“The Secret Service has increasingly cut corners after it was absorbed by the new Homeland Security Department under Mr Bush. Kessler said that when Mr Biden threw the first pitch at the first Baltimore Orioles game of the 2009 season, the Secret Service did not screen any of the more than 40,000 fans, stunning his agents and the local Secret Service field office.” (Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north…)

And even assuming that organized groups who are leaving electronic and paper trails are fairly easy to keep tabs on, how about lone deranged individuals who turn out to be more than talk?

All respect to the author of this piece, but I think we are being naive if we are *not* concerned.

“The Secret Service has increasingly cut corners after it was absorbed by the new Homeland Security Department under Mr Bush. Kessler said that when Mr Biden threw the first pitch at the first Baltimore Orioles game of the 2009 season, the Secret Service did not screen any of the more than 40,000 fans, stunning his agents and the local Secret Service field office.” (Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north…)

And even assuming that organized groups who are leaving electronic and paper trails are fairly easy to keep tabs on, how about lone deranged individuals who turn out to be more than talk?

All respect to the author of this piece, but I think we are being naive if we are *not* concerned.

Only folks who have access to read his online diary know the truth, as it is simply not being addressed by the media.

Reminds me of how the fellow Johns who was murdered was an afterthought because it was at the Holocaust museum…it was a Jewish discrimination issue not hatred of blacks as well.

Is the media's lack of focus on the rising hatred of blacks a tactic to not spread the flames or is it a tactic to let it flourish unacknowledged?

Muzikal, there is no way on god'sgreen earth that you can be this incredibly naive.

Why would you say that racists were a minority, what objective evidence do you have to support such a notion. Surely you were born when 'reverse' discrimination was the cry? Could there objectively be any such thing or was this not racism? Simply because the laws changed that made racism legally does not in any way support the idea that somehow racism is not alive and thriving amongst the majority of whites in America.

As MLK said to those who claim that the laws could not change people's hearts&minds, when they opposed the civil rights laws…MLK replied…the law may not change people's hearts but it will restrain the heartless.

So, Muzikal…racism is not ever the minority in this country. It lives on in people's hearts and they still teach it to their children.

I repeat, we MUST monitor these Glen Beck's and all messengers of destruction…and action MUST be taken.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/greg-mitchell/med…

That's why I've never taken these looney threats that seriously. Now, with society in general , I'm surprised I don't have grenades strapped for the ready using firing pins as jewelry…ROFL!!!

There was, however, something that struck me about a post over at Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog today: “The worry isn't that Obama will get killed–it's that a lot of other people will get killed because these thugs can't get to Obama.”

That, I think, is a whole different issue…