FBI SAVES FORT RILEY FROM BOMBER - NOT!

HOW CAN THE FBI, WITHOUT LAUGHING, CLAIM IT SAVED FORT RILEY IN KANSAS FROM A "WOULD-BE TERRORIST SUICIDE BOMBER" WHEN:

A) THEY LOOKED THIS GUY UP, SOUGHT HIM OUT, FOLLOWED HIS ACTIVITY, AND HOOKED HIM INTO A SCHEME THEY COOKED UP, AND, 

B) HELPED HIM MAKE A DUMB VIDEO WHEREIN HE "JOINS" AND "PLEDGES ALLEGIANCE TO" ISIS, THE ISLAMIC STATE, AND, 

C) PROVIDED HIM WITH WHAT APPEARED TO BE ENOUGH EXPLOSIVES TO TAKE OUT A SMALL TOWN, A VAN/TRUCK TO CARRY IT ALL IN, AND, AS AS IS THE FBI's HABIT, 

D) DROVE HIM OR ACCOMPANIED HIM TO THE FORT AND HELPED HIM "FAKE-ARM" THE MAKE-BELIEVE BOMB.

BUT WAIT!
THERE'S A LOT MORE TO THIS STORY THAN INITIALLY MEETS THE EYE!
THE KID WAS BIPOLAR AND THE FBI HAD TAKEN HIM TO BE COUNSELED BY AN IMAM WAY BACK IN EARLY 2014!

"Man said to be mentally ill charged with plotting to set off bomb at Kansas military base"

"A man charged Friday with plotting a suicide bomb attack on a U.S. military base to help the Islamic State group was mentally ill and was acting strangely only days before his arrest, according to a Muslim cleric who said he was counselling him at the request of the FBI. 

Imam Omar Hazim of the Islamic Center of Topeka told The Associated Press that two FBI agents brought Booker to him early in 2014 for counselling, hoping to turn the young man away from radical beliefs. Hazim said the agents told him that Booker suffered from bipolar disorder, characterized by unusual mood swings that can affect functioning. 

Hazim said he later heard that two others were involved in a bombing plot with Booker. 
He said the FBI told him they were undercover FBI agents and that the sting was arranged to get Booker, "off the streets." 

THE FBI SAYS THAT THIS KID, JOHN T. BOOKER (THE NAME CHUCK NORRIS USED IN ONE OF HIS REALLY PATHETIC MOVIES, NO LESS!) " first came to the FBI's attention in March 2014 when he sought to join the US army". 

HUH?
WHAT?
THE FBI STARTS LOOKING AT YOU BECAUSE YOU WANT TO JOIN THE ARMY?
WHO KNEW?
WHY?
WHY, GUYS?
WHAT'S WRONG WITH JOINING THE ARMY THAT GETS YOU ALL HOT TO START TAILING A "POSSIBLE RECRUIT"???

ARE ALL WHO TRY TO JOIN THE RANKS OF THE U.S.  MILITARY  "SUSPECTED TERRORISTS"?
JUST TELL US THAT'S IT, THAT'S THE REASON YOU STARTED DOGGING THIS GUY'S TRAIL!  
DAMN! THAT'S REALLY SAD!

ACCORDING TO ONE VERSION OF THIS WACKY TALE, WE HAVE WHAT LOOKS LIKE A 20-YEAR-OLD GOOFBALL WHO COULDN'T EVEN PASS BOOT CAMP, FAILED AS AN "ARMY RECRUIT", WHO PROBABLY COULDN'T THINK HIS WAY OFF A CARNIVAL CAROUSEL, WHO MOST LIKELY COULD NEVER HAVE AFFORDED TO BUY THAT MUCH BOMB MATERIAL AND A VEHICLE TO TRANSPORT IT IN (SINCE HE TOLD AN IMAM HE COULDN'T AFFORD HIS MEDICATION FOR HIS BIPOLAR DISORDER!). 

"Booker was recruited to join the Army in February 2014, but came to the attention of federal investigators after posting a Facebook message on March 19, 2014, that read: "Getting ready to be killed in jihad is a HUGE adrenaline rush! I am so nervous. NOT because I'm scared to die but I am eager to meet my lord," according to the criminal complaint against him. His military enlistment was terminated days later, according to the Army. 

His father, John T. Booker Sr., told the AP that his son moved out about two years ago after graduating from high school. The elder Booker, an Army veteran who served in Desert Storm, said he and his son had talked only about four times in the past year. 
He said he is Methodist and his wife is Catholic, and that he knew nothing about the religious beliefs of his son."

