California man arrested with explosives outside Dearborn Islamic center

[LuckyTheDog]

An ex-Army veteran from California who is accused of driving to Metro Detroit's largest mosque with a trunk full of explosives is behind bars after being charged with making a terrorist threat.

Roger Stockham, 63, is charged with one count of a false report or threat of terrorism and one count of explosives-possession of bombs with unlawful intent after Dearborn police arrested him Monday outside the Islamic Center of America, one the largest mosques in North America.

From The Detroit News: http://detnews.com/article/20110130/METRO/101300320/California-man-arrested-with-explosives-outside-Dearborn-Islamic-center#ixzz1CYr5dsvl

Of course, it's possible that this guy is a left-wing nut, so puuuuuhleeeze... let's not jump to the conclusion that he is a right-winger and/or a Tea-bagger. :sarcasm:

[MindPilot]

1. How can you be an "ex-Army veteran"?

If you were in the Army, you are an Army veteran. That will never change.

[Quantess]

3. Maybe the Army doesn't want to claim him.

[Electric Monk]

5. No true Scotsman?

He was an Army veteran, until he packed a trunk full of explosives and drove to a Mosque, then he became "ex"?

[hootinholler]

7. Yeah that jumped off the screen at me too...

I'm chalking it up to the dumbing down of our press and idiotic lazy journalism because not only did someone write it, it survived the editor too.

-Hoot

[Tejas]

2. "Stockham was in possession of class C fireworks"

[Richard Steele]

4. CUE the cadre of "DUers" who claim that violence isn't just a right-wing phenomenon.....

Wait for them- they'll find a way to SPIN this,
get their marching orders, and show up on every thread
with their 'reasonable arguements'.

Just like they always do.

[Mojeoux]

6. Here's the LIST DU RW " excuseinators." Find ANYthing to equal this!!!

This is a lonoooooooooong list. If lefties had pulled ONE TENTH of this shit, Fox News would have lost it's damn mind!!!


•Mar. 2009 - Michele Bachmann (R-MN) states that she wants the citizens of her state "armed and dangerous".

•Aug. 2009 - Someone dropped a gun from their pants at a Giffords town hall meeting in Arizona.

•Jan. 2010 - Sharron Angle gives famous "second amendment remedies" speech, and also states "we have to take Harry Reid out."

•Mar. 2010 - Tom Perillo's (D-VA) brother came home to find a severed gas line after Tea Partiers posted his address online, thinking it was the Congressman's address.

•Mar. 2010 - Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) said that the windows of her Niagara Falls office were broken and she received voicemail referencing snipers.

•Mar. 2010 - Eric Cantor (R-VA) discovers that even Republicans aren't immune to having their office windows shot out. Perhaps his constituents figured out he doesn't celebrate Christmas.

•Mar. 2010 - Monroe County Democratic Committee (N.Y.) were vandalized when bricks were thrown through the windows.

•Mar. 2010 - Randy Neugebauer (R-TX) angrily shouts "baby killer" while Bart Stupak (D-MI) speaks on the floor of the House or Representatives. Afterward Stupak released tapes of violent threatening "baby killer" messages left on his voicemail, presumably not also by Neugebauer.

•Mar. 2010 - RNC Chairman Michael Steele said Nancy Pelosi should be put on "the firing line."

•Mar. 2010 - John Boehner (R-OH) states, in an interview, that congressmen who vote for the health bill would be 'dead men'.

•Apr. 2010 - Sarah Palin tweets "Don't retreat, instead reload" to her followers.

•Jul. 2010 - Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) office windows were shot at.

•Oct. 2010 - Raul Grijalva (D-AZ) offices were sent white powder through the postal service.

•Jan. 2011 - Explosive packages sent to the Maryland capitol building, the Maryland Department of Transportation and to the office of Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano.


And still this list from “Crooks and Liars”

• July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how "liberals" are "destroying America," walks into a Unitarian Church and opens fire, killing two churchgoers and wounding four others.

• October 2008: Two neo-Nazis are arrested in Tennessee in a plot to murder dozens of African-Americans, culminating in the assassination of President Obama.

• December 2008: A pair of "Patriot" movement radicals -- the father-son team of Bruce and Joshua Turnidge, who wanted "to attack the political infrastructure" -- threaten a bank in Woodburn, Oregon, with a bomb in the hopes of extorting money that would end their financial difficulties, for which they blamed the government. Instead, the bomb goes off and kills two police officers. The men eventually are convicted and sentenced to death for the crime.

• December 2008: In Belfast, Maine, police discover the makings of a nuclear "dirty bomb" in the basement of a white supremacist shot dead by his wife. The man, who was independently wealthy, reportedly was agitated about the election of President Obama and was crafting a plan to set off the bomb.

• January 2009: A white supremacist named Keith Luke embarks on a killing rampage in Brockton, Mass., raping and wounding a black woman and killing her sister, then killing a homeless man before being captured by police as he is en route to a Jewish community center.

• February 2009: A Marine named Kody Brittingham is arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate President Obama. Brittingham also collected white-supremacist material.

• April 2009: A white supremacist named Richard Poplawski opens fire on three Pittsburgh police officers who come to his house on a domestic-violence call and kills all three, because he believed President Obama intended to take away the guns of white citizens like himself. Poplawski is currently awaiting trial.

• April 2009: Another gunman in Okaloosa County, Florida, similarly fearful of Obama's purported gun-grabbing plans, kills two deputies when they come to arrest him in a domestic-violence matter, then is killed himself in a shootout with police.


• May 2009: A "sovereign citizen" named Scott Roeder walks into a church in Wichita, Kansas, and assassinates abortion provider Dr. George Tiller.

• June 2009: A Holocaust denier and right-wing tax protester named James Von Brunn opens fire at the Holocaust Museum, killing a security guard.

• February 2010: An angry tax protester named Joseph Ray Stack flies an airplane into the building housing IRS offices in Austin, Texas. (Media are reluctant to label this one "domestic terrorism" too.)

• March 2010: Seven militiamen from the Hutaree Militia in Michigan and Ohio are arrested and charged with plotting to assassinate local police officers with the intent of sparking a new civil war.

• March 2010: An anti-government extremist named John Patrick Bedell walks into the Pentagon and opens fire, wounding two officers before he is himself shot dead.

• May 2010: A "sovereign citizen" from Georgia is arrested in Tennessee and charged with plotting the violent takeover of a local county courthouse.

• May 2010: A still-unidentified white man walks into a Jacksonville, Fla., mosque and sets it afire, simultaneously setting off a pipe bomb.

• May 2010: Two "sovereign citizens" named Jerry and Joe Kane gun down two police officers who pull them over for a traffic violation, and then wound two more officers in a shootout in which both of them are eventually killed.

• July 2010: An agitated right-winger and convict named Byron Williams loads up on weapons and drives to the Bay Area intent on attacking the offices of the Tides Foundation and the ACLU, but is intercepted by state patrolmen and engages them in a shootout and armed standoff in which two officers and Williams are wounded.

• September 2010: A Concord, N.C., man is arrested and charged with plotting to blow up a North Carolina abortion clinic. The man, 26-year--old Justin Carl Moose, referred to himself as the "Christian counterpart to (Osama) bin Laden” in a taped undercover meeting with a federal informant.

[EC]

8. Well, well.

Who was it that was screaming about Shire-ha law in Dearborn?