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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: deaththreats; obama; oppression; protection; secretservice; threats; usss
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To: Ronbo1948

Back in Bush's day...you only had to go as far as the "mainstream" media to find the threats.

81 posted on 10/18/2009 9:57:02 AM PDT by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: equaviator

I was thinking the very same thing BUMP!


82 posted on 10/18/2009 10:01:01 AM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: The Comedian

The Goverment will do anything to protect itself, including finding some dupe to attempt to carry out attacks so it can stop them ans then tell the people “Look, we stopped a attack by some right wing militia type. We are here to protect your rights. So we will now do XYZ to prevent more attacks”
I didnt trust GWHB with the patriot act, and I sure as hell dont trust the Kenyian with it.


83 posted on 10/18/2009 10:02:29 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Ronbo1948

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365066/posts

PLEASE SEE POST 8,9,10

You are correct. I am already experiencing something like this, I believe.


84 posted on 10/18/2009 10:06:00 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: dools007

Interesting .... do you think if Hitler was assasinated that he would have become a martyr?


85 posted on 10/18/2009 10:06:52 AM PDT by expatguy (Support "An American Expat in Southeast Asia" - DONATE)
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To: Canedawg
Here they are:


86 posted on 10/18/2009 10:09:13 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Ronbo1948

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365066/posts

PLEASE SEE POST 8,9,10


87 posted on 10/18/2009 10:14:29 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: joesjane; equaviator

“....this list could get really long.”

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Yale, Harvard....


88 posted on 10/18/2009 10:19:11 AM PDT by EyeGuy
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To: Ronbo1948
Indeed.

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,

Why is it that a legit opposition threatened by ACORN and Obama does not receive the same kind of protection?

Something is screwed up in our system. Does that mean an elected opposition would get no protection from the SS?

89 posted on 10/18/2009 10:20:44 AM PDT by JudgemAll (control freaks, their world & their problem with my gun and my protecting my private party)
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To: Yorlik803

When I lived in Orlando, Florida back in 2007, I saw first hand the vast and powerful right wing racist militia in action - the American Nazis, in fact.

Yes, the Nationalist Socialist hordes of 23 - that’s RIGHT! - twenty-three Nazis invaded downtown Orlando in a well guarded march by over 2,000 hardcore armored riot police.

OUTRAGE!

SHOCK!

5,000 Leftard counter demonstrators complete with scores of arrests!

THE HORROR! THE HORROR! WHITE RACISM ON SHAMELESS DISPLAY!

Then six months later the truth comes out - The leader and organizer of the Nazi March was an FBI agent. One wonders how many of the “Nazi Marchers” were also members of the FBI. We do know that two “Nazis” were Leftard “journalists.”


90 posted on 10/18/2009 10:22:46 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: Ronbo1948

We had a bunch of these balloon heads show up for a rally here in Pittsburgh. I think there was like 50 of the finest Skinheads and Kluxers who braved the cold to tell everyone why the Jews and black caused them to lose thier jobs as greeters at WALMART or something. I wasnt really paying attenion because I think a TV station had a three stooges marathon.
There were more lefties that showed up than the moron racists.


91 posted on 10/18/2009 10:27:34 AM PDT by Yorlik803 ( Better to die on your feet than live on your knees.)
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To: Ronbo1948

I believe I am already experiencing something like this.

I have a “PROFESSIONAL STALKER” entering my home numerous times this last week. Not stealing anything other than my planner out of my purse in my bedroom. They are capable of entering through a deadbolt in the front door.

They have placed things in the middle of my floor while I was asleep.

This after I got really busy with my cyber activity in the last two months. (I worked as a conservative activist for a few years around 2002-2004.) I worked against Janet Napolitano and the EnvironMental Movement.

Be very careful what you say and who you say it to, I have reports of fellow conservatives having their guns taken away after internet activity. (One was an 80 year old man!)


92 posted on 10/18/2009 10:29:34 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

Shocking!

And some people think we don’t need a Second American Revolution and a damn good house cleaning of traitors afterward.


93 posted on 10/18/2009 10:30:49 AM PDT by Ronbo1948
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To: timetostand

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365066/posts

PLEASE SEE POST 8,9,10

You are correct!


94 posted on 10/18/2009 10:38:28 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: puppypusher

I have been targeted by a PROFESSIONAL STALKER since I increased my attempts to educate/inform the public regarding the OBAMA problems.

I increased my cyber activity through blogs, Smart Girl Politics, twitter, facebook, Conservative Outpost, FR. Now I have had someone in my house at least 4 times in the last week. They are able to get in through a deadbolt-even after I changed out the locks. I have reported this to the police, twice in the last week.


95 posted on 10/18/2009 10:42:32 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: Ronbo1948

I am sure that all legitimate contributers to FR have a file somwhere in the inner sanctum of the current white house occupants government. God help the USA


96 posted on 10/18/2009 10:42:51 AM PDT by jesseam (Been there, done that)
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To: azkathy

wtf? stay safe and stay armed.


97 posted on 10/18/2009 10:48:24 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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To: Tunehead54

You are correct.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2361341/posts

Please see my conerns.

I am testing to see if I will be arrested for “free speech.”


98 posted on 10/18/2009 10:49:20 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: My Favorite Headache

I am armed and in a safe place.

I had a law enforcement official tell me yesterday that the terror map I linked from The investigative project on terrorism is “about right.”

If I disappear from FR posting, watch for a court case about this because I am going to ramp up my “free speech, efforts to inform the public.” If I get arrested for free speech, people around me are instructed to get me a “damn good attorney.”

Also, I have a spotless record, never been arrested or charged with anything other than one ticket for going through a red light. If they come after me, you can be sure I won’t be the only one.

This is my opinion and this is still America Free speech is NOT illegal!


99 posted on 10/18/2009 10:57:38 AM PDT by azkathy (OBAMA IS WEARING OUT MY CAPS LOCK!!!)
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To: azkathy

I’ll be lookin out for you.


100 posted on 10/18/2009 10:58:45 AM PDT by My Favorite Headache
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