re: #366 Ezekiel

Forgive me for actually posting useful information about the two men charged in this plot. I know the Cowart kid, his mother, stepfather, and grandparents. While they certainly had grandiose plans for killing Obama, they couldn’t even pull off an armed robbery of a local senior citizen or shooting up an African American church after midnight without getting nabbed. The only serious threat they ever posed was to themselves. This was nothing more than a couple of rubes who found a common link to friendship in the hatred of blacks. They were certainly not a serious threat to the POTUS. That said, lock em up and throw away the key….if for no other reason than being morons.

So they’re racists. And their plot revolved not around a political ideology, but rather by their shared racism.

So can we dispense with the attempt to use these two wackos as examples of rightwing extremism, and just call them what they are: racist wackos?