Posted on 10/05/2007 11:48:24 PM PDT by RightOnTheLeftCoast
37 months for brother of man who 'exploded' at OU game
By Sara Burnett, Rocky Mountain News October 5, 2007
A Colorado Springs man whose brother blew himself up outside an Oklahoma football game in 2005 was sentenced to 37 months in federal prison today for threatening an FBI agent.
U.S. District Judge Robert E. Blackburn called Thomas C. Hinrichs, who had an AK-47 assault rifle and other paramilitary gear in his car when he was arrested, "a time bomb for our community."
He also said Hinrichs should have a full mental evaluation and treatment while in prison and be under supervised release for three years after he gets out.
Hinrichs, 28, spoke for nearly 30 minutes during the hearing, repeatedly saying he had been the victim throughout his life of extreme violence, and that the FBI agents — whom he referred to as "dogs" — had committed treason by not doing anything to stop the "terrorism" committed against him.
The sometimes rambling statement also touched on Hinrichs' time in the Army, his childhood abuse, the Revolutionary War, the war crimes trials at Nuremberg and discussions he had with Ted Haggard, the disgraced former minister at New Life Church in Colorado Springs. "I've been a basket case my whole life," he said. "I am not normal."
A jury convicted Hinrichs in June of threatening a federal agent in November 2006. According to the FBI, authorities opened a domestic terrorism investigation into Hinrichs the day after his brother, Joel Hinrichs, committed suicide by detonating an explosive device attached to his neck....
(Excerpt) Read more at rockymountainnews.com ...
He retreated each time, and finally went to sit on a bench near some busses. The TATP (Triacetone triperoxide, A.K.A. "Mother of Satan) device blew up, taking Mr Heinrichs with it.
It is far more likely this was a failed terror attempt than a simple suicide.
Bomb Blast at University of Oklahoma (Breaking on Fox) - suicide bomber at OU
OU Bombing Update (Colorado TV Station Says Bomb was REMOTE CONTROLLED)
Ping to a strange follow-on to a part of history.....
My Godchild was killed by a schizophrenic.
Almost forty years ago.
They can be dangerous.
“My Godchild was killed by a schizophrenic.”
I’m so sorry to hear of your terrible loss. Forty years isn’t a very long time when it comes to experiencing a sadness like that. Prayers for both you and your sweet Godchild.
Does this strike anyone else as peculiar? Since when does the FBI 'monitor' citizens, however odd?
Incidentally, Hinrichs should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed, not imprisoned.
Geez no. I thought it meant he just got mad.
Whoa there horns fan. Better check the police blotter in Lubbock.
Boomer Sooner!
Completely agree. I wasn’t at that game, but my son and his wife were, they were still students at the time. They said the blast was loud enough inside to be noticed pretty well.
At the time the rumor was he had tried to enter & couldn’t gain access (that rumor has since been denied). I went to the next game & just looked around thinking about the stampede & carnage it would have caused. I made up my mind right then that I was going nowhere if something happened, I would just lay down. 7000 may be a low number.
Naw. Cowards that they are, they themselves would probably vote for a republican to protect them if the war was that close.
I knew we’d eventually have another chapter in that story.
” ... Incidentally, Hinrichs should have been found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed, not imprisoned. ...”
I know it would seem that way, but there is a prosecution witness that would blow that out of the water - his own father:
” ... The elder Hinrichs told police his son knows right from wrong but has mental health problems. ...”
The legal test is the “knowing right from wrong” determination. Otherwise, I might agree, only because of Andrea Yates and her re-trial. He will definitely have problems in prison, though.
Ah, so it’s not the Todd who gives noogies to Lisa Lubener. Doesn’t look like Bill Murray at all!
aka “The Adventures of SplodeyMan’s Bro”
Andrea Yates knew right from wrong. She admitted first thing that she’d done a very bad thing.
1) It wasn't a bomb vest. It was a backpack in his lap.
2) There were no nails.
3) Have you ever set foot on a college campus in the last 40 years? Do you have any concept of how many college students have a scraggly beard that just have scraggly beards?
4) There's no evidence he frequented mosques or was a Muslim. He had a Pakistani roommate.
That’s what I mean and why it didn’t work for her the first time. I saw it all, from the first moments that morning on our local news, as they brought her out of the house to the police car after the “welfare check.”
She knew she had done wrong, but thought of herself as evil, rather than sick. That was my feeling towards her, too, but I later softened a little - probably from seeing Rusty in action.
Once I learned her history, I felt she definitely met the legal definition of insanity.
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How many people carry a knife in their pocket?
Was it a selective fire AK-47 or a legal semi-auto version?
Is it illegal to have a bulletproof vest?
Sounds more like he was convicted of “contempt of cop”.
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