Minnesota Man Accused Of Plotting Local 'terror Attack'

[News_Editor]

MONTEVIDEO, MINNESOTA (BNO NEWS) -- A Minnesota man arrested during a raid on his mobile home last week was plotting a 'terror attack' targeting local residents, federal officials said on Monday, but few details about the alleged plot were released. Several bombs have been found.

Buford "Bucky" Rogers, 24, was arrested on Friday when local, state and federal authorities executed a search warrant at his mobile home in Montevideo, a small city of around 5,400 in Chippewa County. Molotov cocktails, pipe bombs and several firearms were found during the search of the residence.

"Mr. Rogers was taken into custody without incident," the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said in a statement released on Monday. "The FBI believes that a terror attack was disrupted by law enforcement personnel and that the lives of several local residents were potentially saved."

The agency said the plot was discovered and thwarted through "timely analysis of intelligence" and through cooperation and coordination between law enforcement personnel. "Cooperation between the FBI and its federal, state and local partners enabled law enforcement to prevent a potential tragedy in Montevideo," said J. Christopher Warrener, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Minneapolis Division.

Law enforcement provided few other details, adding that the investigation is ongoing. But the suspect's father, Jeff Rogers, told KMSP-TV that the firearms found during Friday's search are registered to him. "So what? I had guns. That's my given right to have my guns," Jeff Rogers said.

The father told the local television station that his son is not a terrorist and that he does not know why the FBI believes a terror plot was thwarted. "Bucky is not a terrorist. He was not out to bomb nobody and I have no clue where the hell that came from," he was quoted as saying.

Rogers has several homemade signs on his property, including one sign that bears the acronym "B.S.M." for "Black Snake Militia," according to Montevideo Police Chief Adam Christopher. "As opposed to a large national type militia group, I think it's something they've kind of formed," he told KMSP-TV. "They're the incepting or the founding people of that little group."

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[F430murci]

Just a good ole boy . . . Never doin no harm . . .

Trailer, guns, bombs, militia and a God fearin NRA member. God bless America for that God given right.

I wonder how many more are out there just waiting for the right time. Scary stuff.

[Sing_Sling]

The agency said the plot was discovered and thwarted through "timely analysis of intelligence" and through cooperation and coordination between law enforcement personnel. "Cooperation between the FBI and its federal, state and local partners enabled law enforcement to prevent a potential tragedy in Montevideo," said J. Christopher Warrener, Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Minneapolis Division.

All iz Bucky dun wuz figerrin te git hisself sum food . . . he ain't no terrurrust coz he ain't nu Muzlim

[Steely Dan]

http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-minnesota-terror-plot-know-far-170000908.html

Well Yahoo didn't even complete the first sentence without speculating on a "White Supremacist". How very PC, quite possibly correct, but the double standard does not go unnoticed.

Edited May 7, 2013 by Steely Dan

[Sing_Sling]

http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-minnesota-terror-plot-know-far-170000908.html

Well Yahoo didn't even complete the first sentence without speculating on a "White Supremacist". How very PC, quite possibly correct, but the double standard does not go unnoticed.

Ok, I give up . . . how is that a double-standard?

[F430murci]

http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-minnesota-terror-plot-know-far-170000908.html

Well Yahoo didn't even complete the first sentence without speculating on a "White Supremacist". How very PC, quite possibly correct, but the double standard does not go unnoticed.

Ok, I give up . . . how is that a double-standard?

I know. The horror of Yahoo picking on and discriminating against those God fearing country loving Black Snake Militia.

