Roger Stockham, a 63-year-old Army veteran from California who was reportedly angry at the U.S. government, was arrested by police in Michigan and charged with allegedly threatening to blow up a Mosque in Dearborn.
Dearborn police allegedly found Stockham inside his vehicle outside the Islamic Center of America with a load of M-80s in his trunk and other explosives, the Detroit News reported.
Dawud Walid, executive director of the Michigan chapter of the Counsel on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), told the newspaper that police told him the suspect was drinking in a Detroit bar on Monday and threatened to do harm to a mosque in Dearborn. An employee at the bar followed the man outside and wrote down his license plate, which he reported to police, Walid told the newspaper.
The 63-year-old grandfather is charged with one count of a false report or threat of terrorism and one count of possession of bombs with unlawful intent, according to the newspaper.
"He's very dangerous," Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad told the Free Press. "We took his threat to be very serious."
But we don't have a right-wing anti-Muslim, anti-minority domestic terror problem in the US. Anyone who says otherwise is an enemy of the state, and we have "Second Amendment remedies" for those types of problems...
So they tell me.
[UPDATE] Steve M. says the story here is a lot more complex (it often is) but still this guy was running around free for quite some time despite having been treated for mental problems on and off for nearly three decades.
And there have been no posts from SteveAR since the arrest...
ReplyDeleteWasn't me Allan. I'm still here. And I'm not from California.
ReplyDeleteI do find it interesting that here's a guy with mental issues allegedly wanting to blow up a mosque and wanting to kill people.
But from what I can tell, Stockham didn't have a gun on him when he was arrested.
I notice that there hasn't been any story here about the leftist attempting to murder Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri with a knife.
But we don't have a left-wing anti-American domestic problem here. Because even though it happened, the left will never acknowledge it did happen.
We don't have a left-wing anti-American domestic terrorism problem,. primarily because Democratic officials and media pundits haven't engaged in the same kinds of inflammatory rhetoric that's been used by so many on the right.
ReplyDeleteHere's a link to an article about the incident you cited. The young man in question was clearly disturbed, and reportedly anti-government, but no one on the left 'incited' his actions.
http://www.nbcactionnews.com/dpp/new...llege-stabbing
Ooh, SteveAR found one he thinks he can pin on the Left. Get back to me when we generate this kind of track record of mayhem, mkay?
ReplyDeletehttp://crooksandliars.com/david-neiwert/violence-directed-liberal-and-govern
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/30/939874/-30-years-of-right-wing-violence-in-pictures
Allan, Stevie-poo is a moron, but there really isn't any need to insinuate that he's behind violence.
ReplyDeleteAlso, Allan, DKOS and C&L are liberal websites, thus they are trying to pin the acts of evil, violent liberals on the right, therefor the right is never violent. QED, bitches.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous (@11:28):
ReplyDeleteWe don't have a left-wing anti-American domestic terrorism problem,. primarily because Democratic officials and media pundits haven't engaged in the same kinds of inflammatory rhetoric that's been used by so many on the right.
Here's a link to an article about the incident you cited. The young man in question was clearly disturbed, and reportedly anti-government, but no one on the left 'incited' his actions.
How amusing. The left spent weeks trying to pin Jared Loughner on rhetoric from conservatives, which the American people rightly didn't believe. And you, Allen, and StarStorm did exactly what I predicted: a violent lefty tries to murder a governor (a Democrat no less) and you say it didn't happen.
By the way, lefty little ol' lady Piven continues to call for death and mayhem. But to you lefties, it didn't happen, even though it did. To you lefties, denial is just a river in Egypt.
Some more stuff on Stockham [emphasis mine]:
ReplyDeleteA decorated Army veteran accused of plotting to blow up a Metro Detroit mosque served time in federal prison for threatening to kill President George W. Bush and bomb a Vermont veterans' clinic in 2002.
By the low standards set by Zandar, that would make Stockham a deranged leftist, along with the murderous leftist in Missouri and the Bush-hating Jared Loughner.
Yeah, we have a left-wing domestic terror problem in the U.S.