People think that the various incidents of racism directed against Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama are all just isolated incidents of random misguided folks. Pero, how many misguided people does it take before people finally pay attention to what many have been talking about for a while, the very real, sickening racism that seeks to kill those rising to power and even children.

Daniel Cowart, 20, of Tennessee and Paul Schlesselman 18, an Arkansas native, planned not only to kill the Dem. candidate, but also shoot and/or behead 14 and 88 people, including children.

The assassination was to be the culmination of a “killing spree” that would also single out children at an unnamed, predominately black school, federal officials said. The men talked of “killing 88 people and beheading 14 African-Americans,” according to the affidavit.

The two men each had “very strong views” about Aryan white power and “skinhead” ideology, the federal officials said, and the numbers 88 and 14 have special significance in the white power movement. The number 88 is shorthand for “Heil Hitler” — H is the eighth letter in the alphabet —and 14 signifies a 14-word mantra among white supremacists: “We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children.”

Via / boingboing