Four men were taken into custody yesterday after one man, Tharin Gartrell, was arrested in Denver when police found two rifles, ammo, a rifle scope, a bullet-proof vest, walkie-talkies and meth in his car during a routine traffic stop. They knew it was serious because of the walkie-talkies-- well that, and the fact that one of the suspects told authorities they were “going to shoot Obama from a high vantage point using… a rifle sighted at 750 yards.”

Although U.S. Attorney Troy Eid obfuscates that “there is no credible threat to the [democratic] candidate, the Democratic National convention, or the people of Colorado,” Fox News (Karl Rove’s new hangout) reports that the men arrested for possibly plotting an assassination of Barack Obama may be tied to the outlaw biker group called the Sons of Silence.

Essentially, the Sons of Silence is like a really maudlin, grungy fraternity. Their website reveals a guestbook replete with sappy, practically illiterate comments such as:

“To all who have lost a loved one, friend, family, the lose of a life is a lose of a chance at history… so those that have lost think of what you have fained from the loose the history of the one you lost…….all the stories of life. Just remember…” –Cycomike

When it comes to weepy characters like these, Barack Obama should be able to brush his shoulder off, and if he comes out with a statement on the purported assassination attempt, maybe he should just give a little excerpt from the Jay-Z song “Heart of the City”:

Yung'uns ice-grilling me, oh - you're not feeling me?
Fine; it cost you nothing - pay me no mind
Look, I'm on my grind cousin, ain't got time for fronting
Sensitive thugs, you all need hugs
Damn though mans I'm just trying do me
If the record's two mill I'm just trying to move three.