Looking at those three they probably had been up for a week on crack. I bet they talked about getting a job in the morning too!
Barack Obama Assassination Plot In Denver?
And the story breaks now?
Robert Byrd PUMAs.
I call BravoSierra on this one. Two deliverance-folk with a # like 102 and a James Patterson story line????
Puulllease!
I don’t believe it
Information the US Attorney’s Office in Western Tennessee
JACKSON, TN - Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tennessee and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Arkansas were charged in a federal Complaint, Friday, October 24, 2008 announced Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee, James Cavanaugh, Special Agent in Charge of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Richard Harlow, Special Agent in Charge of the United States Secret Service- Memphis Field Office and Troy Klyce, Sheriff of Crockett County. The Criminal Complaint charges Cowart and Schlesselman with the illegal Possession of a Sawed off Shotgun, Conspiracy to Rob a Federal Firearms Licensee, and Making Threats Against a Major Candidate for the Office of President.
“The allegations set forth in this Criminal Complaint are serious and will be treated as such, “ said Lawrence J. Laurenzi, Acting United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee. “ The public can rest assured that federal, state, and local law enforcement are diligently working together to investigate and prosecute the alleged activity.”
According to the Complaint, approximately one month ago, Cowart and Schlesselman met via the internet through a mutual friend and both claim to have very strong beliefs regarding “White Power” and “Skinhead” philosophy. Cowart and Schlesselman began discussing going on a “killing spree”. The Complaint further alleges that Cowart and Schlesselman discussed robbing a gun shop (Federal Firearms Licensee) in order to gather weapons and ammunition. The Complaint notes the defendants were in possession of a sawed off shotgun.
On October 20, 2008, Cowart allegedly traveled from Tennessee to Arkansas to pick up Schlesselman in order to carry out their plan. The Complaint states that at this time, the defendants further discussed their killing spree to include targeting a predominately African American School and to continue their spree until their final act of violence which would be to attempt to assassinate Presidential Candidate Barack Obama. “The United States Secret Service takes all threats against Presidential Candidates seriously and is actively investigating the allegations,” said Richard Harlow, Special Agent in Charge of the Secret Service-Memphis Field Office. “The Secret Service does not comment on this type of investigation.”
The Complaint further notes that the defendants stated that they would be willing to die during this attempt. According to the Complaint, after soliciting a friend, to drive their car, between 11:00pm on October 21, 2008 and 2:00am on October 22, 2008, the defendants made plans to rob a house but were diverted when they arrived and observed a dog and two cars at the location. Cowart and Schlesselman then dropped Stafford back off at her residence and then went to a local retail store and allegedly purchased nylon rope and two ski masks.
“It is critical that the alleged plot was interrupted,” said James Cavanaugh, Special Agent in Charge of ATF. “We give credit to the Deputies of Crockett and Haywood Counties. All forces of law enforcement have come together to stop this threat.”
The Defendants were arrested on October 22, 2008 by the Crockett County Sheriff’s Office. “Once we arrested the defendants and suspected they had violated federal law, we immediately contacted federal authorities, “ said Sheriff Troy Klyce of Crockett County. “The Sheriff’s Department is committed to keeping Crockett County a safe place for our all of citizens.”
Cowart and Schlesselman had their Initial Appearances in Federal Court today and are scheduled to be back in court for a Detention Hearing on October 30, 2008 in Memphis, Tennessee.
This case is being investigated by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives- Memphis Office, the United States Secret Service-Memphis Field Office, with the assistance of the Crockett County Sheriff’s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
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Those evil Whitey’s are trying to kill Obama!
This was about the time in 2000 when the NACCP rolled out the James Byrd case (TX hate crime case) as a scare tactic to increase black turnout. They'll be hitting the black churches on Sunday.
IMO, this is a sign that their early voting advantage is below expectations. Gotta scare up more folks to vote.
BTW, when was the last time we heard about one of the numerous plots against GWB?
just looking for more sympathy
There shouldn’t be a FReeper here who believes in political assassinations. If there was a serious plot to assassinate him, I’m glad the planners were caught. I would hope such people would get life in prison.
That doesn’t make me want to throw my support behind Obama.
This event doesn’t pass by without my wondering what the timing of the arrests, timing of this press release, and why it just happens to be about one week away from the election.
Is there some sort of manipulation going on here. If this was a plot from months agao, I’m going to have to admit to wondering why this topic needed to be broached now. After months, why now? Is this just the press that has demonstration an almost fanatical devotion to Obama, exerting it’s last ounce of energy to get him elected?
It certain seems a valid premise to me.
Plot to Assassinate Obama Thwarted
Yes. In August 1961, his mother chose to give birth.
I vote that we give NOBAMA the sympathy vote, but here’s how I think it should be done...
We wouldn’t want anything bad to happen to him, so it’s BEST we vote for McCain/Palin to keep NOBAMA safe! Yes, I’m for that!
I’ll call horseshit before wading thru any of the responses.
Wasn’t there a tweaker plot around the time of the Dem Convention, that ended with all parties set free with no assassination plot charges?
Sounds similar to this, and how conveniently timed to displace the tapes that just surfaced about our fundamentally flawed constitution!
I don’t buy it. A plot to kill the Dem Nominee and kill other African Americans in a giant show of racist brutality...
To me it smells like the Axelrod playing the race card again.
The timing of the announcement is equally suspect.
Someone needed to bury wealth redistribution and news reporter banning negatives?
I wonder what the homosexual community thinks?
Has the illegal alien community offered a statement?
How about the African American community?
I wonder of the Asian community takes this seriously?
Has the Arab community been notified?
Anybody else thinking...since when does ATF take the point on assassination plots? And mass murder? FBI? Homeland Security? Secret Service? I can believe any of those...but ATF?? Has your BS detector gone off yet? Mine has.
Why are we getting leaks from an unidentified ATF agent on a plot where the “skinheads” are unidentified even though they have been arrested and the number of victims keeps changing by the minute. This whole thing stinks!!
These arrests were made a while back. They had really done nothing but talk tough like the drug addled idiots they are...