REALLY? 
WHICH IS IT? 
DID HE COME TO THE FBI's ATTENTION BECAUSE HE TRIED TO JOIN THE ARMY OR BECAUSE OF A FACEBOOK POST?
PICK ONE.

HOW MANY TIMES SINCE 9/11 HAVE WE READ EXACTLY THE SAME THING, EXACTLY THE SAME, THAT THE FBI "THWARTED TERRORISTS" BY SEEKING THEM OUT, MAYBE EVEN HOUNDING THEM INTO COMMITTING SOME VILE ACT, WENT WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THEY HAD EVERYTHING THEY NEEDED, EVEN DROVE OR RODE WITH THEM TO DO THE DEED, THEN... BAM! 

ARRESTS THEM AND SAVES THE DAY?

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE READ THAT SUCH WOULD-BE TERRORISTS HAD MENTAL DISORDERS, WERE EITHER ON OR OFF MEDICATION FOR THAT?

SO THE FBI GOES AFTER MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE IN THIS MANNER RATHER THAN SEE THAT THEY GET THE HELP THEY NEED?
IT'S BETTER TO "STING" THEM THAN SEND THEM TO A SAFE PSYCHIATRIC UNIT SOMEWHERE?
REALLY? 

I DON'T BUY THAT THAT SORT OF THING IS "SAFEGUARDING AMERICA". 
IT JUST DOESN'T SEEM LIKE MUCH "SAFEGUARDING" TO ME.  

"The two informants then assembled the supposed 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) "bomb" that Booker would detonate, using inert materials stashed in a storage warehouse, after which Booker drove with one of the informants to Fort Riley on Friday to find a way inside the base."

1000 POUNDS!
1000 POUNDS?
HOW MUCH WOULD THAT COST? 

THE INFORMANTS ASSEMBLED THE BOMB?
MAYBE BECAUSE A 20-YEAR-OLD DIDN'T HAVE THE ABILITY OR EVEN THE KNOW-HOW TO ASSEMBLE A 1000-POUND BOMB?  

IT "JUST SO HAPPENS" THAT THE MILITARY BASE WE ARE TOLD BOOKER CHOSE  "because the post is famous and there are a lot of soldiers stationed there," IS HOME TO THE 1st INFANTRY DIVISION WHICH IS ( WAIT FOR IT...GET READY...) "ADVISING IRAQI SECURITY FORCES IN THEIR FIGHT AGAINST ISLAMIC STATE TERRORISTS". 

THAT'S A NICE "TWIST", ISN'T IT?  

WHO TOLD THE KID THE FORT IS FAMOUS, I WONDER? 
OR IS HE A HISTORY BUFF? 
HE'S A YEAR OR TWO OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, SO MAYBE HE TOOK SOME COLLEGE CLASSES?  

SO, BOOKER MET SOME FAKE "SHEIKH" AND LIKE INSTANTLY TELLS THE FAKE, "HEY, DUDE, I WANNA TRUCK-BOMB SOME ARMY GUYS!"? 
REALLY?
HOW GULLIBLE  DOES A PERSON HAVE TO BE TO DO THAT? 
IT LOOKS LIKE THE FBI HAS HAD GOOD LUCK IN "STINGING" THE EXTREMELY GULLIBLE! 

AFTER SO MANY HEADLINES HAVE PRAISED THE FBI AFTER EXACTLY THE SAME SORT OF "STING" AND TOLD HOW THEY "STUNG' THE OTHERS, WOULDN'T THE WORD GET OUT AND SUCH AS JOHN T BEGIN TO WONDER A LITTLE IF THEY WERE BEING "STUNG"?


"Besides lending support to the Islamic State, Booker faces charges of attempting to detonate a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy property."

HANG ON! WHOA! WAIT A SEC!

THEY SAID IT WAS A FAKE BOMB, YES?

SEE, HOW CAN HE BE CHARGED FOR THAT WHEN THE FBI ALREADY SAID IT WAS A FAKE?

YEAH, I KNOW, I KNOW, HE THOUGHT IT WAS REAL...ERGO, GUILTY!

WELL, LITTLE KIDS THINK SANTA CLAUS IS REAL, BUT NO, NO, HE ISN'T. 

THAT'S JUST ILLOGICAL.

BUT SO IS THIS WHOLE SCENARIO.