Check this Black Nake Militia member out.

http://minnesotaminutemenmilitia.m.webs.com/site/mobile?dm_path=%2Fapps%2Fprofile%2F98567570%2F&fw_sig_api_key=522b0eedffc137c934fc7268582d53a1&fw_sig_is_admin=0&fw_sig_potential_abuse=1&fw_sig_premium=0&fw_sig_access_token=724717915e3d1237ca091170109d36591ce521da&fw_sig_permission_level=0&fw_sig_permissions=none&fw_sig_site=73974184&fw_sig_url=http://minnesotaminutemenmilitia.webs.com/&fw_sig_session_key=0824e72ddcebe5abdbfd36976cab5ef3569879ffc1cb8fdfcd7896b66d9add62-73974184&fw_sig_social=1&fw_sig=9973804af0c277ebe922210f1dce833b&fw_sig_time=1367926455190&fw_sig_tier=0&fb_sig_network=fw#2332

"An American patriot willing to lay down my life to take my Republic back.". Lovely. Perhaps someone should tell him he could move out of his trailer, get a life and enjoy a real United States standard of living if he stopped getting drunk, running around in his camoflague underwear playing out Rambo fantasies.

[F430murci]

Seems our boy was a felon in possession of firearms, pipe bombs and molotav cocktails. I guess Government is making that up also, or perhaps Obama is setting him up. Nah, Obama would let him carry out his attacks first then used him to support gun control. Oh the minds of the paranoid and dissolutioned. Anyone ever really look at the eye NRA LaPierre? He has that same the lights are on and nobody's home look.

http://news92fm.com/350496/buford-bucky-rogers-terrorist-minnesota/

http://www.wctrib.com/tags/black-snake-militia

That photo says one thing and one thing only, "Thank the good lord for their hard work and dedication to protecting our Constitution."

[Ulysses G.]

I wonder how many more are out there just waiting for the right time. Scary stuff.

There are plenty of nuts out there of every race, religion and political stripe.

[SteeleJoe]

There are plenty of nuts out there of every race, religion and political stripe.

Truth.

[F430murci]

There are plenty of nuts out there of every race, religion and political stripe.

Truth.

So that makes these gun toting, bomb building, I have many guns and will fight to death (there web page comments say so), toerrorist plotting actions okay. Let's just forgive the Boston bomber because there are many nuts like him all over the world. Society need be tolerant of unacceptable behavior just because many act in that manner.

[Scott]

A troll post has been deleted. Please stay on topic.

[SteeleJoe]

There are plenty of nuts out there of every race, religion and political stripe.

Truth.

So that makes these gun toting, bomb building, I have many guns and will fight to death (there web page comments say so), toerrorist plotting actions okay. Let's just forgive the Boston bomber because there are many nuts like him all over the world. Society need be tolerant of unacceptable behavior just because many act in that manner.

Say what?!

You have my post in that quote so that must be partly addressed to me, yes?

So I have to ask - where the fug does that come from and what does it have to do with me or anything I've said?

A bit on this board and a lot elsewhere - neither of which I'd expect you to know, of course - I've written about my loathing for terrorism. My feelings about it are so strong that it had a significant role in a choice I made in the early 80's that changed my life and moreover I've spent the time since studying quite a bit about it. And the only group I have more contempt for than Islamist terrorists are Americans who use extremist violence against their own country.

Boston bomber? I'd gladly put a round in his head myself.*

Rightwing gun nuts who are anti-government conspiracy freak traitors - especially the racist religious fanatic variety - I see them better only in that they are generally more incompetent and impotent than their Muslim counterparts.

* Same goes for McVeigh, only more so.

Edited May 7, 2013 by SteeleJoe

[F430murci]

There are plenty of nuts out there of every race, religion and political stripe.

Truth.

So that makes these gun toting, bomb building, I have many guns and will fight to death (there web page comments say so), toerrorist plotting actions okay. Let's just forgive the Boston bomber because there are many nuts like him all over the world. Society need be tolerant of unacceptable behavior just because many act in that manner.

Say what?!

You have my post in that quote so that must be partly addressed to me, yes?

So I have to ask - where the fug does that come from and what does it have to do with me or anything I've said?

A bit on this board and a lot elsewhere - neither of which I'd expect you to know, of course - I've written about my loathing for terrorism. My feelings about it are so strong that it had a significant role in a choice I made that changed my life and moreover I've spent the time since studying quite a bit about it. And the only group I have more contempt for than Islamist terrorists are Americans who use extremist violence against their own country.

Boston bomber? I'd gladly put a round in his head myself.

Rightwing gun nuts who are anti-government conspiracy freak traitors - especially the racist religious fanatic variety - I see them better only in that they are generally more incompetent and impotent than their Muslim counterparts.

