Patterson reports: "President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched Secret Service. He is the most threatened President in history."
President Obama is the target of more than 30 death threats a day. (photo: Peter Kramer/AP)
The Most Threatened President in History
27 November 12
SECRET SERVICE SAYS THE NUMBER OF THREATS AGAINST THE PRESIDENT IS OVERWHELMING
resident Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched Secret Service. He is the most threatened President in history.
Since the President took office in 2008, the rate of threats against the president has increased 400% cent. Some threats to the President have been publicized, including the well known alleged plot by white supremacists in Tennessee to rob a gun store, shoot 88 black people, decapitate another 14 and then assassinate the first black president in American history.
Most however, are kept under wraps because the Secret Service fears that revealing details of them would only increase the number of copycat attempts.
According to the U.S. Secret Service agents, their goal is to immediately respond to any direct threat against the president, the first family, the vice president, or visiting heads of state. Agents are then responsible for determining the credibility of the threat.
Each time there is a threat, the Secret Service consults with the Protective Intelligence Division in Washington, D.C., to decide how far an investigation is going to go. If a federal arrest takes place, it will lead to the most serious or extreme of the end results.
Recently, when Anton Caluori, 31, allegedly emailed the FBI on the morning of August 21st to say he would "kill the president," a Secret Service agent was immediately dispatched to his residence. According to the Department of Justice, Caluori was armed with multiple weapons, making his threat not only credible, but viable.
"This case had all the troubling ingredients: threats of violence and explosive devices, multiple weapons with hundreds of rounds and even brandishing of a weapon at law enforcement," said U. S. Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. Caluori was subsequently arrested and charged in federal court with making a threat against the president and assault of a federal agent. If convicted, he could face up to 25 years in prison. He is scheduled to appear in federal court in Seattle Monday for a detention hearing.
Recent national events are a stark reminder that the Secret Service has to take these threats of death or violence seriously. While the Secret Service says they take every threat against the president seriously, not all will end in arrest. Threats will come our way from high school students, even junior high school students in the way of prank type calls. There are threats on Twitter and on Facebook and other social sites that allow such comments, but they have to look at them all. People need to know that any type of threat against the president is a violation of federal law.
The Secret Service says that many of those who make such threats are mentally ill, and it is the goal of the Secret Service to find them help. It can be "sobering," they said, when agents show up at their door.
According to the Secret Service, the president is the most threatened person in the U.S., regardless of political party.
The President is not made aware of all threats against him, however, because as the Secret Service says, "the sheer number would be overwhelming and, frankly, distracting."
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"The danger to America is not Barack Obama, but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools, such as those who made him their president."
the usa did not elect gwbush. he was appointed by 5 justices who suspended the constitution quite literally in their own words to appoint their personal choice in their own words, as the other 4 remaining justices pointed out at the time.
millions of dollars were spend in what was later proven in court to be a vast conspiracy of fake lawsuits [all thrown out of court as baseless] to investigate mr clinton, more than any human in history, and it was proven he conspired with nobody. he was impeached for lying. and judged not guilty. civilly found guilty, not criminally but civilly, of not telling all the truth, and of no crime of any kind in a false private civil suit, which suit was a conspiracy. fact.
clinton was a good president all things considered.
it is not a multitude of fools for the most part who've elected bad president but a concerted effort of a well financed minority to replace the multitude with one party rule. as mcconnel explained in detail as the sole aim of the republican party and as gingrich considered to be his sole life's goal.
Howard, I certainly don't want to hear one word from the Czech Republic about American politics. And Romney would have been better? If he had been elected we would have faced the remaining destruction of our domestic economy with more money flowing into the pockets of the rich, a huge build up of the military, and more wars. The BRILLIANT George Bush - (S)elected by a genuine confederacy of fools - took our economy to it's knees, and Barack Obama has spent 4 years trying to get us back to an even keel.
We've been there. We've done that. And the only thing your idiotic brethren can do is grab their guns and resort to threats to the life of a good man - OUR DULY ELECTED PRESIDENT, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!!!
This article does not exist in a Czech newspaper and the newspaper does not exist.
Any support of violence is like issuaing an invitation to others to respond with violence. That is not what we need.
Showing up, and being present, now that is what we need. So keep showing up, but leave your tendency to advocate violence at home.
I've often thought the selfsame thoughts about the high percentage of "Fools" who voted for Reagan, the Bushes and the latest international ignoramus, Twit -even unto how the Hell they even got to run in the first place.
