Makings of Ammonium Nitrate Bomb Found in Border Militiaman鈥檚 Hotel Room
When ATF agents at a Brownsville-area hotel last week on charges that he had been illegally carrying weapons while leading border-militia patrols in Texas, they found more in his hotel room than just guns and ammo. There was also a container of ammonium nitrate and fuel鈥攁 potent bomb in the making.
According to taken during Massey鈥檚 arrest, an 鈥渁mmo box filled with ammonium nitrate (suspected) and fuel鈥� was found in the room, which participants at Camp LoneStar鈥� at which Massey had been dubbed a 鈥渃ommander鈥濃�� as a place rented out by the camp as 鈥渁 place to take a shower and get a good night鈥檚 rest.鈥�
As the noted in a report on the arrest, ammonium nitrate, which can be purchased as a farm fertilizer, can make a potent explosion when mixed with diesel fuel and detonated. It was the explosive Timothy McVeigh used in his 1995 terrorist attack on the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
Massey was arrested that followed an Aug. 31 incident at Camp LoneStar in which a Border Patrol officer fired four shots at a militiaman named John Foerster, who dropped his weapon at the scene. After Massey and a companion arrived at the scene to vouch for Foerster, agents kept his AK-47 rifle and a .45 caliber handgun as part of their investigation.
Both Massey and Foerster were arrested for being felons in possession of a firearm last week. Additionally, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ronald Morgan while undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.
Massey鈥檚 arrest has inspired a fresh round of paranoia among the ranks of his fellow 鈥淧atriots鈥� on the border, who appear to be claiming that laws precluding felons from owning weapons are 鈥渦nconstitutional.鈥� One of his supporters on Facebook, in the midst of , argued: 鈥淲hat part of "shall not be infringed" do you not understand? any law made to keep a person from owning a gun is UNLAWFUL,and invalid from its inception!鈥�
Another a lengthy discursion on federal authority鈥檚 supposed overreach in Massey鈥檚 case, and concluded that the state of Texas needed to intervene: 鈥淚f what the federal government implies to be true by their persecution of K. C. Massey is true, then there is no need for the three branches of the government of Texas to exist. On the other hand, the government of Texas should take a more aggressive role, as the Supreme Court did, in limiting the overbearing and abused authority of the federal law enforcement agencies.鈥�
In the meantime, an avid Camp LoneStar supporter has begun on them. She promises that 鈥渁 portion of the proceeds鈥� will go toward Massey鈥檚 legal defense fund. Other supporters also recently organized a as a fundraiser.
