You remember the guy falsely accused and scapegoated by the FBI, right?
"Texas launches criminal inquiry into plant explosion" by Timothy Williams and Manny Fernandez | New York Times, May 11, 2013
Texas authorities said Friday that they had opened a criminal investigation into last month’s deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant that killed 14 people and injured 200 others.
The announcement came hours after a paramedic who responded to the explosion was arrested on a charge of possessing the components of a pipe bomb, although law enforcement officials declined to say whether the charge was related to the blast....
So who planted the pipe bomb on him?
Three weeks after the explosion, on Friday, Bryce Reed, 31, an emergency medical technician who has said he helped evacuate people after the April 17 blast, was taken into federal custody, according to the US attorney’s office....
Uh-oh.
Investigators have said the explosion was caused by ammonium nitrate, which was being stored at the fertilizer plant, but have not said whether a fire that preceded the blast had ignited the chemical.
Or a missile strike as videos seem to show.
Either way, why are they scapegoating this guy?
And why was all this cleaned up?
Ammonium nitrate, which is commonly used as a fertilizer, is difficult to ignite if handled carefully and properly stored, but it has also been used in a number of terrorist attacks, including the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
The Texas explosion, so powerful that the United States Geological Survey measured it as a 2.1-magnitude earthquake, left a trail of devastation over a wide area.
The Texas fire marshal’s office, which has been investigating the case along with the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, has not said whether the fire appeared to have been accidental or intentionally set.
WTF?
Mr. Reed spoke to various news organizations after the explosion and gave a videotaped eulogy at a memorial service that was attended by President Obama. His Facebook page indicated that he had been criticized for seeking publicity and also pointed to personal problems.
(Blog editor just sighs)
In a posting dated May 7, he referred to Cyrus Reed, a paramedic who died in the explosion, as his brother, because of their close friendship.
“I have not been paid by the media, by press, I made nothing for delivering my brothers eulogy, and made NOTHING (sic print) off of this tragedy,” Bryce Reed wrote....
Oh, I get it; if anyone is now a 9/11 truthist, pro-medical marijuana, and emphasizes with capital letters his statements and responses to outrageous, government- and mouthpiece-moved bs there is something wrong with them. This place is becoming worse than the Soviet Union ever was, and is deserving of the AmeriKan moniker.
At the April 25 memorial service in Waco, videos in which relatives of the victims recalled the lives of those who died were played for the audience.
There was once another government murder that they lied about in that town, remember?
One of those eulogies was given by a man who identified himself as Cyrus Reed’s brother — later identified as Bryce Reed — and it appeared to be inspired in part by a poem, “The Dash,” by Linda Ellis. (Members of Cyrus Reed’s family have subsequently said that the two were not related.)
Yeah, well, a lot of friends think of the other as a brother, and sometimes they are even closer than blood, so what's your point?
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Related: Paramedic Denies Role in Deadly Texas Blast
Texas plant that exploded had $1m policy
Also see: Globe Shovels Some Texas Bullshit
Slinging it around, too.
