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philo
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Friends of yours Ron?
Three men were arrested in Gaston County, North Carolina after allegedly amassing an arsenal and making their own bombs out of fear that the government was about to enact martial law, the Asheville Citizen Times reported.
Federal investigators said two of the suspects, 50-year-old Walter Eugene Litteral and 30-year-old Christopher Todd Campbell, voiced their skepticism regarding the Operation Jade Helm military training exercises, which conspiracy theorists believe is the prelude to a military takeover.
READ MORE: For the second time this week, white man opens fire on Jade Helm training site in Mississippi
The FBI began investigating the two men, along with 41-year-old Christopher James Barker, last month after receiving a tip that Barker and Litteral were trying to make homemade explosives, which the latter reportedly called “game changers.” The bombs were allegedly made by filling tennis balls with ball bearings, then covering them in nails and coffee cans.
WTVD-TV reported that Litteral bought body armor, Kevlar helmets, and radios. He also reportedly planned to buy an assault rifle and ammunition for Barker, who was ineligible to do so himself because of prior convictions for possessing cocaine and stolen goods.
The three men reportedly planned to test their weapons out in Shelby, with Litteral allegedly saying, “It is going to be great.”
After being arrested on Saturday, the three suspects face federal charges of conspiring to violate federal laws regarding firearms and explosive devices. Campbell also faces a separate weapons charge. They are due back in court on Thursday for detention hearings. It was unclear as of Tuesday night whether they had attorneys.
Reports of the arrest came on the same day that two men allegedly opened fire on a “Jade Helm 15″ training site in Mississippi
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Winemaker
Sport climber
Yakima, WA
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BITD we used to make bombs with black powder and blow sh#t up. I had a pipe cannon that could fire a one pound can of baked beans 1/4 mile. Now I'd be arrested as a terrorist for that sort of stuff. It's amazing I still have all my fingers.
Times change.
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fear
Ice climber
hartford, ct
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True.... I can almost see the headlines in the sheeple news today:
"The man had an arsenal, nobody needs beans like that to kill a deer..."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Adios, again, Ron. You know it's only a matter of time...
Who would want to shop at a place that can't spell "wall" in the first place?
And that's desperate, man, havin' to pick up chicks there?
Look away, consumers. You will turn to stone. The parking lots will fill with choss. It will become a desert of rock, someday.
And Ron will come walking out of that desert, armed to the teeth, lookin' for his revenge.
Thus it is written in the Tuesday Shopper that you find under your car in the driveway.
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 15, 2015 - 03:31pm PT
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How's jade helm coming along?
Have the Feds re-invaded Texas yet?
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