Anti-government extremist arrested in Oklahoma bomb plot

The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 14, 2017 | Joseph Tanfani

[Bratch]

A 23-year-old man who said he hated the U.S. government has been arrested by the FBI for allegedly trying to blow up an Oklahoma City bank with what he thought was a 1,000-pound bomb in a truck.

According to a criminal complaint, Jerry Drake Varnell wanted to start a militia group and admired Timothy McVeigh, the domestic terrorist who was convicted and executed for setting off a massive truck bomb outside a federal building in Oklahoma City in April 1995.

Varnell thought he was dealing with two fellow sympathizers in the anti-government movement but they were a confidential informant and an undercover FBI agent working in a sting operation, according to the complaint.

[sargon]

Nothing like a manufactured terrorist plot—where two thirds of the "conspirators" are government provocateurs—to serve the Deep State's propaganda goals.

Wasn't the 1st World Trade Center bombing a similar effort?

[dljordan]

“Can you name one negative thing that happened to the FBI because of Ruby Ridge ? “

Lon Horiuchi had to go live on am Army base?

[wally_bert]

I forgot about ole Lou H.

[Aut Pax Aut Bellum]

Ah, FBI thought crime. Someone spouts off in a bar about a store/business/bank/whatever that ripped them off, and wanting to blow them up. Soon, the FBI is pushing him to do it, supplying van, fake explosives,everything. Once he hits the button, Ta-Da! We have a crime! Look what we prevented. Give us more funding.

[Chewbarkah]

Or a rerun of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building, with the FBI showing the ATF that the idea is to:
1) recruit a dumber stooge lacking military skills or a paramilitary support network;
2) never let the stooge make a real bomb;
3) spring the trap BEFORE the nutcase gets off leash and sets off anything.

[Seruzawa]

3 million dollar settlement.

[t4texas]

Stupid is as stupid does

[Hojczyk]

There was a kid in Atlanta. one of the Olympics a bombing or they found a bomb cannot remember

here

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/jul/27/olympic-park-bombings-atlanta-1996-richard-jewell

[DiogenesLamp]

Looks like that kid on “Two and a Half Men.” Seems about as smart too.

[RetiredTexasVet]

If it weren’t the FBI, they would have been indicted as co-conspirators. The guy was probably too stupid to cross the street by himself ... another trumped up entrapment case to get a promotion and up the budget.

[Ann Archy]

I would bet $1000.00 he’s on some kind of medicine for ADHD!