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TexasTowelie

(116,799 posts)
Tue Mar 24, 2015, 10:51 PM Mar 2015

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.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/03/georgia-patriot-reportedly-planted-pipe-bombs-in-park-to-sow-fear-of-muslims/#.VRF7ju6EXtA.facebook

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Georgia ‘patriot’ reportedly planted pipe bombs in park to sow fear of Muslims (Original Post) TexasTowelie Mar 2015 OP
I imagine a lot of what we think of as terrorists think of themselves as patriots. Shrike47 Mar 2015 #1
Send him to Utah... Historic NY Mar 2015 #2
Bout time somebody did rpannier Mar 2015 #3
"this type of activity could happen anywhere". Yes, and by anyone. Midnight Writer Mar 2015 #4
'patriot's' are the terrorists we need to worry about. pansypoo53219 Mar 2015 #5
So let me get this right, Scruffy Rumbler Mar 2015 #6
Self fullfilling prophesy? Give him five to ten years to consider it. marble falls Mar 2015 #7
And that, my friends, is what false flag operations are all about - in a nutshell. djean111 Mar 2015 #8
We grow some dumb shits here in Georgia. Laurian Mar 2015 #9

rpannier

(24,574 posts)
3. Bout time somebody did
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 01:19 AM
Mar 2015

The Patriots need to be not just plantin', but settin' off the explosives so the American public knows how dangerous them Muslins really are

i hope i do not need to put a sarcasm tag on this
irony alarm went off though

Scruffy Rumbler

(961 posts)
6. So let me get this right,
Wed Mar 25, 2015, 08:25 AM
Mar 2015

to show how violent Muslims are, the good Christian committed an act of terrorism and then tried to FRAME another entire group of people. I don't think that's how it works.

Faux news will run this as a feel good piece. "Up next, a Georgia Grandfather tries to teach a lesson and gets arrested. Thanks, Obama!"

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