A former Oregon State Hospital escapee, current inmate and self-proclaimed white separatist has pleaded guilty to writing a letter from the Oregon State Penitentiary threatening to kill President Barack Obama.
According to federal prosecutors, David Earl Anderson had written several threatening letters from prison directed at the president. U.S. District Judge Anna Brown found David Earl Anderson, 27, guilty of threatening to kill the president after he pleaded guilty to the charge. Anderson now faces up to five years in prison and is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 10, 2011.
Anderson admitted during a police interview, that on Oct. 26, 2009, he mailed a letter to a family in Utah which supposedly contained information regarding a group plan to assassinate the president. In the letter he wrote, “If they do not do the job by the time I get out, then I will find a way to do it because all this is doing is making the white race look weak by taking orders from a (racial epithet), and our race needs to stay strong.”
He also spoke vehemently of his racist white-separatist beliefs during the interview. Prosecutor Stephen Peifer also informed the court that Anderson even wrote one letter to Oregon State Police and another to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In the letter to the U.S. Attorney’s Office dated Dec. 10, 2009, he wrote “I feel it is my right to feel the way I do, and if I want to kill the president like I plan on doing, that is also my right.”
The Secret Service has yet to document any evidence regarding Anderson’s assertion that this was part of a larger group plot to kill President Obama. Anderson was has been in prison since August 2007 for identity theft and other charges. His lawyer, notes that he also spent five years at the state mental hospital, and says that his client has major mental health issues. –torrance stephens, ph.d.
