Gee, for some reason, this story hasn't managed to make it out of the local news and into the national headlines:
CUYAHOGA FALLS, Ohio – Following a pipe bomb explosion Monday night, police and federal law enforcement officials are trying to figure why a Center Avenue man turned his apartment into a bomb factory.
Police said no charges have been filed against Mark Campano, 56. Police found 30 completed pipe bombs in his apartment along with components to make more, plus 17 guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition.
Campano is in an Akron hospital with injuries received when one of the bombs exploded.
As police and federal authorities puzzle over Campano's past and what he planned to do with the bombs, a former neighbor said Campano often railed against the government.
Barbara Vachon lived next door to Campano at the Center Park Place Apartments for several years and said he was a big reason she moved.
"He was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos," said Vachon. "I would never watch them. He was some kind of radical, and he didn't believe in the government."
She said there were other warnings.
"There were a few times I heard minor explosions from outside the apartment building, and he would scream that he had hurt himself," she said. "I never knew what he was up to."
Vachon said Campano seemed to be most active at night.
"There was a steady stream of creepy visitors going in and out of his apartment," she said.
The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms is also investigating the case.
Of course, if this had been a Muslim extremist caught with such an arsenal, we'd be getting talk-show panels on Hannity featuring Michelle Malkin ranting at length about the threat of Islamic jihad, blah blah blah. Not to mention chatty discussion on Fox and Friends and Morning Joe.
But instead, because he's just a white anti-government extremist, hey, let's just give it a big shrug.
More on the case here and here.
[H/t Susie.]
I could scream Christian Terrorist!
Or is he really a secret Muslim?
"Police said no charges have been filed against Mark Campano"
But if we ever hear him say Allah Akbar - THEN he would get some charges!
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Mark Campano, 56, was charged Wednesday with one count of unlawful possession of a pipe bomb, according to assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Edwards. Campano appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Benita Pearson, waived a preliminary hearing and was held on the charge by federal marshals.
Study the symptoms not the virus...
being anti obama doesn't mean you're anti american. i'm sorry to say you're all fucked.
When Bush was president, anyone who criticized or even questioned him risked being labeled "unpatriotic" or "anti-American" and accused of "not respecting the office". However, as soon as Obama won the election, criticizing the president not only conveniently returned to being an Exercise Of Free Speech -- it practically became a patriotic duty as far as these people are concerned. All this does, of course, is prove that human beings are rationalizing creatures rather than rational ones -- and that they're all too prone to seek refuge in whatever excuse they can, no matter how flimsy, in order to convince themselves that they're right and therefore don't need to change.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
All I see it saying is he is anti-govt, so why the assumption he's right wing?
What's up with the site? It looks totally bizarre to me.
If it doesn't to you could you contact the site for me, or explain how to fix it? I'm on Firefox.
[It's us-Sitemonitor]
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
it's hinky. Looks like pre-1993 internet.
all better now.
It's been doing that for me, and I don't know what I'm on. I exited and re-entered. It's OK, right now...
far left loon >.<
One post said it was problems with the web site. C&L, are you paying attention?
Here ya go:
QED
that doesnt prove anything
still don't know why the assumption
Well isn't the assumption that liberals lean pro-government and pro-socialism?
Oh, I guess because all the wingnut types keep saying that we liberals just LOVE guv'mint. It therefore follows that if you are anti-guv'mint...
Smaller government is a Conservative ideal, supposedly. Blowing up the Capital building would certainly give you a small bit of gov't that would fit in the palm of your hand.
Therefore if white Christians commit acts of mass murder, it's not terrorism
and doctors are involved. Then it's patriotic duty.
look at history and you will find the right wing is always a threat to any democracy.
now what makes those right wings different from others?
look close and find out why they lack compassion for others.
they are very selfish and self centered.
they are more darwin survival of the fittest than loving
they are very materialistic
they want a society of have mores and have nots.
they whorship at the altar of capitalism which is darwinism defined.
keep looking and go deep and you will find a very good reason for their lack of empathy and compassion for others.
if you are an atheist or religious the answer will elude you. sorry about that.
oh christianity died on the cross. christains are more about materialism and darwinism than the teachings of love and compassion for others.
the health care debate is living proof of this.
