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Surge in Antigovernment Threats Strains Secret Service

The Boston Globe

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October 18, 2009

The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of antigovernment fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service.
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  1. Matthew said,

    on October 22nd, 2009 at 10:55 am

    The social sites on the internet play a large role in spurring on the gullible. YouTube alone has numerous conspiracy theories and other pretty incredible videos. I’m always suprised at the number of people that, in their postings, agree. There is Pastor Steve Anderson in Arizona who “prays” for the death of Obama and his so-called sermon on YouTube. There are videos on the New World Order and, FEMA death camps and there are people who are actually believing this garbage. People like Limbaugh, O’Reilly and Beck are scaring the conservative crowd into a them/us position. Many of those posting on YouTube who enthusiastically support the conspiracy theorists don’t show much in the way of education or reasoning ability and a strong propensity for violence. The hate preacher Anderson has hundreds of “subscribers” and “friends” on YouTube and one of his “flock”, Chris showed up at a town hall meeting with a rifle strapped to his back.

    YouTube would do well to suspend the accounts of those who are instigating violence or spinning conspiracy theories that might well end in violence.

    I am told that in at least one City, assault rifles in great numbers are being sold. My question is why? It is obviously not for hunting. Why are people arming themselves. Patriot Militia? People getting ready for the New World Order.

  2. Mike Magruder said,

    on October 22nd, 2009 at 1:12 pm

    The ultra right is a vast repository of well trained, brainwashed, expendable toads whose only purpose in life is to die in the service of “Nero”. These people have no lives or opinions of their own. It’s tragic that these cabbages will never think or live for themselves in the democracy they’ve abandoned.

  3. Robert said,

    on October 27th, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    I just happened to come across this paper and web site. I am not agianst Obama or but I hate his policy on most things. Did you know the FDA was just given the go ahead to see if guns are bad for you? of couse they will and then make you pay thousands to own under the new controll program, i mean health care program. I am a gulf war vet and resent all this talk about us wanting to take on and blow up everything. Who is being judgemental here, give me a break, I have never been arrested and no violence has been reported at tea parties but this web site wants you to believe they are burning cars and breaking windows. Poeple this is just not going on… I could care less if Obam is black , he is at the least a Marksist and I hate the change he is forcing down my throut. The great thing about Obama is he is black so his people just write us all off as racist so easey…. Like I said I could care less what color he is. Not enough was done to look into this mans backround. there is no way he could ever pass a security clearence with all the radicals he alined himself with. He said himself judge me with who I surround myself and one man Van Jones has already been vetted. In the Gulf War my mentor was from Mexico MSG Garcia he is a great man…..Marines…..

  4. Matthew said,

    on October 28th, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Read on:

    http://www.alternet.org:80/sto.....t_rhetoric

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