Philadelphia truck bomb: Is Antifa escalating its war on America?

American Thinker ^ | 29 Oct, 2020 | Monica Showalter

[MtnClimber]

Against a backdrop of Antifa/Black Lives Matter rioting in Philadelphia, police found what looks like a truck bomb, an abandoned truck left in the middle of the street loaded with explosives, which, if they had gone off, could have been disastrous.

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) — An investigation is underway in Philadelphia after police find explosives and other suspicious cargo inside a van at Logan Circle on Wednesday night.

Action News has learned that police recovered propane tanks, torches and possible dynamite sticks from the van.

The bomb squad is investigating. There is no immediate word on who owns the van or if anyone has been arrested.

The discovery comes as the city remains on heightened alert following nights of unrest stemming from the police killing of Walter Wallace Jr.

[MtnClimber]

A mostly peaceful bomb.

[riverrunner]

Doesn’t sound like much of a bomb.

[hoosiermama]

No matches?😷

[mad_as_he$$]

Don’t see where it was confirmed as a “bomb”. Really, it sounds like a work van for the trades to me.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

They mass murder people then it’s all over for them. But why the hell are we waiting for that? They ARE a terrorist organization, where aren’t they being classified as such?

[MtnClimber]

I don't know what the truth is or how to find out. The news media is mum as usual. It seems to fit those involved just like it did in past incarnations: This is the kind of thing that went on in Medellín, Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s as drug lord Pablo Escobar (working with the Marxist M-19 urban guerrilla movement) sought to take over. He borrowed the idea (and training) from the Irish Republican Army to spread terror and empty the streets so that only drug lords would have freedom of movement. When I visited Medellín a few years ago, people would tell me they were terrified to walk down the street because any parked car could be a two-ton mega-bomb. Public art was a target, too — a huge bronze Botero statue depicting peace had a bomb planted in it and was torn to shreds. The aim was always to spread terror. The Weather Underground was there, too, bombing and killing to cause terror, a logical outcome of the 1960s and its woke radicalism and campus protest. Bill Ayers, who eventually became young Barack Obama's mentor, was the leader of the orgy of robberies, bombings, and killings, ending the life of at least one police officer and spreading terror and mayhem as an adoring media romanticized them. "Guilty as sin, free as a bird," he sneered when a wokester jury let this son of a corporate titan off for his many crimes at trial. After that, he went to teach in public universities, developing woke curricula for schools to teach children to hate their country. "I don't regret setting bombs," Ayers said. "I feel we didn't do enough," he told the Times in the interview that ran on 9/11. He's also the stepfather of San Francisco's chaos-agent district attorney, Chesa Boudin, whose refusal to prosecute violent crimes has left victims furious and San Francisco a hellhole. The Weather Underground with its alliance with the Black Panthers, in many ways, is comparable to the Antifa/BLM chaos duopoly of today.

[Kozak]

You ain’t seen nothing yet.
Wait till Trump wins.

[Pravious]

They mass murder people then it’s all over for them. But why the hell are we waiting for that? They ARE a terrorist organization, where aren’t they being classified as such?

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Good question. Along with

A. Why isn’t Christopher Wray fired?
B. Why isn’t Bill Barr fired?
C. Why aren’t the declassified Mueller documents available?

[5by5]

What I worry about is bombing poll location in an attempt to suppress Election Day voting

[Cincinnatus.45-70]

No worries. Antifa is just an idea, not a “thing.”

[servo1969]

I honestly thought there would be bombings by now.

[mewzilla]

US Attorney William M. McSwain
@USAttyMcSwain
Here are my remarks from today’s press conference. In case you would like a summary, here it is. Peaceful protest = good. Violence and arson = bad. Don’t commit violence and arson. Unless you want to go to federal prison for many years.
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U.S. Attorney EDPA
@USAO_EDPA
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Remarks of U.S. Attorney McSwain Regarding Violent Civil Unrest in Philadelphia and the Announcement of Criminal Charges. https://justice.gov/usao-edpa/pr/remarks-us-attorney-mcswain-regarding-violent-civil-unrest-philadelphia-and
3:25 PM · Oct 29, 2020·Twitter Web App

I love this guy.

[Hot Tabasco]

it sounds like a work van for the trades to me.

My thought too......welding equipment?

[mad_as_he$$]

Could be. Maybe a plumber.

[Libloather]

Dynamite? Tough clog.

[Grey182]

Idk, it seems like PDJT always gives people enough rope to hang themselves. If Antifa starts using truck bombs, everyone, even the liberals will see these leftists are terrorists.

[VTenigma]

Has Bill Ayers been seen?

[AppyPappy]

AntiFa has been able to count on the courts releasing them. It’s not surprising they got sloppy.

[jagusafr]

Yeah, “possible dynamite” is always a giveaway: road flares, more likely, and somebody’s trying to hype the situation.