for several threats on President Obama's life. In 2008, Jerry Blanchard, a Charlotte accountant,threatened to use a military sniper rifle to kill, kidnap and inflict bodily harm upon then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama.In 2009, two former Marines named Nicholas Daniel Hanke and Kody Brittingham werearrested for making death threatsagainst their commander-in-chief.In 2010, Joseph McVey, was being held on a charge ofgoing armed to the terror of the public after impersonating a police officer at the city's airport after President Obama flew out of town. Police said the suspect was driving a car that was made to look like a law enforcement vehicle with working lights, sirens and police scanner. McVey allegedly stated that he heard the president was in town and wanted to see him. In 2011, RobertFrank Ackerman of Cary, NC admitted he had threatened to travel to Washington, D.C., to kill the president.

All of the above suspects are white males. The author of the blog Race Relations, posits that the Mossad may be behind a future threat on Obama, with the actor being a white male, in order to deflect blame and incite racial tensions. He suggests that a likely venue would be the Democratic National Convention, to be held in Charlotte, North Carolina during September 2012 - and that the logo for the DNC is composed of Obama's head smack in the center of a bulls-eye.

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