How do we know that they really wanted to assassinate Barack Obama, and do all the awful things they keep telling us they wanted to do?
Yes, we’re told all these things, but the only two sources are the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE), and the MSM. Both have been known not to be truthful on occasion. NBC, though, unlike the rest of the media, does not seem to be assigning great significance to this; they’re essentially telling us that there’s nothing to see here, move along. Even the Obama campaign is blowing this off.
And if they had all these grand plans, where are the indictments for conspiracy? AFAIK, at the time of this writing, the only Federal charges they face are violating technicalities of Federal firearms laws.
My theory? The ATF, perhaps seeing an Obama victory, is trying to make nice and suck up to its future boss, by pretending that they just foiled some grand ethereal plot against him. The MSM is eating it all up without asking any critical questions, because it makes white people look bad and drives public symapthy to their preferred candidate for President. And just wait, you know who is about to send thousands of fund raising letters out from a certain Post Office in Montgomery, Alabama.
All of this was started by two gooberheads chatting with each other on internet chatrooms, letting their mouths run way ahead of their wee little brains.
UPDATE 4:30 PM: UK Telegraph bombshell:
It also emerged that the Anti-Defamation League, a Jewish civil rights organisation, helped lead federal investigators and local police to the pair.
The ADL, which monitors white supremacist groups, discovered that Cowart was involved in the Supreme White Alliance, a racist skinhead group.
In other words, the ADL provoked all of this. I get the picture now — the ADL, knowing that these two gooberheads were probably the type to fall into this sort of trap, ordered the ATF to send in a provocateur, who gets one or both of them drunk, and then one or both start running their mouths, arrest, “foiled a grand conspiracy plot,” boo hoo hoo for Obama. It seems like the ADL is trying to elect Obama.
Or, a better theory is this: The ADL sent in an ATF spy to get these two guys drunk, and mouth off about assassinating Obama, get them arrested, brag about “foiling a grand conspiracy plot,” brag about how their efforts stopped the “assassination,” and raise lots of money in earnest. Hegel couldn’t have been more proud.
UPDATE 10/29: The AP does a follow up, and quotes Mark Potok of the SPLC, who seems to think, like NBC, that this was not a serious plot:
“Certainly these men have some frightening weapons and some very frightening plans,” said Mark Potok, director of the Southern Poverty Law Center, who studies the white supremacy movement. “But with the part about wearing top hats … it gets a bit hard to take them seriously.”
Now that I think about it, it makes sense that the SPLC is sorta dismissing this. The reason is that, as you read above, the ADL is gloating about stopping the conspiracy. You see, the SPLC and the ADL are firece competitors in what I call the Paranoia-Industrial Complex, a phrase I coined in 2002 that describes the propensity of such groups to hustle money based on the paranoid fear of right-wingers. A dollar given to the ADL is a dollar not given to the SPLC, and vice-versa. While there may be many dollars, there are only so many dollars in the universe of those donated by rich lefties who can be demagogued up into a fear of the right wing. The SPLC is poo-pooing the notion that this was a grand, organized plot, simply because the ADL is.
