Inside the world of Obama's secret-service bodyguards

Guardian UK ^ | March 8, 2010 | Ed Pilkington

[NoExpectations]

Protecting the US president has presented the secret service with the greatest challenge in its history. But who wants to kill him? And how likely are they to succeed?The Southern Poverty Law Center began life in 1971 as a tiny law firm specialising in civil rights cases. It took on the might of the Ku Klux Klan, and was duly rewarded by having its offices razed and its senior lawyers targeted for assassination. But it kept on going and grew to be one of the most respected monitoring groups of rightwing extremism in America today.

Recently it brought out a report called Terror From the Right, which identifies, in chronological order, the serious home-grown plots, conspiracies and racist rampages that have been cooked up in America since the Oklahoma City bomb in 1995. The list runs to 10 pages of closely printed type and itemises 75 domestic terrorism events, from plans to bomb government buildings to attempts to kill judges and politicians.

Each of the incidents aimed to change the political face of America through violence, courtesy of groups with such titles as Aryan People's Republic, The New Order and The Hated. But in the summer of 2008 the chronology takes on a sharp change of tack. Entries, which had been running at one or two per year, start coming faster. And instead of a variety of different targets, one name crops up time and time again: Barack Obama.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Got that right. Now there’s the Dan Rather problem.

[Fitting to repost here I suppose ....]

I heard Dan Rather saying this on Rush:

Dan Rather: Obama couldn’t sell watermelons - Baltimore Sun talk forum
http://talk.baltimoresun.com/showthread.php?t=240508

[Impy]

Indeed. They are nothing more than an organ or part of the rat party. A tail perhaps. A tail that gets feces stuck in it.