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applegrove

(118,696 posts) Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:25 PM Sep 2015

Brietbart source arrested for terrorism, tried to incite 9-11 terrorist attack

Last edited Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:54 PM - Edit history (1)

Brietbart source arrested for terrorism, tried to incite 9-11 terrorist attack

by kos at Daily Kos

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/12/1420694/-Breitbart-source-arrested-for-terrorism-tried-to-incite-9-11-terrorist-attack

"SNIP...............

[Joshua] Goldberg had several online personas: an Islamic radical who was popular in ISIS social media; a white supremacist on hate site Daily Stormer; a feminist on Daily Kos; a radical free-speech advocate on Q&A site Ask.fm, and a sympathizer with GamerGate. Goldberg is also accused of being behind a Times of Israel blog post that called Palestinians “subhuman.”

Goldberg’s trolling turned serious when he was arrested Thursday by the FBI on the grounds that he told a would-be terrorist how to build a bomb meant for a 9/11 attacks anniversary event in Kansas City, Missouri.

It's clear conservative are fervently praying for another terrorist attack on US soil they could pin on President Barack Obama and Democrats. It's the only card they have left to play. And now we're seeing one actively help a would-be terrorist build a real bomb, to kill real Americans, in a real American city.

And for what? So they can get their war on, one that kills thousands more Americans (not to mention countless innocent civilians)?

..............SNIP"

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Brietbart source arrested for terrorism, tried to incite 9-11 terrorist attack (Original Post) applegrove Sep 2015 OP

I saw that earlier. That is something isn't it? notadmblnd Sep 2015 #1

Exactly. applegrove Sep 2015 #2

You are correct. They exist and they have very few moral boundaries. GoneFishin Sep 2015 #4

Wow. Apparently he helped incite the Garland Tx attack too DirkGently Sep 2015 #3

This troll was also Breitbart's source for the debunked lie about Shaun King really being white. MohRokTah Sep 2015 #5

Not really the source Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #23

Yes, that is another fake name of the scumbag. eom MohRokTah Sep 2015 #24

What's your evidence for that? muriel_volestrangler Sep 2015 #31

FBI undercover sting operations that have mostly entrapped young Muslims has now ensnared others...but this Fred Sanders Sep 2015 #6

IUD? Downwinder Sep 2015 #10

Forget it, he's rolling JHB Sep 2015 #20

Don't let that little piece of plastic fool you! Fundies are super cereal about them! nt TheBlackAdder Sep 2015 #21

Piece of shit traitor Oneironaut Sep 2015 #7

From troll to terrorist suffragette Sep 2015 #8

Goldberg have a DU persona? Downwinder Sep 2015 #9

It's possible. Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #11

Cross check IP addresses with Tanya Cohen on KOS? Downwinder Sep 2015 #14

Think DK would give it to DU admins? Ichigo Kurosaki Sep 2015 #22

He posted on DK so it's possible. MohRokTah Sep 2015 #13

I Wonder What His DU Sock Puppet Persona Was? billhicks76 Sep 2015 #17

Not his MO. MohRokTah Sep 2015 #18

He Had Many Different MOs billhicks76 Sep 2015 #30

AngryAmish, I would bet. AngryAmish Sep 2015 #25

That was my first thought. n/t AwakeAtLast Sep 2015 #32

False flag attack??????????????????? n/t Hotler Sep 2015 #12

Good effin' grief malaise Sep 2015 #15

Looks like a Special Prosecutor needed for this Kingofalldems Sep 2015 #16

Not the least bit surprised. They are that far gone. mountain grammy Sep 2015 #19

+1; So true. nt stillwaiting Sep 2015 #33

Not surprised at all--ant that is pretty scary n/t eridani Sep 2015 #26

be a good candidate for gitmo dembotoz Sep 2015 #27

Busted in Florida, hmmm... daredtowork Sep 2015 #28

This is how they operate..... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #29

BBC News 21 Sep 2015 MinM Sep 2015 #34

All that noise making for whose benefit? Octafish Sep 2015 #35

Was he doing it for pay, or was he an idealist? Or just a crazy troll? nt ladyVet Sep 2015 #36

notadmblnd

(23,720 posts)

1. I saw that earlier. That is something isn't it?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:33 PM

Sep 2015

according to some, there simply can't be those type of people out here trolling the internets. Their only mission being- to stir up the shit pot and cause hate and discourse for their own twisted agendas

Nope, it just doesn't happen

applegrove

(118,696 posts)

2. Exactly.

Reply to notadmblnd (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:35 PM

Sep 2015

GoneFishin

(5,217 posts)

4. You are correct. They exist and they have very few moral boundaries.

Reply to notadmblnd (Reply #1)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:45 PM

Sep 2015

DirkGently

(12,151 posts)

3. Wow. Apparently he helped incite the Garland Tx attack too

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:44 PM

Sep 2015

An Australi Witness tweet in the lead up to an exhibition of pictures of the Prophet Mohammed in Garland, Texas, in May, urged Muslims to go with "weapons, bombs or with knifes". Two men answered the call, and were killed by police.

http://www.smh.com.au/national/unmasking-a-troll-aussie-jihadist-australi-witness-a-20yearold-american-nerd-20150909-

Ahead of that attack, Goldberg's Twitter account -- Australi Witness -- posted tweets calling for an attack on the art show, posting a map of the Curtis Culwell Center where the show was staged and urging anyone nearby to attack "with your weapons, bombs and knives," the complaint said.

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/story/news/crime/2015/09/10/prosecutors-announce-federal-terror-arrest-orange-park-man/72027082/

And somehow he still had time to post as an "over the top feminist" to help him ridicule social justice.

Goldberg also created an identity by name of "Tanya Cohen" to post seriously over-the-top parodies of a left-wing human-rights activist whom he employed as a foil for his views on “Social Justice Warriors.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/12/1420671/-Much-Feared-Australian-Da-ish-Jihadist-Posted-Here-on-dKos

This guy appears to be every paranoid Internet trolling conspiracy theory come true.

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

5. This troll was also Breitbart's source for the debunked lie about Shaun King really being white.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:45 PM

Sep 2015

I hope he rots in prison forever.

Ichigo Kurosaki

(167 posts)

23. Not really the source

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 09:00 PM

Sep 2015

The article claims the source is blogger Vicki Pate. Unless that is another fake name of this scumbag.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/08/19/did-black-lives-matter-organiser-shaun-king-mislead-oprah-winfrey-by-pretending-to-be-biracial/

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

24. Yes, that is another fake name of the scumbag. eom

Reply to Ichigo Kurosaki (Reply #23)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 09:24 PM

Sep 2015

muriel_volestrangler

(101,322 posts)

31. What's your evidence for that?

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #24)

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 05:43 AM

Sep 2015

Bretibart is adamant that Vicki Pate is a real person: http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/12/shaun-king-supporters-cook-up-new-conspiracy-theory-still-smarting-because-their-hero-isnt-black/

The writer says Goldberg was just one of several people who pointed out the Vicki Pate website to him, and that he had been talking to her already. Whether or not that detail is true, Pate has a significant and disreputable history on the net:

https://flightattendantfailures.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/the-real-intent-behind-vicki-pates-misspelled-titled-blog-part-1/
https://blackbutterfly7.wordpress.com/2014/11/01/wctv-reports-on-a-cyber-harrassing-blogger/
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/634041319120371712/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

I think Pate is a real woman, and scumbag.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)

6. FBI undercover sting operations that have mostly entrapped young Muslims has now ensnared others...but this

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:48 PM

Sep 2015

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one already had a long track record of hate and incitement, and connections to RW hate speech media....there is a line between free speech hate speech and the law and it is crossed when one actively attempts to use or gives advise on how to build or use an IUD or a missile for example to promote violence and sow fear for political purpose.

Has the RW media crossed the line?

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

10. IUD?

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #6)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:18 PM

Sep 2015

JHB

(37,161 posts)

20. Forget it, he's rolling

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:25 PM

Sep 2015

TheBlackAdder

(28,209 posts)

21. Don't let that little piece of plastic fool you! Fundies are super cereal about them! nt

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #10)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:35 PM

Sep 2015

Oneironaut

(5,504 posts)

7. Piece of shit traitor

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 06:50 PM

Sep 2015

suffragette

(12,232 posts)

8. From troll to terrorist

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:02 PM

Sep 2015

Yikes!

Some creepy, scary people out there.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

9. Goldberg have a DU persona?

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:05 PM

Sep 2015

Ichigo Kurosaki

(167 posts)

11. It's possible.

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #9)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:30 PM

Sep 2015

"Goldberg have a DU persona?"

It's possible. Isn't he from Florida? Wonder if he writes letters.

