President Obama Lynched By Far Right Wing Secret Service Members

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2009. A group of neo-nazi far right wing Secret Service members disgruntled by the fact that they have a black president. They conspire to kidnap Obama in the middle of the night and hang him from a tree in front of the White House.

What would be the reaction worldwide? The first black president being lynched 1900's style?
 
2009. A group of neo-nazi far right wing Secret Service members disgruntled by the fact that they have a black president. They conspire to kidnap Obama in the middle of the night and hang him from a tree in front of the White House.

What would be the reaction worldwide? The first black president being lynched 1900's style?

The world never finds out, as I'm assuming the Secret Service can manage a simple background check and decide radical racists are probably not people they want among their ranks.
 
If the Secret Service is incompetent beyond B movie scenario, how bad is the rest of government and alphabet soup agencies? Thus the rest of the world starts plotting against USA becouse it is protected by people who make Keystone cops look good.
 
I'm reminded of the Indian Prime Minister being assassinated by her body guards. Politics germane to the situation contributed to that, & those circumstances are far from occurring in the US.

A lone nutcase is possible, close to ASB, but possible.
 
Probably Secret Service can watch whom it is taking to protecting presidents so there hardly can be very many right-wing racist people. And hardly there is very large conspiracy. Perhaps few SS member could do such plot and even this is unlikely.

But even few of members are able commit such act, them would be soon arrested and sentenced to death. And there would be investigation how in the hell this was possible. There would be several conspiracy theories like JFK and probably Obama would be martyred in such level that even Trump would be quiet about Obama's birth origin.
 
Not a snowballs chance in Hell. The Secret Service and it's agents are pro's and they take protecting the President seriously, regardless of politics or ethnicity. They are not going to overturn an election and commit a death penalty offense out of spite.

This has no basis in reality...
 
Not a snowballs chance in Hell. The Secret Service and it's agents are pro's and they take protecting the President seriously, regardless of politics or ethnicity. They are not going to overturn an election and commit a death penalty offense out of spite.

This has no basis in reality...

Yeah, this is more likely to happen with ICE than the Secret Service.
 

Anchises

Banned
2009. A group of neo-nazi far right wing Secret Service members disgruntled by the fact that they have a black president. They conspire to kidnap Obama in the middle of the night and hang him from a tree in front of the White House.

What would be the reaction worldwide? The first black president being lynched 1900's style?

Well this is unrealistic.

A 1900s style lynching is just over the top and bizarre.

What could work (and even that is Close to ASB land):

Someone qualified enough to join the Secret Service that has radicalized as a lone wolf. He has covered his tracks online and never voiced his oppinion.

He joins the Secret Service and at some point murders Obama.

A scenario grounded in reality would probably something that is similar to Reagan's assasination attempt. Or something inspired by Lee Harvey Oswald.

The consequences would be dire.

Massive racial violence, all extremists would use this to massively mobilize and probably a MASSIVE nationwide crackdown on the far right.
 
Like some others say, maybe more of the work of a rogue lone wolf ex SS man, but OF a member? That sounds a little too far fetched and almost like some pro-Obama allegory or somethin'.
 

Anchises

Banned
An ex SS member (as a German this abbreviation REALLY troubles me :D) that radicalized would be interesting actually.

I am not trying to dive to much into current politics but this would spark a huge debate about right wing militancy by former soldiers/Police officers etc.

The whole Militia culture would be viewed with much more suspicion.
 
This as it’s written is so far in ASB realm that it makes Twilight look like a documentary. White supremacist radicals allowed anywhere near the President in such a known volatile situation when the Secret Service has ways of finding this stuff out would so far undermine democracy that there may be no coming back from it.

However, never attribute to malice what one can explain by mere incompetence. If radicals unaffiliated with the US government attempt an assassination and the Secret Service, or a faction thereof, bungles it, we would far more likely see a bullet to the head than a lynching.
 
