Wanna-Be Assassin Criticizes Obama's Economic Plans

While I am no fan of poseurs or wanna-be assassins, my heart goes out to Timothy Ryan Gutierrez, the 20 year old Colorado man facing 10 years in prison for allegedly sending emails to the FBI threatening to assassinate President Barack Obama and blow up the Mall of America.

Threat Level reported Gutierrez saying:

"I'm not mad about him becoming president, but he's not doing what he said he was going to do," he said. "He's not doing anything for the lower class — just the middle and upper class. Medications are going up, not lowering, and jobs are being lost. His actions are going to get him in trouble."

Unlike a lot of the racist assassin-wannabes, Gutierrez was motivated by government’s failure to address poverty in the United States. Like many whose hopes are being dashed as the administration fails to find a quick fix for the economy and focuses its attention on helping the wealthy and the middle class but not the poor, Gutierrez represents the voice of the oppressed, the frustrated, and the fed-up.

In as much as Gutierrez articulated a frustration with Obama’s complicity with capitalism, I share his critique, though not his methodologies. He is correct. Those who have centralized power in the name of Democracy and help homeowners rather than the homeless will most certainly get in trouble with the people.

I’ve certainly watched a number of people’s jaws drop that Bush was never assassinated and a number of other people who wish he had been; however, Obama seems to be protected from the harsh critiques of a much-relieved Left. While Bush deserves a trip to the Hague and might very well deserve a Saddam-like sentence, I fear that Guttierez is correct in that Obama might be in trouble.

Gutierrez frustration and rage reveals a disturbing but understandable shift in U.S. consciousness-a shift towards militant solutions for very real problems. Politicians who bail-out CEOs and neglect the poor cannot maintain their power forever and will be held accountable in the history books, in courts of law, or in the hands of a self-righteous vigilante.