When I was growing up, there were Nazi skinheads and anti-Nazi skinheads. To me, as a gay kid on the punk scene, both were equally heinous. The anti-Nazi skinheads’ politics were a little better, except with regards to gays as I mention in 85A. Both camps were bullies and could do a job on you with their steel-toed boots and sometimes broken bottles and knives. The difference between then and now: as far as I know – and I knew the stories – neither camp carried firearms.
Yesterday, I was both shocked and relieved to read the news. The FBI had foiled an elaborate plot that two Nazi skinhead youths – Paul Schlesselman, 18, from Arkansas and Daniel Cowart, 20, from Tennessee – had hatched to decapitate 14 black kids and otherwise kill 74 other black kids before assassinating Barack Obama.
Police had pulled Schlesselman and Cowart over after they’d shot out the window of a Tennessee church. Their car was scrawled with swatstikas, racial epithets, and the numbers 14 and 88, which hold special symoblism in white supremacy and which also signify (a) the number of blacks they planned on beheading (14) and (b) the total number of blacks they planned on killing (88) at an unnamed local high school. Police also seized an unspecified number of unregistered firearms from Schlesselman and Cowart’s car. The two were allegedly on their way to a local gun-dealer whom they were going to rob in an effort to stockpile weapons for their high-school massacre.
After killing 88 blacks, Schlesselman and Cowart planned to don white Tuxedos and top hats and drive off to find and kill Barack Obama. FBI agents doubt that they could have pulled off the Obama assassination. But they might have been able put a dent in their high-school assassination plans.
Schlesselman and Cowart are being held without bond.
This level of hatred, within 8 days of the likely election of America’s first African-American president, makes the Bradley Effect look like miscegenation.
This morning, I had a hard time waking up. That is, until Julius jumped out of the shower and ran into our room, forgetting his towel, to rouse me with the news that Al Qaeda has endorsed McCain. I yawned and said, “Well, why would they do a fool thing like that?”
Nine hours later, I’m still at a loss for answers. Liberals might say that Al Qaeda wants McCain to win so that he’ll get trigger-happy, drain our economy to the dregs, and leave us as sitting ducks for a terrorist arrogation of the United States. Conservatives might say they’re trying to turn Americans off to McCain so that we’ll elect a “weak” leader like Obama, who will let terrorists run roughshod over the nation and the world.
Julius believes that Al Qaeda wants McCain to win so that they can show the world that the Bush administration will essentially continue for a minimum of four more years.
We must recall, though, that Al Qaeda didn’t like Clinton any more than Bush. Their first attempt on the WTC was in 1993 during Clinton’s first year in office. It seems to me that Al Qaeda hates all Americans, Republican or Democrat.
Whatever their rationale, it’s no feather in McCain’s cap that he’s won an Al Qaeda endorsement nor that two Nazis sought to eliminate his opponent.
Before I make my next point, let me qualify that I love Barack Obama, he’s one of my heroes and he has my vote handsdown. I have to come clean and admit, however, that I do have some misgivings about him becoming president. I don’t have any doubt that he’ll do a bang-up job at defending our nation from foreign terrorists. But can he defend himself from domestic terrorists?
This is something we’re going to have to watch as McCain and Palin’s New Red Scare progresses.
Tags: Al Qaeda, Barack Obama, Daniel Cowart, John McCain, Joseph McCarthy, McCarthyism, Nazi skinheads, Nazis, Paul Schlesselman, Red Scare, Sarah Palin, skinheads, terrorists
October 29, 2008 at 3:42 am |
There is no such thing as ‘al qaeda’ as a structured organization. Its the name given by American intelligence to a list of mujahideen they ARMED AND SUPPORTED IN AFGHANISTANS FIGHT AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION….The list of ‘assets’ comtains thousands of peoples name who are unconnected to one another, no more than people who call themselves ‘bikers’ are part of some centralized organization.
‘Al Qaeda’ is a boogeyman used by governments to further foreign policy ambitions, usually
economic in nature. One thing you forgot to tell about 93/WTC – the “ringleader” was a CIA asset. FACT. not theory. FACT. He did not want to use real explosives for the patsies he was setting up. But the government demanded he forward REAL explosives.
infowars.com …Use the search engine.
And if honest people are to delve deeper into ’skinheads’, you find the same declassified information time and time again – the “heads” were government agents, provocatuers, who actually nudge the suckers into doing their sickening acts.
Fact. Not theory. Fact.
9/11 was an inside job, like the Reichstag fire, like the USS LIberty, Gulf of Tokin incident, etc..etc etc….Theres a bigger game going on, as usual, that is much more devious and uglier than any ’skinheads’ or ‘al qaeda’ could ever be.
infowars.com
October 31, 2008 at 12:00 am |
I’m not defending Bush, but I don’t think the government engineered 9/11. They had the intelligence reports, certainly, and failed to follow up on them. But, if they had wanted to perpetrate the 9/11 attack as a pretext for an invasion of Iraq, they would have imputed Hussein and his Iraqi agents as the culprits, not bin Laden and the Taliban. I have no problem believing that bin Laden was behind it. Bush used the bin Laden attack as an excuse to kill Sadam who was bin Laden’s enemy.
Furthermore, skinhead kids are just as capable of developing a blueprint for a massacre as the two boys at Taliban were. I’m not saying that the CIA isn’t sleazy and isn’t capable of the basest behavior. Clearly, they are. But we should assign blame where it’s due.