Jesus. . Christ.
That's the first thing that popped in my head when news broke this morning that the FBI foiled a 23-year-old lunatic's plot to bomb downtown Oklahoma City.
NewsOK.com has the details:
A Sayre man has been arrested in connection with what authorities says is a foiled plot to blow up a bank building in Downtown Oklahoma City with a truck filled with fake explosives.
Jerry Drake Varnell, 23, of Sayre, initially wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C., but settled on attempting to detonate a bomb at the BancFirst building at 101 N Broadway in downtown Oklahoma City, according to court documents.
An undercover FBI agent posed as someone who could help Varnell to blow up the building, according to a complaint filed Sunday in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. Varnell allegedly told an FBI informant that he wanted to blow up the Federal Reserve Building in Washington, D.C., with a device similar to the one used in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing because he was upset with the government.
"I'm out for blood," Varnell allegedly told the FBI informant in a text message. "When militias start getting formed I'm going after government officials when I have a team."
Before we continue, I guess this would be a good time to remind ourselves that Jerry is innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Based on the FBI evidence that seems likely. However, Jerry's brother claimed in a Facebook comment that the FBI essentially took advantage of a man with schizophrenia, so who knows what will happen: