Feds: Texas man tried planting bomb on Confederate statue

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Juan A. Lozano, Associated Press
Updated 1:07 pm, Monday, August 21, 2017

HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston man has been arrested after being accused by authorities of trying to damage or destroy a Confederate statue at a Houston park with explosives.

Federal prosecutors said Monday 25-year-old Andrew Schneck had been charged with attempting to maliciously damage or destroy property receiving federal financial assistance.

Authorities say a Houston park ranger on Saturday caught Schneck kneeling near a statue of Richard Dowling, a lieutenant in the Confederate army, located in Hermann Park.

Prosecutors say Schneck was caught with two boxes with duct tape and wires and with a bottle containing a liquid made up of compounds used as explosives.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Feds-Texas-man-tried-planting-bomb-on-11947656.php

[Iggo]

1. Dummy. (n/t)

[IronLionZion]

2. Terrorist nt

[Grins]

3. Oh, please stop this crap....

...acting like the Reich-wing. You just give them ammunition when they are running out. Never heard the "Both sides" argument?

Phuck.

That was my first thought.

My second was that HE IS a Jack Posobiec/Jame O'Keefe alt-Reich wannabe who wanted to blow up a damn statue thinking it would point fingers at the left.

[7962]

4. Easy enough these days to check out his back round in short order.

I imagine if thats true, we'll know by tomorrow. People LIVE to catch folks in a lie & are quite good at it these days!

[Judi Lynn]

7. Reminds one of the Republican activist who scratched a "B" on her face backwards,

claiming an Obama supporter had attacked her and done it.



Geez, "black eye," too.

[rpannier]

15. Guy has a history with chemicals and explosives

F*%ker should be in jail

[onetexan]

20. good point, the latter is quite possible

but yes there are crazy far lefties as well.

[LanternWaste]

5. Curiouser and curiouser! Cried Alice...

Sources told local news station KPRC2 that authorities had searched the same house four years before, looking for materials that could be used to make nerve gas or tear gas. Less than a year later, Mr Shneck, who lived in the house with his parents, was convicted for improper storage of explosive material. He was sentenced to five years of probation and a $159,000 fine.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/houston-bomb-confederate-statue-man-arrested-police-hermann-park-a7905646.html

[Judi Lynn]

8. No kidding! That's a great article. Found Schneck's photo:

Houston terrorism probe extends to a Texas college: FBI agents descend on a dorm
By Tyler Rudick
10.8.13 | 10:23 pm

http://houston.culturemap.com/news/city-life/10-08-13-houston-terrorism-probe-extends-to-a-texas-college-fbi-agents-descend-on-a-dorm/#slide=0

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After reading your article, I started wondering why this 25 year old man was still living with his parents.

Looks as if you're on the right track.

Thanks.

[LanternWaste]

9. Is Amish-Hipster a new thing?

Is Amish-Hipster a new thing with the kids? (sorry.) lol

[rpannier]

14. Didn't they used to have some faux reality show about Amish Mafia or something like that

Maybe he auditioned

[ananda]

6. Now that's just dumb.

I hate hearing about stuff like this.

It's not as if we don't have enough problems
as it is.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Do we know whether that bomb was supposed to go off when

someone tried to remove the statue?

[Sunlei]

11. He did the same in 2013. Today cops raided moms house near Rice U & exploded something in the yard.

[FLPanhandle]

12. Great way to accidentally kill or injure someone

Just to damage a statue. Idiot.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. I think it's more likely he was placing explosives

that would go off if someone tried to remove the statue.

BTW, the Rice University area is one of the wealthiest parts of the city.

[rpannier]

13. Not the first time either

The guy is dangerous
He's a terrorist.
Charge him as such

[xor]

17. This guy pisses me off.

Obviously for trying to blow something up and put people's lives in danger, but because he was arrested before and got off with probation. He had a supportive family who made it so it was able to finish his degree and get on with his life by getting off probation early. Then he goes and does something as sick and stupid like this. Lock 'em up. Clearly hasn't learned anything and is a danger to everyone.

[canetoad]

18. I'm finding it hard to believe

That this guy below:



is the same as this guy. The second image apparently is his LinkedIn profile pic. What do you think? Has some innocent guy been pictured?

[ProfessorGAC]

19. I Do See The Possibility of A False Flag

One of "them" blows up reb statue, blame the left
Need to wait for more about this guy

[Calista241]

21. Building incendiary devices to blow up stuff you don't like.

First of all, that's not a super smart thing to do. What could possibly go wrong?

Second, we have a word for people that do that. Terrorist. Not too long ago we sent those people to Guantanamo.

This fuckface is likely to spend 30 years in jail over this. Way to just take the moral high ground we had and throw it right out the window.