Man Arrested and Charged with Attempting to Use a Weapon of Mass Destruction

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Skyler Philippi, 24, of Columbia, Tennessee, was arrested by federal agents and charged with attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy an energy facility.

“As charged, Skyler Philippi believed he was moments away from launching an attack on a Nashville energy facility to further his violent white supremacist ideology – but the FBI had already compromised his plot,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland. “This case serves as yet another warning to those seeking to sow violence and chaos in the name of hatred by attacking our country’s critical infrastructure: the Justice Department will find you, we will disrupt your plot, and we will hold you accountable. I am grateful to the public servants of the FBI for their extraordinary work on this case and for the work they do every day to keep our country safe.”

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/man-arrested-and-charged-attempting-use-weapon-mass-destruction-and-destroy-energy-facility

Madness.

[+and-then]

So a mentally ill racist winds up on the Fed's radar and they "help" him believe he's going to get plastic explosives.  Based on this - and ONLY on this - he'll be convicted of attempting to do something he never had any real chance of doing without their "help".  Is that right?  They'd be on firmer ground legally if they just developed the evidence that he was also considering being a mass shooter.

He didn't possess any "weapon of mass destruction".  Over the past 4 years, our Federal government has literally opened our southern border and a few MILLION unvetted people from all over the world have walked in and been helped by that same government to get spread around to multiple states.  We know that some were on our terror watchlist. I recently saw a report that around 30K citizens of China have been among these people.  MOST of those who've slipped in have been military-age males and our vaunted DOJ is slapping itself on the back for setting up a nut-job white boy from podunk, TN?  When America is struck with a WMD, it isn't likely to be built by some rube from a trailer park in a southern state.  SMDH...

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45 minutes ago, and-then said:

So a mentally ill racist winds up on the Fed's radar and they "help" him believe he's going to get plastic explosives.  Based on this - and ONLY on this - he'll be convicted of attempting to do something he never had any real chance of doing without their "help".  Is that right?  They'd be on firmer ground legally if they just developed the evidence that he was also considering being a mass shooter.

He didn't possess any "weapon of mass destruction".  Over the past 4 years, our Federal government has literally opened our southern border and a few MILLION unvetted people from all over the world have walked in and been helped by that same government to get spread around to multiple states.  We know that some were on our terror watchlist. I recently saw a report that around 30K citizens of China have been among these people.  MOST of those who've slipped in have been military-age males and our vaunted DOJ is slapping itself on the back for setting up a nut-job white boy from podunk, TN?  When America is struck with a WMD, it isn't likely to be built by some rube from a trailer park in a southern state.  SMDH...

I mean it's America. If not this he'd probably just have shot up a school which you could then pretend to yourself never happened or is just a part of everyday life.

He actually did suggest a shooting to start with.

And how is he mentally ill? I mean I guess all white supremacists are kinda that way, in a way, but it does seem like you're trying to dismiss this as nothing.

What the **** are you deflecting to migrants for? It really does seem that you're, at least subconsciously, defending the white supremacist.

The FBI stopped a crazy from killing a bunch of people. You should be congratulating them and cheering, instead you're being super weird about it.

[Alchopwn]

An explosive drone is not a WMD, even if it attacks a city's utilities.  That charge is sensationalist clickbait and won't stick.

[preacherman76]

Same story recycled. FBI finds a mentally unstable man. Radicalize him, and give him a plan and a means to pull off a terrorist act. Something he would have never dreamed up on his own. Then arrest him, and pretend he came up with the whole thing. 
 

They do this all the time. 

[preacherman76]

8 hours ago, ExpandMyMind said:

I mean it's America. If not this he'd probably just have shot up a school which you could then pretend to yourself never happened or is just a part of everyday life.

He actually did suggest a shooting to start with.

And how is he mentally ill? I mean I guess all white supremacists are kinda that way, in a way, but it does seem like you're trying to dismiss this as nothing.

What the **** are you deflecting to migrants for? It really does seem that you're, at least subconsciously, defending the white supremacist.

