The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama Death Squads Targeting Gun Rights Activists

[Drale]

What do you get when you combine the president's ability to secretly kill American citizens and the recent push to restrict gun access? One of the most bizarre anti-Obama conspiracy theories ever—and it takes a lot to win that prize.

Various tea party activists, libertarian websites and other conspiracy-minded Obama haters are claiming that Russian security forces have discovered that Obama is about to unleash "death squads" across America to assassinate defenders of the Second Amendment. According to Liberty.com, one of the sites perpetuating this latest story, Russian intelligence has outlined the whole nefarious plot in a memo for President Vladimir Putin, detailing the Obama's administration's dispatch of "VIPER teams...which is the acronym for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team, a programme run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and whose agents terrify millions of Americans with Nazi-like Gestapo tactics on a daily basis at airports and who report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."

Liberty.com (run by a Florida tea party leader), which echoes the theory promoted by similar sites, maintains that these teams—800 of them, to be precise—are set to "disperse throughout his country in preparation for what Russian intelligence analysts are predicting to be a series of high-profile killings of dissident Americans set to begin as soon as February 22nd." Obama has apparently been emboldened to launch such an operation by the recent federal court ruling upholding his right to kill American citizens with drone strikes without explaining why.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/02/obama-sending-death-squads-after-gun-rights-activists

These people are as Un-American as it gets. They are more willing to believe something they claim is from Russia, America's biggest enemy 25 years ago but they still refuse to believe the President was not born in this country. I think there needs to be extensive study done of the chemicals, drugs and damage in these peoples brains. Perhaps then we could help the next generation avoid such a pitiful existence.

[rbixby]

1. I think they're forgetting who set all those up in the first place NT

[JDPriestly]

2. This kind of nutty theory is a predictable response to the secrecy of our government.

That is why the secrecy is so wrong.

If we humans are kept out of the inner circle that is provided facts, we make up facts, scenarios, explanations, theories of our own. That's what we do.

That's why we have religions -- to explain the secrets that nature, God, the universe, our minds keep from us.

So of course, since our government is so secretive (and it is), we make up all kinds of magical explanations for the obvious injustice or incompetence we see around us.

Our minds do not accept not knowing.

Our government does not understand that fact.