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Zorro

(18,693 posts)
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 03:45 PM Dec 2025

Feds say they foiled New Year's Eve terror plot in L.A., Southern California

Source: Los Angeles Times

A plan to attack several Los Angeles-area businesses on New Year’s Eve was detailed, dangerous and already in motion, authorities said.

But as four people allegedly tied to an anti-government group gathered last week in the Mojave Desert to make and test several test bombs, FBI officials foiled the terror plot.

“They had everything they needed to make an operational bomb at that location,” First Assistant U.S. Atty. Bill Essayli said at a news conference Monday morning. “We disrupted this terror plot before buildings were demolished or innocent people were killed.”

The four people were arrested on suspicion of plotting an attack that Essayli called “organized, sophisticated and extremely violent.” They were all tied to a radical faction of the Turtle Island Liberation Front called Order of the Black Lotus, which FBI Assistant Director in Charge Akil Davis called “a violent homegrown anti-government group.”

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-12-15/new-years-eve-terror-plot-charges-southern-california



I would stay away from large crowds this New Year's Eve...
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Feds say they foiled New Year's Eve terror plot in L.A., Southern California (Original Post) Zorro Dec 2025 OP
Violent, homegrown, anti-government mercuryblues Dec 2025 #1
Nah...this is supposed to be a radical Native American movement. regnaD kciN Dec 2025 #8
The Native Americans would be the most morally justified in committing retaliatory violence Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #32
Can't trust them Scarlet Begalas Dec 2025 #37
One of their signs also mentioned Palistine. C Moon Dec 2025 #39
and you'd be wrong WarGamer Dec 2025 #21
Not wrong about his base mercuryblues Dec 2025 #28
If they said the earth is round Keepthesoulalive Dec 2025 #2
They'll be recruited liberalgunwilltravel Dec 2025 #3
I think they are extreme left. C Moon Dec 2025 #40
I wish I could believe them Miguelito Loveless Dec 2025 #4
I agree Sessuch Dec 2025 #24
So, couple of things.... odins folly Dec 2025 #5
I heard part of the press conference - guy called the group part of antifa. QED Dec 2025 #6
Give me a freaking break! And THIS is why we're gonna have to slightlv Dec 2025 #12
Anybody with any sense or decency is part of antifa--- the anti-fascist movement Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #33
Literally NO ONE is buying this BULLSHIT! AStern Dec 2025 #7
Next Week's Headline: -misanthroptimist Dec 2025 #9
Or worse, they'll round up Eta Kappa Nu - the Electrical Engineering Honor Society. Wonder Why Dec 2025 #25
I remember him. n/t ReRe Dec 2025 #38
So do I. I wonder if he remembers us? Wonder Why Dec 2025 #42
Trumpian prosecuter/-not to be trusted. coffeenap Dec 2025 #10
First, I don't believe a thing this administration slightlv Dec 2025 #11
I saw them shoot down Santa on Saturday night. It was on TV. twodogsbarking Dec 2025 #13
Yes, they accused him of smuggling drugs into the US by air.... Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #34
I don't believe a damn thing the FBI says about anything. paleotn Dec 2025 #14
Essayli is a pam bondi appointed liar. I call bullshit IcyPeas Dec 2025 #15
Link to the TIL Instagram account..... reACTIONary Dec 2025 #16
F*cking liars Farmer-Rick Dec 2025 #17
One of the greatest harms Trump as inflicted on this country Zorro Dec 2025 #18
The FBI is too incompetent to do this! BidenRocks Dec 2025 #19
It's a bullshit story duckworth969 Dec 2025 #20
think so? WarGamer Dec 2025 #23
Not sure what point you are trying to make with this graphic, Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #35
This smells an awful lot the the Bush era karate dude flunkies in Miami who "wanted to blow up the sears tower" Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2025 #36
I don't believe that. Scrivener7 Dec 2025 #22
Given his last name popsdenver Dec 2025 #26
Is this a joke? Next it will be, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers. 😱👽👾🛸 Polly Hennessey Dec 2025 #27
...or "To serve Man". chouchou Dec 2025 #29
I'm glad the FBI is doing their job but louis-t Dec 2025 #30
Where did the froggy touch them ??? Jack Valentino Dec 2025 #31
Add me to the group ReRe Dec 2025 #41

regnaD kciN

(27,640 posts)
8. Nah...this is supposed to be a radical Native American movement.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:19 PM
Dec 2025

…which is another reason to doubt every word of this story from the regime, including “a,” “and,” and “the.”

Jack Valentino

(5,029 posts)
32. The Native Americans would be the most morally justified in committing retaliatory violence
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 11:29 PM
Dec 2025

against us white oppressors after our genocide against them,
but there has been no such resistance from them
since the famous Wounded Knee uprising around 1970....
(I remember watching the TV news about that as a child)

'Radical Native American movement'--
If that were actually true, I would be tempted to support them,
although I'm just a white illegal immigrant to their lands....

Sounds more like a ginned-up excuse to somehow further rob from
or suppress the rights of the Native Americans....



Scarlet Begalas

(75 posts)
37. Can't trust them
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 12:33 AM
Dec 2025

Needless to say, I wouldn't believe anything this administration says about anything.

Keepthesoulalive

(2,305 posts)
2. If they said the earth is round
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 03:51 PM
Dec 2025

I would question my beliefs. These imbeciles are liars and we will not discuss a certain media publication.

