Caitlin Dickson UPDATE: October 3, 2014 Robert Talbot, Jr.—who was arrested in March after the FBI had closely tracked his alleged scheme to launch a violent “American Insurgent Movement,” including alleged plans to kill police officers, rob armored cars, and blow up mosques—will appear in federal court Friday. In light of his re-arraignment hearing, we are re-posting an April story detailing Talbot’s largely-online efforts to corral a right-wing rebellion, and the FBI’s undercover plot to catch him. Robert James Talbot, Jr. woke up on the morning of March 27 ready to carry out the plan he’d allegedly been concocting for months. He drove to a storage facility in Houston, Texas where he met the three other members of “Operation Liberty.” According to a criminal complaint filed against him, Talbot had recruited his teammates via a Facebook group called the American Insurgent Movement to help him rob armored cars; the first phase of his larger scheme to kill police officers and blow up mosques and government buildings. Talbot allegedly provided his team with detailed maps of the financial institution he wanted to target, and escape routes for best avoiding law enforcement. He put two Composition 4, or C4, plastic explosive devices in his black backpack and asked one of his team members to read a “manifesto” he’d brought with him. “We must rebel. There is no other option,” it read, according to the complaint. “Blood and bullets are the only two things that will change this world, short of divine action.” On his way to carry out the robbery, Talbot was arrested by an FBI SWAT team. Unbeknownst to the 38-year-old Talbot, he’d been the subject of an FBI Joint Terrorism Task Force investigation since August, 2013. The people he’d recruited to be a part of his team were a pair of undercover FBI agents and a civilian informant. While the words “terrorism” and “insurgent” often conjure thoughts of Islamic extremism, the majority of domestic terrorist attacks in the United States over the past two decades have been carried out by right-wing radicals. According to data compiled last year by the liberal website ThinkProgress from the National Counterterrorism Center, the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism, and the Southern Poverty Law Center, right-wing extremists have been responsible for 56 percent of domestic terrorist attacks and plots since in the U.S. the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. 12 percent have been perpetrated by Islamic extremists. more . . .
If you get beheaded by some radical goat humping rag head. Does it really matter which sect of Islam they belong to?
Wait wait...according to the liberal website, conservatives are to blame? Wow! So where's the raw data that allows us to independently review the events they're calling "terrorism" and those who they claim are responsible? It wasn't on the site, it wasn't at the link. Let me guess, it's proprietary? What a waste of time you and your articles are! Baron needs to bring back the rating system so we can push this fecal matter to the bottom of the cesspool.
No surprise at all. Our homegrown extreme righties are the most aggrieved and yet self-righteous of them all. They're "flag thumpers", or "constitution thumpers".
shit load of terrorists operating openly without fear of the law in Chicago. Been like that for a few years now.
The article fails to note that the majority of the terror plots in the U.S. over the past 20 years involve environmental extremists such as ELF and ALF. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eco-terrorism
Yep eco terror is coming and I don't mean a few burnt car dealerships. The warmists turned into anti-capitalists and anti-humanists. They are domestic.