A self-professed militia member in Pennsylvania has allegedly threatened to shoot African Americans and public officials, and said that if Hillary Rodham Clinton or Barack Obama were elected a revolution would ensue.

However, a federal judge declined to jail Bradley Kahle, 60, of Clearfield County, citing lack of evidence that he was willing to carry out those threats.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports that Kahle was one of several people swept up in a raid that netted automatic weapons and homemade bomb materials.

Kahle, a Vietnam veteran, allegedly told undercover agents that he would engage in sniper-style killings of African Americans from a Pittsburgh skyscraper, and that he would also target public officials if he became terminally ill.

Two of Kahle’s associates remain imprisoned at this time.

Sources:

“Militia member gets house arrest”
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, June 12, 2008

“Feds: Alleged Pa. bomb-maker wanted Clinton, Obama dead”
Associated Press, June 11, 2008