"Patriot" Tried Sowing Fear of Muslims With Pipe Bombs

[Gauthier]

Georgia ‘patriot’ reportedly planted pipe bombs in park to sow fear of Muslims

A 67-year-old Marietta, Georgia man is accused of planting a backpack containing two pipe bombs in an Atlanta-area public park in order to frighten the public and sow fear of Islamic terrorism.

According to Atlanta’s Channel 2 News, conservative “patriot” Michael Sibley confessed to police that he was trying to educate people that terror strikes can happen anywhere and without warning when he planted the bombs last November.

The backpack contained two partially-constructed pipe bombs, a Koran and a list of “soft targets” for terrorist attacks — i.e., non-military, unguarded structures like hospitals and schools. Among the list of potential targets was an Atlanta Jewish center.

Channel 2 quoted Sibley’s arrest report, which reported that he “(s)tated that he is a ‘patriot’ and he felt no one was paying attention to what was going on the world. Sibley felt if he placed the package in a Roswell park then people would finally get that this type of activity could happen anywhere.”

So some old guy plants two pipe bombs and a bunch of false flag material to try and rile up Islamaphobia in the Georgia public as a "warning" against the Islamic Menace. Fortunately he was stopped before the bombs actually went off and injured or killed people.

Does anyone remember the last time some right-wing nut "tried" to warn the public about the Islamic Menace?

Islamic Terrorism is a reality, but it takes an especially soulless bigot to be willing to kill innocent people just to have another group of innocent people subject to state-sanctioned harassment on top of individual pogroms. And God knows we need more Indians murdered by morons who think their brown skin means they're Muslim.

Yes, there are Islamist terror groups out there, but if you're so scared of them you're associating all Muslims with them you have serious issues.

[United Russian Soviet States]

This guy did the wrong thing to warn people about Islamic terrorism.

[Utceforp]

I can't comprehend the amount of cognitive dissonance it must take for someone to try and blow up buildings in order to warn people about buildings being blown up.

[Neo Rome Republic]

The logic of loons.

[UED]

LOL

Murica

[British Home Counties]

lmao

patriot. patriot of isis.

[Colbert Super PAC]

Conservative patriot? More like a false flag planned by Obama and the CIA to discredit actual conservative patriots.

[The balkens]

Conservative patriot? More like a false flag planned by Obama and the CIA to discredit actual conservative patriots.

Colberts gone dude, now its just tearing open healing wounds.

[Genivaria]

So this guy is being labeled a terrorist right?
Right?

[Dragonir]

Pretty funny but you anf the liberal media are just trying to make real Americans look bad

[Getrektistan]

So this guy is being labeled a terrorist right?
Right?

No, he's too white for that.

[Liberty and Linguistics]

So this guy is being labeled a terrorist right?
Right?

No, he's too white for that.

I imagine the government is labeling him as a terrorist. No need to be snarky.

Anyways, this old senile bastard should be imprisoned for this recklessness.

[Utceforp]

Pretty funny but you anf the liberal media are just trying to make real Americans look bad

Please don't be serious...

[Salus Maior]

He better be charged with terrorism.

Edit: So, the next progression of this logic would be that a liberal "patriot" plants a bomb to warn Americans about conservatives trying to plant bombs to warn Americans about Islamic terrorism?

Pretty funny but you anf the liberal media are just trying to make real Americans look bad

This man is not a real American. Real Americans don't attempt to murder innocents to warn people about people trying to murder innocents. My brain hurts just thinking about his mental process.

[Getrektistan]

No, he's too white for that.

I imagine the government is labeling him as a terrorist. No need to be snarky.

But the media sure isn't. The article doesn't refer to him as a terrorist once, and I'm sure it would if he were North African instead of American. Our government probably labels him a terrorist, but many more white terrorists are labelled as lone wolf attackers with mental issues while those of darker skin are not. It's reflective of the deep seated racism still present in the US and I think it's certainly worth being snarky over.

[New-Pradbraki]

Pretty funny but you anf the liberal media are just trying to make real Americans look bad

Real Americans don't plan terrorist atrocities or spread bigoted, racist hate speech. Besides, if this man was a "liberal" or, God forbid, a Muslim, doing the exact same thing for the exact same reasons, Fox and the rest of the conservative media would've come down on it like a pile of bricks.

