Three men have been arrested in an alleged plot to kill Senator Barack Obama by shooting him from a high sniper position. Various guns and equipment were seized by the police in the arrest of Tharin Robert Gartrell, 28, Nathan Johnson, 32, and Shawn Robert Adolf, 33.
Prosecutors insist that Obama was not in any real danger but the arrests are a chilling reminder of the dangers of his unprecedented run for the White House. Police seized a bullet-proof vest, two rifles — one of which was stolen; another had a hunting scope — as well as ammunition, drugs and walkie-talkies.
The plot was allegedly to kill Obama Thursday night during his acceptance speech “from a high vantage point” at Invesco Field at Mile High stadium using a “rifle … sighted at 750 yards.”
The bust came after a drunk driving arrest turned up drugs and weapons. It was Gartrell who was driving the truck. Johnson was arrested at home and Adolf arrested in a hotel after he tried to jump from from a sixth-floor window.
Wow, remind me not to pick you for any of my juries. I am by no means defending these guys, but I don’t know enough facts to determine if they should serve a long prison term or not. Pretty amazing to hear all the knee jerk “hang the scum bags” opinions.
“i wonder how many people there are in our country that are so beyond my comprehension.”
Sherry,
I’ve long held the belief that 5% of humans are certifiably crazy. If that belief has some truth to it, we might have about 15 million or so running around the country. Even at 1% it would be 3 million people.
Frightening.
Rafflaw wrote:
Whether or not they planned to kill Sen. Obama, these guys look like real losers. With all that firepower it is possible that they intended to carry out the alleged plan. Let’s be thankful that they are off the street. They are weird, but Lee Harvey was a weird loser as well.
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Absolutely, Rafflaw, and let’s also hope these losers STAY off the street, with a long prison term.
As thick as pillars and full of rocks.
I’m sure their heads are as thick as pillars.
CMM,
If those are pillars, that community is in trouble.
Yea, I have to agree with Rafflaw here.
These two don’t exactly look like the “pillars of the community”.
Whether or not they planned to kill Sen. Obama, these guys look like real losers. With all that firepower it is possible that they intended to carry out the alleged plan. Let’s be thankful that they are off the street. They are weird, but Lee Harvey was a weird loser as well.
I get the sense that these guys are loser dealers who got caught and are making up the Obama plot story. They seem way too unsophisticated. Drinking and driving with guns and drugs in the car while on the way to take out the next president? Weird.
i look and listen to people like these men that were arrested and i wonder what sort of upbringing they had. what sort of schooling and how low some people sink to.
i wonder how many people there are in our country that are so beyond my comprehension.
are they that self hating that they have to direct the hate onto others? are they arrogant? are they ill? is there any hope for us if this sort of mindset continues?
i’ll wager that they listen to right wing over the top radio.
so sad.
There have been comments circulating since long before Hilary said anything about assasination. I have heard things from McCain supporters about the so-called risk Obama is taking on, so maybe someone put a bug in her ear. Was Colin Powell risking anything? How about MLK?
I think they were just living the only way they knew how and by no one else’s set of behavioral standards, but instead a personal moral code which happens to incorporate support for our form of government. In my opinion, they certainly have not been engaging in deliberately risky behavior. That is just some weird version of blaming the victim in advance.
The guys who were being risky got busted, thank goodness – proof that the way the world ought to be (like Mrs. Obama mentioned last night) is possible.
mnoble –
That’s right. I’d already forgotten that wildly inappropriate comment she made about Bobby Kennedy. I wonder if she’ll say something like, “I told you so,” at the convention.
Shawn Robert “ADOLF”?
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Go figure.
Brings to mind the bizarre assassination comment Hillary made in May.
Unfortunately, this will probably not be the only incident like this should he be elected President, and it highlights the magnitude of what Barack is undertaking here.
I am sure he realizes the danger he puts himself in, and his family by running, and becoming elected. There are plenty of hate groups that would sooner die, or spend their lives in jail than see an African American become President. Very sad, but very true.
I only hope that as we raise the generations of tomorrow to see people for who they are and not what they look like, hate groups will begin to decline in number…
As for these two? I can only hope for the maximum punishment allowed by law.