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Anti-government extremist arrested in Oklahoma bomb plot
The Los Angeles Times ^ | August 14, 2017 | Joseph Tanfani

Posted on 08/14/2017 3:46:23 PM PDT by 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.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: domesticterrorism; entrapment; fbi; foiled; jerrydrakevarnell; jerryvarnel; jerryvarnell; mcveigh; okc; oklahomacity; varnel; varnell
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To: Bratch
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?

21 posted on 08/14/2017 4:49:52 PM PDT by sargon ("If we were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse, the Left would protest for zombies' rights.")
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To: UCANSEE2

“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?


22 posted on 08/14/2017 4:52:30 PM PDT by dljordan (WhoVoltaire: "To find out who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.")
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To: dljordan

I forgot about ole Lou H.


23 posted on 08/14/2017 5:07:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: dljordan
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.
24 posted on 08/14/2017 5:32:58 PM PDT by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Stay Calm and Carry.)
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To: Hojczyk

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.


25 posted on 08/14/2017 5:47:35 PM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: UCANSEE2

3 million dollar settlement.


26 posted on 08/14/2017 6:00:26 PM PDT by Seruzawa (FABOL - F*** A Bunch Of Liberals)
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To: Bratch

Stupid is as stupid does


27 posted on 08/14/2017 6:35:02 PM PDT by t4texas (Remember the Alamo!)
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To: Seruzawa

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


28 posted on 08/14/2017 6:41:51 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Bratch

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


29 posted on 08/14/2017 6:48:30 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: Bratch

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.


30 posted on 08/14/2017 6:51:42 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: Bratch

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


31 posted on 08/15/2017 1:35:59 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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