I couldn't quite believe this article per se without fact checking and found that this seemingly untraceable crap has been circulating on right wing blogs for a while.
Extract from CREDIBLE source. "Even if the 'Prager Zeitgung" or some similar newspaper did reproduce this item (a fact itself which is in doubt), it likely did not originate there, as this bit of text was circulating ANONYMOUSLY as far back as 2009 and did not pick up an attribution crediting it to the Prager Zeitgung until much later.
There is much more but it just goes to show that you and many of your fellow venomous fools, are brim-full of shit.
How very sad that right wingers are so imbued with hatred of those are unlike them.
Obama has been an abject failure and what he campaigned on in 08 either was a fraud or has become convoluted like Obamacare.
The lies just never end.
"You can keep your own doctor if you like"
"Insurance premiums will go down 300%"
But that is ok. He is Obama
Obama is acting like a true Chicago thug by not giving in on getting his way.
For 4 years has offered no budget that even his party would support.Yet amazingly enough,somehow is able to deflect all responsibility.
The media and the democrats choose not to understand just simply hate Republicans
~all believe that all the ills effecting this country it is the Republican fault.
O got us here people. Republicans are failed US too but they are not responsible for all the things they are accused of.
Anyways,no budget for 4 years is another first in US history. President's prior had done the unfun work as it was their job.That's okay he's Obama
How many times is Obama and co going to try a stimulus?
Maybe if every AMERICAN received a check and put in into the economy,there'd be a better chance for success. I can't believe that the man was re elected.If you want to talk about treason Libya illegal war.
Usurped congress and senate. Treason.
Gun running again 4 Americans left to die in Benghazi. The weapons used to kill them were what O armed the anti Qaddafi rebels with. No one cares
From now on, why don't you assume there's an extremely different view from yours and actual facts to back it up and then go seek this viewpoint out. You'll be surprised what you learn. Turn off Fox news. You become dumber watching it (actual fact).
He is called un-american,mus lim,socialist,c ommunist,racist black president.
They are throwing everything at him except the kitchen sink, and I assume that will be coming very soon.
Brenda ~ I totally agree about how sickening and disheartening this news is. It had been my fear that someone would try to kill Mr. Obama when he was running in 2008. And in 2012, that fear was heightened just by the way the Republicans were acting and firing up the truly racist far-right-wing. So I'm not surprised except at the extent of the threats -- how many!
But the question I have is why are we just hearing about the scope of these threats to this president? It's one thing to keep things under wraps for his protection, but this is huge, and the American public needs to know that there is still this depth of hatred and threat of death to our president.
To simply say that most are "mentally ill" is also a problem. This level of mental illness is deep, and to have so many death threats "out there" is truly frightening. It's like not knowing that an entire block of child abductors are living right next to a preschool.
I'm sorry, but the public needs to know this through every media source possible. And these people must be held firmly accountable, at whatever financial cost to our nation. We do not need these people running around free to attempt to kill ANYONE, let alone our president!
N.
Please check your 'facts'. The sitting President won the election with 3,473,402 more votes. That is 51% to 48%. This is from CBS News, updated today.
http://www.cbsnews.com/election-results-2012/
If a simple fact as this one is, is not submitted correctly, then the total posting becomes suspect and you lose credibility.
mcconnel was spouting hate speech already before he took office. before his first day in office, he was already subjected to the division created by a republican party who openly avowed to sabotage government to defeat him. karl rove's followers simply don't believe in democracy as karl rove personally proved on the night of the election. romney and the party believed they own the country and its election apparatus. the people despite all their misgivings about obama overwhelmingly threw out the republican party where they had the opportunity to vote. despite election fraud, gerrymandering, voter suppression and massive financing from a handful of super rich including foreign corporations. the people by a landside rejected division and racism and plutocracy and theocracy in favor of democracy.
You really need to be careful about telling OTHER people to "check the facts". You have a long history of not checking your own facts and using this forum as your fact-checking service.
But he got elected...pisse s you off doesn't it...sort of like I was pissed off when the Supreme Court gave the election to W the idiot.
fact check 08 53% vs 45% of the vote: one of the biggest landslides in democratic party history
fact check 10 50.6% vs 47% 333 electoral votes
before election day GOP predicted a "landslide" of 330 electoral votes for romney.
obama did not get 10 million fewer votes. he got 6 million fewer votes.