What does natural selection have anything to do with this? I don't see how being right wing makes you any more successful in passing on your genetic material to future generations. The theory of natural selection is not an economic or political theory, it is a biological theory.
The crazy part is, they like to talk about rising to the top and (economic) survival of the fittest, meanwhile claiming Darwinism is a hoax, as they espouse creation.
The problem is they speak gobbledy-gook.
far left loon >.<
social darwinism.
...but, but, but, isn't that fascist-socialism, or Islamic-communism. It sounds really bad; scary stuff.
(gobbledy-gook)
far left loon >.<
... since society is capable of perpetuating self-destructive memes as well as beneficial ones.
And if it were an absolutely solid premise, I wouldn't have to worry about Sarah Palin running for president.
Yeah, he is confusing Darwin with Herbert Spencer.
Social Darwinism has nothing to do with passing on genes. It is all about succeeding commercially by taking out your opponents. It is a corollary that social scientists added onto Darwin's explanation of evolution in order to justify their antisocial behavior. The Nazis took advantage of it to justify their program, but others have done the same thing, and in no case was the program justifiable on its benefits to society. Darwin had nothing to do with it.
Surely, being selfish and self-centered isn't exclusive to the right?
Surely, being 'loving' is a positive trait that, in fact, enhances the survival of the fittest because a society that cares for its members is more fit than one which does not?
Surely, all the people who were waiting/camping in line for Black Friday sales are not all right wingers, and that materialism is not a political trait?
Capitalism does not equal darwinism. While innovation and aggressiveness contribute to success and are therefore a beneficial and desirable trait, corporations have a habit of becoming too large, their desire to take risks lessens, and their thought trends towards bureaucratese. -- Evolution requires that a species be capable of adapting to a change in its environment over time, with those who successfully adapt surviving to pass on their beneficial traits. Big business doesn't work that way. Big business stomps on small competitors and gladly stifles innovation when it doesn't fit in with the views of the guys at the top of the trash heap.
And what does Atheism or any other faith have to do with being able to grok this? You sound EXACTLY like the faith-based crowd who talk about how you need to understand Jesus Christ, bladdiddyblah.
THERE WAS NO CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST DIED.
The health care debate is living proof of what? That you can sling a few meaningless generalizations around?
This part made me laugh.
"There were a few times I heard minor explosions from outside the apartment building, and he would scream that he had hurt himself," she said.
Reminded me of Laura Bush. One bomb a day ain't nothin' to worry about.
far left loon >.<
I'm guessing the terrorist is a Christian. If he wasn't a Christian then the headlines would be about his beliefs and he'd be labeled a terrorist. So since he's a White Christian like Timothy McVeigh or Scott Roeder he's simply mentioned to be a run of the mill criminal and buried in the back pages.
... listens to Rush Limbaugh and reads Glenn Beck & Sean Hannity.
"Police also found chemicals used to make drugs in the apartment, Sgt. Gary Merton Jr. said." Drug lab... they'll get him to plead to manufacturing & sales of drugs
farther down:
Robert Cogdeill, 45, who's lived all his life in a home across the street, said the apartment complex attracts a lot of police attention.
"It's always been a problem. There's always police activity there, cars running in and out," he said.
an anti-Government crack cooker.... YAY!
Man are these people f**king stupid and nuts! And they are everywhere. EVERYWHERE!
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
"police said no charges have been filed." WTF?!
I kid here in NC, A KID, was hauled away because he possibly phoned in a bomb threat to a school as a prank and this guy has multiple incendiary devices and no charges? There better be charges forthcoming.
can't a guy make pipe bombs for his own protection? It ain't like they were fully automatic weapons.
Snark!
"...As police and federal authorities puzzle over Campano's past and what he planned to do with the bombs..."
Oh, those poor, poor puzzled police! Maybe Mark Campano will tell them if they taze him?
Please. Can you imagine if this had been someone from the left?
Slapped into handcuffs and tazed 50 times on the way to the station for twitching.
the Cons would be calling for rounding up all us lefties and classifying us as enemy combatants.
"There were a few times I heard minor explosions from outside the apartment building, and he would scream that he had hurt himself," she said.
