Summary
The FBI arrested Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, a homeless Florida man, for plotting to bomb the New York Stock Exchange to force a “reboot” of the U.S. government.
Agents found bomb-making materials in his storage unit and tracked him as he prepared the attack, believing it would gain public support against government corruption.
Yener recorded messages encouraging others to follow his lead and planned to carry out the bombing before Thanksgiving.
He was charged with attempting to use explosives to damage a commercial building.
Thank goodness no money was harmed
Very little trading is actually done in the NYSE building now since everything it online. The attack would be symbolic, I suppose, but traders would shake it off in under a week.
Undercover FBI agents later made contact with Yener and convinced him they wanted to help him carry out an attack, it says. They tracked Yener throughout the summer and into the fall.
How the fuck this isn’t entrapment has confused everyone for decades. A convincing argument can be made that the current US right-wing terrorist problem only exists because 75% of those chucklefucks are informants interested in entrapment so it doesn’t surprise me they’ve expanded outside the white power movement.
See film: The Day Shall Come for an excellent satire of this
