Plot to kill Barack Obama: Three 'white supremacists' arrested

The Telegraph ^ | August 26, 2008 | Toby Harnden

[Schnucki]

Three men with suspected links to white supremacist groups are in custody in Denver after being arrested with rifles and a telescopic sight amid fears of a plot to assassinate Barack Obama, the Democratic presidential candidate.

Mr Obama is due to become the first black candidate to accept the nomination of a major political party on Thursday, the final day of the Democratic Convention, at Invesco Field, an open air stadium that holds some 75,000 people.

CBS4, a Denver radio station, reported that one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle ... sighted at 750 yards". When one of the suspects "was directly asked if they had come to Denver to kill Obama", a CBS4 source said, “he responded in the affirmative".

Fox News reported that the three men might have links to Sons of Silence, an outlaw motorcycle group, and white supremacists.

Authorities said that the three people has been arrested on firearms and drug charges.

Two rifles, one with a telescopic sight, walkie-talkies, a bulletproof vest, licenses in the names of other people and methamphetamine were found in a truck that was stopped on Sunday morning. One of the rifles was listed as stolen from Kansas.

Tharin Gartrell, 28, was in the rented pick-up truck when he was pulled over in Aurora, a Denver suburb, for driving in an erratic manner.

Police then went to the Cherry Creek Hotel in Denver, about four miles from Invesco Field, to pursue Shawn Robert Adolph, 33, who was already wanted on numerous warrants.

Adolph jumped out of a sixth floor hotel window, breaking an ankle, and was arrested. Police sources said he was wearing a swastika and is suspected of having ties to white supremacist organisations.

[exile]

Hitlery’s a white supremacist now?

[cripplecreek]

Adolph?

Why do I suspect that’s an alias?

[airborne]

"Hold my beer meth!" alert!

[longfellow]

Police sources said he was wearing a swastika ———

and nothing else?

[School of Rational Thought]

Is this what it is going to be all week? Someone arrested with gun - OMG they’re going to kill Obama?

Speculative propaganda.

[Bernard]

Unless you are using one of those "Yosemite Sam Go-Around-The-Corner" bullets, if you are 750 yards away from the speaker podium in Invesco Field with a clear line of sight, you would be directly in the flight path of most UFO's.

Sounds about right for a meth user.

[Hardastarboard]

one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using a ... rifle ... sighted at 750 yards".

Either the reporter or the "perpetrator" or both are stupid. Even Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't make that shot.

[Ronin]

I suppose there are still a few of those inbred cretins roaming around the cornfields, but Lordy...

Barack is in more danger of slipping in the shower than he is from those idiots.

I still find it a bit odd, however. I mean, doesn’t it seem just a little to convenient that a something like this would happen to remind everyone that their are evil nasty racists out there?

[theDentist]

Speculative propaganda.

Yup. 'cept for that whole admitting that was the plot part.

[Malsua]

Either the reporter or the "perpetrator" or both are stupid. Even Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't make that shot. Not saying this nutcase could make the shot, but a trained sniper with the proper caliber weapon, properly sighted in low wind could make the shot.

[Travis McGee]

The open air stadium venue is what stands out to me. They don't need to hit BHO. A packed stadium itself makes an effective (and easy) target.

That's the opening of my first novel.

[Travis McGee]

Or, you are just aiming at an upper deck packed with BHO supporters, with the intention of causing a panic stampede and resultant national anger and chaos.

Any moron can hit an upper deck that is 100 yards wide.

[Jim Noble]

Plot to kill Barack Obama: Three 'white supremacists' arrested

Do any of them have ties to Arkansas?

[LibLieSlayer]

Hired by satan’s son for sympathy... lies and lies and lies. I think that these guys have been out of work since Hee Haw went off the air.

LLS

[L,TOWM]

Adolph jumped out of a sixth floor hotel window, breaking an ankle

I figure that has to be a missprint or Mr. Shickelgruber (according to the State of NABRASKA license he was carrying) is one tough idiot.

[Liberty2007]

third article now.

[Malsua]

Any moron can hit an upper deck that is 100 yards wide./i>

True, but you don't need a scope for that.

Makes one wonder if he isn't a leftie patsie.

[steve-b]

Thanks. Now I need to soak my brain in acid.

[Soliton]

Do any of them have ties to Arkansas?

No, the two Rodham boys are from Chicago.