Home
No charges for Obama assassination plotters
Buffalo News.Net Thursday 28th August, 2008
Three white supremacists with a sniper rifle and high on drugs who were arrested near the Democratic convention in Denver will not face charges even though officials believe that they wanted to assassinate Barack Obama.
The FBI and the US Secret Service have said they carried out an intensive investigation into the plot, in which the supremacists talked of shooting Obama as he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in an open-air sports stadium on Thursday night, but found insufficient evidence of a true threat.
One of the suspects, Shawn Adolph, 33, was connected to a high-velocity Ruger sniper rifle seized during a series of early morning arrests on Monday and had made clear threats and racial slurs against Obama, Troy Eid, Denver's US district attorney said.
Eid said: "It is a serious federal crime to make a threat against a presidential candidate."
The three men, Adolph, his cousin Tharin Gartrell, 28, and Nathan Johnson, 32, have long criminal records for illegal gun possession, drug dealing and theft.
There were multiple outstanding warrants for their arrest and all three are still being held on drug and firearms charges.
Obama, who was given Secret Service protection earlier than any other presidential candidate, has played down fears about his safety.
Yet a poll released in Michigan found that 57 per cent of respondents agreed "there are people who want to hurt Barack Obama because of his race".
He travels with a retinue of six Secret Service agents at all times. Security in Denver is intense, with nearly 1,500 police officers from across Colorado brought into supplement those from the city, as well as the Secret Service, the US Capitol Police and the National Guard.
Email this story to a friend
Comments on this story
us_soldier_for_hillary 08-28-08, 08:20 AM |
No charges for Obama assassination plotters
I oppose any charges against them. They don’t like him so they did what they had to. I thought America was a free nation? Why can’t they assasinate him? America isn’t free. We are fighting for nothing. Freedom with rules? That is not freedom!!!
They should be able to assasinate who ever they want if America gives its citizens freedom. Especially Obama. TERRORIST!!!
|
Baffled 08-28-08, 07:56 PM |
i’m baffled more by the comments on this page, then the news article before it, and that alone is somewhat uncomforting. freedom is about the access to your rights. the most fundamental being, the right to life. He’s running for election, for a job, and not an easy one at that. I’m sick of the celebrity fashion of US elections. I think it all needs to be taken a lot more seriously, the election and its future assassinators! Please respond and let me know what you think...
|
FreeMind 08-28-08, 07:59 PM |
Go Obama
In response to “us_soldier_for_hillary”'s comment, yeah it would be fine to do so, IF the reason was to help America, for example, if you dont like his policies, NOT just because he’s not white!
By the way Hillary isnt running anymore so get over it.
The fact your a US soldier says it all, your fighting for a country with NO cause!!!
|
soldier's wife 08-28-08, 11:28 PM |
sad little person
Re; us soldier for hillary. How sad a person you must be for such ignorant statements. My husband serves in Iraq as we speak yet to hear a soldier say freedom gives someone a right to kill makes one wonder when was your last mental evaluation? My family’s sacrifice is for all America to coincide as one. Ignorance + gun = liabilty to humanity. Education goes a long way. Who’s really the terrorist?
|
Lovepowerman 08-28-08, 09:28 AM |
Gross Wickedness-a-Call for Repentance
Hatred,Discrimination on gender,race and so on ,Murder,Violence and Oppression are all INHUMAN ACTS of barbarism initiated and orchestreted by Satan and his human-being as well as spiritual agents.Such acts and actors are Hell-bound Now or Later. People are ALL EQUAL on earth and any Human Race must be FREE to act responsibly relative to the other in U.S.A or AFRICA or ASIA or EUROPE etc
|
Anonymous 08-28-08, 12:46 PM |
A "little education" could go a long way.
Freedom is not “free”.
Murder is illegal.
Any questions?
|
;) Midnight 08-28-08, 07:23 PM |
Suck it up Obama.
|
Anonymous 08-28-08, 08:02 PM |
KGB INFLUENCE ??
Looks like SKINHEAD PUTIN INFLUENCE in THE
USA is the Same as in Mosocw and ST. Petersburg ? Russian People of Color are
Murdered in Russia All THE TIME by PUTIN’s YOUTH/ SKINHEADS !!
|
waltky 08-29-08, 02:55 AM |
Doubt if they could’ve hit him even with a scope, standin' right next to Obama...
:p
The Paranoia and Psychosis of Meth
August 28, 2008 - Medical Experts Say the Supposed Admissions of an Obama Assassination Plot Fits Behavior Pattern of Users
]
One of the men investigated for allegedly threatening presidential candidate Barack Obama’s life while on a methamphetamine binge, is scheduled to appear in federal court this afternoon on a charge of possessing the narcotic. Tharin Robert Gartrell is currently in custody, along with two other men who face meth-related and illegal possession of firearms charges. The arrest of the three men has focused renewed attention on the paranoia and psychosis that go along with abuse of the drug which is widely used across the country. Medical experts say their supposed admissions about an assassination plot fit into the expected pattern of erratic behavior from meth users.
