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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 01:35 PM Mar 2014

FBI Smashes Alleged Radical-Right Terror Plot in Texas

FBI agents in Texas have arrested a man who allegedly was plotting to use C-4 explosives and weapons to kill police officers, rob banks and armored cars, and blow up government buildings and mosques, authorities announced today.

Robert James Talbot Jr., 38, of Katy, Texas, was arrested Thursday on federal charges of attempted interference with commerce by robbery, solicitation to commit a crime of violence and possession of an explosive material, the FBI said.Robert-James-Talbot

After setting up a Facebook page called American Insurgent Movement (AIM), Talbot allegedly sought to recruit five or six like-minded people who wanted “to restore America Pre-Constitutionally and look forward to stopping the Regime with action by bloodshed.” He wrote this year on the AIM page that he was seeking people interested in “walking away from your life … to stop the regime.”



Talbot’s Facebook post continued: “That is exactly what I will have my men do during the heist. Same goes with the Muslims. Mosques are to be a blast! With three of my guys with FA [full automatic] AK’s [AK-47 semi-automatic rifles], we will send that white house worthless piece of dirt and his Muslim brotherhood a message they will never forget.”


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http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/03/28/fbi-smashes-alleged-radical-right-terror-plot-in-texas/

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TexasProgresive

(12,157 posts)
12. Maybe he wants to restore Articles of Confederation.
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 04:03 PM
Mar 2014

Those that believe in "states' rights" and a weak or non-existent federal government are probably discovering this document that was pre-constitution.
http://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/document.html?doc=2&title.raw=Articles%20of%20Confederation

 

villager

(26,001 posts)
5. The FBI is taking credit for "smashing" a plot posted publicly on Facebook?
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 02:01 PM
Mar 2014

I guess undercover work ain't what it used to be.

salin

(48,955 posts)
8. sounds like that crazy group in Michigan
Sat Mar 29, 2014, 03:39 PM
Mar 2014

that plotted the murder of police officers, via killing one (making it look racial in intent), and then plotting a massacre at the expected funeral.

Don't recall their sect's name - but this guy is reminiscent of those folks.

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