January 27, 2009
Domestic Terrorist Arrested in Mobile?
A local news station in Mobile is labeling a man arrested in connection with the defacing of a Christian church a "domestic terrorist". The church, described as a "synagogue" by the paper, is really a Christian congregation of Jewish converts and others part of the Messianic movement -- a Christian movement which seeks "put the Messiah back within His biblically Jewish context."
One of us Jawas is a Messianic Jew, so if he wants to take umbrage at my wording I'll let him go ahead and ad something to the post.
Back on January 5th the church was vandalized with antisemetic statements and a Nazi swastika. The suspected vandal had bombs in his home and the police are treating him as dangerous. The police haven't yet publicly named him. Any one have a name?
So, the big question: will this guy turn out to be a McVeigh type terrorist or a Mohammad Atta type terrorist? Both types antisemetic and paranoid. Either way, dangerous.
UPDATE: White supremacist? His name is Thomas Hayward Lewis. Or Shahor is laying odds that it was meth.