Everybody is puzzled in Ohio. Everybody. I wish his neighbors had tapes of him blowing himself up and screaming. I could listen to those all day.
""He was always trying to get me and another neighbor to listen to anti-government tapes and watch anti-government videos..."
Okay, I want to know EXACTLY what these vids were and where they are now. I'd say chances are they are very, very right-wing neo-Nazi type programs, which explains why absolutely no details about them are given.
have substance abuse problems. You probably don't want to know.
Very common with Doctors. Hard to avoid the bad combination of stress and ready access to drugs.
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
Funny how the media always manage to disappear our plethora of well armed far right whackjobs and domestic terrorists, even when they commit acts of terrorism. So much for that mythical "liberal bias" the wingnuts always bitch about.
to hear something more about the case of the census worker who was murdered in south carolina "coincidentally" not long after michelle bachmann and glenn beck told their followers that the 250 year old census was part of the Obama government's evil scheme to take away the lunatic fringe dwellers' guns.
When it comes to the far right commentary crazy, standard logic does not apply. They have always made exceptions to their extremes. In this case, you can plainly see there is no way they are going to doom their Christian solders in the same way they would a Muslim terrorist.
This may be something on the scale of any Islamic jihad, a Christian Jihad is not beyond are current political reality. Maybe the right wing media is trying to find a way to include this person into their Tea bag crazy. If so, you will see a, subtle at first, move to arm the anti-Obama movement.
Joseph
..as a martyr for their cause.
Just...you...wait..
I'm always amazed when I see the pictures of the obvious mental cases with lots of weapons - guns, pipe bombs, you name it - and no one mentions that serious gun-control enforcement would have stopped them from getting far.
Suzan
"obvious mental cases"
I thought the picture looked a lot like the picture of KSM.
Just sayin'
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
I much prefer KFC
My VA doctors carrot sticks.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
...about why so little attention was paid to the story of William Krar back in 2003. Krar is an anti-government white supremacist who's currently serving an 11-year sentence in federal prison after pleading guilty to charges of building and possessing a chemical weapon of mass destruction. At the time of his arrest, Krar was found to be in possession of the following:
* a cyanide gas bomb which potentially would have been capable of killing at least a thousand people
* chemical stockpiles, presumably for manufacturing more bombs
* at least one hundred conventional bombs, including some disguised as briefcases
* machine guns
* an assault rifle
* an unregistered silencer
* half a million rounds of ammunition
If Krar had been a Muslim, there's no room whatsoever for doubt that the press would have been all over the story like white on rice -- especially in post-911 America. When Krar was arrested, his bomb was close to completion and additional evidence was found suggesting that he planned to use it. So why did nobody in the national media bother to report the story? An even more important question is...why were Krar's Constitutional rights to legal representation and trial honored while Jose Padilla's were not until his case was brought to the Supreme Court? Unfortunately, the most likely answer is politics. The Southern Poverty Law Center observed at around the time of Krar's arrest that the Bush administration seemed to show a greater degree of leniency toward groups which some would consider right-wing extremists (such as white supremacists) than they were showing to left-wing group. The fact that Krar's story was not reported in the national media suggests that either consciously or unconsciously, both the press and the government decided to take the position that domestic terrorism is an insignificant issue -- or simply conveniently refused to put violent acts carried out by a right-wing extremist in the same category as those carried out by a Muslim extremist. That argument doesn't hold water, of course -- one would think that terrorist acts should be considered equally wrong regardless of who intends to carry them out, but this is not what happened. If a terrorist plot is viewed as being somehow less heinous when the person who intends to carry it out is a right-wing American rather than a foreign-born Muslim, this inevitably yet subtly implies that the true nature of the crime is not the violent act itself but rather the ideology behind it...in much the same way that punishing a poor thief more harshly than a rich thief implies that the real crime is not stealing but being poor.
Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.
Another "real crime" (red flag stuff) is being a vegan in Minneapolis when there is a Republican convention.
far left loon >.<
"In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity."
Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
"I know that there are people who do not love their fellow
man, and I hate people like that! " ~ Tom Lehrer (1928 - )
So all he got was 11 years? He'll be out in a couple of more years and then he can do this all over again.
I wounder what his user name is on FOX Nation?