It might be deemed unthinkable that the historic administration before Obama would meet this description, but what if the prior administration were dominated by dogmatic racists? What if the Secret Service were over an 8 year period gradually purged in favor of racist beliefs, and in the interim between the election and the new President-Elect taking office, the operation were planned with the outgoing President and key staff knowing all about it. (But plausible deniability holds; the higher administrative involvement is kept off the record, no paper trail, and the agents involved are willing to sacrifice themselves and keep silent--in fact, after the job is done they commit "honorable" suicide so no one can question them).

I will admit I figured it was quite possible the Bush administration might leave Obama a SS that was, if not transformed into such a monolithic spear, at any rate salted with people who might not be as reliable on the "race does not matter" assumption as posters here have so blithely assumed. It is not like the kind of racism perpetuating Justice Taney's "no rights a white man is bound to respect" attitude is unknown in the USA, I would guess that at least 1 percent of self-identified "white" people and maybe an order of magnitude higher are that extreme, at least they think they are, having not dared themselves into acting on their beliefs in an extreme manner. But the 1 percent would include a lot of people who have. Most of these would go around sporting swastika tattoos and have a criminal record (indeed prison is probably where a lot of these attitudes get baked in good and hard) but it would always be possible to find people of this sort of mentality, of the Tim McVeigh type, in places like the Army. A white supremacist prior administration would have to go out of its way to make explicit belief in racist doctrine dominant in the SS, and I suppose purging the prior cohort, which would involve flushing out at least a few individuals with a serious belief in the more liberal notions of the American creed (I have read the memoirs of such an individual who had served in the SS) would be a danger point--some former member would go to the press. But perhaps an administration that first incorporated outspoken if canny white supremacists into the Secret Service and then, observing a non-white candidate elected despite their no doubt pulling out the stops in dirty tricks to prevent that, resolve to have them assassinated, would not stick at effectively silencing such stray elements. It is all right if some alarming stories get out into the alternative press--if one is the kind of person to pay attention to the non-mainstream papers, one is aware of, or anyway believes in, some really scary stuff anyway that no one ever seems to act on to correct!

But since Secret Service is the source of the agents who are set to guard Presidential candidates as well as actually elected individuals, it would be just as easy, or just as impossible if one takes the point of view that the suppression of American overt racism is irreversible, to kill the President-elect long before inauguration; indeed long before they could actually be elected. Certainly it is not unprecedented for successful political candidates, like Robert Kennedy or George Wallace, to be shot down before they can win a nomination, let alone the actual office.

It would always be unnecessarily stupid to display the fact that the Secret Service sworn to protect the President was itself the guilty party, unless white supremacists were so close to simply taking power and enforcing their views systematically that one wonders why they allowed the black guy to run for the Presidency in the first place. If one assumes they cannot simply rule as they wish despite having managed to install a President who is overtly racist and proud of it--well, perhaps this is an era where he has to keep that white pride better hidden than they have had to in the past couple generations! Reagan and the Bushes and Trump have all been able to telegraph quite a bit of solidarity with outspoken white supremacists, albeit always keeping it ambiguous, and Democratic candidates have been accused of the same sort of double dealing. Therefore one assumes circumstances in which overt and frank expressions of intent to exclude non-whites from all power would be met by impeachment and removal. Letting the SS be seen to be complicit in killing a winning black candidate would surely have the same outcome, even if the claim the President themself had noting to do with it could be plausibly made. "The Buck Stops Here" is the standard holding the President accountable for whatever their administration's branches might do.

So, it would be necessary to make it look like some third party managed to overwhelm SS protection; probably a few SS guys would have to die in the line of duty. It might be possible to arrange so that the ones who do are all the old guard non-racist types and all the survivors are the new wave. Even this might not prevent impeachment and ultimate exposure of the complicity of the President, as well as the unreliability of the newly revised SS, but there is a chance they could brazen it out, and one way or the other, the non-white hero is dead.
 
2009. A group of neo-nazi far right wing Secret Service members disgruntled by the fact that they have a black president. They conspire to kidnap Obama in the middle of the night and hang him from a tree in front of the White House.

What would be the reaction worldwide? The first black president being lynched 1900's style?
Wait what, neo-nazi Secret Service agents, well at least they have a acronym that they like, namely the SS.
 
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