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2007-08-01 Home Front: WoT

Bounty Hunter Disrupts Possible Terror Plot

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Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-01 08:40|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 a celebrated former FBI special agent

Hoover must be dancing.

Posted by Besoeker 2007-08-01 12:14|| 2007-08-01 12:14|| Front Page Top

#2 The suspect sounds like McVeigh 2.0

Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-08-01 13:58|| 2007-08-01 13:58|| Front Page Top

#3 It's pretty hard to tell with this kind of extreme kook. During the survivalist period of the 1980s, the ATF found lots of truly impressing bunkers, mostly in California, filled with all sorts of improperly stored dangerous weaponry, explosives and fuel. They usually just popped them in place.

The irony was that the owners had no real intent to use the stuff, they were just rat packing it. No incidents were involved.

The practice of blowing them up in place came to an end when the government decided to punish a legitimate arms manufacturer by destroying his inventory in Arizona, despite the fact that it was all licensed, properly stored and inspected.

The irony there was that the locals loudly objected, as both he was a good neighbor and employer, not a kook, and they didn't want a lot of toxic smoke and fumes wafting around them.

This delayed things long enough for him to get an injunction to prevent them from blowing up his business, and he ended up with a petty $500 fine for some minor infraction, with the government leaving with its tail between its legs.

I guess you could say that arms caches don't kill people, it's the kook in charge of it that might.

Posted by Anonymoose 2007-08-01 14:18|| 2007-08-01 14:18|| Front Page Top

#4 A lawyer named Jerry Berry, and a former FBI guy named Brad Garrett (of "Everybody Loves Raymond" fame)? You sure this ain't the onion?

Posted by BA 2007-08-01 14:35|| 2007-08-01 14:35|| Front Page Top

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