{"id":22025,"date":"2011-01-31T07:22:44","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T11:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=22025"},"modified":"2011-01-31T13:45:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T17:45:03","slug":"vet-arrested-near-mosque-with-firecrackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=22025","title":{"rendered":"Vet arrested near mosque with firecrackers"},"content":{"rendered":"

1stCavRVN11B sends us news that a Vietnam-era helicopter pilot was arrested in Dearborne, MI yesterday for plotting to illuminate the night sky over a mosque there. It’s funny how the media describes the plot in their headlines. The Chicago Tribune<\/a> says 63-year-old Roger Stockham was arrested with explosives;<\/p>\n

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The Denver Post, <\/a>meanwhile, says it was fireworks;<\/p>\n

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Of course, both articles call them “Class C fireworks” which are the low grade commercial fireworks<\/a> you can buy along the road around the Fourth of July. Scary, huh?<\/p>\n

Dearborn Mayor Jack O’Reilly said the suspect “had a lot of high-end fireworks.”<\/p>\n

“It was the max you could buy legally.”<\/p>\n

They were not “conventional explosives,” O’Reilly said. “But at that level, those things misused are terrific weapons.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Whew! we really dodged the bullet on that one didn’t we? There were 700 people at a funeral in the Mosque. Stockham could have blown a finger off every single one of the funeral-goers.<\/p>\n

“He’s very dangerous,” Dearborn Police Chief Ron Haddad told the Free Press. “We took his threat to be very serious.”<\/p>\n

Haddad said the man was previously known to law enforcement officials in other parts of the country.<\/p>\n

“He’s had a long history of being angry with the United States government,” Haddad said.<\/p>\n

Stockham, in jail on a $500,000 bond, drove from California to Dearborn and was caught with a car packed with high-end fireworks. The FBI has been notified about the incident, Haddad said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How does being angry at the government translate into bombing a mosque with low grade noisemakers?<\/p>\n

Yeah, if it was a Muslim person with a truckload of pipebombs<\/a> we wouldn’t know his name yet and we’d be cautioned not to jump to conclusions about terrorism. But a pensioner with firecrackers in his trunk is “very dangerous” and worthy of involving the FBI. <\/p>\n

What was that police chief’s last name again?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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