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malaise

(269,144 posts)
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 06:46 PM Aug 2017

Man arrested in plan to bomb Oklahoma bank

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/fbi-arrests-man-plot-detonate-bomb-oklahoma-bank-49208876
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A 23-year-old man who was "out for blood" when he attempted to detonate what he believed was an explosives-laden van outside an Oklahoma bank in a plot similar to the deadly 1995 bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building is expected to be formally charged Monday, authorities said.

During a meeting with undercover FBI agents in June, Jerry Drake Varnell of Sayre, Oklahoma, said he held "III% ideology" and wanted "to start the next revolution," a reference to the "Three Percenters" patriot movement — begun in 2008, galvanized by President Barack Obama's election — and that has rallied against gun control efforts and pledges resistance to the federal government over the infringement of constitutional rights.

Federal officials arrested Varnell early Saturday in connection with a plot to detonate a vehicle bomb in an alley adjacent to BancFirst in downtown Oklahoma City. Varnell is charged with attempting to use explosives to destroy a building in interstate commerce. Court records do not indicate whether Varnell is represented by an attorney.

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Wait -no one told this moran Obama isn't President
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Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
4. Thank the citizen who alerted the FBI.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:24 PM
Aug 2017

The idiot told someone he thought shared his hate and that person did not.

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
6. Republicans played footsie with hateful tea partiers that hated that a Black man won the Presidency.
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:29 PM
Aug 2017

Now the chickens are starting to hatch. Once the genie of hate is released, it does not go back into the bottle, it becomes a Frankenstein savaging the land.

malaise

(269,144 posts)
7. +1,000
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:36 PM
Aug 2017

Well many of them will scatter now that their faces are known and they are losing their jobs.
They are marked for life including the college ReTHUGs. They can't go back into the bottle either

Blue_true

(31,261 posts)
8. Maybe not being able to get a job even when you are qualified and willing to work,
Mon Aug 14, 2017, 09:42 PM
Aug 2017

will finally make them see what a lot of minorities, women and older people face every day. I really hate it when privileged assholes cry foul because the scales are not always tipped to their favor like they are used to having it.

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