ILLOGICAL.

BOOKER MAY HAVE BEEN HOME PRETENDING TO BE, OH, MAYBE THE CHARACTER IN THE CHUCK NORRIS MOVIE OF THE SAME NAME, MAYBE HE WAS JUST HAPPY PLAYING VIDEO GAMES OR WHATEVER WHEN THE FBI DECIDED TO (IT APPEARS) CREATE A HOMEGROWN TERRORIST?  

THINGS REALLY WENT DOWNHILL FROM THERE FOR YOUNG JOHN T. , DIDN'T THEY?

SAME NEWS ARTICLE MENTIONS THAT "AWESOME" BUST <cough, hack! 'scuse me> OF THOSE TWO "TERRORIST WOMEN" IN NEW YORK WHO WERE ALSO, UMMM, INTO BOMB-MAKING, RIGHT?
YOU HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THEM, MAYBE?

Mayor Bill de Blasio stressed there was NO imminent threat that the women were CLOSE to setting off an explosive. 

“This was a conspiracy that was undercut before it could turn into something dangerous,” he said. A federal law enforcement source told Newsday that the plot was “aspirational” but “closer to operational” than other recent FBI operations to bust possible jihadists.

“They were the real deal," the federal law enforcement source said of the women, describing them as being “radicalized and intellectually ready” to wage an attack.
“The only question,” the source said, “was when.” 

SEE, RIGHT THERE IS WHERE I HAVE ANOTHER PROBLEM WITH THESE "STING OPERATIONS".

"THE ONLY QUESTION WAS WHEN"...

WHAT IF THE FBI PICKS OUT SOME WANTS-TO-BE TERRORIST, SOME GUY WHO WOULD NEVER MOVE AHEAD WITH THAT ON HIS OWN, BUT WHO GETS THAT LITTLE PUSH FROM THE FBI, THEN JUST DROPS OFF THE RADAR?

HE MIGHT HAVE NEVER GONE AHEAD WITH CRAZY THOUGHTS, MAY HAVE NEVER EVEN CONSIDERED HOW TO DO SO, BUT HE GETS THAT PUSH...

OR MAYBE ONE OF THESE STING VICTIMS FIGURES OUT HE'S BEING STUNG AND DECIDES TO KILL AS MANY PEOPLE AS HE CAN BEFORE THE FBI TRACKS HIM DOWN...AGAIN... 

THEN WHAT?

DON'T PUT IDEAS INTO HEADS LIKE THAT!  

DON'T ENCOURAGE THEM!

I HAVE ALWAYS MAINTAINED THAT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, WHO ARE MOSTLY AN ARMED POPULATION, HAVE BOTH THE INTELLIGENCE AND THE MEANS TO STOP 99.9% OF ALL "TERRORISTS" , WHETHER OF A "WOULD-BE" OR A "HOMEGROWN" OR AN IMPORTED NATURE.  

HOMELAND SECURITY?

WE USED TO CALL THAT OUR "MILITIA", OUR ARMY OF EVERY AMERICAN WHO CAN LIFT A WEAPON AND TAKE AIM!

WE'RE NEITHER STUPID NOR TREMBLING IN FEAR, MOST OF US AREN'T.

BUT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU THAT NO SANE, RATIONAL PERSON I HAVE EVER KNOWN IS GOING TO GO OUT AND RECRUIT CRAZIES THE MENTALLY ILL TO GO BLOW UP A MILITARY BASE! 

NOBODY I HAVE EVER KNOWN WHO LOVES AMERICA WOULD DO THAT!

THEY WOULD NOT "HELP" ANYBODY GATHER MATERIALS, AND OTHER NECESSARY ITEMS, AND DRIVE THEM ANYWHERE TO SET OFF A BOMB, FAKE OR NOT FAKE! 

IN JANUARY, 2013, IN MY BLOG, FBI CREATES TERRORISTS...LITERALLY!,

I WROTE THAT "Like 14 of the last 22 such cases, the FBI provided 'bomb' material, DROVE the guy to the site, and watched him 'arm' the fake explosives THEY had given to him! 

In THIS case, the guy had wanted to GO HOME, but the FBI prevented him from doing so!" 

 I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES SINCE 2013 THE FBI HAS DONE THIS ROUTINE, BUT IT WAS OLD THEN AFTER 14 OUT OF 22 GOT THAT KIND OF "HELP" FROM FEDERAL AGENTS.   

