William Keebler and his foiled terrorist attack
Skippy sends us a link to the story of Bill Keebler and his elves who plotted to blow up a Bureau of Land Management cabin in Arizona. Keebler is the nominal leader of a band of misfits called the “Patriot’s Defense Force”. They wanted to avenge the death of Arizona rancher Robert “LaVoy” Finicum. According to the Daily Miner, the group contemplated blowing up a BLM office in downtown Salt Lake City, but they decided that it was too visible, so they settled on a BLM facility in the wilds. They recruited a couple of FBI agents and set out on their mission;
Keebler traveled to the Arizona cabin Tuesday night with militia members and undercover FBI employees. An inactive explosive was placed against the door and Keebler was handed a remote detonation device and pushed it several times, according to the FBI.
The FBI arrested Keebler in Utah on Wednesday morning. He faces one count of attempting to damage federal property with an explosive. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Melodie Rydalch.
From the Salt Lake City Tribune;
He asked a militia member — who happened to be an undercover FBI employee — to build an explosive device.
In April, the militia member showed him a video of a 6-inch pipe bomb blowing up office furniture in the mountains of southern Utah. Keebler asked the militia member to make more of those bombs, saying he hoped to target a BLM cabin in Mount Trumbull, Ariz., that he had visited with Finicum for reconnaissance in October 2015.
He wanted two bombs — one that he would detonate near one of the cabins at the Mount Trumbull facility, and the other to use against law enforcement agents if they were stopped driving to or from Mount Trumbull.
Keebler planted the device — which, unknown to him, was inert — late Tuesday. He tried multiple times to detonate the device remotely, charging documents state, before departing. The FBI arrested him Wednesday morning in Nephi.
According to the charging documents: “Keebler made it clear he didn’t plan on blowing people up for now, but he wanted his group to be prepared to escalate things, and take people out if necessary.”
I guess as long as these guys depend on the FBI to build their bombs for them we’re safe.
Category: Dumbass Bullshit
‘I guess as long as these guys depend on the FBI to build their bombs for them we’re safe.’
Yes. Yes, we are. Some of these people are so dumb they can’t find their own feet without written instructions.
D-Bag
Keebler and his elves- the gang that couldn’t bomb straight.
I mean, really. How hard is it to make a freakin’ pipe bomb?
??? you got to it first the Keebler Elves
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Right it would appear these days anytime you recruit an outsider to do your dirty work that outsider is in fact an FBI informant, good for us citizens…bad for the dumbasses trying to do something horrific.
There is one thing that remains as true today as it ever was, and that is this: The best way for two men to keep a secret is if one them is dead.
It fits right in with my thought process about sharing information.
VOV: If these stupids can’t use the library Internet to build a simple explosive device, what makes you think they know anything about OPSEC? (Ha ha).
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. Like 5 year sleep overs with Big Eric and Julio.
(sigh). Someday, these idiots will learn. No outside help, he’s most likely an informant or agent.
Once the agitators and terrorists finally learn that, then we really are in deep trouble, to make Orlando and San Bernie look like firecrackers. G-D help us then.
That’s the reason I never resold my college chemistry book. It could end up in the wrong hands. I tore out significant pages and burned them, instead.
The photo of him depicts a hand to mouth gesture that I am sure he will become all to familiar with once in prison
Dude previously tried to blow up a BLM mini bus but burned his lips on the tail pipe…..que rim shot.
Badum-tish!
Splash, Out! I wonder who he’ll be auctioned off to in prison as a “wife”?
What is up with all of that shit tied off of him?
Bet that shit is a bitch at night.
What’s the matter, he couldn’t scrounge up a few coconuts?
Well he is a elf ???
Should we ask Jonn to file a preemptive FOIA on this guy for when he starts making military claims?
What is all that stuff he’s got hanging on him? I’ve seen horses in parades with less bling on them, than what he’s wearing!
I beleive those are duck calls.
Be vewy qwiet!