Haha, sorry if I misunderstood you guys.

[Ulysses G.]

There are plenty of nuts out there of every race, religion and political stripe.

Truth.

So that makes these gun toting, bomb building, I have many guns and will fight to death (there web page comments say so), toerrorist plotting actions okay. Let's just forgive the Boston bomber because there are many nuts like him all over the world. Society need be tolerant of unacceptable behavior just because many act in that manner.

I am not sure where you are geting the impression that I want to forgive these nuts. I am all for punishing them for their crimes. However, I do not care if they are left-wing or right-wing or radical Islamists, Buddhists, Christians or Hindus.

Edited May 7, 2013 by Ulysses G.

[Publicus]

There were white supremacists before there were Muslim terrorists focused against the United States in particular and the West in general, there are white supremacists during this time of extremist Muslim terrorists against the U.S. and we will have each as a part of our lives for the foreseeable future.

Of course I wanted McVeigh nabbed, tried and by due process of law punished. But I was much more gratified to see the U.S. born and raised Anwar al Awlaki get zapped after he left the United States than to see McVeigh get his due.

Maybe I'm just accustomed to white supremacists, while extremist Islamic terrorism against my country is new and more recent in our history.

The local heat (police) and the FBI didn't arbitrarily or summarily pick this guy out of a crowd. The guy made himself known in ways that revealed him to the heat at all levels - local, state, federal.

It's reassuring to know the feds aren't only looking towards Mecca.

[folium]

There were white supremacists before there were Muslim terrorists focused against the United States in particular and the West in general, there are white supremacists during this time of extremist Muslim terrorists against the U.S. and we will have each as a part of our lives for the foreseeable future.

Of course I wanted McVeigh nabbed, tried and by due process of law punished. But I was much more gratified to see the U.S. born and raised Anwar al Awlaki get zapped after he left the United States than to see McVeigh get his due.

Maybe I'm just accustomed to white supremacists, while extremist Islamic terrorism against my country is new and more recent in our history.

The local heat (police) and the FBI didn't arbitrarily or summarily pick this guy out of a crowd. The guy made himself known in ways that revealed him to the heat at all levels - local, state, federal.

It's reassuring to know the feds aren't only looking towards Mecca.

As you say it was only the prat's incompetence that got him nabbed. As he was just another redneck fruit loop, armed to the teeth and with some bizarre militia connection he didn't exactly stand out from the crowd.

Rather like the NSU team in Germany who committed 10 murders, 1 attempted, 2 bombings and a dozen bank robberies, all blamed on Turkish related mafiosi, rather than 3 Aryan types.

[Publicus]

Did I read a rant a while back?

[SteeleJoe]

Did I read a rant a while back?

Not sure how your post contributes to the discussion of topic - but you should report anything you don't like! Edited May 8, 2013 by SteeleJoe

[Scott]

Terrorism and terrorist related posts.....please.....pretty please...

[SteeleJoe]

Of course I wanted McVeigh nabbed, tried and by due process of law punished. But I was much more gratified to see the U.S. born and raised Anwar al Awlaki get zapped after he left the United States than to see McVeigh get his due.

Maybe I'm just accustomed to white supremacists, while extremist Islamic terrorism against my country is new and more recent in our history.

I am ultimately pleased that Anwar al Awlaki was taken out, as I saw it as a strategic necessity. Personally, I didn't have more animus towards him than McVeigh; al Awlaki was dangerous in a very significant way but is not known to have directly murdered anyone, while McVeigh murdered OVER 150 PEOPLE and injured - some horribly - hundreds more. I will never forget that 19 of the fatalities were small children. He murdered 19 CHILDREN. Furthermore, McVeigh and his ilk had a strategic goal that is arguably no less insidious than that of al Awlaki and those like him. I'm not accustomed to white supremacists - which is an inadequate description of McVeigh and his politics - or mass murderers who are at war with their own (and my) country's government. I don't want to be accustomed to that.

