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White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisoned
Posted By Larry Keller On May 19, 2010 @ 1:24 pm In Anti-Black, Extremist Crime | 4 Comments
A firearms and explosives expert suspected of involvement with two white supremacist brothers in the sending of a bomb to the office of a municipal diversity officer was sentenced to 6½ years in prison in Missouri on Tuesday.
Robert Joos Jr., an antigovernment zealot and pastor of a church of “apocalyptic Christians,” was convicted in January [1] of being a felon in possession of firearms and a felon in possession of explosives. He had a prior conviction for unlawful use of a weapon.
Joos, 56, was indicted last year [2] along with twin brothers Dennis and Daniel Mahon, following a lengthy investigation into the delivery of a mail bomb to the office of Scottsdale, Ariz., diversity officer Don Logan in 2004. Logan, who is black, needed extensive surgery for injuries to his hands and arms. His secretary suffered injuries to her face and eyes. The Mahons are awaiting trial.
Investigators began looking at Joos after phone records the morning of the bombing showed that the first telephone call that Dennis Mahon made after the attack was to a cell phone in Joos’ name. During the subsequent investigation, the brothers allegedly said that Joos’ 200-acre property in rural McDonald County, Mo., was used as a training facility for white supremacists.
Joos told undercover agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives that he had caches of weapons, food and water in caves on his property where he would go to avoid capture or attack, authorities said. One undercover agent told Joos he was having trouble with “Kenites” — a word that is apparently used to denote Jews by some anti-Semitic Christian Identity pastors — and Joos mailed him instructions for making a homemade bomb, along with a detailed drawing, according to federal prosecutors. (Most Christian Identity adherents maintain that Eve had sex with Satan and produced a child, Cain, from whom Jews are descended.)
Five shotguns, five hunting rifles and five pistols were recovered from Joos’ property, along with more than 19,000 rounds of ammunition and bomb-making components such as fuses and blasting caps.
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[1] convicted in January: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/01/12/federal-jury-convicts-missouri-extremist/
[2] indicted last year: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2009/06/26/feds-indict-white-supremacists-in-arizona-bombing/
[3] : http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-extradites-alleged-kkk-man-to-u-s-1.280351
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4 Comments To "White Supremacist Linked to Mail Bombing Imprisoned"
#1 Comment By Mason Green On May 19, 2010 @ 7:51 pm
Are either of these Mayon brothers related to Mickey Mahon? He was a KKK leader who was arrested in Israel a while ago. Hypocritically, he claimed that the reason he was in Israel was because he liked “the Israeli girls”, according to Haaretz:
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Mickey Mahon seems like another example of a white supremacist who has, to paraphrase John Mayer, a David Duke heart and a Benetton you-know-what.
#2 Comment By Beverly Kurtin, Ph.D. On May 20, 2010 @ 10:23 pm
Gee, I’m a Kenite; I didn’t know that.
#3 Comment By Dan On May 23, 2010 @ 12:54 pm
So exactly what “evidence” do they have that eve slept with satan?
i sure don’t remember that one in sunday school.
#4 Comment By Mike Magruder On May 24, 2010 @ 9:02 am
I worry about Satan and God about as much as I worry about the “tooth fairy”. However, since the “tooth fairy” seems to have die hard, bull headed supporters, I actually have to worry some about them. Imagine, having to really concern oneself with anxieties about elves, goblins, trolls, ghosts or…yes, tooth fairies. And, though angels look pretty in pictures I don’t worry about them either. In fact, I couldn’t care less except for the fact that superstitious humans have proven to be unbelievably dangerous for thousands of years. This obviously has something to do with social menace from above. Fortunately, not every denizen of the upper crust cavern is a total lunatic.