;)
If the published reports that you link to are accurate, this guy's sick in more ways than one. A combination of drug addiction and mental illness. What boggles the mind is that he was able to get access to weapons (lots of weapons according to the reports) and bomb making materials, given his background.
We've got a really screwed up situation about these issues thanks to the power of the gun lobby and all the second amendment nuts out there.
a gun show? I have. You don't even need a drivers license to buy an AK-47. And it only takes a little doodling to make it fully automatic. Gun shows are exempt from the Brady Bill and are the biggest bullshit racket that the wingnuts ever got stuck in a bill. It was one of the huge NRA victories.
Many years ago a friend was the patient advocate (the state appointed lawyer for the patients) for a maximum security state mental hospital in Oklahoma. One day one of the patients got off campus, bought a gun, came back on campus, entered my friend's office and shot him dead. It really isn't that hard to get a gun in many parts of this country.
are not exempt from the Brady bill or any state laws that I know of. The Brady bill requires a NICS check done by ffl dealers, which they are required to do whether they are at their shop, at a gun show, or out of their trunk at a McDonalds, yes I know one that did that, he had a collector piece that someone wanted and it was a long drive so he met the guy halfway and filled out the paperwork on the hood of his car and called it in on his cell phone.
http://www.ohio.com/news/76292137.html
"Trust no one, Mr. Mulder." - Well-Manicured Man
evidently one of his neighbors did record his prior...
Study the symptoms not the virus...
But instead, because he's just a white anti-government extremist, hey, let's just give it a big shrug.
But instead, because he's just a white anti-government extremist, hey, let's just give it a big shrug.
There. Fixed it for you.
Only when the last tree has died
and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught
will we realize we cannot eat money.
Anti-Government freaks are the same everywhere - America, Afghanistan, Ireland, you name it.
Republicans deny they are anti-government freaks. Well i say we'll believe when we see it with our lying eyes, because Republicans cannot change, but they sure can lie.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
This guy's just the tip of the iceberg of Christofascism threatening our nation, right, Steyn, Malkin, et al?
"Of course, if this had been a Muslim extremist caught with such an arsenal, we'd be getting talk-show panels on Hannity featuring Michelle Malkin ranting at length about the threat of Islamic jihad"...
Baloney. This guy was very obviously working alone, out of some mental illness, and not part of an organization bent on destroying the US. UNLIKE AL QAIDA! If the guy HAD been a part of a jihad organization, your Malkins and Hannitys would be ripping up and down,,,,this has nothing to do with whether or not he's white, and you bloody well know it.... and WE ARE LIVING UNDER AN ISLAMIC JIHAD...whether you think that's "politically correct" or not.
Actually, we have have been living under a white-supremacist/Christofascist jihad far longer and the number of incidents and lives lost in that struggle is far greater than all the damage done by all Islamic terrorists combined. The greatest terrorist threat facing America is now, and has been since the 1970s, white, rightwing, domestic terrorists.
If we're not learning anything else, we should at least know by now that centrism is no line of defense against the thuggery of the right. In Congress and in our streets.
yes indeed. After the president is assassinated the media will address this issue.
blowing off a thumb every now and again makes a man outta ya.
That seemed odd to me until I read that he was hospitalized with injuries from the bomb blast. If his injuries are severe enough to keep him in the hospital for a few days, it would probably be easier to wait until at least the preliminary investigation is completed before filing charges.
If this were a Muslim OR a member of say... ELF, then the right-wingers would be foaming at the mouth about how this guy isn't under arrest or was building bombs in a city or whatever.
Why do I get the feeling another Waco like incident is about to happen during the Obama years? I STILL hear conservatives railing about how Koresh was harmless and Janet Reno overreacted to that whole situation. Then again, I also know conservatives who think that any form of weaponry the government can have, civilians should be allowed to have so we can "defend ourselves" against the government... seriously.
No, no, it's not his whiteness -- it's his lack of sex appeal. Look at him! How can you possibly think that guy could compete for media attention with Michaele Salahi in a sari or Mrs. Tiger Woods brandishing a golf club?
The Constant Weader at www.RealityChex.com
I'll bet he wants to make the government so small he could blow it up in a bathtub.
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