What if these recent Facebook pages, that seemingly advocates the murder of President Obama are actually Secret Service attempts to identify, and track certain type of threats to the President that they might not otherwise know about until it was too late?
Potential threats to the President, that come in the form of notes, or people screaming obscene threats at Teabagger/Rand Paul rallies, are easy enough to mark, and track, by traditional means. But how do you find the psychotic loners who don't go to rallies, or join militia groups? How do you find the hair-triggered wingnut whose first hint of being dangerous is to open fire on a crowd, or motorcade?
These are the really dangerous ones. The quiet guy who keeps to himself, holed up in his basement, convinced the world is against him, and Obama is somehow to blame. Unemployed and collecting government assistance, He probably spends his days online, immersed in pseudo-patriotic internet fantasies, fueled by rightwing chatrooms, where everything that has ever gone bad in his life is connected to a liberal conspiracy to turn America into a multicultural, Socialist country that takes all his money (which he doesn't make) and gives it all to that black welfare mother he once saw at the Walmart, who must've been buying beer and cigarettes with foodstamps, while her 6 kids screamed wild. Glenn Beck's diagrams are so convincing.
Make no mistake, this is exactly the type of desperately disenfranchised loser targeted by Roger Ailes, Rush Limbaugh and the rest of the Rightwing media. Glenn Beck's entire show, although clownish to us, is actually designed to cultivate the enraged loner, to make him as angry as possible and then point him toward the target. This is why Ailes doesn't care that Beck's show doesn't sell ads, or has a large audience. Because the sole purpose of Beck's show is only to reach that one guy who is ripe for manipulation...to motivate him...and to trigger him.
So when this sociopathic nutjob encounters a Facebook page that wants to "murder" Obama, he can't help but click the button and become a fan. What's the harm? Facebook fan pages are mostly inane twaddle invented by bored kids, and he's anonymous right? Plus it's not just a page that disapproves of Obama, the page plucks that throbbing nerve in his propaganda-soaked lizard brain that advocates a specific action.
Having become a fan of the page, he has taken the bait, the Secret Service now can know him. Little does anyone know it was the Secret Service themselves who created the Obama Murder Page in the first place, in an ingenius attempt to gather intelligence on this specific type of "sleeper assassin" that might otherwise be impossible to identify until it's too late.
With a little computer forensics, agents now know the real name, pseudonyms, location and criminal history of the lone wingnut. They can find, and read, all his posts to Free Republic, StormFront, Breitbart, Michelle Malkin, etc. With a quick warrant (I would hope), a sophisticated keylogger program is installed onto his computer, and a complete profile and risk assessment is built in a few days.
Time passes. President Obama is scheduled to make an appearance, within 100 miles of the loner. The keylogger detects computer activity that resembles a rambling last will and testament. The bank computer records that he's just withdrawn his meager life savings and closed his account. The profile would suggest that this loner might be about to go active and try something. Computer and human analysis concludes that the President is in imminent danger!
The Secret Service alerts the local sheriff to pick the guy up with a seemingly routine traffic stop, who then finds an unregistered AK-47 and a rambling manifesto that contains verbatim quotes from Sean Hannity. What would've been a horrible day in American History, a real threat to the President, is quietly stopped, miles before it ever gets to the point of diving in front of bullets. All thanks to one click on a horribly inappropriate Facebook page.
I'm not saying that this is what it is. But if I were a Secret Service agent, it's not a bad use of Facebook. Even though it enrages the Left, and doesn't help Facebook's PR either.
What do you think?