Reply #54: Right. Already behind bars. Being tried. No longer a threat.

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The meth heads who want to kill Obama are a little different, because even though they too are behind bars, they also just got picked up and they did have weapons and they did have a (very fuddled) plan of action, and this guy wants to keep his job and keep the public from thinking that the local law enforcement, FBI, and Secret Service were not on top of the attempt the entire time. I am not making any excuses, I'm just saying from a human perspective that what an attorney general says about a guy he has in jail for making death threats and what he says about a group of drug addicts that were just arrested for an imminent assassination attempt on the Democratic Candidate are not going to be the same. Right now he is probably thinking "damage control" whereas with the other guy he had the luxury of explaining why he was prosecuting him for making death threats, and why death threats are not protected political speech. Not really the same bag of cats.

Thanks for the freeper comment though, very mature.