The Feds have arrested some idiot from Texas who planned to blow up an Amazon Web Services building in Ashburn, Virginia…
Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that Seth Aaron Pendley, 28, was arrested by the FBI in Fort Worth, Texas, on Thursday after he attempted to purchase explosives from an undercover agent.
According to an FBI affidavit filed with a federal district court in Texas, Pendley was seeking to blow up an Amazon Web Services data center in Ashburn, Va., which is about 30 miles from Washington, D.C.
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“I’m not a dumbass suicide bomber but even if I only have a handful of fellow patriots standing beside me I will happily die a young man knowing that I didn’t allow the evils in this world to continue unjustly treating my fellow Americans so disrespectfully,” Pendley allegedly wrote under the pseudonym “Dionysus.”
The affidavit says that Pendley also wrote of his plans to bring a firearm with him to attend the rally of Trump supporters on Jan. 6, only to leave it in his car at the last second.
This guy was at the insurrection…
An investigation began after a concerned citizen contacted the FBI on Jan. 8 about alarming statements posted on MyMilitia.com, a forum dedicated to organizing militia groups.
A user who went by the screenname “Dionysus” stated he was planning to “conduct a little experiment,” that he said would “draw a lot of heat” and could be “dangerous.” When another user asked what outcome Dionysus desired, he responded, “death,” the release said.
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In late January, Pendley began using Signal, an encrypted messaging app, to communicate with another confidential source. The source told the FBI that Pendley stated he planned to use C-4 plastic explosives to attack a prominent tech company’s data centers in an attempt to “kill off about 70 percent of the internet.”
On March 31 the confidential source introduced Pendley to a person he claimed was an explosives supplier. The man was actually an undercover FBI employee.