Moreover, there were none of the troubling constitutional questions regarding the deliberate killing of a US citizen that were attendant with al Awlaki - without the trial and due process of law you (rightly) specify as being important in the Oklahoma case.

And then there's the very disturbing killing of al Awlaki's 16 year old son...but that's another story.

Edited May 8, 2013 by SteeleJoe

[Sing_Sling]

Here's the Rogers family a few years ago, clearly preparing for either black helicopters sent by their Kenyan Muslim and - let's not forget - black president . . . or an invasion by the United Nations . . . or a good ole coon shootin'! Yeeeeeha! The last bastion of defense to preserve freedom and honour.

(Not sure what the sign says but it looks like they're saying they're not afraid anymore )

Edited May 8, 2013 by Sing_Sling

[Sing_Sling]

Moreover, there were none of the troubling constitutional questions regarding the deliberate killing of a US citizen that were attendant with al Awlaki - without the trial and due process of law you (rightly) specify as being important in the Oklahoma case.

And then there's the very disturbing killing of al Awlaki's 16 year old son...but that's another story.

All levity aside, this is a very, very disturbing government-sanctioned murder

[SteeleJoe]

Moreover, there were none of the troubling constitutional questions regarding the deliberate killing of a US citizen that were attendant with al Awlaki - without the trial and due process of law you (rightly) specify as being important in the Oklahoma case.And then there's the very disturbing killing of al Awlaki's 16 year old son...but that's another story.

All levity aside, this is a very, very disturbing government-sanctioned murder

No levity in my post whatsoever.

And forgive the semantics but it is by no means clear that it was murder (which by definition means unlawful killing): there are strong legal arguments for and against that position. My personal position is that al Awlaki was an enemy combatant killed in a war and his son was a tragic - perhaps egregiously negligent - error.

Edited May 8, 2013 by SteeleJoe

[Publicus]

The judicial "doctrine of political question" is the key determinant here. Already two U.S. federal courts have dismissed the al-Alwaki family's court filings because the courts refrain from passing judgement on decisions made by the National Command Authority of the Executive Branch concerning the targeting and the killing of enemy combatants. Neither court based its ruling on the doctrine itself, however, because they found other, lesser, judicial reasons to keep the judiciary's hands off such decisions by the president and his national security advisors. And anyway everyone knows that, ultimately, the body of case law precedent in the matter is that the Judicial Branch yields to the National Command Authority in these matters, i.e., the doctrine of political question.

In each instance, i.e., the killing of al-Alwaki himself and then, one month later in the killing of his son, other militants were killed. It is not known whether the government knew the young al-Alwaki was among those militants who were successfully targeted. I think anyway had I been the kid, I would have beat a path out of Yemin back to the United States after his father had been zapped by hellfire missiles from a drone. And I certainly would not have been hanging out with or accompanying other militants after seeing my father zapped by a hellfire missile.

The son is a tragic casualty of war who also should have known better than to remain in Yemen and in the travelling company of known, targeted combatants who were in fact killed while they had supervision and responsibility for the son.

No court in the U.S. Judicial system is going to take this case to its ultimate conclusion, i.e., the doctrine of political question, unless it's forced to. And if it gets to that point, the family is a sure loser.

[sbk]

Thought this news was about a white supremacist wanna be terrorist.

[Steely Dan]

http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-minnesota-terror-plot-know-far-170000908.html

Well Yahoo didn't even complete the first sentence without speculating on a "White Supremacist". How very PC, quite possibly correct, but the double standard does not go unnoticed.

Ok, I give up . . . how is that a double-standard?

Well, lets just say people are quick out of the blocks speculating on a right wing extremist, just as was the case with the Boston bombings. When arrests were made the press then became coy about what motivated the Boston bombers and whether they acted alone. Here there was no attack, but already a White supremacist group has been mentioned.

Of course young 'Bucky' might have had a disturbed childhood, a loner with psychological problems. No state funded university for our Minnesota trailer park resident. He might have turned out okay had a bloke called Bubba who wore a white sheet with eye holes had not poisoned his mind. I do hope that this incident in no way stigmatizes or causes a backlash against white rednecks living in trailer parks. Finally even if convicted and sentenced to jail time I expect groups of young females to campaign his innocence and send him offers of marriage whilst he's behind bars.

