Don’t you love how the MSM loves to use the term Weapons of Mass Destruction? Big bad axis of evil dictators are supposed to have them. We now know that cookware counts as a weapon of mass destruction in Boston. Now we have a Russian college engineering pothead student at Penn State Altoona being caught with a WEAPON OF MASS DESTRUCTION. I wonder if the U.S. Military will be invading Altoona to liberate its people.
CNN, Fox, MSNBC and the rest of the fear mongering legacy media are breathlessly reporting this latest terrorist threat. He is one of those dreaded Russians. Hide under your beds. The Russians are coming.
A Penn State Altoona freshman from Moscow, Russia, was arrested late Friday and charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction and risking a catastrophe, after city police allegedly found a homemade bomb and bomb-making materials in his Juniata apartment – where they had come to look for a marijuana-growing operation.
The Altoona Mirror doesn’t seem to be following the MSM scare tactic headlines. They actually interviewed the dude’s roommate and got the following responses:
One of Miftakhov’s apartment mates, Andrew Leff of Bucks County, contradicted Miftakov’s statement that he hadn’t detonated anything in Pennsylvania, saying that during the current semester, Miftakhov had set off three “mini-bombs” just outside their apartment, creating small craters in the ground.
Recently, Miftakhov had showed Leff a bomb made by mixing chemicals in an aerosol whipped cream container, Leff said.
“I said, ‘Dude, you’ve got to get rid of that,'” Leff said Saturday afternoon in the snow outside the apartment.
Miftakhov later told Leff he’d done as suggested.
“[But] apparently he didn’t,” Leff said.
Miftakhov was a “crazy kid” who did “impulsive things,” Leff said.
“He was off the wall,” Leff said. “It’s not surprising to me at all [to learn about the arrest].”
Leff said Miftakhov was a “dumb kid” who did what he did because he was bored.
Leff didn’t see Miftakhov as truly dangerous, he added.
Why let the truth get in the way of a sensationalist fear mongering headline designed to keep the ignorant masses fearful, begging for more government protection and the further restriction of our liberty and freedom? A headline about a pothead engineering student who liked to create explosions in remote fields just doesn’t do the job.
Have you been to Altoona? Blowing the place up would be an improvement.
This dude lived a couple miles from my son, near the campus.
They set a $500,000 bail for this dumbass kid, but Jon Corzine is eating caviar and drinking champagne on his private Caribbean island.
America – Land of Justice.
Jamie Dimon hands over $20 billion of shareholder funds to the Federal Government for crimes committed under his reign of terror and gets a 74% raise to $20 million per year, while living in a multi-million dollar penthouse suite in NYC.
A kid who liked to smoke pot and blow up shit in fields will get 20 years in prison.
America – Land of Justice
So, wait. There’s now a crime called “Risking a Catastrophe”? Really? How about “Hinting at Destruction”? Or maybe “Criminal Segue Towards Apocalypse”? Or even “Federal Government Involvement”? I’m only worried about the last one…
Off topic – Stucky, check your email.
I could not begin to count all the shit my brothers and friends and I blew up when we we growing up. As little kids we used to play with our green plastic army soldiers in the sand box using lady finger firecrackers to blow them up. One of my favorites was launching an Estes rocket with an M80 onboard at night. It was just part of boys growing up in my mind. My all time favorite was launching professional, mortar type fireworks in an over-sized tube so that they do not achieve full lift. The result is that they explode close to the ground and you are actually inside the display. Not smart. Definitely not safe. But it is a ton of fun! Nowadays they’d lock me up forever. I was probably the kind of kid your parents warned you about.
I_S
Ahh the old days of Dragon Artillery wars!! The only injury ever suffered during our teenage fireworks wars was a decent laceration to the hand of yours truly when the little plastic base on the tube cracked as the shell went off. After that, we went to Rev. B and used PVC to shower each other’s forces with cracklies and sparks. Tens of thousands of bottle rockets later and every single one of us still had both eyes and both balls. Nowadays we’d be domestic terrorists and serving 20 to Life for 274 counts of felony Risking Catastrophe with Explosives. Chinese explosives at that.
Admin – I have a way to raise money for the site for your consideration. This is something I thought up in early 2002 for personal use around airports but never got around to doing, so I’ll offer it to TBP, gratis. In the Store Of Doom, if there were a t-shirt or (possibly a mock turtleneck?) that was done in solid colors that just had the word: TERRORIST in block caps on the front and the site address on the back or down the sleeve, I’d buy it immediately. Just offerin’…
If I were a 14 yr old kid now, i wonder what sentence I would receive for blowing up hydrogen-filled balloons?
Land of Just Us.
“…where they had come to look for a marijuana-growing operation.”
Thank God for the war on drugs, otherwise this kid would keep playing with weapons of mass destruction and might have blown a finger off while he was stoned.
Don’t you find it amazing dumbshit Altoona cops could find weapons of mass destruction, but the entire U.S. army couldn’t find any in Iraq?
Cookware has become a weapon of mass destruction…
Fuck. These idiots will eventually get down to classifying BB guns as pneumatic assault weapons…. fucking safety Nazis.
This kid was a bored pot-head with just enough knowledge to be dangerous… but not THAT dangerous… only a danger to himself, which would likely have self-corrected the problem in a reasonably short period of time…
I called that thing those two idiots in Boston built “an oversized cherry bomb”, and was flamed for it. Bunch of knee-jerk retards who are just happy as fuck letting the NKVD and SS go door to door, no warrant, no PC, no nothing.. “Sure! Come on in and look around!” If you speak up and invoke the 4th amendment, you’re called a terrorist sympathizer.
