Democrat party.
A tweaker is going to fire for effect at 750 yards?
Oh my! LOL
That’s funny.
Agree LOL they have a better chance of hitting their halucinations.
hillary needs to pick better hitmen
*edit* I am not wanting barak shot, I just think hillary is behind it. before someone gets sand in their neither regions. I want him fairly beaten by pawpaw
Yup. If this isn't an 'evil bitter hick' setup, there never was one.
But it ain't the 'perfect country song', folks, there is no mention of a Bible...
Yeh...The guy just blurted out that he was going to kill Obama at 750 yards. I got this bridge for sale...
As some have pointed out, they had meth along too.
Another thread implies they are tied in with the Sons of Silence Motorcycle Club, which adds even more ‘evildoer’ to the average psyche, as well as makes every grandmother on a Honda fair game for limolibs in SUVs...
Not only references to Dr. King, but JFK as well.
Can you imagine what will happen to the street names in this country if Obama is assasinated?
Earlier this year a British female writer made a prediction that if Obama is elected, he will be assasinated.
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