Austin Bombings

[The Barbarian]

Maybe so, but many blacks and latinos fit the pattern of crackheads, crack dealers, gang members and criminals.

Sorry, not the case. For example, this guy fit the profile of a right-wing terrorist before anyone knew he was white.

FYI, I couldn't care less if every terrorist in the world was white,

I see the denial, but you act like you're having all sorts of trouble accepting the fact. Playing the race card as you just did, won't really help. You're the one that plays the race card every chance you get. That's the Trump way.

 

[Tambora]

He fit no pattern.
They still have no motive.
His bombs injured blacks and whites.
His phone recorded confession had no hate speech or political motivation (according to officers).

They caught him by checking local stores for large quantity of nails being purchased (which were used in the bombs made).
Checked video footage of a home depot store and spotted the purchaser as wearing a blonde wig getting into a car of which they were able to make out the plate numbers.
Which gave them the name of Conditt.
They then got his phone records and waited for him to turn his phone back on, which he did, and they found he was staying at a hotel in north Austin.
He drove away from the hotel with officers following when the bomber set off a bomb in his vehicle killing himself

 

[Tambora]

I just heard that there is, in New Jersey or a nearby state, a guy named "Austin Bomber."

I hope he's not planning to fly anywhere anytime soon.

hehe!

 

[glorydaz]

He fit no pattern.
They still have no motive.
His bombs injured blacks and whites.
His phone recorded confession had no hate speech or political motivation (according to officers).

They caught him by checking local stores for large quantity of nails being purchased (which were used in the bombs made).
Checked video footage of a home depot store and spotted the purchaser as wearing a blonde wig getting into a car of which they were able to make out the plate numbers.
Which gave them the name of Conditt.
They then got his phone records and waited for him to turn his phone back on, which he did, and they found he was staying at a hotel in north Austin.
He drove away from the hotel with officers following when the bomber set off a bomb in his vehicle killing himself

The guy needed to get a job, and then he wouldn't be so unhappy with life.

"Poor me" ..... :nono:

 

[patrick jane]

If this kid had waited until his mid 40s to 50s to do these things he would have been like the unabomber and harder to catch. I wonder if bombers are similar to pyromaniacs.

 

[The Barbarian]

That's not the most common.

Here are just a few of the attacks that have occurred in 2017:

Sunday night, a 64-year-old white man from Nevada opened fire on a crowd of more than 22,000 people at a country music festival in Las Vegas, killing more than 50 and wounding more than 200.
In August, a 20-year-old white Nazi sympathizer from Ohio sped his car into a crowd of anti-racist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, killing a woman and injuring at least 19 others.
In June, a 66-year-old white man from Illinois shot at Republican Congress members during an early morning baseball practice, severely wounding several people including Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the House of Representatives Majority Whip.
In March 2017, a 28-year-old white man from Baltimore traveled to New York City with the explicit aim of killing black men. He stabbed 66-year-old Timothy Caughman to death and was charged with terrorism by New York state authorities.
In May, a 35-year-old white man from Oregon named Jeremy Joseph Christian began harassing Muslim teenagers on a train in Portland, telling them “We need Americans here!” Two men interceded; Christian then stabbed and killed them both.

In fact, between 2001 and 2015, more Americans were killed by homegrown right-wing extremists than by Islamist terrorists, according to a study by New America, a nonpartisan think tank in Washington, DC.
https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16396612/las-vegas-mass-shooting-terrorism-islam

With the exception of the Las Vegas attack, each terrorist was an angry white guy, attacking a despised minority.

 

[Tambora]

Here are just a few of the attacks that have occurred in 2017:

blah blah blah

You have overstated your case, again.

 

[The Barbarian]

You have overstated your case, again.

To most people, facts are essential to making one's case.

 

[patrick jane]

 

[The Barbarian]

"Quick, someone do a diversion."

Nice try, patrick.

But you could at least found something honest to do:

The originators of the hashtag and call to action, Alicia Garza, Patrisse Cullors, and Opal Tometi, expanded their project into a national network of over 30 local chapters between 2014 and 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Lives_Matter

And yes, I know it's hard for you guys.

"Sorry, about that; all them people look the same to me."

 

[Tambora]

To most people, facts are essential to making one's case.

Not facts mixed with propaganda.

 

[The Barbarian]

Not facts mixed with propaganda.

In this case, it was just a lie. This guy was not a founder of BLM. Racists are by definition, not very bright, so they never realize that these lies are easy to expose.

 

[The Barbarian]

Here’s some of what’s been reported about Conditt:

• He participated in what an acquaintance described to BuzzFeed as a Christian survivalist youth group for home-schooled children whose members carried knives and practiced archery and shooting. The group was reputedly called “Righteous Invasion of Truth,” whose acronym is RIOT.

• He stated in a blog post that gay marriage should be illegal because homosexuality, like bestiality and pedophilia, is “not natural.” Wrote Conditt: “I do not believe it is proper to pass laws stating that homosexuals have ‘rights.’ “

• Another individual who knew him told the Austin American-Statesman that he was lonely, argumentative, and “rough around the edges.”

• The first two individuals targeted by his bombs were black—39-year-old Anthony Stephan House and 17-year-old Draylen Mason. (Both died.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...hief-says-cant-know-mark-conditts-motive.html

So, another angry, right-wing loon, targeting blacks and Hispanics. Pretty much the standard terrorist in America.

