Posted on 10/27/2018 4:18:15 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Cesar Sayoc was arrested by federal authorities in Florida on Friday morning and charged with crimes related to sending 13 apparently homemade pipe bombs to high-profile Democrats. None of them detonated, but the FBI says the bombs indeed contained explosive material. Sayoc may well have meant to kill George Soros, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Cory Booker, and others.
Sayoc does not appear to be severely mentally ill, like other perpetrators of high-profile crimes in our country in recent years, but he is a kooky and fringe character. He sports a long and bizarre arrest record, one of the reasons authorities were able to identify him so quickly as the alleged perpetrator. He had previously been arrested on a separate charge of threatening to bomb a utility company and appears to have been a petty dealer of illegal supplements. A 2012 bankruptcy report showed him living with his mother.
Sayoc was a registered Republican and, the evidence suggests, an obsessive Trump supporter. A van believed to be his is emblazoned with Trump stickers, his social-media feeds contain attacks on the Democratic party often shared from fringe websites, and he apparently attended a Trump rally in Florida months ago.
Of course, even before Sayoc was identified, the media and the Left were blaming President Trump for the bombs. We’ve said it many times before, but it has to be said again: Harsh, overheated rhetoric is endemic to our political system, and it should not be confused with incitement to violence. When James Hodgkinson, a registered Democrat who campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election, attempted to assassinate a group of Republican congressmen at a baseball practice last June, we did not blame Sanders or Hodgkinson’s party. Instead, we wrote, “The person singly responsible for Wednesday’s horrors is the man who pulled the trigger.” Here, too, the responsibility for Sayoc’s bombing campaign rests with him alone.
The double standard in these cases is flagrant. Even though Republican majority whip Steve Scalise was nearly killed in the Hodgkinson attack and more than a dozen of his colleagues could have been killed but for security neutralizing Hodgkinson, the event was quickly memory-holed and the media didn’t resound with calls for Bernie Sanders, or, say, Rachel Maddow, to tone it down.
Not that these incidents bring out the best in either side. Some of our friends on the right rushed to deem the sending of the pipe bombs a hoax, with no evidence but an abundance of paranoia.
What can we ask of our politicians? First and foremost, that they condemn all forms of violence and intimidation, running from the dastardly crime of the last few days, to the street-fighting of antifa and the Proud Boys, to the hounding of high-profile political figures in public spaces. With some prominent exceptions, almost no elected officials openly endorse this behavior. No matter how intense our political debates, Republicans and Democrats are still far from sanctioning violence against one another.
As for rhetoric, we make wide latitude for stinging insults and hyperbolic rhetoric, which go back at least to the 1790s in this country. But it’d be better if everyone felt some responsibility to edify rather than degrade our discourse. This, of course, applies to Donald Trump. Contrary to his critics, chants of “Lock her up” and “CNN sucks” aren’t calls to violence. No rational person would hear even his most incendiary line — the media are “enemies of the people” — as permission to mail a dozen pipe bombs all over the country. But Trump is president, which should imply an obligation to honor guardrails about what he says about his fellow citizens. He should never, to take an example from a recent rally, talk lightly of a Republican congressman’s body-slamming a reporter.
We are very glad that no one was hurt by the pipe bombs, and that Sayoc was apprehended quickly. These are things everyone is grateful for, because, even if we seem to forget it at times, we are all still Americans.
Read about the 1940 World’s Fair bombing. One look at that van screams false flag. Sorry.
This text was sent to me:
“In this day and age when just wearing a Trump MAGA hat is enough to trigger a hysterical often violent physical confrontation with a Lib THIS guy drove around deep blue Miami in a creepy pedo van with seven out of eight windows plastered with enough stickers to trigger every Lib in the state.
With impunity.
While working at his job as a promoter of the Chippendales and various casinos.
That must have been great for business.
This story is going from “well this a bizarre” to “who the hell came up with the lame cover story for this even lamer false flag!” - unknown
Typical National Review verbiage, accepting the MSM/FBI/Broward County (Sheriff Israel) narrative. The neocons have been accepting the enemedia narrative for decades, and as a result, we have been losing from 1989, when Reagan left office. to 2016, when Trump won.
A guy lost, down on his luck through life looking to latch onto anything or anybody that will give him purpose. Seeing an enthusiastic campaign, rallies, people excited, a chance to make friends with a common goal, here is my ticket, how do I rise above so they recognize me? Not giving him an excuse but it certainly looks this way. On the other hand money makes the world go round. An offer from an operative is also attractive, like the ford fraud time will tell
They weren’t pipe bombs, they were pipe clocks.
I am going to commit crimes while advertising who I am all over my get away car.
Meanwhile a caravan of thugs are headed for our boarder with support of democrats.
You have to be a brain dead liberal to believe fake news.
GO TRUMP MAGA
Blue Wave is a DUD.
Fake bombs. Fake Borders. Fake Walls.
Red Wave is a BOOM!
Vote!
Tell your friends to vote!
SWINGS STATES: Watch the Poll Station for the evening,
intead of the TV. Show up.
Maga BOOM
Red Wsve BOOM
Unless he did it for someone else.
This was a false flag op. I believe someone with running agents skills manipulated this psycho. Either CIA or FBI trained case officer likely was behind this.
The message sent was to outline and delineate the principal “enemies” of Donald Trump.
The “bombs”, while they had all the components and potential of very destructive IED’s, seemed designed more to frighten than to actually detonate. Their very existence was not compromised in the least by the effects of an explosion, but were all intact and the forensic work was much simplified for the FBI, which on occasion, even yet, can accomplish some amazing tasks in identification and timelines. Thus the perpetrator was quickly identified, and the very obvious “connection” to Team Trump was swiftly established.
Not the first “red herring” to be drawn across the path of law enforcement on the trail of evidence. But the pathway is still pretty bizarre.
“Lone wolf” or Deep State operative?
There really wasn’t much training needed, this was embarrassingly amateurish. The ‘perp’ will vanish in the news cycle within a day or two.
The FBI uses FELONS ALL THE TIME!!
Oswald 2.0
Bomber?
National Socialist Review.
I thought of something last night and the article makes mention of an aspect of the theory I was thinking of.
> his social-media feeds contain attacks on the Democratic party often shared from fringe websites <
The EU just outlawed memes and more than half of the graphics on his van were memes.
The big tech oligarchs in the USA have been closing down “fringe websites” and “fringe personalities”.
This guy just gave tptb a reason for shutting down what they consider “fringe” AND a reason for “level headed” conservatives aka RINOs and neverTrumpers a reason to tell Trump and his supporters to “tone it down”.
That and some people will tone it down just so they’re not associated with this nut.
Meanwhile the left isn’t going to tone it down so it becomes a one sided argument or screaming match.
What did Maize or whatever her name is say? Just sit down and shut up.
I don’t know where those came from. I have never seen any of those on 4chan which is the great meme engine.
The nutjob didn't want any potential danger to himself from building real bombs (with no apparent bomb-making skills). The only question in my mind is who helped him do this. Could be nobody, he did it all himself. But could also be some help, encouragement, incitement, blackmail, or whatever behind the scenes. He could wind up dead and thus not talking. More likely all his statements will marked classified and kept from the public.
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