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Florida Man Found With Explosive Device Near Rally for 1/6 Riot Suspect, Police Say
Newsweek ^ | 07 January 2022 | JAKE THOMAS

Posted on 01/08/2022 3:29:42 AM PST by blueplum

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When violent Democrat Insurrectionists did this, they were called “fireworks”


21 posted on 01/08/2022 6:29:36 AM PST by AppyPappy (Biden told Al Roker "America is back". Unfortunately, he meant back to the 1970's)
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To: csvset

All these morons look the same so it’s easy to pick them out of a crowd


22 posted on 01/08/2022 6:35:15 AM PST by butlerweave
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To: csvset

What’s on the front side of that notebook paper? Pokemon
stick figures, favorite Harry Potter phrases, and selections from the communist manifesto? Probably unfinished homework.


23 posted on 01/08/2022 6:35:53 AM PST by centermass_socrates (Tap, rack, bang clears blockages, even the leftist political ones.)
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To: blueplum

Firecrackers and a handyman toolbox.

If they want you, they got you.


24 posted on 01/08/2022 6:36:31 AM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: csvset

The notes look like he went to some kind of Antifa training camp. The question is which side is the FBI in on this.


25 posted on 01/08/2022 7:27:44 AM PST by Dennis M.
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I have one of those red thingies with the green fuse sitting on the kitchen counter. They are not any louder than a black kat firecracker, just red and look bigger.

Don’t ask why it’s sitting on the kitchen counter. I think I forgot to put it back in the stash and it’s there to remind me what, six months later.


26 posted on 01/08/2022 7:43:33 AM PST by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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Yeah, I have some of red ones, agreed, they look menacing but are mere firecrackers.


27 posted on 01/08/2022 7:53:00 AM PST by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: blueplum

I am surprised they published this. Seems like Newsweek might be gingerly stepping off the woke bandwagon.

Speaking of Portland, my lefty SIL who lives there emailed yesterday. A bullet came through their front window. She is freaking out.


28 posted on 01/08/2022 7:58:11 AM PST by beef (Let’s go Baizuo!)
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I’d freak out too. In fact, I’d leave the area


29 posted on 01/08/2022 8:15:49 AM PST by Karoo
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“Does his Mom know he left the basement ?”

Actually he was living with his mommy and daddy😂. Their house was searched for more evidence.


30 posted on 01/08/2022 9:03:53 AM PST by willk
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Alleged Antifa member targeted Florida rally with a bomb; more explosives found at his house!

The Post Millennial ^ | January 7, 2022 | Andy Ngo
Posted on 1/8/2022, 9:54:30 AM by Mr. Mojo

A man in black bloc behaving suspiciously near a right-wing rally outside the Pinellas County Courthouse in Florida on Jan. 6 was apprehended by deputies after he tried fleeing on foot.

Garrett James Smith, 22, was arrested and found carrying an active pipe bomb, Antifa propaganda and a written document on what to bring for his direct action. He had recently returned from Portland, Ore.

“He was running fast, he was running away from something,” Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri said at a press conference on Friday.

Smith was purportedly targeting dozens of the attendees of a rally protesting the treatment of Jan. 6 suspects on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol riot.

A search of Smith’s home he shares with his parents in Oldsmar, Fla. revealed more explosives, tape and nails for use in grenades. Smith’s “direct action” checklist included a drawing of an umbrella, a symbol adopted by Antifa militants for their frequent use of black umbrellas to shield one another from cameras while they commit acts of violence or vandalism. The helmet found in his backpack during his arrest had the Antifa “iron front” symbol painted on it.

Sheriff Gualtieri said that Smith is refusing to cooperate in the investigation.

(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...


31 posted on 01/08/2022 10:27:07 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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32 posted on 01/08/2022 10:52:15 AM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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33 posted on 01/08/2022 10:53:47 AM PST by sauropod (Resident Bidet. A confused old man at the wrong bus stop.)
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To: beef

Speaking of Portland, my lefty SIL who lives there emailed yesterday. A bullet came through their front window. She is freaking out.”

One of our younger male DNA pools left N. California when he was about 22 and stayed in Portland for about 2+ decades.

At first he loved it, then the low life took over many neighborhoods, like the ones he could afford to live in.

At first he condemned friends, who moved out of Portland, and finally those that left later, convinced him to leave. In fact a long time friend had bailed out of Portland to raise his family in the Seattle area. That friend was the one got our son to move to Portland.

Then, another friend of his, still in this area offered our son a job and he moved back.

16 years later, he and his love of his life live in a smaller city and often don’t lock their door when they go shopping or to buy a meal.

Most of his many Portland friends have moved out of Portland and most went out of state with the exception of a widowed former landlady. The apartment, that he had lived in has been broken into several times. This woman is a 3rd generation Portland person, and she refuses to believe what is happening even to her home and the apartment below her home.

His friends still staying in Oregone now live and work in red counties. Even in those counties, their local sheriffs have told them and their neighbors to call each other if you are scared or see possible invaders.


34 posted on 01/08/2022 10:56:23 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Nietzsche: “Everything the State says is a lie, and everything the State has. It was stolen!”)
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False flag by the fib to make it look like they are unbiased in their law enforcement. Unsuspecting soyboy was sacrificed for fib positive and patriotic public standing.


35 posted on 01/08/2022 11:04:21 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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He probably had big dreams of being such hero of the commeez that he would be appointed national commander of pantifa.


36 posted on 01/08/2022 11:12:57 AM PST by Zuriel (Acts 2:38,39....Do you believe it?)
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Also common sense suggests that somebody who sneaks a bomb to a rally is probably not a fan of the cause the rally is for.


37 posted on 01/08/2022 11:38:47 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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They found pipe bombs and some kind of grenades in his car. The tiny ones would be great distractions, or easily disassembled for their innards.


38 posted on 01/08/2022 1:37:03 PM PST by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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To: blueplum; JulieRNR21; Travis McGee; AAABEST; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; ...
More on our little wannabe revolutionary in Pinellas.

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I'm compiling a list of FReepers interested in Florida-related topics.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.

39 posted on 01/09/2022 6:36:26 AM PST by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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Looks like he may have been trying to rig the firecrackers into hollow wood or other objects in order to use them to propel a long wood screw.


40 posted on 01/11/2022 10:48:50 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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