{"id":32639,"date":"2018-02-17T20:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T01:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32639"},"modified":"2018-02-17T20:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T01:56:51","slug":"i-just-wish-all-terrorists-were-this-dumb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=32639","title":{"rendered":"I Just Wish All Terrorists Were This Dumb"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Ed Morrissey<\/a> at Hot Air<\/a> posted an article about a would-be New York City<\/a> terrorist. The way the New York Police Department<\/a> and the Federal Bureau of Investigation<\/a> uncovered this plot is somewhat amazing.<\/p>\n

The police were investigating a bomb threat<\/a> called into a school. When a 15-year-old student was bored in class one day, her teacher<\/a>, Christian Toro, told her to call in a bomb threat to liven things up. When the threat was investigated, the student told the authorities that the teacher had suggested it. (I can’t believe she was stupid enough to follow the suggestion.) The teacher resigned, and two days later his brother returned the laptop computer that had been issued to Christian Toro by the school. When a school technician examined the computer, he found an instruction book on how to make explosives. NYPD dropped by to pay the former teacher a visit. Meanwhile, the student indicated to authorities that her relationship with the teacher was inappropriate. The former teacher was arrested for statutory rape. The student also mentioned that she and a friend had been in the teacher’s apartment and had been paid to empty black powder<\/a> from fireworks. The investigation of the former teacher continued.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

So police got a search warrant for the apartment shared by the twin Toros \u2014 and hit paydirt:<\/strong><\/p>\n

They discovered a box on the floor of the bedroom closet containing a glass jar of black powder, 20 pounds of iron oxide, five pounds of aluminum powder, five pounds of potassium nitrate, and two pounds of confectioners sugar. A small container held iron oxide and aluminum powder that had been mixed into thermite, which the complaint describes as \u201can explosive material that can create heat and high temperatures.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

They also found Tyler Toro\u2019s diary, which had all sorts of interesting comments, including this epigram:\u00a0\u201cUNDER THE FULL MOON THE SMALL ONES WILL KNOW TERROR.\u201d Yeah, nothing creepy at all about that.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So let\u2019s recap. The teacher had decided to build a bomb for \u201cterror,\u201d but rather than keep things quiet, he had teenage students emptying out fireworks for the powder in large quantities. He then started having sex with one of them, and\u00a0then<\/em> encouraged her to call in a fake bomb threat to relieve her boredom. If all this is true, the only thing Toro didn\u2019t do is to install a large sign on his apartment building<\/a> that said \u201cTORO TWINS TERROR, INC.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

If stupidity was a federal crime, Christian Toro would be a death-penalty case. And yet, it apparently took\u00a0all<\/em> of this sequence of events for someone to finally say something about the Toros and their black-powder reclamation project. Next time, let\u2019s hope \u201csee something, say something\u201d gets taken more seriously earlier in the cycle. Thankfully, an alert IT technician<\/a> at the school managed to get it right.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wish all terrorists were this stupid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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