GOP chooses to live in a counterfactual universe and employ voter suppression which tactics worked. dramatically.
the usa has overwhelmingly rejected the GOP in 2004, 2008, 2012, and in 2000 also. that's without even mentioning voter suppression and proven in court effective election fraud.
the GOP survives on the basis of shitty democratic party strategy such as rejecting gov dean's very effective strategy. and massive gerrymandering by the 2010 state freshmen. it will take a generation to reverse the gewrrymandered imbalances, which emographics insures. Quoting riverhouse:
So, Why DO you hate him? And as a person with pre-existing conditions due to accident I LOVE the Affordable Care Act. But it does not go far enough.
I myself felt, like many of you, that he did not satisfy the progressive views that brought him the nomination, though I had to concede that his conciliatory tone and modest view of his own powers was what the overall electorate probably thought they wanted.
That said, despite his very cautious and non-confrontati onal style of governance, he inspired a cacophony of the most extreme and hair-raising hatred and rage imaginable. Would any Democrat have inspired the same? Perhaps his complexion, though not his background, added a tone of bitterness and cruelty to the overall reaction, but mostly he is hated because he is president and he is not a member of the red team.
How immensely wise of Obama to assume that cautious, non-confrontati onal style. Can you imagine the reaction to him had he been unwise?
frankly yes. you only anger bullies by handing over your lunch money before they even ask
I wait, I hope, that my Brother, my room-mate, my Midwest namesake and the rest of the Rush hypnotized army of rage will come to their senses and join us in working to solve the current crises that beset the American experiment and world civilization instead of spending their time and political energies trying to savage and destroy the President of the United States.
I wait, I hope, that my Brother, my room-mate, my Midwest namesake and the rest of the Rush hypnotized army of rage will come to their senses and join us in working to solve the current crises that beset the American experiment and world civilization instead of spending their time and political energies trying to savage and destroy the President of the United States
The irony for me is that you are now doing what you claim Obama is doing, That is, you are feeding into the diviseness of those who come to this site.
To me, that diviseness will diminish if, or when, you admit to the possibility that you might be wrong about some of your assertions. I have yet to read where you admitted to that possibility. And I won't be holding my breath.
If I had to put up with 8 years of the Shrub you can put up with 8 years of Obama.
MidwestTom, it was Republicans who divided us, they absolutely refused to cooperate in any way with President Obama. He wasted two years reaching out to them, and all he got was their undying contempt. He's black you know. I'm sorry that you are so filled with hate that you can't see the truth.
It is interesting to read this article in the context of Glenn Greenwald's recent critique of BO... Then while you're at it, read Aristotle about how tyrants come to power.... not suggesting a connection, but it's sure interesting...
Facts, and Citations please.
I'm quite sure you don't want me to oblige you in this, but I will anyway:
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/14734-obama-a-gop-president-should-have-limits-to-kill-list
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/287-124/14749-assassination-without-oversight
Just for starters, as if you didn't already know.
What do you say about the fact that the threats and assasination attempts started as soon as he announced his candidacy in 2007?
Do right-wing traitors who hate America have the ability to "predict the future"?
frankly yes. that is the point. it is his color not his politics.
citations aren't impeachable offenses, unfortunately. their his prerogative as commander in chief backed by the laws passed by congress and by the gang of 5 at the supreme court.
The "general public" are not all ammo hording racist lunatics.
http://moneyedpoliticians.net/2012/11/26/in-milwaukee-200-march-for-a-free-palestine/
RAISE MIN. WAGE TO A LIVING WAGE NOW.
Bush and the USSC are the culprits in the current division - and just because those who, for whatever reason, hate Obama and the fact that he actually WAS duly elected blame him, does not make it so. Classic boneheaded obstruction, hatred, racism and projection, does.
Some activities are simply out of bounds. You don't say "bomb" while in an airport security line, you don't yell "fire!" in a crowded theater, and you certainly don't threaten the President of the Untied States.
I don't think we are untied yet, but I'm hoping we are united.
Killing Reagan or Bush would have saved this country a ton of bad stuff, but when a nut job tried to kill Reagan I was as pissed off as his biggest supporters.
BTW, at the time I was a Republican precinct captain and got to spend about 5 minutes with him. I found him to be a warm, friendly guy who had no idea about what was going on in the world and felt at that time that he had Alzheimer's which cost me my girl friend whose father was a high ranking Republican operative. I voted for Anderson that year. I quit voting for Republicans with only occasional exceptions when they nominated Bush the dumber.