[Salus Maior]

Pretty funny but you anf the liberal media are just trying to make real Americans look bad

Real Americans don't plan terrorist atrocities or spread bigoted, racist hate speech. Besides, if this man was a "liberal" or, God forbid, a Muslim, doing the exact same thing for the exact same reasons, Fox and the rest of the conservative media would've come down on it like a pile of bricks.

Moral of the story: "The Media" sucks

[Transyl]

Oh great..Good job, teaching people about terrorists by being a terrorist. That's totally gonna work. (Sarcasm)

[Washington Resistance Army]

Pretty funny but you anf the liberal media are just trying to make real Americans look bad

This post broke my stupid meter, you owe me $20.

As per the OP, you need to catch up with the times Gauth. You need to warn people about terrorists by being a terrorist!

[Imperium Sidhicum]

I understand that his two pipe-bombs weren't even designed to explode, nor was his purpose to actually kill someone, so I think that disqualifies this man from terrorism charges. He can still be charged with a variety of different offenses though.

Still, I think he deserves prison time for being an idiot. The least he could have done is plant false evidence that actually looked plausible.

[Sanctissima]

I understand that his two pipe-bombs weren't even designed to explode, nor was his purpose to actually kill someone, so I think that disqualifies this man from terrorism charges. He can still be charged with a variety of different offenses though.

Still, I think he deserves prison time for being an idiot. The least he could have done is plant false evidence that actually looked plausible.

Eh, I don't know if I'd go as far as prison time.

I mean, at the end of the day, he was just trying to make a point. A stupid point, but nonetheless, a point.

To be honest, I wish we still used stocks. Put him in one outside of the town hall for a day and sell rotten tomatoes to passersby. It'd be a great fundraiser.

[Gauthier]

I understand that his two pipe-bombs weren't even designed to explode, nor was his purpose to actually kill someone, so I think that disqualifies this man from terrorism charges. He can still be charged with a variety of different offenses though.

Still, I think he deserves prison time for being an idiot. The least he could have done is plant false evidence that actually looked plausible.

Eh, I don't know if I'd go as far as prison time.

I mean, at the end of the day, he was just trying to make a point. A stupid point, but nonetheless, a point.

To be honest, I wish we still used stocks. Put him in one outside of the town hall for a day and sell rotten tomatoes to passersby. It'd be a great fundraiser.

Anders Breivik was trying to make the exact same point.

And why should he get a slap on the wrist just because the bombs may have been dummied? There's plenty of undercover terrorism stings in the U.S. where the suspects never actually get close to executing an attack but they're still charged as terrorists.

[Sanctissima]

Eh, I don't know if I'd go as far as prison time.

I mean, at the end of the day, he was just trying to make a point. A stupid point, but nonetheless, a point.

To be honest, I wish we still used stocks. Put him in one outside of the town hall for a day and sell rotten tomatoes to passersby. It'd be a great fundraiser.

Anders Breivik was trying to make the exact same point.

And why should he get a slap on the wrist just because the bombs may have been dummied? There's plenty of undercover terrorism stings in the U.S. where the suspects never actually get close to executing an attack but they're still charged as terrorists.

Because he wasn't actually planning on killing anyone.

His entire motive was to make a political point. Sure, it was a stupid point that had the intent of worsening relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, but it was still just a point. Was he disturbing the peace? Yes, and he should be punished accordingly, but that shouldn't involve jail time.

[Scomagia]

Anders Breivik was trying to make the exact same point.

And why should he get a slap on the wrist just because the bombs may have been dummied? There's plenty of undercover terrorism stings in the U.S. where the suspects never actually get close to executing an attack but they're still charged as terrorists.

Because he wasn't actually planning on killing anyone.

His entire motive was to make a political point. Sure, it was a stupid point that had the intent of worsening relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, but it was still just a point. Was he disturbing the peace? Yes, and he should be punished accordingly, but that shouldn't involve jail time.

He used the threat of violence to make a political point, which is generally considered terrorism.

[Sanctissima]

Because he wasn't actually planning on killing anyone.

His entire motive was to make a political point. Sure, it was a stupid point that had the intent of worsening relations between Muslims and non-Muslims, but it was still just a point. Was he disturbing the peace? Yes, and he should be punished accordingly, but that shouldn't involve jail time.

He used the threat of violence to make a political point, which is generally considered terrorism.

That's a really horrible definition of terrorism.