>>>>>Scary, thank goodness they caught them (not much info yet - I think it is too recent to have more info but it is from the AP):
>>>>>http://cbs3.com/topstories/obama.plot.skinheads.2.849869.html
>>>>>http://www.fox43.com/pages/landing_national/?ATF-says-it-has-disrupted-skinhead-plot-=1&blockID=118736&feedID=16
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>>>>You mean skinheads don't like blacks?! ;-)
>>>>
>>>>I wonder what the significance of the numbers 14 and 88 is to them? Just a guess: one of them has GOT to be their average IQ.
>>>
>>>Coming in late here. 8 represents the 8th letter of the alphabet, H. 88 stands for "Heil Hitler."
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>>...and about six million other words or names beginning with an aitch. I was always amused by this arbitrariness of guesswork. Why must it mean that, when it can mean so many other things? Time to re-read Foucault's pendulum...
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>Okay, to be specific, I've read that skinheads use 88 to stand for "Heil Hitler." I don't remember where I've read it, but I've seen it more than once and am fairly sure it came filtered through law enforcement folks who got it from the skinheads themselves.
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>If you want, I can also browse my uncle's book ("The Racist Mind") and see whether he mentions it from his in-person research with skinheads.
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>Tamar

No need to browse. It's all over the web. 88 stands for "Heil Hitler" just as you thought.