THAT'S DAMNED SCARY TO ME!

WHAT IF ONE OF THOSE FAKE SHEIKHS OR FAKE WHATEVER GOES ROGUE? 

WHAT IF AN FBI "INFORMANT" SNAPS? 

“It is important to emphasize that the public was never at risk in this case, because two of the defendant’s ‘accomplices’ were actually an FBI source and an FBI undercover agent,” Acting Assistant FBI Director Mary Galligan admitted in a press release celebrating the arrest. " ( THIS WAS BACK IN 2013)

IF THE PUBLIC WAS NEVER AT RISK, THEN.... WHAT THE HELL?

IT WAS STUPID TO ME THEN.

IT'S STILL STUPID. 

IT'S ALSO WAY TOO RISKY!

TOO MUCH CAN AND HAS GONE WRONG IN THESE "STING OPERATIONS".

THEY'RE PLAYING WITH FIRE!

BESIDES, THE WAY THE NSA LISTENS TO OUR OUR PHONE CONVERSATIONS, READS OUR EMAILS, TRACKS ALL WE SAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND CATCHES US ON SECURITY CAMERAS ALMOST EVERY PLACE WE GO, IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT THE FBI "STING OPERATIONS" NEED RETHINKING. 

ARE THEY TRULY NECESSARY? 

THE NSA KNOWS WHAT BRAND OF TOILET PAPER WE ALL USE BECAUSE OF BAR CODES AND CREDIT/DEBIT CARDS AND IN-STORE "READERS" THAT PINPOINT WHAT WE BUY!

SO DOES THE FBI NEED TO "STING" ANYBODY, OR SHOULD THEY CONCENTRATE ON GOING AFTER THE ONES WHO CAN'T BE "STUNG"?

COULD THEY USE THE MONEY THEY'RE SPENDING TO FOOL WOMEN AND MENTALLY ILL PEOPLE IN MAYBE SMARTER WAYS...SAY, LIKE, OH, I DON'T KNOW, ON GASOLINE TO GO OUT AND MAYBE FIND SOME REAL TERRORISTS WHO DON'T NEED THEIR HELP TO GET SOMEWHERE TO REALLY BLOW THINGS UP? 

LET'S GET OUT THERE AND FIND SOME REAL "WMDs", GUYS!

LET'S GO ROUND UP THE ABSOLUTELY DEDICATED, IMPORTED TERRORISTS WE'RE ALLOWING INTO THE COUNTRY EVERY DAY AND STOP THEM, HOW ABOUT IT?

STOP PLAYING "WHO WANTS TO BE A TERRORIST, LET US HELP YOU" GAMES AND GO GATHER SOME REAL INTELLIGENCE ON THOSE WHO ARE DAMNED WELL NOT GOING TO NEED YOUR ASSISTANCE ON DELIVERING, SAY "DIRTY BOMBS", LITTLE "SUITCASE BOMBS" THAT DON'T WEIGH 1000 POUNDS TO SOME HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL GAME, OR COLLEGE LIBRARY OR CHURCH OR WALMART SUPERCENTER OR  ...

UNDERSTAND?

DO YOU "GET THE IDEA"?  

THE FBI HAD THIS KID GOING FOR COUNSELING IN MARCH 2014, NOT TO A QUALIFIED PSYCHIATRIST, BUT TO A LOCAL IMAM, AND KNEW HE HAD MENTAL ISSUES, KNEW HE WAS OFF HIS MEDS, AND YET LET HIM RUN FOR OVER A YEAR? 

WHY?

HOW MUCH DID THAT COST TAXPAYERS? 

IF YOU'RE JUST DESPERATE FOR PUBLIC APPROVAL AND PATS ON THE BACK AND TICKER-TAPE PARADES MAYBE, GO NAIL SOME DEVOUT TERRORISTS!

WE KNOW THEY'RE HERE!

THEY'RE THE ONES WHO WILL NEVER FALL FOR "REINDEER GAMES".

THEY WON'T BE POSTING PLEAS FOR HELP WITH JIHAD, OR ASKING YOU WHERE THEY CAN GET BOMB MATERIAL!  

THEY WON'T BE PLAYING "LET'S SKYPE WITH ISIS", NOR POST THEIR INTENTIONS TO FACEBOOK!

THEY'LL RECOGNIZE YOUR FAKES FROM A MILE AWAY!

FIND THOSE GUYS!

WE KNOW THEY'RE HERE!

GO GET 'EM!