Case Yields Chilling Signs of Domestic Terror Plot

Yahoo! News / Los Angeles Times ^ | Wed Jan 7, 9:35 AM ET | Scott Gold

[railsplitter]

HOUSTON — One evening two winters ago, a man in Staten Island, N.Y., absent-mindedly flipped through his mail. Inside one envelope was a stack of fake documents, including United Nations (news - web sites) and Defense Department identification cards, and a note: "We would hate to have this fall into the wrong hands."

[elli1]

How come all of these guys have "common-law" wives. They have something against marriage?

I think it's that they have something against the law, government, legal institutions, marriage licenses... It's their way of saying that gov't doesn't have any business meddling in the relationship between a man & a woman and I'll agree that they have a point but only up to a point.

[Travis McGee]

The American left is desperate to find some white "Christian" (as they called McVeigh) redneck terrorists, to assure themselves that the real danger comes not from the Religion of Peace (TM) but our own far right. That's almost the central theme of my book: creating a mythical white racist gun-toting militia boogeyman.

[Ciexyz]

He wuz up to no good, sounds like t'me.

[elli1]

read the article: No actual bomb. Materials that can be bought legally. No evidence of an actual plot, target, time, place, etc. Not even a sawed-off shotgun or an unlicensed full-auto. These guys may be kooks, but it isn't at all clear they deserved anything other than whatever forgery complaint could be brought against them for the fake IDs.

From the article:

Investigators found nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition, 65 pipe bombs and briefcases that could be detonated by remote control...