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Kill the president
Who hunted Barack Obama
Kill the president. The prosecutor’s office in the US state of Georgia demanded the death penalty for three military personnel accused of preparing an assassination attempt on Barack Obama. The alleged conspirators are known about the alleged conspirators: some call them ultra -right, others - anarchists. And the bloggers found out that the main accused in 2008 worked at the Republican Party Congress. The New Times was versed in the details of the conspiracy
Barack Obama was taken under the defense of the US Secret Service in May 2007 - more than a year before his victory over Hillary Clinton on the presidential primaries of the Democratic Party. The reason for such an unusual decision was not particularly hidden: a black candidate with serious chances could become an object of attack by racist groups. During the reign of Obama, law enforcement agencies prevented about a dozen attempts on his life (and this is only those reported by the press), most of them were associated precisely with racial dislike for the Afro-American president.
Dangerous growth
According to the non-governmental organization “Southern Center for Legal Protection” (Southern Poverty Law Center), which monitors the manifestations of extremism and racial impatience, the number of ultra-right organizations in the United States grew up to 149 in 2008 until 1274 in 2011. Many of them have their own combat detachments. According to official information, these groups are responsible for the murder of six police officers since 2000; Last year, the FBI appropriated the status of “internal terrorists” ultra -right. “Members of these groups live“ the theories of the conspiracy, ”the expert of the“ Southern Center for Legal Protection of the Poor ”explains in a conversation with The New Times,“ many consider the Obama a secret Muslim, a native of Kenya (according to the constitution, the president should be born in the United States), a supporter of America’s transformation into a socialist state. ” The economic crisis also contributed to the growth of extreme moods. “For many extremists, President Obama has become a symbol of everything that is bad in our country,” the stream emphasizes.
However, among the 1274 officially taken into account the ultra -right organizations, there were no groups “forever persistent, always ready” (Forever Enduring Always Ready - abbreviated Fear, which means “fear”) suspected of preparing terrorist attacks, a coup d'etat and attempt on Barack Obama. It was her members at the end of August to court the state of Georgia. “They were not on our radars,” the expert admits.
Always ready
The organization supposedly consisted of five military personnel of the Third Infantry Division, deployed in Georgia at the Army Base Fort Stuart: Private Isaac Agigi, ordinary Christopher Salmon (who was helped by his wife), ordinary Michael Rurk, ordinary first class Michael Beriklinetta and sergeant Anthony Piden, awarded 16 medals and thanksgiving and thanksgiving. diplomas for service in Afghanistan.
The leader and sponsor of Fear, according to the prosecutor's office, was 19-year-old Agigi. Last year, his wife, who was pregnant in the sixth month, died under unclear circumstances (it was not possible to save the child). The investigation of this case, during which Agigi was questioned, continues to this day, but after the death of his wife he himself received an insurance payment of half a million dollars. Part of this amount ($ 87 thousand) was spent by alleged conspirators on the acquisition of weapons (including semi -automatic rifles) and explosives, which they kept in their apartments and in the storage room.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Fear’s plans included the capture of the Fort Stuart, conducting terrorist attacks in a Forsyt-Park in Savannah (Georgia) and on hydraulic operations in Washington, poisoning of apples in the same state, and then armed overthrow of the US government and the murder of President Obama. “Members of this internal terrorist organization not just talked and made plans,” explains Isabelle Polya Oblast Prosecutor Long County. “They had knowledge, opportunities and motive for the implementation of their plans.”
The supposed conspirators did not reach the president. But his former accomplice of Michael Rock, who refused to participate in the conspiracy, together with his 17-year-old friend Tiffany York on December 4, 2011, was shot in a forest near the Fort Start-from fears that they could give members of the group to the authorities. The district prosecutor's office of the county of Long-cows presented Agigi, Salmon and Piden's charges at 13 points. Among them: intentional murder, criminal activity as part of an organized group, an attack on aggravating circumstances and the use of firearms in the commission of a crime. According to the laws of Georgia, belonging to the “internal terrorist organization” is an additional aggravating circumstance. The prosecutors asked the Higher County Court to appoint all three punishment in the form of a death penalty (Salmon’s wife, who also accused of murder, would avoid deaths). The fourth member of Fear Michael Burnett made a deal with the investigation and agreed to testify against former colleagues in exchange for a less severe prosecution (intentional murder in mitigating circumstances), not implying higher punishment. Bernett has already pleaded guilty. 
Racists? Anarchists?
The initial messages in the press indicated the extreme focus of Fear: during the interrogations, the accused allegedly stated that "the president with a foreign name was not a place in the White House" and called their goal "to regain power to the American people." Left bloggers tried to connect the conspirators with the Republican Party: on the Internet a photograph of Isaac Agigi surfaced at the Republican Pre -Best Congress in September 2008, at which he worked as a voluntary assistant. “Right -wing politicians and commentators who called Obama a foreigner, a Muslim, an illegitimate president, a novice dictator, and created the conditions for the emergence of such an evil,” said Professor at the University of Michigan, the famous Left Juan Cole. “The Republicans are not to blame for the fact that there are crazy killers in their ranks ... But they are responsible for the injection of fear, demonization, hints and encrypted conversations on racial topics.”
"Wonderful! - the conservative blogger Dan Riel exclaimed with sarcastic, in absentia, parrying the arguments of Cole. - Journalists are probably already studying all articles and photographs to find a connection (conspirators) with the movement of tea drinking ” *** The movement of tea drinking is the coalition of the US right -wing public organizations, advocating restricting the role of the state in the economy and strictly opposing Obama administration ..
However, at preliminary hearings in the High Court of County of Long County, representatives of the prosecution did not mention the possible racist motives of the conspirators. Moreover, according to the prosecutors, the defendants did not call Barack Obama by name at all: it was about the abstract president of the United States. According to the deputy district prosecutor Isabel Poli, Fear members wore tattoos, "resembling a symbol of anarchy." The same symbol was applied to a weapon acquired by the group, together with the number of Antichrist (666) and the inscription "PLT" (reduction from Platoon - "platoon").
Deviation from the norm *
Perhaps the motives of the accused will be clarified during the consideration of the case on the merits. However, the terms of the process are not yet called. Due to the fact that the prosecutor's office demanded the sentence of Agigi, Salmon and Peden to the death penalty, they must appoint lawyers with experience in such cases. Until this moment, judge Robert Russell, the leading process, cannot even ask the defendants if they find themselves guilty. The lawyer Keith Higgins, representing the interests of Isaac Agigi at preliminary hearings, said that the prosecutor's office "had not yet presented any evidence." “The fact that someone makes some statements does not mean that the accusations are true,” the defender said.
The White House, which traditionally does not comment on issues related to the alleged attempts on the president, did not react to the lawsuit in Georgia. Politicians and the military, meanwhile, do everything so that the shadow of the alleged conspiracy does not lie down on the entire army. The official representative of the Fort Stuart base Kevin Larson emphasized that the facility “does not have the problem of criminal groups” and that, according to army investigators, Fear did not have other members. “It is anxious to hear what these people were and what they planned to do,” the mayor of Heinsville (next to this city is the Fort Stuart base), Jim Thomas, in turn. - But these unbalanced faces do not represent all the soldiers. This is a deviation from the norm. "