Pennsylvania man arrested for threatening to "slaughter" FBI

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

A Pennsylvania man has been arrested and charged with threatening the FBI after the agency's Mar-a-Lago search, allegedly posting on the right-wing social media platform Gab that all FBI employees deserve to die.

Why it matters: The FBI and the Department of Homeland Security have warned that threats against law enforcement officials have spiked since the FBI retrieved classified material from former President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.

Driving the news: Adam Bies, 46, is charged with influencing, impeding or retaliating against a federal law enforcement official, according to an FBI affidavit.
* "My only goal is to kill more of them before I drop," Bies allegedly wrote on Gab, adding that he would "slaughter" them.
* He compared the FBI to the Nazi SS paramilitary group as well as the Soviet-era KGB, the affidavit states.
* "I’ll shoot an SS officer in the head just as quick as I’d shoot a KGB officer in the head," he allegedly said in one post. "Police state scum are police state scum. Period."


Read more: https://www.axios.com/2022/08/15/fbi-mar-a-lago-threat-arrest

[thenelm1]

1. Another damned nut job fruitcake. n/t

[CurtEastPoint]

2. modeled after Bannon, I see.... nice

SUCH LANGUAGE! “I lost over 100 followers today because I think the FBI are a bunch of scumbag, child molesting faggots who deserve to be shot on sight,” one said. “Good riddance assholes. Go hang out where you belong, with the fucking Chamber of Commerce Mitch McConnell child molesting RINO scumbags instead. Hopefully YOUR kids will be on the menu next at whatever new hellhole has replaced Epstein Island.”

[Grins]

27. (GASP!!!!!) He's....white????

[mwb970]

32. Gee, and he looks so smart too.

[DemocraticPatriot]

3. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes!

Another MAGAt who won't be voting for a while... or maybe ever... LOL

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

5. WHAT world are these people living in ?

This is beginning to sound like "suicide by cop" fantasies.

Sorry dude, nobody is going to look at you and say, "Make my day."

[BumRushDaShow]

7. You might remember back in the '90s when ATF agents had that honor

of being called "jack-booted thugs" by the previous generation of RW loons, including gun humper extraordinaire Wayne LaPierre (e.g., Ruby Ridge).

[Haggis 4 Breakfast]

8. And also Waco.

You'd think these loons would come up with new expressions. Jack-booted thugs haven't existed since 1944. Well, 1945, during the last hurrah of the Ustase.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. Yup. Same militia scum.

They like invoking and lumping together fascism alongside socialism alongside of communism out of pure ignorance.

[SergeStorms]

16. It's all the same to them.

Communism, socialism, fascism etc. are all lumped into one, because they're not 'Murkin.

You're either 'Murkin, or you're dead.

[slumcamper]

6. One of the worst parts of the Trump era is the inescapable realization

of just how many truly awful people walk among us.

[2naSalit]

11. At nearly nine billion...

We're bound to have too many of any problem group.

[Warpy]

10. Back in the late 60s and early 70s, we used to play "spot the stooge" a lot

because most large gatherings had all sorts of police presence. Spotting them and pointing them out was as far as we went. We never planned to murder them. Shoot, we never even bothered to eject them from whatever was going on. We just needed to know who they were so we could avoid them when anything important was under discussion.

I can't wrap my head around just how wigged out these right wing males are. They are so twisted up with fear and hate that most of them must be a having an incredibly hard time functioning at even a minimal, show up for work and go home and drink into a stupor, level of competence. They are so freaked out it's hard to think they can manage earning any sort of a paycheck or dealing with family. The amount of physical and emotional energy it takes to carry that kind of impotent rage is staggering.

Eventually, they've got to start burning out. The apathy is likely to look worse than the rage.

[Warpy]

30. Yeah? We wrote leaflets

There was a hell of a lot of juvenile bullshit in them, too. We also made some colossally boneheaded choices, those were peak drug experimentation years and a few of us didn't live through them.

No, what is new is the degree of terror feeding rage feeding more terror and all of it orchestrated and well funded at the top.

They are going to start to burn out emotionally. What gets left behind is not going to be pretty.

[leftyladyfrommo]

40. We never dreamed of actually hurting people.

I was in Salt Lake. We had signs. That was about it.

California had some violent groups but they didn't affect us.

[Warpy]

42. Boston had some violent groups

but they were too drugged up to put anything into practice. They did a lot of bragging to undercover cops and managed to scare the crap out of Nixon, who retaliated by militarizing the cops and starting the war on drugs.

[Orrex]

12. Hey, right up the road from me!

Mercer is thick with Trump KKKultists, as is much of western PA.

[Efilroft Sul]

15. My bet is that Adam Bies is a lone wolf. Why? Because I used to work with him.

Adam has always had a strong libertarian/anti-government streak that runs deep through him, and he really doesn't get along with a lot of people. Had he joined a militia, which I doubt he would have, he would have gotten kicked out for his lack of playing by their rules and for his anti-authoritarianism. In Adam's reasoning (such as it is), the FBI going through Mar-a-Lago was extreme government overreach and a bridge too far; I strongly doubt he has any affection or loyalty to Trump.

