Oklahoma "Right Wing" Bombing Plot "Thwarted" by FBI - Entrapment?
I recommend reading the story before commenting. Funny this happened right on the heels of the protest in Virginia. Guess our government needs to push the right wing white extremist narrative as hard as they can so they can satisfy all the major news networks. This kid was talking some shit online, then, with the help of government informants, he was encouraged and provided with the resources to carry out a bombing. Also, I like how they say he was out for blood even though he stated he wanted to do it after hours so that there were no casualties.
What do you think? Entrapment?
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fbi-arres...162736326.html
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OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) -- 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, authorities said Monday.
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.
Varnell made an initial appearance before a federal judge Monday afternoon and remains in the custody of federal marshals. Court records do not indicate whether Varnell is represented by an attorney.
U.S. Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said the allegations are a somber reminder that Americans must remain vigilant about home-grown extremism and radicalization in local communities.
A III% group said Varnell had joined their group less than a year ago but was never active and has been removed from its membership rolls. In a statement, III% United Patriots spokesman Dylan Hunter says the group condemns Varnell's alleged acts.
