National Guard member pleads guilty in plot to attack Illinois base

[txradioguy]

CHICAGO (Reuters) – An Illinois National Guard member pleaded guilty on Monday to plotting with his cousin to attack a military installation as part of a conspiracy to support Islamic State, a spokesman for federal prosecutors said.

Army National Guard Specialist Hasan Edmonds was charged along with his cousin, Jonas Edmonds, with planning to carry out an armed attack on the military facility where Hasan Edmonds had been training in Joliet, 34 miles (55 km) southwest of downtown Chicago.

Hasan Edmonds, 23, pleaded guilty to conspiring to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and attempting to provide support – namely personnel – to the organization, said Joe Fitzpatrick, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.

Jonas Edmonds, 30, pleaded guilty last week to the conspiracy charge and a charge of lying to law enforcement on an offense related to terrorism.

Hasan Edmonds faces up to 30 years in prison when he is sentenced on March 18. Jonas Edmonds faces up to 23 years at his Jan. 27 sentencing, Fitzpatrick said.

Hasan Edmonds was arrested at Chicago’s Midway Airport on March 25 as he tried to fly to Egypt. The cousins’ plan called for Hasan to leave the United States and join Islamic State fighters while Jonas carried out the attack, according to an affidavit attached to the criminal complaint.

Prosecutors said Hasan Edmonds had been using Facebook to communicate with an undercover Federal Bureau of Investigation agent pretending to be an Islamic State fighter.

As a member of the Illinois National Guard since 2011, Hasan Edmonds reported to the Joliet base one weekend a month and performed two weeks of active duty training per year. Illinois National Guard spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Brad Leighton said Edmonds will now be discharged.

Both cousins, who have been in federal custody since their arrest, came from Aurora, about 41 miles (66 km) southwest of Chicago.

http://www.oann.com/national-guard-member-pleads-guilty-in-plot-to-attack-illinois-base/

[thundley4]

Why can't we have a death penalty for these cases?

[txradioguy]

Why can't we have a death penalty for these cases?

You would have to get the left to admit these kinds of incidents even exist before you could start to make a death penalty case for them.

[DLR Pyro]

had this attack taken place, I predict that obama would have claimed it as a case of workplace violence and twisted it to present to us as another reason for gun control.

[obumazombie]

Maybe they could try them along with Hanoi Jane.
Remember when Jane wanted to make a movie in the Northeast about 20 or so years ago ?
Some loyal American Vets protested her and all but shut down production.
She came out to apologize to Vets, and got them to stop protesting.
But at the time, I didn't sense that her apology was sincere, because on many occasions to apologize prior she refused.
Now we find she wasn't sincere at all...

In the latest edition of its Note to Self series, Monday’s CBS This Morning featured left-wing actress Jane Fonda reciting a letter to herself in which she praised her own activism against the Vietnam war:
“Your biggest strength will be that you won't shutdown and become cynical.

You'll become an activist.”
File footage ran of Fonda’s infamous posing on a North Vietnamese anti-aircraft gun used to shoot down American planes, as audio played of her defending the action at the time:

“I didn't go to North Vietnam to talk over – over the Radio Hanoi.
I went there to see with my own eyes if it was true the civilian targets were being bombed.”


The context of the footage was never explained to viewers.
In present day, Fonda concluded:
“You will discover that doing this will give your life a meaning you don't think is possible right now....It will be the rent you pay for life.”

The CBS series has featured various liberal celebrities reading notes to themselves on air, including Jimmy Carter, left-wing comedian Russell Brand, longtime Democratic Congressman John Dingell, Oprah Winfrey, and disgraced former Democratic New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey.   
No conservative or Republican figures have been featured in the promotional segments

Video and full article...


http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/kyle-drennen/2015/12/14/jane-fonda-writes-note-self-cbs-praising-herself-her-anti-war#sthash.PvKr2kXh.dpuf