Casey Robert Goonan
Posted on 09/24/2025 3:41:03 PM PDT by CFW
A federal judge handed down a stiff sentence to a man who turned political rage into arson, and it matters. Casey Robert Goonan was sentenced to nearly 20 years in prison after a string of firebombings and arsons in the Bay Area. The court applied a terrorism enhancement, and the result should remind anyone tempted by violent activism that the system takes these attacks seriously.
On June 1, Goonan placed a bag of six incendiary devices under a UC Police Department patrol car near the UC Berkeley campus, an act caught on surveillance video. Ten days later he attacked an Oakland federal courthouse, throwing rocks in an attempt to toss Molotov cocktails inside before lighting devices at the side of the building. Prosecutors say he set at least three other campus fires that month and openly urged others to damage property in support of Palestine
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The sentence was imposed by Senior U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White, a Bush appointee who did not mince words about the nature of the crime. White called the defendant a “domestic terrorist” during sentencing, underscoring the political nature and societal danger of the acts. The judge also ordered 15 years of supervised release and roughly $94,267 in restitution to compensate the victims and institutions harmed.
Goonan is no anonymous street thug; he has academic credentials and a record of activism that morphed into violence. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Ethnic Studies and a PhD in African American studies, a background that friends and colleagues said informed his worldview and political passion.
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Excellent.
We need a lot more of this.
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Don’t drop the soap.
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There is some money pissed away. Did he pay off his student loans?
Casey Robert Goonan
““During my time as a student, I was introduced to the cause of Palestinian liberation and I became deeply engaged in questions of racial justice, socioeconomic equality, and human rights,” Goonan wrote in a letter to the court, a passage he put forward to explain the path that led him to violence. That line, exactly as written, lays out his claimed motives and the ideological seed that fed his actions. The court had to weigh personal narrative against the clear danger his acts posed to campus communities and federal employees.
“Having spent over a year in custody, I’ve had time to reflect on my actions more clearly … I recognize the potential harm my actions may have caused for the community and for my family and loved ones, as well as the harm my actions could have caused to the workers and students on campus, and workers in the federal building,” he also wrote, asking the court to consider his remorse. The plea of reflection is understandable, but remorse after capture doesn’t erase the real risk created by arson. The judge made that distinction when imposing a stiff sentence designed to protect the public.”
I have no doubt that it did. I don't think I'd call those academic credentials though.
More like Marxist guerilla indoctrinal training programs.
A university Phd in “studies” is about as useless as teats on a boar hog.
It’s not even equivalent to the intelligence of a first semister trade school student.
He’s whiter than white and has a Ph.D. in African American Studies?!
Re:the sentence, should be 40 years but I’ll take the 20. Not bad!
A real solid contributor to society there. He must be a builder of the highest order with that solid background.
Well, this will definitely let him further his education in ethnic studies.
GOONan?? OMG!
FEDERAL sentence ,
double plus triple excellent !
” You’re killin’ me Smalls.”
His “reflections” are the whining of a privileged leftist who doesn’t like the FO part of FAFO.
Sucks to be him.
He actively sought to destroy extensive property and to put innocent lives at risk, to further his leftist political beliefs.
I wonder how many marriage proposals he will obtain.
Perhaps Casey Robert Goonan will find prison life a penetrating experience, especially during showertime.
White guy with a PHD in Black Studies. Who does that! Proof he has been making poor decisions all his life. Loads of employer demand for a white guy with a black studies doctorate who has a part time job firebombing.
Every transtifa and BLM psychopath need to get charged with this as well.
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