A right-wing terrorist tried to blow up a government building: report
MATTHEW ROZSA at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2017/08/14/a-right-wing-terrorist-tried-to-blow-up-a-government-building-report/
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An alleged right-wing terrorist in Oklahoma has been arrested for attempting to detonate what he believed to be a massive bomb outside of a bank.
Jerry Drake Varnell is believed to have been at least partially motivated by the ideology of the Three Percenters, according to a report by The Washington Post. Described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “a loosely organized movement of gun owners whose name stemmed from the disputed claim that only 3 percent of American colonists took up arms against the British,” the Three Percenters was a major group supporting Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy in his standoff against the federal government over ranching issues.
According to the Post, Varnell repeatedly described his hatred of the federal government in undercover conversations in which he also discussed his sympathy with the Three Percenters. He decided to blow up a large building at a time when it would minimize casualties, and one report suggests that he initially hoped to blow up the Federal Reserve in Washington. For currently unknown reasons, he settled on a bank in Oklahoma instead.
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