Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The United States federal government had two young men in the state of Tennessee arrested on October 22 on unknown charges.
In court documents published on Monday, it came to light that the men had discussed attacking an African-american school and killing 14 of them.
Another crime was about planning to murder Presidential candidate Barack Obama. According to their affidavits, the suspects’ “final act of violence” would be when they attacked Obama while wearing white suits and top hats and driving “their vehicle as fast as theycould toward Obama shooting at him from the windows.”
The two suspects are Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Arkansas and Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tennessee. According to the court papers, they met last month over the Internet through a friend. Schlesselman and Cowart are believed to share “very strong views” about White Power.
Schlesselman listed “being racist” as his occupation on his Myspace page. He further wrote: “I’m white. I’m proud. I get angry. I like guns.”
Cowart also had a Myspace page on which photos of guns were presented under a heading of “My Guns”. On his page he wrote, “Better to die quick fighting on your feet than to live forever begging on your knees.”
Some have questioned the pair’s ability to carry out the charged plan, but authorities have been very concerned about Obama as the first black presidential candidate from a major party.
“We honestly don’t know if they had the ability or the skill to carry out the kind of plan that they talked about,” said Malcolm Wiley, of the United States Secret Service in an interview with The New York Times. “But we take any threat seriously no matter how big or how small it is.”
Cowart and schlesselman are scheduled to appear before a judge on Thursday.

2008年10月29日星期三
美国联邦政府接到匿名举报于10月22日逮捕了田纳西州的两名年轻男子。
在星期一公开发布的法庭文件中，明确谈到该两名年轻男子袭击了一所非裔美籍学校并造成14人死亡。
另一名犯罪分子曾经计划谋杀总统后选人巴拉克奥巴马。据嫌疑人的证词，嫌疑犯的“终极暴力行动”是他们穿白色西装和黑礼帽并且开车“驾驶速度需要可以使他们在车窗后面向奥巴马射击”
两名嫌疑人分别是啊肯色洲赫勒拿西部18岁的保罗 斯科莱瑟尔曼和田纳西州20岁的丹尼尔 科瓦特。根据法庭文件记录，二人是上个月通过一个朋友在网上遇到的。斯科莱瑟尔曼和科瓦特彼此信任，互相分享对白种人权利的强势态度。斯科莱瑟尔曼在他的个人空间上写“种族歧视”是他的职业，后面写道“我是白人，我非常骄傲。我很愤怒，我喜欢枪支”科瓦特也有一个个人空间，在“我的枪”标题下面充斥着各种枪支的照片。他在他的主页上写道“用的的双脚去战斗，即便是迅速死亡也好过靠乞讨来获得永生”一些人对这两人执行谋杀计划的能力持怀疑态度，但是当局非常关心来自主要政党的第一个黑人总统后选人奥巴马。“我们根本不知道他们是否有能力来完成他们所谓的计划”美国特勤局马尔科姆 威利在接受纽约时报采访时说。“但是我们无论大小，一律严肃处理”。斯科莱瑟尔曼和科瓦特将于星期三出庭受审。