Your analysis seems pretty spot on.
Look, folks, ten years ago some guy could have said this to his friend on the phone, probably no problem. He might have said it during an interview on some podunk low-wattage AM radio interview, and once again, no biggie.
But these days are different,what with FB out there, and the twits twitting away (yeah, try to get the whole, complete story on twitter sometime when you are limited to 140 characters...), cell/smart phone technologies, etc.
You expressly and conspicuously say something in public with violent intentions and YEAH yur gonna get asked about it!!!
Heck, they say stuff like this just about every other night on Coast to Coast. But the people they talk to don’t come across like ticking time-bomb lone wolf dudes who are getting ready to take out a whole city block or something!
IMHO, he should have been questioned. He may actually be right about some things, but he needed to be questioned. questions like “How much C4 you got in your basement?”
He’s probably just a blowhard with a bit of PTSD but they won’t know that unless they sit him down and talk to him.
We keep losing constitutional rights out of the Fed Gov’s ever growing, massive fear and hysteria. Now it’s be careful not to sound too serious in political speech about axing the government. Oh, did I say axing?
I think we muster up the political strength to stop and abolish them before they get around to you and me. They will always have an excuse to raid “extremist” politically incorrect people. Most of us are on their DHS domestic terrorist list because of our political and social/religious beleifs and activism. They will get around to demonizing as they arrest us, too. They can make anyone look like Sadam.