The tendency in this country is for people to blame other people for how they feel. Once we blame someone else, we will then attempt to change the other person, rather than look at the reasons why we respond as we do.
What most people don't want to admit to is how much their biases, prejudices, opinions or assumptions feed into their emotional responses to other people. As long as a person has someone to blame or scapegoat for how they feel, they don't even have to consider the idea that it is they who need to change.
It's always the other person's fault that they happen to be black, or gay, or female, or Muslim. Doesn't matter. It's all xenophobia - the fear of anything or anyone that is alien or different from one's "norm."
Because this kind of attitude assumes that their assumptions, opinions, biases or prejudices are always correct, always "righteous," they never think about the need to change their minhds. More on this later...
I have no objection to toys, but I do have an objection to slave labor and fossil fuels.
If, on the other hand, you are referring to the assassination of JFK's younger brother Robert, that DID occur in 1968. For those of us who lived through those years, it seemed that the Kennedys were victim to one tragedy after another.
this intention was subverted in the 1800's by the robber baron's priority of gaining as much wealth and power as they could, to where most people look at a good life being one in which one has the most "quantity" of things.
Can you imagine what this country would be like if everybody's intent was that everyone have access to a good quality of life?
Basing our judment of what is good in life on the quantity of things one has feeds into ALL of the negative things that have happened, and still continue to happen. That's what consumerism and all addictions are based on - MORE is GOOD, BIGGER is BETTER.
Where this ends,... well, perhaps climate change will answer that question.
If you vote Republican these sad days you have forfeited all claim to Christianity or patriotism.
To me, the irony about what you say is that hate is the emotion on the outside of their behavior. It is the facade. Underlying all the hate is probably fear. An ealrier post mentioned the fear that they were losing power and status. Perhaps it is the fear they will no longer be able to control others behaviors and attitudes. Karl Rove certainly comes to mind. Fox news also.
It is a very scared person who wants to have control over other people, rather than sharing control with other people.
I suspect there is a shared delusion involved in their agendas, and the outcome in too many cases is negative at best, and evil at worst.
Sadly, I share some of the same views you do. The hard part is to not give in to the negativity, and then, stop showing up with one's truth and presence.
Once we, the people, stop showing up as whistle-blowers , truth-tellers, and consciences, then evil and negativity will certainly carry the day.
I am as concerned about this country at least as much as you are. I will not give up without a fight. I will continue to
1. show up
2. pay attention
3. tell the truth, as I know it - at this point in time, and
4. be open to the outcomes
I certainly hope I am not fooling myself about what kind of difference I can make. I do know that I will make no difference at all if I quit showing up, paying attention, and telling the truth.
I do hope you will continue to show up, and continue to be one of the fleas that bite us when we get too complacent, or when we want to congratualte ourselves too much or too easily.
There is still a lot of work to do.
No, that would be Reagan, Bush would be the king of fools.
The thing that bothered me about his behavior, and the the behavior of those other Republicans he contracted with, was that it was mostly done in secret. He made no secret of wanting Obama to be a one-term president. The secret was in how much they were willing to obstruct everything he and the Democrats tried to do.
My guess is his rationalization is that he believed he was doing his job, as HE defined it. My thought is that he defines his job as standing up for the people that elected him to office.
My problem with that is that I don't believe it is the job of any elected official to stand up for hate, hostility, discrimination, prejudice, or any of the other negative things his constituency apparently stands for. Shouldn't his job be to challenge those kinds of attitudes?
In any case, it was the intentional nature of his, and their, behavior I find disquieting. At the very least they were NOT doing the jobs they were hired to do, and, for that, they should have been fired. Perhaps, if we work hard enough, that will happen sooner rather than later.
Historically it hasn't been the loud mouths and the threateners that do the evil deed, it's those who stand to lose their position of advantage that are dangerous. Obama is very careful to not upset the status quo, he doesn't screw with them.
but, i am truly concerned that a president who is trying to do his best for the people is so often vilified by those who most need his help. lincoln was on a similar tract and got assassinated. i just hope our secret services are truly vigilant in protecting this man who was elected democratically.
He said his priority was to get to the truth, no matter where it led him. When he told me that, I told him that we are now on the same side, and that is that we are both trying to get to the truth.
