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Filling in a lot of details

artappraiser — Sat, 04 May 2019 18:28:13 +0000

In reply to Army veteran charged with plotting terror attacks in LA area

Filling in a lot of details here, including that he was drawn out and encouraged by a paid informant of the FBI on an internet forum, an entrapment type of thing:

A Plot in L.A. to Avenge the Christchurch Shooting

By Dana Goodyear @ NewYorker.com, May 3, 2019

As a summary she also gets into the absurdities and ironies, how the white supremacist group considered it a win (Russian bot style) that all the lefty groups in the area came out to protest against them, ID'd themselves as it were. And that Domingo seems more an angry violent tool, just trying on identities as a method looking for an ideology that would allow him to be violently angry, the many extremists seem quite alike this way:

[....] On the campaign trail, Democratic candidates, seeking moments of political transcendence, have been talking about how much ordinary citizens in our painfully divided country truly have in common. Unfortunately, the same can be said of the nation’s extremists. In Foreman’s profile picture, which he changed a week before the planned rally, he has a semi-automatic weapon strapped to his chest and a kaffiyeh tied around his neck. (When I reached out to him on Facebook, he did not respond.) After Charlottesville, Foreman, according to a college friend of his, had posted to Instagram an A.P. photo of himself with Gionet—possibly close to the moment of the alleged assault—and captioned it, “Out there doing my thing 6 weeks after being stabbed. All wars begin with a spark.” It struck me that Domingo would have found much to like about Foreman—from the gun and the tiki-torch chants to his desire to incite large-scale violence—and yet would happily have murdered him, along with untold others, last weekend.

Meanwhile, in the hall of mirrors that is Facebook, the page belonging to the Everything Patriot and Tactical was pulled, but not before its owner posted that the rally-that-wasn’t had been a triumph: not because mass casualties had been averted, but because the threat of right-wingers in Long Beach had smoked out the opposition. “Got all the intel we needed on which groups organize in that part of town,” the post claimed. “Cops got what they needed. Successful day. Doxxing campaigns to come folks. 2020 gonna be lit. No safe space for communists. Good job to our undercovers.” A screen grab of the post went up on the Anti-Racist Neighborhood Front page, but as of this writing that page, too, has disappeared.

We don't have enough info.

artappraiser — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:37:47 +0000

In reply to Army veteran charged with plotting terror attacks in LA area

We don't have enough info. yet, but being cynical, I cannot get out of my mind Trump's full Charlottesville comments that there are "fine people on both sides" as regards this case. It would then follow that one wants to prove that there are also bad people on both sides. So to please higher ups the FBI goes looking for a nut who is currently filled with rage about the white supremacist movement and anti-Muslim activity and entraps him in a plot to bomb a white supremacist rally that didn't even actually end up happening....

Meanwhile Mark Steven Domingo sounds like someone who picks up and drop tribes like a new set of clothes and rage about tribal warfare is his only real addiction. Which may have been encouraged by his stint in Afghanistan, the uber tribal warfare land.

Prove me wrong with more details, DOJ.

Yes, I would like to see people addicted to rage to the point of being open to violent plotting being off the streets getting the help they need somewhere. However you got to do it, I guess? Is entrapment the most efficient way to get to them all?

What we know about Mark

artappraiser — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 18:20:56 +0000

In reply to Army veteran charged with plotting terror attacks in LA area

What we know about Mark Domingo, the man arrested on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack in Southern California

by three-reporter team @ Long Beach Press-Telegram, April 30

DOJ photos; NPR; BBC; LATimes

artappraiser — Tue, 30 Apr 2019 06:06:52 +0000

In reply to Army veteran charged with plotting terror attacks in LA area

DOJ photos; NPR; BBC; LATimes; AP via The Guardian:

FBI Says It Thwarted A Planned Terrorist Attack By A Man In Los Angeles Area

A U.S. Army veteran with experience fighting in Afghanistan conspired to stage a terrorist attack on a planned white supremacist rally with the intent of inflicting mass casualties in the Los Angeles area, according to federal prosecutors [....]

US Army veteran 'planned to bomb Nazi rally'

A US Army veteran has been arrested as he was in the final stages of a plan to bomb a white supremacist rally in California, say authorities.

Muslim convert Mark Domingo, 26, also allegedly plotted terror attacks on Jews, churches and police in revenge for the New Zealand mosque shootings.

He was held on Friday after accepting what he believed to be a live bomb, delivered by undercover officers [....]

LA Terror Plot Thwarted: Army Vet Planned 'Mass Casualties', FBI Says

(I can't access LATimes for blurb, out of free articles, but giving above link because probably you can)

Authorities thwart US veteran's plan to bomb California white supremacist rally

Mark Domingo allegedly said he wanted revenge for attacks on mosques in New Zealand that killed 50 people last month