Man Is Arrested in Obama Threat

[TheHeathen]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/17/us/politics/17arrest.html?_r=1&partner=rss

Secret Service agents on Friday arrested a man in Mississippi who wrote a series of entries in an Internet chat room saying he intended to kill President-elect Barack Obama, the Justice Department said.

The man, Steven J. Christopher, who is from Wisconsin, was arrested in Brookhaven, Miss., for making threatening entries on Jan. 11, 15 and 16, said Dunn Lampton, the United States attorney in Jackson.

The entries, which included racial and anti-Semitic remarks, were on a Web site that features information and articles about extraterrestrials, government conspiracies and unexplained physical phenomenon.

In one Jan. 11 entry, according to the Justice Department, Mr. Christopher wrote: “Yes, I have decided I will assassinate Barack Obama. It’s really nothing personal about the man.”

[Ken Burch]

1. "It's really nothing personal about the man"??????

So that makes it OK, then?

:eyes:

[BlooInBloo]

2. 1 down 9,999 to go.

[napi21]

3. My guess is that this is only one of many the SS is finding. It's sad,

but there are quite a number of people in our country who want to kill our President, and it's probably hightened by our new one being black. I have a friend who is a SS agent, and I haven't talked to him in a while, but I'm sure the 'SS, FBI and every other security agency is on hightened alert, especially because of the high number of people who will attend the inaguration. I KNOW the SS agents take their job extremely serious, and they will do it. I get a bit of solace in that so many people at home and abroad hated Shrub for so many years any the
SS managed to keep his ass safe, I know they can do the same for Obama.

[RJ Connors]

4. Yeah, this looks like a real credible threat to the President

"Mr. Christopher added that he had no way to travel from Mississippi to Washington and said, “I don’t own a gun, so maybe someone can give me one.”

So while num-nuts here may have had motive he seems to be lacking on opportunity and method (MOM)

You're honor, I'd like to make a motion for the court to dismiss due to lack of cause.