More Fruits of the GOP's Toxic Racism

MSNBC has a breaking story about a plot by two Neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and kill dozens of other African Americans, perhaps inspired by the racial hatred being disseminated - subtly and not so subtly - by elements of the Republican Party. Apparently, the conspirators planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14 - the numbers 88 and 14 being symbolic in the white supremacist community - and then cap it all off by assassinating Barack Obama. Such lovely, Christian actions. Are you happy yet John McCain and Sarah Palin? The more that I see of this mindset and the fascism of the Christianists and white supremacists, the more important I believe it is that McCain/Palin be crushed on November 4th. This type of politics and such pandering to hatred must be ended. Here are the highlights available so far from MSNBC:

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WASHINGTON - A plot by two Neo-Nazi skinheads to assassinate Barack Obama and kill dozens of other African Americans has been foiled, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms said Monday. Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark., were charged Friday with making threats against a presidential candidate, illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun and conspiracy to rob a gun store.

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Jim Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the Nashville ATF field office, said the two men sought to go on a national killing spree that included an unnamed African-American school, with Obama as their final target. The two planned to shoot 88 black people and decapitate another 14, he added. The numbers 88 and 14 are symbolic in the white supremacist community.

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“They said that would be their last, final act — that they would attempt to kill Sen. Obama,” Cavanaugh said. “They didn’t believe they would be able to do it, but that they would get killed trying.”