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FBI arrest one Matthew Aaron Llaneza for trying to blow up San Francisco bank.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 9th, 2013 at 10:00 AM  | 

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Short version: the feds arrested one Matthew Aaron Llaneza for attempting to blow up a bank for the Taliban; as is the FBI’s wont, they got him via a sting operation that was kept up right up to the moment where Llaneza pulled the remote trigger on the ‘bomb.’ Which is, obviously, fine by me: I want the FBI out there actively trolling the fringes for people who really, really want to blow up Americans. It saves a lot of time – and, of course, lives.

OK, do we all understand each other on the basics? Yes? Great. Moving on then… well, isn’t this just spiffy.

According to the affidavit filed in support of the criminal complaint, on November 30, 2012, Llaneza met with a man who led him to believe he was connected with the Taliban and the mujahidin in Afghanistan. In reality, this man was an undercover FBI agent. At this initial meeting, Llaneza proposed conducting a car-bomb attack against a bank in the San Francisco Bay Area. He proposed structuring the attack to make it appear that the responsible party was an umbrella organization for a loose collection of anti-government militias and their sympathizers. Llaneza’s stated goal was to trigger a governmental crackdown, which he expected would trigger a right-wing counter-response against the government followed by, he hoped, civil war.

Glenn Reynolds notes – in his characteristically terse fashion – that the media would have been all up for that. And I agree, not least because the first link above references Llaneza’s felony conviction as being for transporting an “assault weapon.” An AK-47 is a selective-fire automatic weapon, which is Llaneza was arrested for transporting one; it’s perfectly legal to transport, say, an AR-15. But much more useful to set that narrative, eh? Particularly considering this bit:

Llaneza originally targeted the Federal Reserve Bank in downtown San Francisco but rejected it because he figured there would be too much security, FBI Special Agent Christopher Monika wrote. In a Dec. 7 follow-up meeting with the undercover agent, he settled on the BofA branch on Hegenberger Road, “reasoning that the name of the bank and Oakland’s location as a center of protests made it an appropriate target,” the complaint stated.

…Good job there, Occupy movement. Good job. Have a cookie.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

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  • rightlane1111

    See…Mr. Lane…we never know when the fox is in the hen house. While I believe the nut jobs in the Mid East did kill those people in Benghazi…I find it very strange that Obama and Hildabeast could have prevented the loss of life. According to the testimony by Panetta…he was never contacted by the WH…but they did have live feed. Motive…take all the attention off the election and get it onto something else…and blame it on an American who made a YouTube video that incensed these people.

    Llaneza…I would like to see his bank accounts…even those that might exist in the Caymans.

  • Tbone

    So, the FBI recruits unstable goofballs who really can’t blow their noses, builds them a “bomb” and gins them up to trigger the bomb and then arrests them for publicity purposes.

    I know this guy can’t be too smart because blowing up a Bank of America branch would probably not upset either the left or right fringe or much in between. Now, blowing up a Krispy Kreme store would agitate a whole bunch of people.

  • Jack_Savage

    Talking about a right-wing response my brother, blowing up a Krispy Kreme would sure get one.

  • Bill S

    There would be cars burning in the streets.

  • MoeLane

    …Which gets them off of the streets before a real jihadi finds one and gives him a suicide vest.

  • http://www4.webng.com/rickbull/lostlucky/ rickbull

    Mostly set by local members of the FOP, no doubt.

  • Tbone

    Moe,
    Those guys are a dime a dozen. Tie a goat to a lamp post in Dearborn and you’ll have a full platoon in 15 minutes.

  • tngal

    war on terriers. heh. that’s just sad.

  • dmart81

    Did you change your sub heading on your website? I thought it was “I am an evil giraffe and I aim to misbehave? Is that from your brain or from a cartoon?

  • OhioHistorian

    Panetta testified that he MET with Obama, and they discussed if for 15 minutes at the beginning of the meeting, and he was instructed to protect American life. Which he didn’t do, for whatever reason. And President 0 never followed up on.

    Note that no one asked Hillary, Panetta, or the Dempsey about the “stand down” order, the order not to defend, and why it was given. This whole thing stinks of cover-up, not incompetence, but something else going on. If I were a member of the fringe, I might think that it was an attempt to get a US ambassador kidnapped.

    Whether it is incompetence or cover-up, the fact is that President 0 never followed up on his order. The incompetence started at the top and showed that neither Hillary nor Panetta should have been in their positions, but that neither should Obama. He then proceeded to go to bed and a campaign fundraiser. Contrast that with the McCain who stopped campaigning when the bailout started to be discussed. Guess what drives THIS DemocRAT.

  • MoeLane

    I periodically change the subhead to reflect my mood, or something that I read/saw (the one you remembered was from Firefly). :) The latest one is, of all things, NYS Senator Ruben Diaz; it’s kind of topical, so I expect that I’ll be changing it again.

  • Chris

    I was actually confused by that too. I’m not trying to troll or apologize for Occupy, I just didn’t understand. Did you mean because Occupy brought a lot of (negative?) attention to BofA?

  • gmat

    Yeah, me too. I also couldn’t discern the apology in Rich’s comment.

  • MoeLane

    …And as for *you*, gmat… oh, relax. *You* I believe when you say that you’re asking. Short version: Occupy covered up rapes of women, plotted to blow up bridges, vandalized as naturally as they breathed, and defecated on police cars. We give them no pass here, and anybody who actually likes them is well-advised not to mention it here.

    I believe that this covers it.

  • gmat

    got it, thanks

  • duncer

    He did have one thing right,had he succeeded, Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, and everybody that ever attended a neat and clean peaceful tea party protest would be challenged by the media to prove their innocence.

  • funwithknives

    …while a call goes out for an Imam to watch them ‘Remove it’ and declare it Halal.
    Goat Confit……Yummmm……..

  • Kudzu

    So the real question is what is different between this guy and Dorner, another left wing terrorist who seeks government control, despite being on the very end of government tyranny/corruption (supposedly)?

    There is no difference. The Occupy crowd is a breeding ground for domestic terrorists just as California and elite colleges were in the 60s and 70s. It’s the new Weather Underground and somewhere in Chicago Bill Ayers is smiling

  • vandalii

    Actually the key phrase was our erstwhile terrorist’s, “reasoning that the name of the bank and **Oakland’s location as a center of protests** made it an appropriate target,” so the dig at Occupy is that publicity OO garnered last year would somehow translate into right-wing action.

    Clearly, this dope assumed the connection to Occupy Oakland would somehow advance his purposes. As Moe says, the Occupy xxx groups are truly examples of what *not* to do when attempting to bring attention to one’s “noble” cause.