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420inTN Donating Member (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 03:45 PM
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Skinheads: State says hearing on plot wastes time
Source: AP

Associated Press - January 6, 2009 2:14 PM ET

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) - Federal prosecutors in West Tennessee say two men charged with threatening President-elect Barack Obama are wasting time with claims they were improperly indicted.

Twenty-year-old Daniel Cowart of Bells, Tenn., and 18-year-old Paul Schlesselman of Helena-West Helena, Ark., are charged with planning a killing spree that would target black people and end with an attack on Obama.

The two contend they were indicted by a federal grand jury with too few white people on it and the charges against them should be thrown out.

In a filing Monday with the federal court in Jackson, prosecutors said Cowart and Schlesselman have no legal grounds for such a claim and holding a hearing on their arguments would be a waste of time.

Read more: http://www.wreg.com/global/story.asp?s=9625556
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 03:53 PM
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1. justice is a dish best served cold
you boys will be just fine in the prison aryan brotherhood.....
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Idealism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 03:54 PM
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2. Jury of your peers- meaning american or just caucasian?
If it means Americans, like these two, well white people aren't the majority they were years gone by...
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goforit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 04:00 PM
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3. Nothing worse than whining white-trash.
These guys need a life time of community service.
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notadmblnd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 04:01 PM
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4. Daniel cowart was a member of th Supreme White Alliance (SWA)
A group that was formed by Steven Edwards. Edwards is the son of Ron Edwards, who served as the imperial wizard, or national leader of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), who has since resigned as a result of a successful lawsuit by the Southern Poverty law Center (SPLC). The SPLC is moving to seize Edwards interest in the IKA's compound in Dawson Springs, Ky. and will likely put the IKA out of business.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 04:05 PM
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5. SPLC newsletter was in my mail at noon. Story ties Daniel Cowart to the skinhead group known as
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proud progressive Donating Member (358 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 04:39 PM
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6. i may have to root for baltimore this weekend
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420inTN Donating Member (803 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-06-09 06:16 PM
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7. Right. Because there are no idiots or racists in Maryland
:eyes:
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