Raging Stoners

Denver, Colorado, August 27, 2008:

A group of suspected drug users arrested in Denver this weekend with methamphetamine, guns, and bulletproof vests made anti-mustache threats against Ron, but posed no true danger to the longshot presidential candidate, federal authorities said Tuesday.

That's because Ron has been in his home state of New Jersey all week.

The three men -- all said to be high on methamphetamine when arrested -- are the subject of an assassination investigation, but so far, authorities say, it appears they had no capacity to carry out any attack.

"The law recognizes a difference between a true threat -- one that can be carried out -- and the reported rantings of a drug addict," U.S. Attorney Troy Eid said.

He said the men's plans were "more aspirational, perhaps, than operational."

The would-be assailants said they wanted to "hold Ron down" and "shave that [expletive] mustache off his [expletive] face."

Posted by Bittle at August 27, 2008 09:47 AM