 

[patrick jane]

Here’s some of what’s been reported about Conditt:

• He participated in what an acquaintance described to BuzzFeed as a Christian survivalist youth group for home-schooled children whose members carried knives and practiced archery and shooting. The group was reputedly called “Righteous Invasion of Truth,” whose acronym is RIOT.

• He stated in a blog post that gay marriage should be illegal because homosexuality, like bestiality and pedophilia, is “not natural.” Wrote Conditt: “I do not believe it is proper to pass laws stating that homosexuals have ‘rights.’ “

• Another individual who knew him told the Austin American-Statesman that he was lonely, argumentative, and “rough around the edges.”

• The first two individuals targeted by his bombs were black—39-year-old Anthony Stephan House and 17-year-old Draylen Mason. (Both died.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...hief-says-cant-know-mark-conditts-motive.html

So, another angry, right-wing loon, targeting blacks and Hispanics. Pretty much the standard terrorist in America.

Terrorism comes in many forms, you know exactly how to enable that.

 

[fool]

Here’s some of what’s been reported about Conditt:

• He participated in what an acquaintance described to BuzzFeed as a Christian survivalist youth group for home-schooled children whose members carried knives and practiced archery and shooting. The group was reputedly called “Righteous Invasion of Truth,” whose acronym is RIOT.

• He stated in a blog post that gay marriage should be illegal because homosexuality, like bestiality and pedophilia, is “not natural.” Wrote Conditt: “I do not believe it is proper to pass laws stating that homosexuals have ‘rights.’ “

• Another individual who knew him told the Austin American-Statesman that he was lonely, argumentative, and “rough around the edges.”

• The first two individuals targeted by his bombs were black—39-year-old Anthony Stephan House and 17-year-old Draylen Mason. (Both died.)
https://slate.com/news-and-politics...hief-says-cant-know-mark-conditts-motive.html

So, another angry, right-wing loon, targeting blacks and Hispanics. Pretty much the standard terrorist in America.

You left out "Christian survivalist... home-schooled".

 

[The Barbarian]

You left out "Christian survivalist... home-schooled".

"Christian survivalist" sounds like an oxymoron, doesn't it? And there are lots of home-schooled people who don't hate blacks and Hispanics, and never hurt anyone. The key seems to be more this guys extreme right-wing tendencies, and his hatred of people who aren't like him.

Which, as you know, are commonalities found in most terrorists in the United States.

 

[The Barbarian]

"When Hitler announced the firearms ban..."

You've been suckered again, patrick. He never banned firearms. Indeed the Nazis glorified shooting as a civic duty for men, and encouraged gun ownership:
https://tinyurl.com/yb9gj98f

Some things never change on the right.

 

[The Barbarian]

"Hillary Clinton blocked an investigation into the Orlando shooter's mosque."

How, exactly, does a Secretary of State block a criminal investigation in the United States? You're way too gullible, patrick.

Our ruling

Articles claimed that Clinton as secretary of state enabled radical Islamists by shutting down an investigation of Mateen’s Florida mosque.

The claim relies heavily on one account of a retired Department of Homeland Security agent that has not been corroborated by any additional source.

Experts we talked to say the claims of the investigation and the purported link to Clinton and the State Department is unlikely. The FBI, not Haney’s Homeland Security department, would handle a terrorism investigation. The State Department, meanwhile, would play little to no role in whether a case is opened, closed or anything else.

We rate this claim False.

 

[Tambora]

Here’s some of what’s been reported about Conditt:

• He participated in what an acquaintance described to BuzzFeed as a Christian survivalist youth group for home-schooled children whose members carried knives and practiced archery and shooting. The group was reputedly called “Righteous Invasion of Truth,” whose acronym is RIOT.

Sounds like a good group.

• He stated in a blog post that gay marriage should be illegal because homosexuality, like bestiality and pedophilia, is “not natural.” Wrote Conditt

He's correct.

• Another individual who knew him told the Austin American-Statesman that he was lonely, argumentative, and “rough around the edges.”

Nothing improper there.

• The first two individuals targeted by his bombs were black—39-year-old Anthony Stephan House and 17-year-old Draylen Mason. (Both died.)

His bombs hurt white folks also.
And we do not know what other addresses he planned to attack, as that info has not been made public.
Plus, no hate speech or racist speech has been found by Conditt.

 

[patrick jane]

[h=3]Austin Bombing Suspect's Housemate Called a Person of Interest ...[/h]
Excerpt : AUSTIN, Tex. — One of the housemates of the man responsible for a series of bombings in Texas has become a “person of interest” in the investigation, and the authorities now have evidence that the explosive devices were constructed at the suburban home the bomber shared, a Texas congressman said on Monday.

Investigators have still not found a clear motive to explain why the suspected bomber, Mark Conditt, 23, made and delivered homemade explosives that killed two people and terrorized the Texas capital for nearly three weeks before Mr. Conditt killed himself early Wednesday morning.


Mr. Conditt was living in Pflugerville, the suburb north of Austin where he grew up. He shared a house there with two other men in their 20s. Both were initially detained by the authorities, questioned and then released. Investigators have continued to question one of the housemates, who is now a person of interest in the case, Representative Michael McCaul, Republican of Texas, told Fox News on Monday.


Mr. McCaul, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee and a former federal prosecutor, said all seven of Mr. Conditt’s explosive devices were built at the Pflugerville house.


“He did construct these bombs in the home,” Mr. McCaul said. “We know that much. They had to bring a robot in to dismantle and take out bomb-making materials. And the question is, did the roommate know that he was making these bombs at the time, for the last month, when all these bombings were still taking place?”


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