An upstate New York man who blew his leg off in his garage making improvised explosive devices will be held in federal custody without bail because law enforcement found white supremacist paraphernalia and believe he’s dangerous, WGRZ reports.
Michael O’Neill, 45, a former Niagara County corrections officer, is accused of making seven bombs and was arrested two weeks ago after one of the devices accidentally went off. O’Neill was rushed to a hospital where his leg had to be amputated. He was the only one injured, WGRZ reports.
“Luckily, he is detained,” Assistant U.S. Attorney John Alsup told Time Warner Cable News. “He is no longer at large in the community with or without some of the physical disabilities he’s going to have going forward, but luckily for the community, he only hurt himself.”
Pictures of the KKK, Nazi imagery and the Confederate flag were found inside his home, which he lives in with his stepfather, William Ross, who chairs the Niagara County Legislature, WGRZ reports.
Even with his leg blown off New York prosecutors are saying the man is too dangerous to be allowed back on the streets.
Here is what he was brewing before karma kicked his ass:
The explosives he created contained nails and BB pellets, according to reports. One was labeled “powder with nails.”
However his lawyer suggests that this is all a big misunderstanding and that his client was only making the explosives in order to remove some tree stumps.
Because we all know how effective BB pellets and nails are for accomplishing that. Am I right?
Of course we have to remember that this guy is not one of the really bad Islamic terrorists that the conservatives are always telling us to fear. He is simply one of our homegrown cuddly ones that nobody really needs to worry about.
After all you cannot justify the purchase of more submarines, tanks, and fighter jets, just to kill some dipshit living in New York now can you?
Wow, that's what you call instant karma, folks.
ReplyDeleteWow! Talk about justice. I might have to re-think this whole God think!
ReplyDeleteWhat is it with with Western New York State? Niagara county also gave the US Timothy McVeigh.
ReplyDeleteNew York has a reputation of being a very liberal state, but much of the state outside of the cities is actually very red, especially the rural areas. I work in Rochester, which is a blue city, but I live in one of the many suburbs around the city that are mostly Republican.
DeleteIn 2010, the GOP candidate running for governor against Andrew Cuomo was Carl Paladino, a homophobic Tea Party nutcase from Buffalo who had a young daughter from an affair with a former employee, and was known for sending racist and sexually explicit emails to friends and family. He was also strongly against abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.
I'm certainly no fan of Cuomo, especially after everything he's done to destroy education in our state, but we would have been in deep, deep trouble if Paladino had won.
There has long been a strong resentment towards the NYC metropolitan area from the rest of the state, and many calls to split the state into two. Check out a map and you may notice that Western NY is actually much closer to Ohio and W Virginia than to NYC!
I was also going to point out that Timothy McVeigh came from the same place as this one-legged nutbag.
DeleteIt is true that there are small places where the people are like right out of "Deliverance" in Upstate New York. New York may be a Blue state but there are whole districts that are very Red and always have been. Except for the accent, you'd think these people lived in the deep south.
And Carl Paladino is Donald Trump on Steroids. Nasty guy.
A fine example of "responsible bomb ownership."
ReplyDelete"After all you cannot justify the purchase of more submarines, tanks, and fighter jets, just to kill some dipshit living in New York now can you?"
ReplyDeleteAt least, not until the crazies get that police state some of them are drooling over.
You missed the point.
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DeleteActually, you missed mine. I was being as snarky as Gryphen.
"Responsible bomb ownership ". Hyuk hyuk, attsa good one.
ReplyDeleteAfter just yesterday having removed a tree stump from my yard, I call BS to his lawyer. That's the best he could come up with?
ReplyDeleteHow much will this asshole continue to hate his government when the social safety net tries to fall over his pathetic carcass. Will he refuse government assistance with medical costs that he finds he suddenly can't pay? Will he refuse the help of government programs that will offer him disability income to feed his rancid soul and pay for rides to his medical appointments? Will he refuse to let minority or LGBT caretakers help him thru his recovery and therapy? Will he ask for assurance that no Jewish doctors try to repair his broken body?
ReplyDeleteGonna get interesting to see how committed to his 'cause' he'll be now that the fickle finger of fate has been royally crammed up his butt.
And the only way to stop a bad guy with a bomb is......................let him blow his leg off.
ReplyDeleteNow that's what I call "self contained".
Too bad the NRA-funded Republicans in control of the House back in the 90's killed the bill(s) to add chemical tags to explosives, or we would be able to trace from which manufacturer this maniac acquired them and possibly follow that trail to more terrorists.
ReplyDeleteDon't you get a warm-fuzzy knowing the NRA has our country's safety at heart?
One wonders why the NRA or GOP legislators would have opposed adding tags to explosives unless they secretly want nuts like this to kill and maim large groups of people all at once.
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It would have been a happier ending if he had died, frankly imho
ReplyDeletePersonally, I like the idea of being able to rub is nose in it for the rest of his life! I would love to see how he would react if it was mandated that all his care was to be provided by those very groups he hates. Except for how distasteful it would be for those groups, a punishment like that would really burn his ass!
DeleteHe'll be an instant hero to the Aryan Brotherhood in jail.
DeleteWhen I read about this a couple of days ago I tried to imagine us blasting stumps using home made nail bombs instead of dynamite.
ReplyDeleteI don't know anybody who blows shit up any more.
That legless man is a criminal.
I don't know, I have friends from Anchorage who are always talking about blowing up porcelain toilets in the forest, like that is some sort of thing.
DeleteYep, yet another lone wolf. Seems to be a lot of those lone wolves... What really scares me though, is that his stepfather, who he lives with, chairs the local legislature.
ReplyDeleteBut anyway, to paraphrase the greasy shitweasel from Thursday night: we will never be able to stop this deadly scourge on America until we have a leader courageous enough to call it what it is: "CONSERVATIVE EXTREMIST TERRORISM"
Hahahaha... enjoy the rest of your disabled life fool.
ReplyDeleteOh right, cuz everybody reads Nazi and KKK propaganda for tips on tree stump removal. This is his defense attorney?
ReplyDeleteI think the defense attorney should lose his license to practice. Letting this insane man back in society without a long time in prison and/or in a psychiatric facility will mean that he will feel vindicated. So what if the tree stumps he wants to remove are attached to trees next to a school or church or hospital or other place of public assembly.
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These Klan people are very disturbed, probably will view this stupidity as a badge of honor.
ReplyDeleteWell, he is blowing off stumps? Like his imbecile lawyer stated.
Inbreds tend to have these kinds of issues.
Plagiarism alert - I stole this from someone on Facebook:
ReplyDelete"Now O'Neill is only 3/5 of a man."
Too bad it wasn't his head that was blown off. It was the most useless part of his body.
ReplyDeleteHolmes got life in prison without parole for killing and injuring people in a movie theater because of one hold out juror, we're left with the tabs for both these idiots' health care, housing, food and board for creation neo nazi racist asshole who "stumped" himself by detonating a bomb on/near his leg.
ReplyDeleteCouldn't happen to one more deserving. The lawyer's a liar, with the "tree stump" story
I'm no fan of killing and the death penalty, but the Holmes case was one that made me willing to make an exception.