{"id":380540,"date":"2018-10-11T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-man-who-planned-dc-suicide-bombing-wanted-to-stop-republicans-suspending-electoral-process\/"},"modified":"2018-10-11T14:34:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T13:34:28","slug":"prison-planet-com-man-who-planned-dc-suicide-bombing-wanted-to-stop-republicans-suspending-electoral-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-man-who-planned-dc-suicide-bombing-wanted-to-stop-republicans-suspending-electoral-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb Man Who Planned DC Suicide Bombing Wanted to Stop Republicans Suspending Electoral Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>Domestic terrorist was \u201cangry about the country\u2019s direction\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Joseph Watson<\/strong><br \/>PrisonPlanet.com<br \/>October 11, 2018 <!-- NO_ADS_IN_ARTICLE --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/plot1.jpg\" alt=\"null\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>The man accused of building an explosive device as part of an election day suicide bomb plot wrote of how he was \u201cangry about the country\u2019s direction\u201d and wanted to stop what he claimed was a conspiracy by Republicans to suspend the electoral process.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>56-year-old Paul Rosenfeld of Tappan, New York, planned to blow himself up on the National Mall in Washington DC on election day, according to the FBI, who say Rosenfeld confessed to the plot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvestigators scoured his home and discovered a bomb that weighed 200 pounds but included only eight pounds of explosive black powder, \u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/new-york-man-wanted-blow-himself-national-mall-election-day-n918771\">reports NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad he been successful, Rosenfeld\u2019s alleged plot could have claimed the lives of innocent bystanders and caused untold destruction,\u201d said FBI Assistant Director-in-Charge William Sweeney.<\/p>\n<p>News reports about the plot heavily emphasize Rosenfeld\u2019s motive to draw attention to \u201csortition,\u201d which is a \u201cpolitical theory that advocates the random selection of government officials.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, most reports are absent indications that the accused terrorist appears to be left-leaning.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TJaeu-cHd74\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In one of his blogs, Rosenfeld complained about undue corporate influence on democracy, which he blamed on \u201cChristian infused political philosophy from the Enlightenment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He also voiced a conspiracy theory that Republicans were planning to claim that terrorists had infiltrated the Democratic Party as a pretext to suspend voting and permanently install themselves in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven today, despite all our \u201cdemocratic\u201d pretensions in the U.S., one might easily imagine a scenario in which President Jeb Bush (following an act of nuclear terrorism) suspends the electoral process, under the pretext that \u201cterrorists\u201d have infiltrated the Democratic party. A perpetual&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/man-who-planned-dc-suicide-bombing-wanted-to-stop-republicans-suspending-electoral-process.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic terrorist was \u201cangry about the country\u2019s direction\u201d Paul Joseph WatsonPrisonPlanet.comOctober 11, 2018 The man accused of building an explosive device as part of an election day suicide bomb plot wrote of how he was \u201cangry about the country\u2019s direction\u201d and wanted to stop what he claimed was a conspiracy by Republicans to suspend the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-380540","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}