Increased Threats to the President Put Strain on Secret Service

Posted: 10/18/09

The Boston Globe reports:
The unprecedented number of death threats against President Obama, a rise in racist hate groups, and a new wave of anti-government fervor threaten to overwhelm the US Secret Service.  This is according to government officials and reports, raising new questions about the 144-year-old agency's overall mission.

The Secret Service is tracking a broad range of possible threats to the nation's leaders. This is affecting its investigation of financial crimes such as counterfeiting that are part of its original mandate.

The last statistics Rightardia saw on presidential death threats was the Secret Service  was receiving 30 threats a month. We suspect the figure is now much higher.


source: http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/10/18/increased-threats-put-strain-on-secret-service/


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Secret Service Detains Maryland Protester Holding 'Death To Obama'sign

By Logan Murphy Friday Aug 14, 2009 10:00am

We have been documenting the increasingly violent and threatening protests at Democratic town hall events around the country, and now it seems things are reaching the boiling point. The Secret Service has finally gotten involved:

There were signs comparing President Barack Obama to a Nazi and showing him with an Adolf Hitler-style mustache, but federal officials believe another sign referencing the president and his family went too far.

A man who was holding a sign reading "Death to Obama" Wednesday outside a town hall meeting on health care reform in Hagerstown, Md., has been turned over to the Secret Service.

Washington County Sheriff's Capt. Peter Lazich said the sign also read, "Death to Michelle and her two stupid kids." Read on...

As many have said on blogs and TV, these protests have nothing to do with health care reform, and they never did. They are temper tantrums being thrown by small minded, uneducated, racist white people who are angry about having a black Democrat in the White House. I'm encouraged to finally see the Secret Service getting involved in a public way.

source: http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/secret-service-detains-maryland-prote

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Congressman threatened over health care

WASHINGTON — A North Carolina congressman who supports an overhaul of the health care system had his life threatened.  A caller was upset that he was not holding a public forum on the proposal. 

Democratic Rep. Brad Miller received the call Monday, one of hundreds the congressman's office received that demanding town-hall meetings on the health care proposal, said his spokeswoman, LuAnn Canipe. She said the callers wanted "to instigate town halls so they can show up and disrupt."

"We had one of those kind of calls that escalated to what we considered a threat" on the congressman's life, said Canipe. "These are some strong-arm tactics, and we are trying to deal with and trying to talk to people in good faith about health care reform."

See the complete story at  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/07/brad-miller-death-threat-_n_254493.html

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