Source: The Southern Poverty Law Center
Nazi-KKK Threats Against Obama (44) Growing as Inauguration Nears
With the Tuesday inauguration of Barack Obama drawing nearer by the hour,
threats against the first black man to be elected U.S. president are growing
more heated.
On Friday, neo-Nazi threatmeister Hal
Turner, amplifying on an earlier posting suggesting that it would be a good
thing to use an unmanned drone carrying explosives to attack inaugural crowds,
said a mass murder of those attending the festivities “would be a public
service.” “I won’t say what may happen Tuesday but I will say this,” Turner
wrote on his blog. “After Tuesday, the name Hal Turner may live in infamy. Let
it be known that I saw what was necessary and decided to do what had to be done.
I make no apology to those affected or their families.”
Earlier, on Jan. 11, Turner had
posted photos to his blog, under the headline “My Inauguration Dream,” of a
small, unmanned aerial drone, an electronic guidance system and sticks of
dynamite as he laid out one method of attack. He also discussed the possibility
of sending up balloons filled with helium and a “payload” and fitted with fuses
that would explode the balloons over the crowds. And he displayed a grainy video
that purported to show that method being tested. “Too far fetched?” Turner asks
of a possible balloon attack. “It got tested and it worked! … Watch the video
and imagine what payload, other than the index cards taped to the outside of the
test balloons, might be substituted? HMMMMMM. Might be something messy?
Something contagious? Something deadly? Ahhhh, such possibilities!” Then, last
Thursday, he posted an update, saying: “All the assets that need to be in-place
for next week are now in-place; deep within the security perimeter. Everything
is a ‘go.’ We have crossed the Rubicon; let history judge us well.”
Turner, a North Bergen, N.J., man who
in years past has been paid as an FBI informant even while making threats over
the Internet (a relationship that ended after it was revealed on this blog and
harshly criticized by law enforcement experts), said the attacks were deserved
because of a whole series of government misdeeds. He added that it would be “a
public service” to kill African Americans (“sub-human simians”) and white people
(“mentally-ill Whites”) who attend the festivities. “Wouldn’t it be a great day
for American and the world to see our federal government dealt with in such a
fashion?” Turner asked. “Stay tuned…..”
Also on Friday, federal authorities
arrested a Wisconsin man for threatening to assassinate Obama in a posting to an
Internet site about UFOs and extraterrestrial aliens. Steven Joseph Christopher,
42, was arrested in Brookhaven, Miss., because of a Jan. 11 posting that read:
“Yes, I have decided I will assassinate Barack Obama. It’s really nothing
personal about the man. … But I know it’s for the country’s own good that I can
do this. Barack Obama, I view more as a sacrificial lamb… .”
Christopher also allegedly posted a
note saying, “It’s not because I’m racist that I will kill Barack, it’s because
I can no longer allow the Jewish parasites to bully their way into making the
American people submit to their evil ways.” It wasn’t clear if Christopher had
real links to radical-right groups, but he has posted close to 70 YouTube
videos, many of them short rants like the one limited to a single sentence:
“Fuck you, Jew.” Many of them begin with the notation, “Jew Censor Alert.” One
says simply, “I’m going to fucking kill you.” And in still another, he showed
his familiarity with at least one figure well known on the radical right as he
launched into a bitter attack on Alex Jones, a conspiracist radio show host.
Christopher has also said that God is ordering “everyone” to move to Florida by
Dec. 31, a contention he repeated as he left a Jackson, Miss., courthouse in
handcuffs after an initial appearance.
In an unrelated case, state and
federal authorities announced the Friday arrests of three white men for
allegedly burning down a predominantly black church in Springfield, Mass., hours
after Obama’s election. The three — Benjamin Haskell, 22, Michael Jacques, 24,
and Thomas Gleason, 21 — were charged with conspiring to deprive the church
congregation of their civil rights. Macedonia Church of God in Christ’s almost
completed new building was set afire with gasoline before dawn on Nov. 5, just
hours after television stations called the election for Obama.
As the details of these cases
unfolded Friday, authorities in Washington, D.C., were clamping down security
for the inauguration to an unprecedented extent. No white supremacist groups are
known to be planning to come to the capital Tuesday, but one gay-bashing hate
group, the Westboro Baptist Church (known chiefly for its infamous website,
Godhatesfags.com, and rallies at soldiers’ funerals), is reportedly planning to
protest along the inaugural parade route. Another group, the National Knights of
the Ku Klux Klan, has asked its member to wear black armbands and hang “yankee
flags” upside down on Tuesday and Wednesday. But there was no indication that
the Indiana-based group had plans to travel to Washington.
Still, the chatter of Hal Turner’s
site was not reassuring, especially given the two alleged white supremacist
plots to kill Obama already broken up in Colorado and Tennessee. “Why talk about
it?” asked “Reck Less Abandon” in a comment after Turner’s post suggesting ways
of attacking the inaugural ceremonies. “JUST FUCKING DO IT.” Another poster, “PragmaticSaxon,”
proposed adding an explosive gas to “bubonic plague or anthrax” in the balloons:
“The exploding balloons will spread the pathogens and have massive effect on the
masses of useless feeders that put that fucking nigger in office,” he wrote.
Source:
The Southern Poverty Law Center