The FBI made much over the past week of their series of arrests of “ISIS terror plots” related to July 4. Today, we got the first glimpse of an arrestee, and our first chance to realize just how loosely the words ISIS, terror, and plot, are being used. At least the arrest actually happened on July 4, so that much is accurate.
The detained man was identified as 23-year-old Alexander Ciccolo, the son of a Boston police captain, who bought a pressure cooker from Walmart on July 3. He was arrested on charges of illegal possession of a gun after someone from the Massachusetts Joint Terrorism Force sent him some guns, which he wasn’t allowed to have.
Ciccolo had been the subject of an FBI sting since last 9/11, when his father told the FBI that his son, who has a long history of mental illness, said he wanted to join ISIS. The FBI claims the man stabbed a nurse with a pen during his post-arrest screening.
There is no indication from any of the officials involved in the case that Ciccolo had actually attempted to join ISIS at any point, and while he’d talked about shooting up an unnamed university with guns it is unclear why he bought the pressure cooker instead. It’s also unclear if he sought the guns shipped to him or if they were just sent to him for the sake of a pretext to arrest him.
Jeez, with parents like that…
he should have known, cookers – bad, AK's – good
Yeah,this was on the news last night,by Muir at ABC.They sent him guns?He's a mental patient?This was not talked about on the news.Scared yet?Fear,their biggest booster.
Doesn't questioning the FBI narrative make you a terrorist sympathizer?
I wonder what all this has done to the market for pressure cookers.
"I wonder what all this has done to the market for pressure cookers."
And I was looking for a nice present for the Mrs at Walmart.
Guess I have to settle for the electric can opener instead.
Women ALWAYS love a good vacuum cleaner…especially for anniversary and birthday gifts.
No wonder real crimes are never solved and real, huge angers like global warming and nuclear war are never tackled, when this is the behavior of police/FBI/the law.
I was inspired by ISIS to buy a pressure cooker. After all, it really is the best way to make fried chicken- and without the recent focus on pressure cookers I wouldn't have known all the features of newer models.
Just another in a long list of "patsies".
I can't help but wonder if his “history of mental illness” consisted in his having political opinions which his father the police captain found intolerable.
you mean like being "rebellious" and not buying into the sctick your old man is pushing on you to conform to his vision of how you should act?(It might interfere with HIS image? Nah, neva hapen…