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Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats
The Boston Globe ^ | October 18, 2009 | Bryan Bender

Posted on 10/18/2009 7:53:10 AM PDT by Ronbo1948

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

The Secret Service is tracking a far broader range of possible threats to the nation’s leaders, the officials said, even as it also investigates financial crimes such as counterfeiting as part of its original mandate.

The new demands are leading some officials, both inside and outside the agency, to raise the possibility of the service curtailing or dropping its role in fighting financial crime to focus more on protecting leaders and their families from assassination attempts and thwarting terrorist plots aimed at high-profile events.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deaththreats; obama; oppression; protection; secretservice; threats; usss
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To: Ronbo1948
a rise in racist hate groups

I'm throwing the BS flag.

41 posted on 10/18/2009 8:23:28 AM PDT by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: John.Galt2012

You know how you can look for a goverment informent in a militia or conservative blog?
You look for the person who wants to kill the president or overthrow the goverment and is vocal about it. Chances are he is the one offering to make bombs or sell illegal weapons.
If the goverment was concerned about terrorists, they would go after Eco Terrorists like ELF or ALF. Most polictal violence comes from the left.


42 posted on 10/18/2009 8:24:10 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Ronbo1948

Yep, that’s the case. I’d hide under the bed, but the dust bunnies are mean.


43 posted on 10/18/2009 8:24:33 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: RC one

someone needs to throw a show at Obama.... You are right. How about “Cats” ?


44 posted on 10/18/2009 8:24:54 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: Ronbo1948
"Secret Service strained as leaders face more threats...according to government officials and reports"

government officials? As in reports from the Obama White House? I don't believe this story for a minute.

45 posted on 10/18/2009 8:27:13 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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To: RC one
someone needs to throw a show at Obama.

I'm thinking "Springtime for Hitler".


46 posted on 10/18/2009 8:29:03 AM PDT by Lazamataz (DEFINITION: rac-ist (rA'sis't) 1. Anyone who disagrees with a liberal about any topic.)
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To: Safetgiver

Provocations?

Yes, I would imagine that most of the real threats against Obama are made by Leftards with the express purpose of providing rationalization for Administration “Czars” who want to create a STASI style secret police force charged with suppression of free speech and armed with the force of the federal government.

Come to think of it: Maybe Obama himself is behind the campaign?

After all, Hitler ordered the burning of the Reichstag in order to crush the communists.


47 posted on 10/18/2009 8:29:48 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Lazamataz

Come on now, George Soros would never bankroll a Broadway satire about Obama and if a conservative tried to, he’d be run out of the country as a, “RACIST!”


48 posted on 10/18/2009 8:36:08 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Ronbo1948
the Obama Administration is in the process changing the dual mission of the U.S. Secret Service, which also investigates certain financial crimes, to a single "protective" mission with President Obama the focus of a new Praetorian Guard. Of course, the real deal here is the creation of an American version of the STASI (former East German secret police) that will be charged with the suppression of all critics of Obama and the government.

I think the stats on turnover in the SS since January would be interesting.

How many agents have resigned, how many have been transferred out of D.C. and how many New Black Panthers have been added.

That might be an interesting subject for Andrew Breitbart's people to delve into.

49 posted on 10/18/2009 8:39:40 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with ACORN's help.)
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To: John.Galt2012; jjw
Re illegality of hate groups - looks like soon we may all be designated hate group members ... ;-(

Eric Holder: Bloggers and People I Pick are Hate Group Members

Follow the links on Alcee Hastings Amendment ...

50 posted on 10/18/2009 8:41:25 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Canedawg
Oh my, this sounds like a job for...

the civilian security force!!

Just as strong, just as powerful, just as well-funded as the miltary!

/S

That was my first thought, too. Prepare in the next week or two for Chairman Obama to announce exactly this.

Note: no /S

51 posted on 10/18/2009 8:42:46 AM PDT by fullchroma (Obama: GET OUT OF MY DOCTOR'S OFFICE!)
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To: Ronbo1948

I read, or heard, Friday that the “quotes” from Rush’s Wikepedia profile (all lies and made up) came from an ISP from the White House.


52 posted on 10/18/2009 8:47:36 AM PDT by Safetgiver (I'd rather die under a free American sky than live under a Socialist regime.)
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To: SmokingJoe
I first googled "threat Obama arrest" to get an idea how many actual arrests were being made ... got 4.4 million hits! ;-) But then a google news search got only 800+ hits with lots not actually obama threats.

There was this guy however that seems to qualify ...

Del Norte man indicted for allegedly threatening to kill Obama

53 posted on 10/18/2009 8:49:02 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here ;-)
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To: Ronbo1948; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...

The list, ping


54 posted on 10/18/2009 8:49:14 AM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Ronbo1948

Why is it we are hearing more about Obama being in danger than any other POTUS?


55 posted on 10/18/2009 8:49:50 AM PDT by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: Ronbo1948

“...Hitler ordered the burning of the Reichstag in order to crush the communists.”

Anti-communists in America = As bad, if not worse than Hitler?


56 posted on 10/18/2009 8:50:54 AM PDT by equaviator ("There's a (datum) plane on the horizon coming in...see it?")
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To: greyfoxx39

A friend of mine in San Francisco reported hearing several SS agents from Obama’s protective detail talking in bar recently, and they were full of complaints about not being paid for overtime, being overworked and stressed out.

When the agents finally departed after about five rounds of drinks, the bar girl complained that they didn’t leave a tip.


57 posted on 10/18/2009 8:52:02 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: EyeGuy

Don’t forget the ACLU, this list could get really long.


58 posted on 10/18/2009 8:54:39 AM PDT by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: Ronbo1948
When the agents finally departed after about five rounds of drinks, the bar girl complained that they didn’t leave a tip.

Probably needed the money to pay for their own transportation back home.

59 posted on 10/18/2009 8:57:04 AM PDT by greyfoxx39 (ObaMugabe is turning this country into another Zimbabwe as fast as he can with ACORN's help.)
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