The FBI stopped a crazy from killing a bunch of people. You should be congratulating them and cheering, instead you're being super weird about it.

If this guy is anything like the Newburgh 5, he wouldn’t have never came up with any of this on his own. 
 

Bottom line, the FBI works for months, sometimes years on end to get someone do something they otherwise wouldn’t have, so they can parade them in front of the media and pat each other on the back that they caught a terrorist. 
 

BTW the Newburgh 5 were black Muslim men. I found the FBI’s roll in that just as disgusting as this will most likely turn out to be. 

Edited November 5 by preacherman76

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16 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

Same story recycled. FBI finds a mentally unstable man. Radicalize him, and give him a plan and a means to pull off a terrorist act. Something he would have never dreamed up on his own. Then arrest him, and pretend he came up with the whole thing. 
 

They do this all the time. 

Don't bother reading the article then. The guy was talking about carrying out mass shootings when they met him.

But don't let reality get in the way of your preconceived notions.

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32 minutes ago, Alchopwn said:

An explosive drone is not a WMD, even if it attacks a city's utilities.  That charge is sensationalist clickbait and won't stick.

The charges won't stick? How often do you reckon the FBI charge someone and the charges don't stick? In 2022, fewer than 10% of cases were dismissed.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/

By the sounds of things, it's not looking this this guy will be part of the 10%.

[Alchopwn]

6 minutes ago, ExpandMyMind said:

The charges won't stick? How often do you reckon the FBI charge someone and the charges don't stick? In 2022, fewer than 10% of cases were dismissed.

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/06/14/fewer-than-1-of-defendants-in-federal-criminal-cases-were-acquitted-in-2022/

By the sounds of things, it's not looking this this guy will be part of the 10%.

A drone isn't a weapon of mass destruction.  That's all there is to it.

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Just now, Alchopwn said:

A drone isn't a weapon of mass destruction.  That's all there is to it.

Anything can be turned into a weapon.

The power plan is the weapon here, not the drone.

[preacherman76]

19 minutes ago, ExpandMyMind said:

Don't bother reading the article then. The guy was talking about carrying out mass shootings when they met him.

But don't let reality get in the way of your preconceived notions.

So why the terror plot then? 
 

Sounds to me like he was just adding to the conversation of what possible mayhem he could create. 
 

Why not just arrest him for conspiracy to commit a mass shooting? That’s basically the FBI admitting they are the one’s who came up with the terror plot. 
 

Im by no means saying he was a good guy. But now he s going down for something he himself had no intention of doing till he was given a plan and means to do it. Thats entrapment. 

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15 minutes ago, preacherman76 said:

So why the terror plot then? 
 

Sounds to me like he was just adding to the conversation of what possible mayhem he could create. 
 

Why not just arrest him for conspiracy to commit a mass shooting? That’s basically the FBI admitting they are the one’s who came up with the terror plot. 
 

Im by no means saying he was a good guy. But now he s going down for something he himself had no intention of doing till he was given a plan and means to do it. Thats entrapment. 

You're defending a white nationalist terrorist.

What is even happening in this thread man. Why do these guys feel like the FBI is attacking them personally?

This is so weird lol.

[preacherman76]

Just now, ExpandMyMind said:

You're defending a white nationalist terrorist.

What is even happening in this thread man. Why do these guys feel like the FBI is attacking them personally?

This is so weird lol.

Because they do this all the time. 
 

Im not defending him. I would have supported them giving him the gun, and blank bullets to take him down the moment he set up. 
 

Im not cool with the FBI radicalizing and creating terror plots for people to follow through with when they themselves never came up with any such idea. 
 

The Newburgh 5 tried to back out the last minute. Openly said they didn’t want to do it. A FBI agent flipped out on them, and put them in a position where they felt they had no choice. This is because the FBI had already given them huge amounts of money. And also promised them millions after the plot was accomplished.  
 

The FBI is corrupt as hell.