[SteeleJoe]

Well, lets just say people are quick out of the blocks speculating on a right wing extremist, just as was the case with the Boston bombings. When arrests were made the press then became coy about what motivated the Boston bombers and whether they acted alone. Here there was no attack, but already a White supremacist group has been mentioned.

Of course young 'Bucky' might have had a disturbed childhood, a loner with psychological problems. No state funded university for our Minnesota trailer park resident. He might have turned out okay had a bloke called Bubba who wore a white sheet with eye holes had not poisoned his mind. I do hope that this incident in no way stigmatizes or causes a backlash against white rednecks living in trailer parks. Finally even if convicted and sentenced to jail time I expect groups of young females to campaign his innocence and send him offers of marriage whilst he's behind bars.

Couple things:

1) Are you suggesting that people were not "quick out of the blocks speculating on" Muslims after the Boston bombings?

2) Are you honestly suggesting that we should look to the behavior of twisted people who become adoring and lustful fans of notorious murderers (a common and long extant phenomena, by the way) as suggestive of how society at large views things or should? That if by some chance, there was not parity in this case, it would be a legitimate example of a double standard?

3) McVeigh had his fans too.

EDIT:

Unfortunately (and I mean that sincerely since I find it very offensive) "rednecks living in trailer parks" are already stigmatized. Overtly, frequently and without any social opprobrium; especially by my fellow Liberals - I couldn't be farther from a trailer park redneck in my background or, generally, in my lifestyle or outlook, but I find it sickeningly elitist and judgmental.

Having said that, I don't think the average person's view of that subculture will be significantly transformed by this event - and trailer park rednecks have a long, long way to go before they start getting the sort of prejudice Islamist terrorists have created for fellow Muslims.

Edited May 8, 2013 by SteeleJoe

[metisdead]

Off topic obfuscation posts and replies have been removed, once again:

Thought this news was about a white supremacist wanna be terrorist.

This topic is not about Anwar al Awlaki, Yemen etc. Stay on topic.

[folium]

http://news.yahoo.com/alleged-minnesota-terror-plot-know-far-170000908.html

Well Yahoo didn't even complete the first sentence without speculating on a "White Supremacist". How very PC, quite possibly correct, but the double standard does not go unnoticed.

Ok, I give up . . . how is that a double-standard?

Well, lets just say people are quick out of the blocks speculating on a right wing extremist, just as was the case with the Boston bombings. When arrests were made the press then became coy about what motivated the Boston bombers and whether they acted alone. Here there was no attack, but already a White supremacist group has been mentioned.

Of course young 'Bucky' might have had a disturbed childhood, a loner with psychological problems. No state funded university for our Minnesota trailer park resident. He might have turned out okay had a bloke called Bubba who wore a white sheet with eye holes had not poisoned his mind. I do hope that this incident in no way stigmatizes or causes a backlash against white rednecks living in trailer parks. Finally even if convicted and sentenced to jail time I expect groups of young females to campaign his innocence and send him offers of marriage whilst he's behind bars.

Talking of quick out of the blocks, self-selected judge and jury aka Reddit and its cheerleaders who, when not concocting conspiracy theories, first e-lynched an innocent Saudi and then an IndianAmerican whose only crime was he fitted the profile deemed correct, and being a missing person was unable to defend himself from the lynch mob.

While the US has a regrettably long history of white supremacist terrorists and murderers, extremist Muslim terrorists and murderers are a more recent phenomenon. Neither group deserves any quarter or sympathy but the trick is to eliminate the actual bad guys without demonising and radicalising the entire group whether they be Muslims or rednecks. Crass, heavy-handed, knee jerk reactions are totally counterproductive and are exactly the reaction desired by the terrorists. See the disastrous internment without trial implemented in Ulster in the 1970's for a classic example of what not to do.

[Sing_Sling]

^ I don't see anyone going apoplectic in calling for Bubba's lynching, dismemberment or calls to invade the . . . umm . . . trailer parks of America . . . etc . . .