As it happened, they had no malice towards the president. That wave of opprobrium culminated in the Oklahoma bombing in which 168 died and 680 more were injured. For a Whiter future for our children." But then he adds: "It only takes one to get through. ... "In Obama, we have a president … Travis McAdam has been tracking such activity for the last two decades on behalf of the Montana Human Rights Network, so has a unique vantage point for what is going on today. How long will the footprints on the moon last? Obama rides in a Cadillac with military grade eight-inch thick doors; on election night in November 2008 he gave his victory speech to a crowd of almost a quarter of a million people from behind bullet-proof glass walls designed to foil sniper attacks. It took on the might of the Ku Klux Klan, and was duly rewarded by having its offices razed and its senior lawyers targeted for assassination. He flew to Britain to attend a fundraising meeting at a private house in Windsor for Democrats Abroad. The white supremacists and anti-government militia who are out to get the president should not be underestimated, he says. The original omitted the photograph's location. Does Jerry Seinfeld have Parkinson's disease? His wife Hillary is a frontrunner to win the Democrats' presidential nomination. "We know there has been a spike in activity across a broad range of things, particularly with regard to the notion that this  government is illegitimate," says Brian Levin, a criminologist who heads the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University. ", Chip Berlet, an analyst of rightwing extremism at the Massachusetts-based group Political Research Associates, estimates that there have been nine murders by individuals who have white supremacist, xenophobic or antisemitic leanings since the inauguration of Obama. According to the book “Historical Records of the Governor General's Body Guards”, published in 1910, the maximum strength of the unit was 529 all ranks on 12 Feb 1844, just before the first Sikh War. What is the rising action of faith love and dr lazaro? "From al-Qaida's view, to assassinate the president would be very desirable," says Yehudit Barsky, a terrorism specialist at the American Jewish Committee. There's no margin for error.". 21 January 2009: The day after Obama's inauguration, a white man is arrested in  Massachusetts, having allegedly killed two black immigrants and injured a third. But al-Qaida experts point out that the closest the group has come to a direct attack on the president was 9/11 itself. Copyright © 2020 Multiply Media, LLC. Judged by modern security standards, the shooting of John F Kennedy in Dallas on 22 November 1963 should for several reasons never have happened. "I've already gone out and increased our life insurance on [Barack]," she quipped. "You just can't be too careful!" But as the Southern Poverty Law Center survey shows, the issue of safety and the 44th president remains anything but a laughing matter.