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   From: alfredstomacker@gmail.com   
      
   On 25 Mar 2011 11:49:02 +0100, "Dr. Jay Maharaj"    
   wrote:   
      
   >Right wingers are violent racist savages.   
   >   
   >Why doesn't the rightist propaganda media report on this?   
   >   
   >Barack Obama faces 30 death threats a day, stretching US Secret Service   
   >US President Barack Obama is the target of more than 30 potential death   
   >threats a day and is being protected by an increasingly over-stretched and   
   >under-resourced Secret Service, according to a new book.   
   >   
   >"Obama's Race Is Why Most Rightists Hate Him"   
   >   
   >Since Mr Obama took office, the rate of threats against the president has   
   >increased 400 per cent from the 3,000 a year or so under President George   
   >W. Bush, according to Ronald Kessler, author of In the President's Secret   
   >Service.   
   >   
   >Some threats to Mr Obama, whose Secret Service codename is Renegade, have   
   >been publicised, including an alleged plot by white supremacists in   
   >Tennessee late last year 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. Although most threats are not credible, each one has to be   
   >investigated meticulously.   
   >   
   >According to the book, intelligence officials received information that   
   >people associated with the Somalia-based Islamist group al-Shabaab might   
   >try to disrupt Mr Obama's inauguration in January, when the Secret Service   
   >co-ordinated at least 40,000 agents and officers from some 94 police,   
   >military and security agencies.   
   >   
   >More than a dozen counter-sniper teams were stationed along the   
   >inauguration parade route and the criminal records of employees and hotel   
   >guests in nearby buildings were scrutinised.   
   >   
   >Despite all this, there were glaring loopholes in the security. Kessler   
   >describes how more than 100 VIPs and major campaign donors were screened   
   >by metal detectors but then walked along a public pavement before boarding   
   >"secure" buses and were not checked again.   
   >   
   >It could have been relatively simple for an assassin to have mingled with   
   >them in order to get close enough to shoot the new president.   
   >   
   >After Mr Obama was elected president, his two children Malia, 11,   
   >codenamed Radiance, and Sasha, eight, codenamed Rosebud, began receiving   
   >Secret Service protection. Mr Obama's wife Michelle is codenamed   
   >Renaissance. The Secret Service also started to protect Vice-President Joe   
   >Biden's children, grandchildren, and mother.   
   >   
   >Instead of bringing in more agents - instantly identifiable because of   
   >their bulky suits, worn over bullet-proof jackets, and earpieces - the   
   >Secret Service directed agents to work longer hours to cover the extra   
   >load and to miss firearms training, physical fitness sessions and tests.   
   >   
   >"We have half the number of agents we need, but requests for more agents   
   >have fallen on deaf ears at headquarters," a Secret Service agent told   
   >Kessler. "Headquarters' mentality has always been, 'You can complete the   
   >mission with what you have. You're a U.S.S.S. agent'."   
   >   
   >Mr Biden's constant travel, including back to his home state of Delaware-   
   >the burden has meant that all agents on his team have ceased training.   
   >According to Kessler, however, they fill in forms stating they have "taken   
   >and passed all tests, when they have not, creating a dishonest culture".   
   >   
   >The Secret Service has increasingly cut corners after it was absorbed by   
   >the new Homeland Security Department under Mr Bush. Kessler said that when   
   >Mr Biden threw the first pitch at the first Baltimore Orioles game of the   
   >2009 season, the Secret Service did not screen any of the more than 40,000   
   >fans, stunning his agents and the local Secret Service field office.   
   who cares. liberals openly carry signs calling for the deaths of   
   republican presidents . no one even gets charged   
      
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