[wideawake]

He not only wrote about it, he cyberstalked and real-world stalked potential targets to establish times and places to snatch them and places to conceal them, he acquired equipment for the express purpose of carrying out his plot, etc.

There is such a crime as felony conspiracy, and it has been part of common law since before the founding of the Republic.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Wow I didn’t know that. Where did you read that? I read he just exchanged emails and pictures with some other freak in Germany.

[dagogo redux]

Your point is well taken, but how would this differ from someone who reads and writes about SHTF scenarios, knows who and where the trouble makers are in his town, and practices with silhouette targets at the range? Could they be charged with felony conspiracy? Just curious.

[SaraJohnson]

If he was making all the preparations to carry out his internet talk in real life, that is more than “just talking about it on the internet.”

I didn’t follow the trial. I don’t watch horror movies, either. : (