A 22-year-old man is being held without bail for his recent comments

A 22-year-old Maine man with a SUV wired with red and yellow flashing lights and packed with weapons – including a loaded 9 mm handgun, knives, armor-piercing ammo and a machete – body armor and camouflage clothing stood before a judge Thursday to face charges that he had threatened to assassinate Sen. Barack Obama. Raymond Hunter Geisel (above) was arrested in downtown Miami Saturday and was ordered held at the Miami Jail without bail by a federal magistrate yesterday. Geisel, who told authorities that he was originally from Bangor, Maine, but was now living in a houseboat in the Florida Keys, said his handgun was for training for the bail bondsman class; the knives were for protection; and the machete was for cutting thickets in Maine. He allegedly made the threat against Obama in a bail bondman class in Miami, calling the senator a racial slur and saying, “If he gets elected, I’ll assassinate him myself.” Geisel denies he ever made threatening comments about Obama. The Associated Press, citing court documents, said that he told the Secret Service in an interview that if he “wanted to kill Senator Obama he simply would shoot him with a sniper rifle, but then he claimed that he was just joking.”