Federal authorities in Tennessee announced Monday that they had arrested two alleged white supremacists who were reportedly planning a killing spree that would end with the assassination of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Daniel Cowart, 20, of Bells, Tenn., and Paul Schlesselman, 18, of West Helena, Ark., were charged in U.S. District Court in Jackson, Tenn., with the illegal possession of a sawed-off shotgun, conspiracy to rob a gun store and making threats against a major presidential candidate — the Democratic senator from Illinois.
The two men also allegedly discussed shooting 88 other people to death and decapitating 14 African Americans, choosing those numbers because, officials said, “they have special significance within the white power movement.”

The eighth letter of the alphabet is “H,” and the number 8 twice signifies “HH” — for the Nazi greeting “Heil Hitler.” And 14 is the number of words in a white power slogan: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

They allegedly discussed robbing or burglarizing a gun store to be “more equipped” with firearms and ammunition, and Cowart used the Internet to send Schlesselman diagrams and photos of a gun store in Jackson, Weaks said. On Oct. 20, Cowart allegedly drove from Tennessee to Arkansas to pick up Schlesselman, Weaks said, and the two discussed attacking a predominantly African American school and traveling from state to state to rob and kill people.

I was wondering how long it would take these people before they showed up and started doing something stupid.