Gartrell, Shawn Robert Adolf, and Nathan Johnson expressed strongly racist views and spoke about killing the Democratic presidential nominee while using meth, according to U.S. Atty. Troy Eid. The talk, Eid said, does not meet the legal standard for filing charges for threatening a presidential candidate. Doctors who study the effects of meth on the brain say the men would not likely have been able to carry out their alleged threats because meth make its user virtually incapable of completing any task besides getting more of the drug.
“There’s no way they could have gotten their act together to do anything because they are so paranoid, their thinking is so altered that they start things and they can’t finish them," said Dr. Richard Rawson, a professor at the UCLA School of Medicine who specializes in the study of methamphetamines and their affect on the brain. “But," he said, “It is scary to have the words methamphetamine, guns, and Democratic National Convention all in the same sentence." Rawson said the scales have tipped to where “hard core” addicts are using more and more meth while the number of new users is declining.
[url=http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Conventions/story?id=5668322&page=1: MORE[/url]
|
A Mad Ass Black Woman 10-27-08, 06:57 PM |
Kill yourself & Die Slow Cracker
This is to the us soldier for hillary & his wife: 1st off muthafucka aint nobody tell yo dumb ass to go to the fucking army and fight somebody elses battle...Instead of hatin on Obama you should be at home taking care of your slut ass wife and your retarded ass white cracker children they probaly got some abnormal heads like most white kids come out... I hope soon as your done reading this you step on a bomb and I hope your wife gets hit by a truck and hope your baby choke on and die off milk BIYACH!!! Holla @ Cha Girl O yea and remember to Die Slow
|
Wheres the intelligence?! 10-27-08, 07:14 PM |
HELLOOO!!!! You are fighting a battle thats not yours!!!!!
You are a disgrace to human race how dare you sit there and say “I oppose any charges” regardless of how you feel about black people thats your business Obama is still human. How bout i come an assassinate your mother?! Exactly you ignorant jerk! And you don’t have no rigts in the military. And i go scotch free BITCH!!!!! Now on an more intelligent level, Right is right and wrong is wrong. Mccain is going to die from a heart failure, Sarah Palin oh well she’ll be out in no time. With that being said have a nice Rotten Fuking life, You Poor thoughtless, worthless piece of shit!!!!!
|
Anonymous 10-27-08, 09:15 PM |
So how is your comment any better then the other idiots?
A Mad Ass Black Woman;111252: This is to the us soldier for hillary & his wife: 1st off muthafucka aint nobody tell yo dumb ass to go to the fucking army and fight somebody elses battle...Instead of hatin on Obama you should be at home taking care of your slut ass wife and your retarded ass white cracker children they probaly got some abnormal heads like most white kids come out... I hope soon as your done reading this you step on a bomb and I hope your wife gets hit by a truck and hope your baby choke on and die off milk BIYACH!!! Holla @ Cha Girl O yea and remember to Die Slow
Nice to see such racism coming out from a black female but of course we see such behavior all the time.
You unbottled the racist bs sooooooooOOOoooOOoOoOo.
Why bother worrying about being labeled a racist only white people are right = p
The odd shaped head of course is from having to go down a tight birth canal obviously if your is all stretched out from having five kids from five different fathers and your all of eighteen well hey you can accomdate a basketball that problem won’t exist. Are you also a slutty circus side show freak?
Now who were you calling a whore?
Nothing like ghetto trash giving their two cents.
Obama blows cow balls but no one should burn crosses in his front yard or give him a lead treat.
I love the fact someone has been calling George Bush Chimpy for years when BO get’s elected we can call him that as well.
Why not have a little fun!
[b]Aint politics grand!![/img]
|
US Soldier in Aghanistan 10-27-08, 09:58 PM |
My two cents...
I have a different perspective than most. Once you’ve exchanged fire with men who want you dead, the antics of a couple of pissants like these. They aren’t a threat to anyone. Don’t get me wrong, charge the hell out of them, stupidity should have consequences but don’t make such a big news story out of them. They aren’t worth the attention. If these people actually got organized and made a real attempt, they’d have the pleasure of dealing with the Secret Service. Those guys don’t play.
|
conservative mom 11-05-08, 04:15 AM |
dirty job
It’s a dirty job but someone has to do it. His politics are based on a lie, whatever you want to hear, he will say. Obama is a terrorist & time will tell you when it’s too late. America is in for big trouble ahead.
|
Have your say on this story
|
|