Miguelito Loveless

(5,753 posts)
4. I wish I could believe them
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:00 PM
Dec 2025

This is the loss of credibility that I don't see the government ever recovering from.

odins folly

(596 posts)
5. So, couple of things....
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:01 PM
Dec 2025

1) Don’t trust/ believe a goddamn thing these assclowns say.
2) Having not kept up with domestic terror activities for a couple of years I tuned to my friend google :
2a) Says Turtle Island is a native name for the earth or N.America.
2b) Says the Order of the Black Lotus is, what appears to be gamers, maybe?
3) I’m sorry but I would go along with the talking head that was interviewed who said he would wait on the charging documents before patting these dumb fucks on the back for anything….

Fuck these people…

QED

(3,353 posts)
6. I heard part of the press conference - guy called the group part of antifa.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:07 PM
Dec 2025

They're still trying to find the leaders, location, etc. of antifa.

slightlv

(7,790 posts)
12. Give me a freaking break! And THIS is why we're gonna have to
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:57 PM
Dec 2025

completely tear apart government when we take back the vote!

Jack Valentino

(5,029 posts)
33. Anybody with any sense or decency is part of antifa--- the anti-fascist movement
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 11:34 PM
Dec 2025

including Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower
and all the other American generals and soldiers
who fought to defeat the fascists before I was born...

Wonder Why

(7,031 posts)
25. Or worse, they'll round up Eta Kappa Nu - the Electrical Engineering Honor Society.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 09:31 PM
Dec 2025

Anyone with a foreign-named affiliation has to be suspect. Especially the left wing Greeks and their former leader - Anthony Quinn (d. 2001). You know him. The actor who always played Greeks, Mexicans, Arabs, and even a Pope.

Worse, he was a civil rights activist.

coffeenap

(3,296 posts)
10. Trumpian prosecuter/-not to be trusted.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:27 PM
Dec 2025

Same guy who charged the professor at the Camarillo, CA protest with a felony after he saved the life of a fellow observer dependent on a wheelchair.

slightlv

(7,790 posts)
11. First, I don't believe a thing this administration
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 04:49 PM
Dec 2025

says about these people. If they're anti-government, militia, maga-types, trump will issue them a preemptive pardon while calling them "good, strong men." If they're NOT magas, he'll excoriate them and personally name someone to execute them.

Second, I've wondered when we jump into the next phase of what I call "cold war/civil war"... all the executions of "DEI" people, the mass shootings, the whiplash shootings happening every day. Guns are just so passe. We nod and tsk, tsk, and then go on to the next story. It's not getting their point across, so I figured they'd be going big at some point. Now is when we start seeing the Timothy McVeys come out from under the rocks and try to blow everyone away. It really is time to leave the country, if you have the means. And if you do, remember you friends and see if someone would like to ride along in your suitcase!

paleotn

(22,218 posts)
14. I don't believe a damn thing the FBI says about anything.
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 06:27 PM
Dec 2025

...starting on Jan 20 2025.

reACTIONary

(7,165 posts)
16. Link to the TIL Instagram account.....
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:02 PM
Dec 2025

.... https://www.instagram.com/turtleislandliberationfrontla/

Apparently it hasn't been taken down yet. If you are curious, hurry, it might not last.

Farmer-Rick

(12,667 posts)
17. F*cking liars
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:18 PM
Dec 2025

The FBI probably arrested a group of boyscouts trying to learn to build a fire.

They don't know their butts from a hole in the ground. If it was anything serious the FBI wouldn't know about it.

Zorro

(18,693 posts)
18. One of the greatest harms Trump as inflicted on this country
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:27 PM
Dec 2025

is that he has so corrupted our government organizations that people will by default suspect any reports they issue.

duckworth969

(1,349 posts)
20. It's a bullshit story
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 08:43 PM
Dec 2025

The sooner we stop clicking on it, the better.

No need to give it legs it doesn’t deserve.

Don’t play into the Feds game.

Jack Valentino

(5,029 posts)
35. Not sure what point you are trying to make with this graphic,
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 11:38 PM
Dec 2025

which you have now posted for the second time in this thread....


Care to elaborate in text? I think you should.

Hassin Bin Sober

(27,461 posts)
36. This smells an awful lot the the Bush era karate dude flunkies in Miami who "wanted to blow up the sears tower"
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 11:42 PM
Dec 2025

The bush DOJ managed some convictions out of that fiasco. And they were way more competent than the current clowns.

popsdenver

(2,307 posts)
26. Given his last name
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 09:32 PM
Dec 2025

how come he hasn't been rounded up by ICE and sent to Lebanon????? Or.... are they "okay" immigrants

Jack Valentino

(5,029 posts)
31. Where did the froggy touch them ???
Mon Dec 15, 2025, 11:21 PM
Dec 2025

Were unicorns and lobsters also involved?


Suffice to say, I'm skeptical of almost ANY information
coming out of the "Trump FBI"....


But I won't be going out this New Year's Eve,
unless it is to my next door neighbor's house....

ReRe

(12,189 posts)
41. Add me to the group
Tue Dec 16, 2025, 02:24 AM
Dec 2025

that doesn't believe a word out of this administration. Because of djt, we're in peril from within and without. As for crowds? I gave those up about 3 decades ago.

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