Men could face terrorism-related and weapons charges after officials say explosive ‘had been lit but failed to function’

Authorities in Utah say two men have been arrested on suspicion of placing an incendiary device under a news media vehicle in Salt Lake City. The bomb didn’t go off.

Police and fire department bomb squads responded on Friday when a suspicious device was found under the vehicle parked near an occupied building.

Investigators determined the bomb “had been lit but failed to function as designed”, according to court records cited by CBS affiliate KUTV.

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      Not saying I disagree with the statement, but where did you see that these men were Republicans? I didn’t find any reference to any political motivation in the article, but I also didn’t read it particularly thoroughly

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        I didn’t find any reference to any political motivation

        I didn’t either, but that probably implies they are white christofacists, right? (Or, as the Utah governor put it, “one of us”?)

        If their demographic was any different and fit the narratives that the Right is trying to spin on this, it would have been leaked already…

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          Not even that. If they were pro-birth, they’d at least be in favor of easy access to prenatal healthcare. But they’re always opposed to that, too.

          They’re just pro-pregnancy. They don’t give a shit if a woman’s pregnancy is viable or not, let alone whether carrying the fetus to term will kill the woman or not.

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      They ran off with a rhetoric without any facts first, showed everyone how violent they want to be, the facts now show that their rhetoric was ignorant bullshit, they still want to be violent anyway so they’re going to do it in the name of their original rhetoric, facts be damned. They are just violent psychopaths. Stay strapped with that scum walking amongst us