published Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Tennessee: Arraignment for suspects in plot to kill Obama

MEMPHIS — Two young white supremacists have pleaded not guilty in Memphis in an alleged plot to kill President-elect Barack Obama and dozens of other black people.

Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman spoke only to utter their pleas this morning.

They’re charged with threatening a presidential candidate, possession of a sawed-off shotgun, planning to rob a gun dealer and taking firearms across state lines.

The seven-count indictment says a plot for a killing spree targeting black people was hatched by Cowart and Schlesselman sometime between Sept. 1 and Oct. 22.

Their arrests were made public Oct. 27 when prosecutors filed charges that contained essentially the same accusations as those in the indictment.

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taters said...

These boys need to spend a long time behind bars. They are dangerous radical hate-mongers. Send them to prison and let them live with Bubba.

November 6, 2008 at 12:21 p.m.
rolando said...

Talk about stupid! Their pictures are in the dictionary under that heading. Anyone with any smarts at all KNOWs those kinds of groups are riddled with narcs and FBI agents as trusted members. At times, the agents outnumber the bad guys. They obviously didn't read "Big Brother Game" or the newer "Big Book of Mischief". They didn't even know enough to use off-the-rack one-time-use cell phones from Wal-Mart.

November 6, 2008 at 2:42 p.m.
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