© Reuters / Valentyn OgirenkoAzov Battalion volunteers in training
Jarrett William Smith, a soldier stationed in Fort Riley, Kansas, has been arrested after unwittingly sharing bomb-making instructions with an FBI informant. The private first class is charged with one count of "distributing information related to explosives and weapons of mass destruction," according to charging documents released Monday.
Smith reportedly planned to travel to Ukraine to fight alongside the far-right Azov Battalion and also talked about a plot to blow up the headquarters of an American news network with "a large vehicle bomb" in his conversations with the informant.
"Fill a vehicle full of [explosives] then fill a ping pong ball with [commonly available chemical] via drilling then injection. Put the ball in the tank of the vehicle and leave. 30 minutes later, BOOM," Smith allegedly told the informant in an online chat group, where he said he was looking to meet more "radicals" like himself. He also floated other violent possibilities - including killing members of Antifa or Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke, and blowing up a cell phone tower.
Smith reportedly admitted that he provided his online contacts with instructions on how to build bombs when he was arrested on Saturday. "I got knowledge of IEDs [improvised explosive devices] for days," he said in a Facebook group chat. "We can make cell phone IEDs in the style of the Afghans. I can teach you that." He also allegedly provided "very specific instructions" for building bombs out of household chemicals and devices, which an FBI bomb technician confirmed were viable.
Also present in the group, according to the FBI, was an associate and fellow US vet, Craig Lang, from whom Smith may have gotten the idea to travel to Ukraine. Lang had fought with Right Sector, another neo-Nazi group, in Ukraine and discussed having Smith vetted by "the guy that screens people," warning his friend that he "may also be asked to kill certain people who become on the bad graces of certain groups."
Smith was hoping to "cause chaos," according to an affidavit from one of the arresting officers, which claimed "he provides this information even to individuals who tell him they intend to use the information to cause harm to others." He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted.
Aka, just like cops pretending to be virginal 15 or 17 or 11 years old, (depending upon where the law enforcement folks have set up a 'boiler room') - probably in their own office, and likewise properly named, for 'boiler rooms' described where telephone scam artists used to work. Now they are the realm of trolls, and most of them are run by 'our' respective governments in modern offices, and paid for by the taxpayers. (The assets they seize go into the pockets of the police/law enforcers.)*
*There's an old cop expression: "Neither 'all' of the 'contraband' nor all of the money gets to the 'station house' or 'evidence locker.'.
As you know, since 9/11/2001 every single 'prospective act of terror in the US proudly trumpeted by the FBI et al. as ‘prevented’ and 'keeping us safe' was originally thought up BY the FBI and 'pitched' to a 'sucker' (just like 'boiler rooms' would sell Florida Swamp land.).
So they had a nibble. (I am nigh certain that in-house, they use fishing analogies, without realizing that that is exactly what the act of entrapment involves.) However, courts have reversed the role of police from crime solvers and preventers, to being allowed to commit crimes in order to arrest others for that crime that harms none but their own presumed competent selves. (That makes as much sense as allowing homicide cops to commit murder to ‘get in close’ with the murder gang.)
Please read the book, Drug Warriors and Their Prey; From Police Power to Police State, by Richard Lawrence Miller, 1996, which does a phenomenal and prescient job of comparing the tactics of the Nazis with the tactics of our police state. (His immediately previous book had been an intellectual discussion of the tactics of the Holocaust - and same would probably get him indicted in Germany today for "E.D." oops, I mean "H.D." HolyCo$t Denial.)
He goes into detail how the USA's actions in a war of snitches working with Government to 'conduct a state of war' on their fellow citizens mimics what Nazi Germany did, and how the same tactics of Identification, Isolation and extermination were now at work in America. AND THAT WAS IN 1996!
READ IT!
R.C.