Then we have this little tale of civic duty:
A 19-year-old Ohio man arrested for the alleged terror plot against UFC Freedom 250 has been identified.
And how was he found out?
[His mother] called local police on June 10, saying she was “was concerned about her son” because of his recent conduct, which included buying guns and communicating with a group of radicals online.
Proper’s mother had also seen her son researching mapping locations in Washington, DC, near the White House, according to the complaint, and told officers that her son had said the group was looking at multiple locations for “recon” and “hit and run missions.”
And:
Law enforcement later searched Proper’s home and found a chat with detailed imagery of DC, which highlighted sniper locations and “potential drone launch locations, and other detailed tactical planning.”
Proper’s father, meanwhile, told officers his son had been planning to leave to meet up with the individuals over the weekend of the UFC fight and had also recently amassed “gear, food, ballistic plates, a new shotgun, a rifle, ‘lots’ of ammunition, extra magazines, and plate carriers” with his recent graduation money, the complaint against Proper states.
So they turned him in, because they are good people who realized that there is a greater good to choose between between family ties and criminal — deadly — behavior.
Also, turns out that the supposed ringleader of these little reindeer games was… an illegal alien.
Read all about it in the above link.
What makes my blood run cold was that if his parents hadn’t acted, we might well have seen a bloodbath at the White House shindig.
Looks like we dodged a bullet — lots of bullets, in fact — with this one.
