This horror is being posted on comments lists around the net:

[nolabear]

I just found this stunning, though I should be jaded by now. This in the comments section for CNN's article on the Cannes Film Festival. The poster, Visit_Aesops_Retreat, has hundreds of posts on the Fox site according to the profile, and quite a number on many others. I doubt he's the only one, and that's damned scary.

If you have the stomach for it, it's worth visiting the Canada Free Press site. The crazy there is frighteningly organized and thorough. The fact that the things posted are insane, conspiracy theory lies isn't even a comfort. I fear who might be influenced, and what they might do. The post reads as follows:

WARNING:

The Obama agents, through the DHS and other assorted colluders, are plotting a major ‘Reichstag’ event to generate racial riots and produce the justification for martial law, delaying the November 2012 elections, possibly indefinitely, a DHS whistleblower informed the Canada Free Press on Tuesday.The ‘Reichstag Event’ would take the form of a staged assassination attempt against Barack Obama, “carefully choreographed” and manufactured by Obama operatives. It would subsequently be blamed on “white supremacists” and used to enrage the black community to rioting and looting, the DHS source warned.

[randome]

1. Any time I see the phrase 'around the net', I start by assuming it's nonsense.

And the vast majority of people know it's nonsense so I wouldn't worry.

[cindyperry2010]

2. What utter fucking nonsense but these

idiots eat that crap up

[snooper2]

3. I wouldn't worry about the Alex Jones crackpots out there...

Enjoy a cookie and don't worry about it LOL

Like this!

[Blue_Tires]

4. That's it?

The RW nutters usually have more imagination and creativity than this...I clicked into this expecting something really entertaining

[sufrommich]

5. It's important to point and laugh at these people

anywhere they show up on the internet.

[hifiguy]

6. Hat's on too tight.

[Brickbat]

7. And now it's posted here!

[randr]

8. This is the sort of fear mongering I hope the DHS would expose and prosecute-nc

[gratuitous]

9. When any of your online acquaintances bring this up . . .

BY ALL MEANS save it and put a reminder to yourself to bring this up to them every six weeks or so. "How's your Reichstag event coming? Is it martial law yet? Looks like the November elections are still on. Guess the Obama operatives better get their collective rear in gear, don't you think?"

If someone is stupid enough to believe this, it's going to take a good deal of reminding to get them to learn even a tiny bit. So don't feel bad if they squawk about how you're taunting them, that's just ignorance leaving their brain.

[TalkingDog]

10. And?

A variation of that rumor was floating around DU when Shrub was running against Obama.

Tell me something that's news = NEW.

[Odin2005]

12. Doh, you beat me!

[GeorgeGist]

26. Where did you hear the rumor that ...

Shrub was running against Obama.

[Odin2005]

11. This sounds like what a few here were saying in 2008 with Chimpy.

Saying that he would use a staged incident to declare martial law and cancel elections.

Mental Illness knows no political boundaries.

[SidDithers]

14. +1...nt

Sid

[yodermon]

13. SS should investigate, this is a backhanded threat against POTUS n/t

[JNelson6563]

15. Looks legit.

[nolabear]

16. Good to know it's old news. Next time tell me with less snark, please.

I thought it interesting and alarming and am glad to know it's been done out of my awareness before. I am, however, not an idiot.

[wandy]

17. This is common right wing garbage found on various RW blogs and forums.....

Sometimes it's worded differently. One popular variant involves massive race wars, and so on and so forth on into the night.
Remember that the RW, especially the teabuggers are rugged individuals and brave patriot Americans who occasionally need to be be motivated by their herd leaders by use of fear.
Is my contempt for repugs showing?

[RZM]

18. Tinfoil nonsense tends to pop up more around elections. At least I think it does

Remember how Bush and Cheney were going to refuse to leave office and throw dissidents in FEMA camps?

And then loons on the other end simply co-opted the FEMA camp bullshit wholesale and changed Bush's name to Obama once he was in office.

This is the same thing. It's stupid nonsense.

[bluedigger]

19. Looks like spamming to promote a Glenn Beck fansite.

A small (<300 members) and pathetic little forum, too, if I do say so.

[RevStPatrick]

20. Yeah, Clinton did something similar...

And so did both Bushes.
Don't you remember when that happened?

Same old same old...

[Hatchling]

21. New variation on an old theme.

It' more or less fear of the government, this year it's tailored for Obama.

There has been talk of martial law and Fema camps in the survivalist camp at least since I came on the internet in around 2000. Doesn't matter who the President is, the Mysterious powers that be, often member of groups that start with "B" or "I" are going to declare Martial law, take our guns and rights away, and put us all in camps.

I do have to admit that for some of that Woo section of the internet Obama makes it scarier.

[edbermac]

22. Charles Manson was right: Helter Skelter is coming down!

But I guess you have to be a raving psychotic to believe this crap.

[Woody Woodpecker]

23. Godwin's law applies here.

I stopped reading the OP after "Reichstag fire" - any Nazi crap used for argument ends right there.

[cr8tvlde]

24. First thing that came to mind was the Old Ronald Reagan punch line

...There ya go again."

[MineralMan]

25. What is amazing is that people believe such things.

Even more amazing is that so many people believe such things.

It doesn't speak well for the intelligence of internet users, I think.

[Wounded Bear]

27. Already pre-loading the after election paranoia....

Why would Obama and his people do anything like this? This election should be a bloodbath.

Sure there's lots of work to do, but I'm guessing landslide of epic proportions.