Posted on 10/18/2009 7:53:10 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
WASHINGTON - The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service, according to government officials and reports, raising new questions about the 144-year-old agencys overall mission.
The Secret Service is tracking a far broader range of possible threats to the nations leaders, the officials said, even as it also investigates financial crimes such as counterfeiting as part of its original mandate.
The new demands are leading some officials, both inside and outside the agency, to raise the possibility of the service curtailing or dropping its role in fighting financial crime to focus more on protecting leaders and their families from assassination attempts and thwarting terrorist plots aimed at high-profile events.
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Who are these “nations leaders” they speak of? Do they mean O and Michelle? SS doesn’t protect anyone else, does it?
This needs to be part of a FreeRepublic FAQ or something. It is very true.
Also, the person begging you to saw off your shotgun so that it has a 17 5/6ths inch-long barrel, and making statements about "racial purity" is probably cashing checks from Uncle Slaver. Paging Randy Weaver...
As the road to communism increases and the middle class is reduced to poor and the poor get all the King Obama freebies, the end of Washington will happen.
Maybe the secret service should examine who it is that they are trying to protect! Are they not sworn to uphold the constitution and protect it from all enemies forein and domestic?? Seems to me the thugs in office threaten this country more than we the people!!!
Yes, they should have BHO under indictment already for treason, rather than going after innocent Americans like Jerry Blanchard.
http://ronbosoldier.blogspot.com/2008/10/free-jerry-m-blanchard-from-ss.html
When did the SS start fighting financial crimes?
HINT: Look into Chicago politics.
If the SS is too busy right now to perform its actual mission, it is because they are investigating stupid things like the defacement of a golf course. Some idiot carved into the grass the statement ‘I (swastika) Obama’ and the news articles about the incident stated that the SS was called in to investigate. Really!? While the vandalism and the statement made are moronic, unless the SS is charged now with investigating thoughtcrime, then they should have had nothing to do with it.
The SS really, really, REALLY would have looked into Obama’s Chicago crimes....but they were too busy getting drunk in San Francisco and complaining about their overtime pay.
Where is the evidence that there is a RISE IN RACIST HATE GROUPS?
Well said, Jefferson was a genius. Just, honest, and forthright leaders who legislate in accordance with their Constitutional Oath would be revered and cheered by We the People.
Michelle Bachmann comes to mind. Where are the rest??
The Secret Service is failing to do its job by not Investigating this fraud Known as Barack Obama.They Know he is NOT a citizen of the United States,and even if they did Not know they have the capability to find out if he is truley an American citizen.
If the Secret Service refuses to do its damn job what do they expect the people of the United States to do?Allow our country to fall under a communist dictatorship without a shot being fired.I don’t think so.
If the Secret Service is reading this I hope they take my advice and wake up.
I don’t how the secret services mission can get any more broader than investigating written/verbal threats against hpresident. Infiltration or spying maybe.
I'm going to start a hate group specifically oriented toward hating these lying mealy mouthed liberal "Southerners". I want to throw things at my TV every time I see Morris Dees or Mark Potok.
How about "Rent?"
Gee, as hated as Bush was you’d think the SS would be used to this by now and totally prepared.
Oh that’s right I forgot. The peace-loving Left is incapable to harm, even the bugs flying thru the campfire
No thinking conservative wants Onada assassinated. That would make a martyr of him. So who is making the threats? I suspect it’s the left—kind of Hitler’s Bundestag fire ploy in reverse.
“for allegedly threatening to assassinate ...” Any more details? I do suspect that this admin is quite a bit more “sensitive” to threats given the lack of arrests during W’s admin including nationally released movies depicting his assassination not to mention the many “protest” signs I’ve seen calling for his death ...
TH54
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