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Napa Man Arrested For Explosives Had 'White Privilege Card', Allegedly Planned to Blow Up Twitter and Gavin Newsom
https://sfist.com/2021/01/27/napa-man-arrested-for-explosives-is-another-crazy-trumper/
A Napa businessman whose January 15 arrest we learned of last week, turns out to have been allegedly plotting to attack the state Capitol, as well as Twitter and Facebook, all in the name of Donald Trump.
Much like this unhinged idiot in the East Bay who was arrested by the feds this week, Napa resident Ian Benjamin Rogers, 44, was taken into custody by federal agents earlier this month following a tip that he was in possession of several illegal weapons. As KTVU reported, Napa County sheriff's deputies served a warrant at Rogers's business, British Auto Repair of Napa, on January 15, and found a cache of over 50 firearms, including illegal assault rifles and automatic weapons, as well as five homemade pipe bombs, 15,000 rounds of ammunition, and several pounds of gun powder.
A federal bomb squad went about detonating the five devices outside the business, using a makeshift bunker made out of rubber tires. The Napa Valley Register, whose offices are very close to British Auto Repair, reports that employees were instructed to stay on the newspaper's property while the bomb squad and its robot were at work.
Among his possessions, according to federal agents, was a piece of Trump-era swag for the white supremacist set: a White Privilege Card that looks kind of like an old Diners Club card or something, with the number all made out of "45" and the tagline "Trumps Everything."
Delphinus
(11,808 posts)This needs to be front page news - out in the open for all to see and know.
malaise
(267,800 posts)apparently white means blonde - lock him up
JimGinPA
(14,811 posts)With 'Just-For-Joker'.
We need to 'root out' these terrorists
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)malaise
(267,800 posts)hatrack
(59,439 posts)malaise
(267,800 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)Made that card up himself. Nobody would sell anything like that as there's no money in making them.
I haven't seen that particular product featured in their ads.
Along with the ties, vases, earrings, and other baubles.
malaise
(267,800 posts)Hugin
(32,778 posts)But, I insist he was a lone wolf. Just like the other thousand or so lone wolves who all independently simultaneously decided to storm the US Capitol building. Completely, unprompted by any outside source.
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malaise
(267,800 posts)although some did brag that they were following Trump's orders.
I can't wait for the trial to begin.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Rogers said that would require a road trip, whereas, We can attack Twitter and democrats easy right now burn theyre (sic) shit down.
On Jan. 11, Rogers texted the same person: I want to blow up a democrat building bad ... The democrats need to pay.
He again referenced the presidential election.
I hope 45 goes to war if he doesnt I will, Rogers texted.
Rogers continued on his texts, according to court records: Im thinking sac office first target ... Then maybe bird and face offices.
Minor wrote that she believed the Napa man was referring to the offices of Gov. Gavin Newsom in Sacramento and Twitter (bird) and Facebook (face), since Trump had been removed from both social media platforms.
A Napa County Sheriffs Office bomb technician examined the pipe bombs seized from his business and determined they were fully operational.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Suspected-far-right-extremist-with-White-15903047.php
underpants
(182,271 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,546 posts)karynnj
(59,474 posts)The clear message for most (ignoring the Trump stuff) is that the card is for the holder's full life time -- and the claim is "scot free". This actually has a modicum of truth (on a more limited level) for all of us who are white. The difference in penalties - especially for the young - for similar transgressions leads to huge differences in lives.
Here, they are not just not denying that this privilege exists, but are reveling in its existence.
malthaussen
(17,065 posts)onecaliberal
(32,478 posts)NEOBuckeye
(2,778 posts)What a putrid, disgusting thing to embrace and allow to drive your life.
Doc_Technical
(3,504 posts)Anyone who works on British vehicles is a frustrated masochist,
corrupted by Joseph Lucas the "Prince of Darkness"
underpants
(182,271 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,021 posts)NEOBuckeye
(2,778 posts)I've seen it all now
SergeStorms
(18,882 posts)Even with his "white privilege " he's an ignoramus. All the advantages this country bestows on white idiots like him, and he still insists on fucking it up.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)what is the name of this color blond?
Just in case I go underground and become an informant.