The phrase I absolutely loathe – “Well, if you’ve got nothing to hide…”
Yeah. Fuck that. Unless Obongo has declared himself Emperor and Grand Poohbah For Life, dissolved the House and Senate and burned the Constitution, we are STILL a nation of laws. Want to come in? Then find a good reason and get a signed warrant.
Douchebags…. so eager to fork over liberty for non-existent “safety”….
The collapse can’t come soon enough for me…
“….charged with possessing a weapon of mass destruction and risking a catastrophe”
Others who need to charged with “risking a catastrophe”:
Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Boner, Clinton, Lew
Jamie Dimon and Lloyd Blankfien, every bankster
Bubbles Bernanke and ‘Ol Yellen
Ketchup boy Kerry and Insane McCain
Obama again, for funding the FSA, the world’s largest army
And what the fuck is “Risking a Catastrophe”?
Because if that’s a legitimate charge, then shouldn’t we charge every truck driver hauling gasoline with it? One gallon of gas has the same explosive power as 6 sticks of dynamite. A tanker truck full? What about trains hauling caustic chemicals or certain fertilizers through highly populated areas? Are they not “risking a catastrophe” by moving large quantities of flammable liquids and/or explosive liquids and/or nitrates through various cities and towns?
Reminds me of the dubious charge of “owning an arsenal” of weapons they charged some guy with aways back… they’re just making shit up now because it sounds scary and plays well to the proles…
Zarathustra says:
“If I were a 14 yr old kid now, i wonder what sentence I would receive for blowing up hydrogen-filled balloons?”
14 yo kid I know got 1.5 years on juvie for spray painting a live frog and setting it on fire. Llpoh would be doing life for killing that flock of seagulls
I’m FAR less afraid of the Russians than I am of Obama.
My Dad was born in Altoona. It was a smelly shithole 15 years ago when I went there. Have to believe it’s even worse today. I’m surprised more residents there don’t go postal.
What do you call the firecracker that is a round red cylinder with the fuse coming out in the middle of it? You know, the kid that would blow off a finger if it blew up before you threw it…… I’m old, I forget..
But I remember emptying these of powder – starting small – and sticking it under a fair sized can to see how high we could blow them.. Bang!
Then we kept it up using more powder until the can blew itself to pieces as opposed to just jetting into the air! Much bigger bang required.
I learned the principle of physical force in one direction = reaction of the exact amount in the opposite direction and a few principles of rocketry doing this – as well as a small scar on the top of my head from a piece of shrapnel when we exceeded that force that the can could withstand and instead of going 75 feet up, it just blew up..
This is not my world anymore and I begin to think that common sense has expired as well.
MA
Thant’s “kind”, not “kid”.. sorry
Billy: we are NOT a nation of laws. Obongo said, once again, that he will bypass congress to pursue his agenda in ’14. The President of the United States has publicly stated that he WILL NOT abide by our Constitution. He has declared himself a fucking dictator….and we do nothing! We are a nation of pussies, not laws.
We had cherry bombs ,M80s,TNT and a couple of times we made small pipe bombs.This was in late 60s and early70s.No one ever called police.It was dangerous but we had a great time.
Used to have bottle rocket fights with the frat across the street. One day a rocket went astray and thru the window of the house next door. Exploded in the bedroom where a guy was working at his desk. It was the president of the college. Eventually campus police showed up and suggested we be a bit more careful. That was the sum total of the repercussions for trying to blow up – accidentally – John G Kemeny. It was suggested we be a bit more careful.
Today we would be sent to Gitmo. Unreal.
I suspect he knew it was his fault. He knew what we were yet left his window open anyway. Not his best decision.
El Coyote, I have zero tolerance for people who are cruel to defenseless animals. I would have nailed his ass as well.
ragman
+1.
I understand your point and I can even agree with you… circumventing the legislative process, literally saying that Congress is useless and I can make all the rules I want, is literally declaring yourself Emperor. However, we do have to wait for El Douche to make his move before we can do anything… we cannot act pre-emptivly, much as we’d like to. We absolutely MUST hold the moral high ground…
I think El Douche doing that would be too far.
We would be at war at that point. Pray it does not come to that.
T4C, LOL! bb never got past that stage.
I_S
Billy is becoming one of my favorite TBP contributors. Disturbing.
I know a former cop who is kind of a dick. Or was. His stories of stuff he did to people just to see if he could get it to stick really illustrate a guy who would fuck you with a broken glass dildo just to see how far it would fit.
For instance, he told me one time, while waiting in a neighborhood for a particular teen they wanted to bust for drugs, he pulled over a man who reversed out of his driveway, backed out to the left, and then accelerated forward down the road. His crime? Not stopping before entering the roadway because it is implied that you have to stop before entering a roadway. It held up in court, too.
So he told me he once pulled over a guy for tossing a lit cigarette butt out the window. I hate it when people do that because I hate litterbugs. I don’t like what he did, tho-he charged the guy with domestic terrorism because it wasn’t just littering-apparently, you can be charged in some states with domestic terrorism for tossing a butt because there’s the possibility you will cause a massive fire. When you are found guilty of domestic terrorism for tossing a lit butt, you go on the No Fly list, your whole life is ruined. Just to get your name off the No Fly list entails another visit with another judge and federal DHS agents. This guy attended the No Fly hearing and asked them to go easy on the guy-he had probably learned his lesson by now.
I enjoy talking to that one guy, but I told him he’s a dick…
For some reason, guys like that guy and another guy I know who is USAF OSI don’t understand why people don’t like cops. When you try to explain to them that Americans in general see cops as bullies, they can’t see it. They blame the public-they assume all the youtube videos and complaints and whatnot are just isolated incidents.