More American terrorists

Missed this originally from Neiwert.

Memo to Palin: Here are some other domestic terrorists.

Oy.

Skinheads arrested in murder spree plot. AP:

The ATF says it has broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree. In court records unsealed Monday, agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target an unnamed but predominantly African-American high school by two neo-Nazi skinheads.

That's all they have, but look for more developments over the next few days. Further reports relayed by TPM say that the 102 number comes from 88 + 14. They were going to shoot 88 blacks and decapitate 14. Christ.

So, as we asked last time skinheads on meth were arrested with an anti-Obama plot: Were they just hopped up on drug-inflated plans, or actually serious? Well, so far it seems like they seriously planned to kill 100 people; they didn't think they could get Obama but planned to die trying.

And of course nobody could have anticipated that the Republicans' rhetoric of anti-americanism and racial agitation would have potential violent consequences.

UPDATE: More details from AP. ("Feds disrupt alleged skinhead plot to kill Obama")

Fort Dix II

Wonkette: What I was saying, but funnier.

Ok. So, the plot was: six dudes from New Jersey buy some guns and storm Fort Dix. The Fort Dix that is full of lots and lots of Army reservists with way, way more guns. And, like, extensive military training and shit. Yes, thank god these terrorists have been caught and locked up before they could be killed within minutes of deciding to carry out the dumbest fucking terrorist plot we’ve ever heard of.

Fort Dix terror plot foiled

Terrorists plan to attack Fort Dix and shoot up as many soldiers as possible. (CNN story) They're caught and foiled. How were they caught? They were dumbasses!

[A]n employee of a store told the FBI someone had brought a "disturbing" video to be duplicated.

The video "depicted 10 young men who appeared to be in their early twenties shooting assault weapons at a firing range in a militia-like style while calling for jihad and shouting in Arabic 'Allah Akbar,'" Arabic for 'God is Great,' the affidavit said.

I wonder if they were just fooling around and making stupid jokes. What idiots would make a tape like that and then turn it into a store so others could see it? And who would target a military base for their attack? In other words -- targets who have massive amounts of firepower!! Doesn't sound like jihadist m.o. to me. In any case, the government is treating it seriously, as they should.

As the Carpetbagger Report says (citing someone else -- my are these blog things an endless rabbit hole of links!):

[T]oday’s success was due to intelligence gathering and law-enforcement efforts — the very techniques the Bush White House has consistently ridiculed as ineffective in counterterrorism. For that matter, as Steve M. noted, “[A]pparently no warrantless wiretapping led to these arrests, no torture of suspects in overseas prisons, nothing liberals have objected to in the Patriot Act. Remember that when you’re told that these arrests prove that we can’t trust liberals and Democrats.”

The author is also not sure, citing CNN and others, that these guys were all they're cracked up to me. Great chain cite of all the former "very serious plots" that failed to pan out once they were made public.

more on anti-Mexican machine gunners

Orcinus update on the plot of machine gun immigrants. Turns out they did a scouting run on... April 20!

who counts as a terrorist?

Firedoglake post about rightard Debbie Schlussel; she's quick to jump on the terrorist bandwagon, even when it's just some rednecks throwing homemade firecrackers. But they live in Dearborn, MI, and there are a lot of "Pakis" there.

Meanwhile, white guys are arrested for plotting to machine gun illegal immigrants. Right wing terror ftw!! (why the FoxNews link? ugh!)

I wonder if I should even keep track of these? Once you start linking to all reports of right-wing terrorism, you're going to use up all your link tokens pretty quick.

UPDATE: Sadly, No! also on the case.