10 May 2013

Has this Minnesota terrorist been covered in the national news?

I don't watch television, so I don't know if this story has been publicized.  The StarTribune carried the story:
Federal authorities said Monday they are confident that they foiled a planned attack on the Montevideo Police Department and possibly saved lives when they arrested a man with suspected white supremacist leanings.

Buford “Bucky” Rogers, 24, of Montevideo, was arrested and charged Friday with being a felon in possession of a firearm after federal authorities found suspected pipe bombs, Molotov cocktails and guns during a search of his family’s mobile home, according to a
federal criminal complaint and affidavit...

Neighbors’ and Rogers’ own postings on Facebook suggest a man with troubling interests involving racial superiority and irritation with authorities... Several postings on Rogers’ Facebook page from June 15, 2011, express his apparent irritation: “The NWO [New World Order] has taken all your freedoms the right to bear arms freedom of speach freedom of the press …” read one profanity-punctuated message.

According to the affidavit, FBI agents searched Rogers’ home while he was there and found the Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and a Romanian AKM assault rifle among the firearms...

After Rogers was arrested, authorities searched his father’s trailer home on the north edge of Montevideo and found more than a dozen bombs inside a shed. Some of the explosives were described by authorities as being sophisticated pipe bombs and others that are the type packed with nails and other kinds of shrapnel...

The FBI believes that a terror attack was disrupted by law enforcement personnel and that the lives of several local residents were potentially saved,” the agency said in a statement issued Monday.

Rogers’ strong anti-government views were well-known around town, drawing the ire of many because the family flew the U.S. flag upside down, according to persons with knowledge of the case. A sign in front of Rogers’ father’s mobile home was spray-painted with the letters B.S.M., standing for Black Snake Militia.

18 comments:

  1. A Google search revealed the story covered by CBS News, The Daily Mail, Huffington Post, and others.

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    1. ABC, NBC, Fox and NPR too. It looks like it was pretty well covered.

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    2. Not that I miss the import of the question. And, thanks for bringing it to my attention.

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    3. "Covered" in this case meaning that routine, by the numbers articles were released. None of the hysteria and hype that these news outlets reserve for Islamic related suspects. Why no demanding why local Christian leaders didn't see this coming? No accusing of family? The local right wing, Christian community? Hypocrisy.

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    4. What hypocrisy? This fellow isn't a Christian.

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    5. Neither are most Christians...

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    6. Actually, all Christians are Christians. What you mean is that not all who claim to be Christians are actually Christians. Jesus Himself agrees (Matthew 7:21-23).

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    7. What we both mean is that so many Christians are far from Christ like- and I'm glad He agrees.

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  2. I saw it on Seattle local news.

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  3. Yeah, it got some radio time. As a firearms owner, it still irks me that nobody in the press seems to have a handle on what an assault rifle is... This dude likely had a run-of-the-mill AK-47 variant. Single shot per trigger press, just like hundreds of other models that people have had access to for 70+ years.

    The bombs are, to me, the troubling things.

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    1. Nathan, is it really the case that a "run-of-the-mill" AK-47 cannot be used as a machine gun, and that there is no button which can be pressed that allows for this? It would seem odd that one of the world's top selling "small arms" would come with a default model that, in this day and age, only allows single shots. And it seems odd that someone intent on killing lots of people wouldn't have simply bought ANY kind of gun he wanted at one of those "no background check required before purchase" gun shows which the NRA has orchestrated against the wishes of most of US citizens.

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    2. Yes, there is no button - these are not military issued weapons.

      Is it really the case that a "run-of-the-mill" pressure washing truck cannot be used to spray hundreds of gallons of [flammable toxic gooey slippery stuff] with enough pressure to cut through 3/4 plywood?

      Please give idiots guns. Guns, like swearwords, are the handy tools of impulsive, lazy, mad idiots and little damage is ever done by any one person using them (and I mean little compared to someone who stews at home and takes time to think about how to hurt people first).

      So much less damage than chemistry - and yet you do not need a license to shop at the Home Depot. Shopping at Home Depot without a background check is what free people get to do and I like that feeling of being free.

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    3. Anonymous above has hit the nail on the head. The problem is not guns, as he says "little damage is ever done by any one person using them." They cause "so much less damage than chemistry."

      What we need to make this country more secure and less dangerous is more guns and less chemistry (and physics, may I add - equally dangerous). The problem is people who take time to think about things.

      Get science out of our schools.

      I'm also going to sign in as anonymous, because like the anonymous above, I don't want any thinking liberals to come after me with their chemistry sets.

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  4. I saw it mentioned in the Seattle Times, but the commenters all seemed to believe it was the "liberal media" trying to distract attention from the Chechen bombers in Boston.

    Frankly, guys like Buford there scare the shit out of me a lot more than the radicalized muslim do. Precisely because we let these guys fly under the radar as a society.

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  5. What do you charge a guy with before he commits the crime? Conspiracy to commit a crime? How long can you hold someone who hasn't technically done anything?

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    1. From the article: "Buford “Bucky” Rogers, 24, of Montevideo, was arrested and charged Friday with being a felon in possession of a firearm."

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  6. So this guy had Molotov cocktails just sitting around evaporating gas into the air? What?

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