You have to read this to believe it. FBI busts man with a 51 IQ for terrorism

[Sam_Fields]

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151229/14333133193/fbi-turns-18-year-old-with-iq-51-into-terrorist-dumps-case-into-laps-local-prosecutors.shtml

Witnesses, friends and family members uniformly described Pruitt as a "child" - a teenager with an IQ of 51 who cannot tie his own shoes, soils his clothes, has little verbal skills and lacks the ability to distinguish reality from fantasy.

[Scuba]

1. Be afraid, be very afraid. There's terrorists everywhere. Your fear means profits for the MIC.

[Logical]

6. So many posters here do not get this! They love us being scared. Nt

[Ichingcarpenter]

2. This story needs to read to see the insanity of it

I wonder what his so called bomb designs looked like?

FBI stands for

Federal Bureau of Illusions
Full Blown Idiot

Fumbling Botched Investigations

[RandiFan1290]

3. Easier than going after armed domestic terrorists. nt

[Hortensis]

4. Might want to hold the outrage a bit. Googling turns up

a bunch of that, but maybe we should wait for reports from journalists who no doubt are gathering information now. This is from an Alabama news report:

"Holladay also called several witnesses testifying to Pruitt's mental competency. A Pell City school worker said Pruitt's IQ had been tested twice when he was five, and probably hadn't changed much since he scored a 51.

Helen Waldrop, a worker with the E.H. Gentry Technical Center in Talladega, said Pruitt had been part of their program until his father withdrew him in May. She said he cannot drive a car, hold down a job or see after his own hygiene. She said he needed constant supervision and was susceptible to suggestion, sometimes saying things that were untrue.

But under questioning from Minor, Waldrop said Pruitt had been written up in April for using a computer to access "the ISIS website."

Pruitt's father Anthony said he withdrew Peyton from Gentry in May but did not learn of the computer incident until his son's arrest. He said he had Peyton under supervision with his daughter at the time of his arrest, and that he had given Peyton a laptop computer for Christmas last year."

Note that paragraph I italicized and that his IQ was last tested at age 5. (Anyone here have information on how reliable that testing was even then?) Also that his dad recently bought him a laptop. If he's as dysfunctional as they are claiming, shouldn't an off-line play device with some extremely simple games on it have been all the challenge he could handle?

I just hope the Pell City jail is taking proper care of him.

[TexasProgresive]

5. Well, ya gotta trust the FBI knows what they're doing

and there's no terrorists in Oregon.