WWU (Bellingham Washington) student accused of plotting bomb attacks

SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER ^ | Wednesday, June 11, 2003 | PAUL SHUKOVSKY

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

The FBI has arrested a Western Washington University student on charges that he was planning to bomb a Coast Guard station and an Army National Guard facility in Bellingham.

Paul Revak, a 20-year-old history major who has no criminal history, faces up to life in federal prison if found guilty of threats to use a weapon of mass destruction. A search of Revak's dormitory room did not turn up any explosives and, although the investigation is continuing, it appears that Revak was acting alone.

The native of Snohomish was also charged with solicitation to commit a crime of violence for allegedly seeking the help of another student in his plot.

An attempt to draw another person into his fantasy was Revak's undoing, according to a vivid picture painted by court documents.

Revak sought the help of the fellow student May 9 to join him in the plan to bomb the Coast Guard base, according to a complaint from FBI agent James Powers. Revak, a self-proclaimed anarchist, told the student that the bombing would "make a statement" and "have an impact" on starting a revolution against the U.S. government, according to the complaint.

Revak showed the student a diagram of the Coast Guard station. He drove the student to the station to point out where he would cut the fence and enter with a bomb like the one that devastated the federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995.

He presented the student with a copy of a grandiose manifesto. After a preamble that criticizes the U.S. government, the document lays out the option of "unrest, protest, and if need be, revolution. You need not worry about Osama or Saddam or the boogeyman, but if you are part of this empire, you should fear us. Our will is strong, our message is just, and we will prevail."

The alarmed student sought to dissuade Revak, and "when it became apparent that Revak was not going to be talked out of his plan," the student began working with the FBI.

Last Thursday, Revak and the student met with an undercover agent at the student's apartment, where the FBI secretly made audio and video recordings. Revak asked that the special agent help him obtain a powerful military explosive called C-4. He also wanted hand grenades. Revak told the agent that he had recently driven by an oil refinery at Cherry Point near Bellingham and had found it to be "so friggin' tempting."

Revak asked the agent whether he had heard of the abolitionist John Brown, whose raid on an Army arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Va., in 1859 was a step on the road to the Civil War. He then raised the specter of a possible assault on the Naval Air Station Whidbey Island with "all those EP-3s sitting there on the tarmac. I would be like a kid in a candy store."

On Monday, when agents tailing Revak spotted him emerging from a store with a pellet gun that is a replica of a semiautomatic pistol, they arrested him. He was ordered jailed, pending a bail hearing Friday.

A shocked family member said last night that "he has always been a good kid" and has not shown any signs of mental illness.

[Eva]

We shouldn't forget that students at this campus also gave shelter to John Lee Malvo.

[jnarcus]

Just for the record my younger sister is a prof in Econ and Canadian studies at Western...and she ain't a liberal. Almost any state funded school thesed days has a left tilt ( as well as the ivies)...Western does provide a reasonably decent education but as with most schooling ya gotta alert...and ulcer it ain't

[Dead Dog]

It's about time conservatives begin infiltrating these institutions, or form counter institutions. The left has been working on them since the 1930s, it's about time we fight back.

[John H K]

I suspect if there's a big Republican electoral victory in 2004 you'll see far more serious domestic left-wing/anarchist terrorism similar to the Weather Underground in the 60s/70s, out of frustration, and much worse than the ELF stuff going on now.

Fortunately, most of these types are big-talkers/BS artists who won't actually do anything (as was true of the 60s, the number of ACTUAL terrorists out of the people who talked big about it was pretty small) but you don't need that many people to do damage, as we've seen.

[Constantine XIII]

You see, there's a catch. Liberals can get away with infiltration because they are obsessed with power. Conservatives have a harder time because, generally, we have lives, along with goals and dreams that generally exclude ruling over the needy masses. :)

[Tijeras_Slim]

Perhaps his younger brother was the family favorite or his girlfriend dumped him!

Don't forget the perpetual favorite... "I hate my Father."

[gcruse]

if found guilty of threats to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Is that what it is coming to?  Are we going to dumb down
the definition of 'weapons of mass destruction' to snare
anything that can kill more than one person at a time?
Already, I have difficulties with weapons our military
terms as 'weapons of area denial' being WMD.  Guess
what those weapons are.  They are chemical and biological
weapons.  The only real WMD is nuclear.

With the new 'inclusive' WMD definition, OJ needs to
change his initials.

[CyberCowboy777]

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[holyscroller]

Yesterday a friend of mine received a summons in the mail to either pay a $250 fine or appear in Federal Court in Seattle for parking in a handicapped zone (in Seattle). It was issued by the Dept. of Homeland Security, mailed from Dallas, to be paid to Atlanta, or show up in court in Seattle. He swears he never did it, and this just came out of the blue. The guy's a crippled old man, but he doesn't have a handicapped pass. Scary!

[Dead Dog]

Conservatives have a harder time because, generally, we have lives, along with goals and dreams that generally exclude ruling over the needy masses. :)

Yah, I was going to say "jobs"

[connectthedots]

Good thing this guy is a student at Western Wasington University. If he had been a student at the Evergreen State College there wouldn't have been any student who would have turned him in.

[HardStarboard]

>>>Evidently the anarchists have branched out from Eugene Oregon and moved north to Bellingham. <<<

Now I hope the Homeland Security Dept. gets its @$$ in gear and wipes out the den of vipers in Eugene!!

[Skywalk]

You mean Lenin. Those damn commies in the Fremont 'hood of Seattle have a statue of Lenin up.

[HardStarboard]

>>>"probably a Huskies fan."<<<

Nah, but probably thinks football stadiums make a great target! Stupid little punk - put him in the stocks and lets us throw stones at him!

[Dead Dog]

Yah, what the heck was I thinking. I've only hocked lugies on that piece of sh!t ten or so times.

I've always wanted to an all American .30-06 round through it's head. It ain't worth going to jail for.

[seowulf]

I am SO proud of my alma mater. /S/

There was Pornfest a few weeks ago and now anarchist terrorists. It seems we may have to call in the 82nd to clean out the training camp.

It was different in the Reagan years when I went to school there (not much though). I consider myself educated despite the best efforts of feminist, leftist professors.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

My husband has two degrees from Western. He had to be deprogrammed. : ) (And the deprogramming was successful, thank goodness)

[connectthedots]

With the right motivation, anything is possible. ;)