[Orrex]

17. He sounds like a real charmer

I trust your assessment, and it's interesting to think that he might be acting out of misguided principles rather than out of Trump loyalty.

[Efilroft Sul]

21. A lot of his former coworkers are commiserating with each other tonight.

We're hoping he gets the help he needs, because he's been on a downward spiral for gawd knows how long. He went off the grid a few years back, and he wasn't exactly easy to reach. And if you did reach him, there's a good chance you would've caught him on a bad day.

If you remove his anger issues, of which there are many, this guy is so damn talented in photography, page design, and web design. His considerable skills saw him hired by several major ad agencies and businesses in and around Pittsburgh. He and I shared an interest in mountain biking, and a lot of people at our old place of employment referred to him as "Efilroft Jr." because we enjoyed tweaking the Frank Burns types in management. His problem, however, was seeing Frank Burns types everywhere, and he burned a lot of bridges throughout his career and personal life.

The more I read about this story, the more I'm amazed he was taken alive, and I'm grateful he was stopped before he could follow through on some lone wolf attack.

[crimycarny]

28. Beautiful photos at his gallery

I hope he gets help too. After reading your post I did some googling and found his gallery (under the pseudonym Adam Campbell).

https://500px.com/p/adamkennethcampbell?view=photos

[Efilroft Sul]

37. That's his work, for sure.

Despite Adam's ugly words, he has a talent for showing how beautiful the world is.

That said, I'm so glad Adam was caught before he could make everybody's situation worse, and those of us who knew him from work are looking at his arrest as perhaps the last, best chance he has to make a course correction, even if he receives a 20-year sentence. I'm not sure if Adam will receive any mental health help while incarcerated, but he clearly needs it.

[IronLionZion]

22. There's a lot of lone wolves out there

who could arguably be more dangerous because they are not organized into groups. That makes them unpredictable.

The child predator stuff is blatant Qanon, so he must have fallen down the rabbit hole of conspiracy theories.

[Efilroft Sul]

23. Yes, the Q is strong in him.

Almost overnight, Adam went from being an Occupy Wall Street/punish the bankers type of person to believing that Obama had a fake birth certificate. If W's DOJ showed up at the home of a former Democratic president, his call for violence probably would've been the same as what got him into trouble today. While living apart from society, Adam stared into the abyss, and it stared back into him. And I'm afraid he liked that.

[yardwork]

36. Does he really have a 12 year old son?

I read one of his posts where he talked about hiking with his son. A lot of red flags in the post indicated possible abuse.

[Efilroft Sul]

38. I can't say for certain, yardwork, because I've never seen his kids.

The only child of Adam's that I really know about (and know very little about) is the one son born almost 21 years ago, when Adam was fired for being at the hospital when the kid was born. Unless people who knew him from where he grew up in New York (Rochester area, if I recall correctly) or where he attended post-secondary schooling can say otherwise, the firing is when Adam started walking down a long, dark road. I sure hope he wasn't abusive to his kid or kids, but I truly have to proclaim ignorance in this particular matter.

[yardwork]

39. That's a heartbreaking story.

The posts I've read suggest that he is deeply troubled and paranoid. He posted about hiking in rugged terrain with his 12 year old son, talked about what a good shot the kid is, the weapons he has, etc. He talked about how he and his kid are ready for the coming war and the liberals aren't, etc etc.

[IronLionZion]

35. I grew up in Western PA but peaced out 20 years ago

it's got way too many RW MAGA types and drugs.

[catbyte]

13. That POS is closer to being a member of the SS or KGB than he is to being a "patriot."

The delusion, willful ignorance, and arrogance is stunning. Just knowing that these nuts walk among us is terrifying.

[BidenRocks]

14. Bye Adam!

See ya in ten.

[thecrow]

26. Put him/them in solitary

Mandatory life.

[Crowman2009]

18. Once we release the non-violent drug offenders from various prisons, there should be plenty of room

...for those making online death threats.

[Traildogbob]

20. Backing the blue

Blue lives matter, but only if they are killing blacks and are pro trumpers.

[LudwigPastorius]

25. Hates government and hates authority in general...

Sounds like he is really going to hate prison.

?

[Gore1FL]

29. So far the FBI seem to be meeting the challenges the wackos are presenting

While I enjoy these idiots taking themselves out of society and off the voting rolls, I fear the FBI won't always be lucky enough to come through unscathed.

The GOP really needs to put a stop to their rhetoric before agents end up in the hospital or morgue.

[mwb970]

31. Like all trump worshippers, this poor man is sick in the head.

You don't need a medical degree to recognize mental illness of this severity. For some reason, trump strongly attracts demented losers like this guy. He has all the crazy people in America solidly on his side.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

33. FAFO

[twodogsbarking]

34. Take that Florida man. Pennsavayna man is after y'all.

[Aristus]

41. Fuck Around, meet Find Out.

[CaptainTruth]

43. Once again toxic masculinity rears it's vile head.