Obama's Safety

[Glenn]

Man held in Fla. on charge of threatening Obama

By CURT ANDERSON, AP Legal Affairs Writer
20 minutes ago

MIAMI - A man who authorities said was keeping weapons and military-style gear in his hotel room and car appeared in court Thursday on charges he threatened to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Raymond Hunter Geisel, 22, was arrested by the Secret Service on Saturday in Miami and was ordered held at Miami's downtown detention center without bail Thursday by a federal magistrate.

A Secret Service affidavit charges that Geisel made the threat during a training class for bail bondsmen in Miami in late July. According to someone else in the 48-member class, Geisel allegedly referred to Obama with a racial epithet and continued, "If he gets elected, I'll assassinate him myself."

Obama was most recently in Florida on Aug. 1-2 but did not visit the South Florida area.

Another person in the class quoted Geisel as saying that "he hated George W. Bush and that he wanted to put a bullet in the president's head," according to the Secret Service.

Geisel denied in a written statement to a Secret Service agent that he ever made those threats, and the documents don't indicate that he ever took steps to carry out any assassination. He was charged only with threatening Obama, the presumptive Democratic nominee, but not for any threat against President Bush.

Geisel's court-appointed attorney declined comment.

In the interview with a Secret Service agent, Geisel said "if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking," according to court documents.

A search of Geisel's 1998 Ford Explorer and hotel room in Miami uncovered a loaded 9mm handgun, knives, dozens of rounds of ammunition including armor-piercing types, body armor, military-style fatigues and a machete. The SUV was wired with flashing red and yellow emergency lights.

Geisel told the Secret Service he was originally from Bangor, Maine, and had been living recently in a houseboat in the Florida Keys town of Marathon, according to court documents. He said he used the handgun for training for the bail bondsman class, had the knives for protection and used the machete to cut brush in Maine.

In the affidavit, the Secret Service said Geisel told agents that he suffered from psychiatric problems including post-traumatic stress disorder, but he couldn't provide the names of any facilities where he sought treatment.

I'm still pretty much convinced that somebody's going to make a serious run at taking BO out.

I can almost visualize it happening and it's really disturbing.

[Wizzle]

In the interview with a Secret Service agent, Geisel said "if he wanted to kill Senator Obama he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking," according to court documents.

good one......jackass

[xanadu]

As I wrote in the general election thread, the new mccain ads dovetail with evangelical dipshits writing about obama as being the antichrist. I live in the south, and most evangelicals are mindless zombies that will do whatever their pastor tells them. Rile them up enough to believe obama is the antichrist and it is almost certain that one of them will take a shot at him.

[Tahoe]

^ LOL

[Tahoe]

Looks like maybe we need a JM's Safety thread too.

[Black Dynamite]

Looks like maybe we need a JM's Safety thread too.

Nobody cares about that old fuck, sorry Wouldn't be surprised if he threatened his own safety for attention.

[Glenn]

At least McCain has plenty of places to hide.

[Black Dynamite]

At least McCain has plenty of places to hide.

Yea, like inside scrotum sack where his balls used to be before his advisers cut them off.

[Glenn]

I thinking more about his houses.

[Uncle Mxy]

Looks like maybe we need a JM's Safety thread too.

Given some of the comments after this post, I agree with Tahoe.