white supremacist arrested in thwarted synagogue attack in Colorado

[Dave-W]

A man who repeatedly espoused anti-Semitic views has been arrested in a plot to bomb a historic Colorado synagogue, federal officials said Monday. The co-conspirators turned out to be undercover agents. Court documents say Richard Holzer was arrested Friday in Pueblo just after the agents brought him what were supposedly two pipe bombs along with dynamite to blow up Temple Emanuel. In fact, the undercover agents had phony bombs incapable of causing damage, authorities said.


The agents said Holzer described the inert explosives as "absolutely gorgeous" and said they should go ahead with the attack overnight to avoid police. He had allegedly earlier made threatening comments about Pueblo's Jewish community and said he wanted to plot "something that tells them they are not welcome in this town," according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court.

Alleged white supremacist arrested in thwarted synagogue attack in Colorado, FBI says

 

[BryanJohnMaloney]

So, does this man purport to be a Christian?

 

[A Gerbil]

I cannot help but wonder whether this man would have attempted this faux-atrocity without the support and encouragement of his co-conspirators, who were undercover agents. A very strange story.

 

[BryanJohnMaloney]

I cannot help but wonder whether this man would have attempted this faux-atrocity without the support and encouragement of his co-conspirators, who were undercover agents. A very strange story.

That's what the "entrapment" defense is about. He has to demonstrate that he had no intent at all to act without the encouragement of police.

Now, I cannot help but wonder why some people might be so solicitous of the nasty little cockroach of a man.

 

[A Gerbil]

That's what the "entrapment" defense is about. He has to demonstrate that he had no intent at all to act without the encouragement of police.

Now, I cannot help but wonder why some people might be so solicitous of the nasty little cockroach of a man.

I would imagine this man is mentally ill. I think people who commit these sorts of atrocities usually are. There were two agents involved, and him, and it was the agents who built the fake bombs. Sure he might be a 'nasty little cockroach', but reading that story made me wonder whether without the persuasion of the agents this man might have spent his life surfing conspiracy theorists in his mum's basement. Could this government money have been used to help and reform him?