The problem with most Republicans, and maybe many other people as well, is that they have learned to believe they already know the truth, while the rest of us are still in the process of getting to the "whole" truth.
What I have yet to hear most Republicans, politicians and supporters, is the simple phrase "I might be wrong." It is the inability to say this phrase, or have this attitude in their list of abilities, that doesn't allow people to change their minds about anything. This is what leads to the "my way or the highway" attitude of so many people who are in power. This is the attitude of all zealots. Mitch McConnell comes chiefly to mind, but there are so many others like him.
It is this attitude that fosters the polarization that is keeping America stuck. As a teacher I once knew told me, "If yu can't change your mind, what can you change?"
Until a person has the ability to change their mind, nothing will change, and we will continue to be stuck here.
We've already seen what the left does. The 2000 election, which Gore actually won according to the vote count from Florida was finally done a year later and which was only close because of the illegal actions of Katherine Harris and Jeb Bush, and 2004 when fixed voting machines flipped the Ohio results.
The left protested mightily, but didn't threaten the lives of anyone. Every leftist is a better person than any right winger.
Personally I believe that everyone has overlooked the obvious concerning the first debate. The night before Syria shot missiles into Turkey and Obama was up all night. That day was Michelle's birthday and he probably got little or no sleep then. Then, when the debate rolled around he had been up for 36 hours under incredible stress. How would any of us performed under those circumstances?
Whoops! 8^) Well, you have major problems forgetting either. Fortunately he has someone to remind him before he forgets, unlike me.
been repeated on this site!!! We just have to wait for those
hating any other than their own skin-caste to become either
enlightened or until the breed dies out!!!
I wait, I hope, that my Brother, my room-mate, my Midwest namesake and the rest of the Rush hypnotized army of rage will come to their senses and join us in working to solve the current crises that beset the American experiment and world civilization instead of spending their time and political energies trying to savage and destroy the President of the United States.
I wait, I hope, that my Brother, my room-mate, my Midwest namesake and the rest of the Rush hypnotized army of rage will come to their senses and join us in working to solve the current crises that beset the American experiment and world civilization instead of spending their time and political energies trying to savage and destroy the President of the United States.
Good grief, people, this article is not about some editorial from the Czech Republic on whether or not the American electorat or the President is more inferior.
It's about the willingness of angry white males to threaten a capital crime against our President just because he's black.
Doesn't anybody here care what that says about the racial animus and bigotry of middle aged and older white males (aka the Republican Party)?
These people need to be routed out and punished publicly to demonstrate that we don't tolerate threats against the person chosen by the majority to lead us, Republican or Democrat, black or white.
Obfuscation of this crisis is just disgusting.
It is not just that he is black. My guess is he would get the same, or a similar response, if he was gay, or Latino, or Muslim, though I don't know if any of those minorities would be elected president at present.
The fact that he is different from who these people think should be in power is what feeds their fear. Because it's the presidency, I think that makes people more rabid. Rush Limp and company just want to add fuel to the fire, so as to keep people from noticing how much their fear drives their decisions and behaviors.
Still, he IS black, and the hatred toward HIM is because of that fact. Everything else is a rationalization .
When I think of fear, I think of parents hovering over a critically ill baby.
Part of the problem with the situation you mention is definition. To me, parents hovering over an ill child are showing concern, not fear. If they believe they have no control over the situation, the concern might change to fear.
To me, the people who choose to define their behavior as hate, are able to rationalize their decision to hate as being based on logical facts. "I don't trust blacks, so it's okay to hate them." Their rationalization loses some or much power if they are able to say "I am afraid of blacks."
I also think that getting to the root of a problem is the first step in changing the problem. When a person is focused on their hate, it's much easier to ignore the roots of fear that produce the hate.
People can think of themselves as being strong when they are full of hate, but I don't think they can see themselves the same way when they see themselves as full of fear.
The main problem is the self-hatred involved in being afraid in the first place. I think it's much easier for people to admit to hate than it is to admit to fear.
Mopst of us have learned to be afraid of being afriad, which is why the problem is so hard to face. And, unfortunately for all of us, nothing changes until one faces what it is one is really afraid of.
George Orwell's '1984' portrait of 'hates' is valuable. Orwell watched his nation England descend into state-sponsored media delivered hates of Germans, Italians, Japanese & other Axis powers during WW2.