Downwinder

(12,869 posts)

14. Cross check IP addresses with Tanya Cohen on KOS?

Reply to Ichigo Kurosaki (Reply #11)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:44 PM

Sep 2015

Ichigo Kurosaki

(167 posts)

22. Think DK would give it to DU admins?

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #14)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:50 PM

Sep 2015

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

13. He posted on DK so it's possible.

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #9)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:42 PM

Sep 2015

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/12/1420671/-Much-Feared-Australian-Da-ish-Jihadist-Posted-Here-on-dKos

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

17. I Wonder What His DU Sock Puppet Persona Was?

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #13)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:07 PM

Sep 2015

Maybe centrist moderate Democrat who adamantly supported NSA spying...that would be my guess.

MohRokTah

(15,429 posts)

18. Not his MO.

Reply to billhicks76 (Reply #17)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:08 PM

Sep 2015

HE would have been an NSA hating Chavez loving Bernie supporter.

He could have even been the asshole who sent the letter to bravenak.

billhicks76

(5,082 posts)

30. He Had Many Different MOs

Reply to MohRokTah (Reply #18)

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 01:07 AM

Sep 2015

It was fairly obvious the spike in comments about NSA. There was definitely an organized PR campaign to convince people that NSA was benign. Straight out of 1984.

AngryAmish

(25,704 posts)

25. AngryAmish, I would bet.

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #9)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 09:34 PM

Sep 2015

AwakeAtLast

(14,132 posts)

32. That was my first thought. n/t

Reply to Downwinder (Reply #9)

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 08:53 AM

Sep 2015

Hotler

(11,425 posts)

12. False flag attack??????????????????? n/t

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:41 PM

Sep 2015

malaise

(269,054 posts)

15. Good effin' grief

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:46 PM

Sep 2015

THey will stop at nothing.

Kingofalldems

(38,458 posts)

16. Looks like a Special Prosecutor needed for this

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 07:49 PM

Sep 2015

with total subpoena power to investigate the entire Breitbart network.

mountain grammy

(26,624 posts)

19. Not the least bit surprised. They are that far gone.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 08:15 PM

Sep 2015

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)

33. +1; So true. nt

Reply to mountain grammy (Reply #19)

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 11:10 AM

Sep 2015

eridani

(51,907 posts)

26. Not surprised at all--ant that is pretty scary n/t

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 09:56 PM

Sep 2015

dembotoz

(16,808 posts)

27. be a good candidate for gitmo

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 10:47 PM

Sep 2015

sure the current resident would welcome him

daredtowork

(3,732 posts)

28. Busted in Florida, hmmm...

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 11:48 PM

Sep 2015

Wonder if those letters stalking Bravenak will stop now...

Spitfire of ATJ

(32,723 posts)

29. This is how they operate.....

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat Sep 12, 2015, 11:57 PM

Sep 2015

Create an enemy and then pretend to be the heroes that can keep you safe.

MinM

(2,650 posts)

34. BBC News 21 Sep 2015

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 06:31 AM

Sep 2015

Neo-Nazi, radical feminist and violent jihadist - all at once
BBC News 21 Sep 2015

To some he was an Islamist extremist, to others a radical feminist, to others a neo-Nazi. These are all online identities that seem to have belonged to Joshua Goldberg - but in reality he was none of these things.

They were simply online aliases used to whip up ideological hatred, with seemingly dangerous and even violent real-world consequences. In reality he lives in Florida, spent huge amounts of time online - and has now been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

But if the allegations now being made against him are true, posing under these fake identities, he seems to have incited others to act abusively and in some cases, to take up arms.

Among the alleged victims was Ben Garrison, an artist living in Montana. Around the time of the 2008 financial crisis he started drawing libertarian-themed political cartoons, lamenting what he saw as the rise of "big government." But he soon found that his work was attracting people he vehemently disagreed with - who seemed to be extremists and white supremacists.

"There was a page on Facebook using my photographs, and all my cartoons, but they were all vandalised with hate and anti-Semitism," he told BBC Trending radio. Fake accounts set up in Garrison's name posted racist messages, and his family was targeted as well. "When I went on there and saw what they were doing I was just abhorred."

cont - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-34292809

Octafish

(55,745 posts)

35. All that noise making for whose benefit?

Reply to MinM (Reply #34)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 10:19 AM

Sep 2015

Thanks for the heads-up, MinM! Can't find mention of this in the local media for some reason.

ladyVet

(1,587 posts)

36. Was he doing it for pay, or was he an idealist? Or just a crazy troll? nt

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Mon Sep 21, 2015, 01:40 PM

Sep 2015

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