'1984' is a good description about how constant media fed negative perceptions about one side without hearing equally from that side itself, produces disdain, aggravation, dislike, irritation & disgust in the individual. When 'negative-indoc trinated' individuals are orchestrated to express these negative feelings, then we descend to new lows in our humaness.
A key observation by Orwell is that the media-fed negative perceptions instilled in individuals are invisible 'hates' until they are mobilized in some form of state or corporate manipulation. The citizen isn't usually aware of the hate burden which they are carrying around. Citizens carrying around negative perceptions about other countries in the world as our media is wont to do, are easy targets for 'hate' campaigns by the war-armaments-m unitions-securi ty industry. Campaigns of corporate state sponsored hate is endemic to colonial citizen collaboration in the genocide of hundreds of millions of 1st Nations, NAZI death camps etc. https://sites.google.com/site/indigenecommunity/structure/both-sides-now-equal-time-recorded-dialogues
I think it starts with how we as males (and females) learn to define what is appropriate and valuable to gender definitions.
For example, most men learn to believe that weakness is not a valuable or appropriate "male' trait. The problem is that we all learn different definitions of what "weakness" means. Most definitions come from our parents, and then are often supported by the culture we grow up in.
For many men, caring is defined as a weakness. Do you understand how that learned definition would cause a man to react to everything in life? Can you imagine what kinds of internal conflicts that might raise in a man who needs caring, but is totally afraid of it at the same time.
In the book "One Minute Wisdom," Anthony DeMello wrote that love is the absence of all fear. But what is it most people fear. It is love.
It's been written that life is 5% how we make it and 95% how we learned to take it.
Our early socialization determines so much of how we learn to take things. So many times we learn to take things personally, and here we are - everyone taking everything personally, and blaming everyone else for how we respond, never understanding how much our responses are based on our early socialization. Our culture both socializes us and reinforces that socialization.
Which is another way to say we're having a word dispute--and it probably can't be settled.
"I don't trust blacks, so it's okay to hate them." is neither a 'logical fact' nor a valid argument.
Some years ago I had a skin-head-type student. He wasn't afraid of black people; he thought them weak and stupid, easily overwhelmed. Yet he hated them deeply. These things he said to me. I believed him.
And, yes, Douglas Jack, hate has various uses and many authors. Orwell's depiction focused on the uses of fear and hate. In our discussion, I maintain that hate can and does exist without fear, but the two are not mutually exclusive.
To me, there is a difference between "concern" and "worry." Worry always seems based on fear; concern is not.
At present, I do my best to not worry about things I have no control over, or things that haven't happened yet. And I do my best to know the difference between the two. It's connected to staying here and now, rather than living in the future.
As for your "skinhead" student, my guess is he was afraid of what blacks represented to him - weakness, stupidity, being easily overwhelmed. In this culture, and many others, "weakness" is not seen as a valuable "masculine" trait. Weakness is mostly seen as a "feminine" trait. Can you understand how a person would then transfer those traits to those he's been told all his life fit those stereotypes, clearly scapegoating them.
How else would a person respond who has been told by his parents, peer group and the media all his life that it is not masculine to be weak?
Look at the "skinhead's" peer group. Don't all his peers believe and promote the same ideas? If his ideas are never challenged, and are fully supported by his peer group and parents, why should he even consider change?
Look at the "skinhead" in the context of his peer group, parents, and culture.
However, the correct idea is "nipping it in the bud," so as to keep what your nipping from coming to flower and thus to fruition.
My concern is that nipping these people in the butt would only make them madder, and MORE prone to taking their violent thoughts out on others. ;-)
(I'm Agnostic, or Atheist if God means the Xstian God, but I'm willing to cut individual Christians a LITTLE slack)
The President is not made aware of all threats against him, however, because as the Secret Service says, "the sheer number would be overwhelming and, frankly, distracting."
Excellent points I agree. He just made an historic ASEAN visit without any troubles, well don Mr P.
Bet that protection cost a bomb. Anyhow those who talk (Therat-makers) never do, and those who do (JW Booth & LH Oswald, even Ruby) never talk.
Anyway who would wan't to Kill Obiwannabia noce guy. He is needed for the 4 years economic disasters if he doesn't get assasinated over a physical cliff?
You and your ilk are really brave and patriotic credits to America and examples of some of the root causes of regression and medievalism here!
To be quite specific, it's a German-language newspaper covering Austria, Switzerland and part of Chekoslovakia. It does exist -I've been to the website.
Otherwise, agreed en toto.
Would someone please pass that quiche?
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