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  • More on the Osantowskis

    More on the Osantowskis

     Quiet teen’s terror plot stuns school:

    Just some more tidbits about the Osantowski case that I missed.

    Osantowski enrolled at Chippewa Valley High only 10 days before his arrest. How can you hate your school that fast, especially when he requested to go to that school because all his friends were there? Obviously, there’s something mentally wrong with that kid.

    Check out this quote from his arraignment…

    Andrew Osantowski’s only public comments Friday came during his video arraignment. Osantowski, his pale skin and blond hair a stark contrast to his black T-shirt, was polite and composed when asked for his thoughts on bond by Magistrate John Russi.

    “I’d like to participate in, like, anti-drug programs or antiviolence programs. Anything I can do to help the community,” Osantowski said, just after requesting a court-appointed attorney.

    Oh, no. No community service for you. Don’t you realize the severity of the charges you’re facing? I guess he thinks in his mind that he really didn’t do anything wrong.

    Conflicting accounts of the father Marvin Osantowski…

    His father came on-screen a short time later to face charges of concealing stolen firearms and conspiring to conceal. He told the magistrate, “I’m a good citizen,” before his bond was set at $600,000.

    And…

    Marvin Osantowski is an autoworker on disability with a penchant for neighborhood causes. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and a founding member of a local Catholic church. In 2000, he was appointed to the township committee after protesting a road expansion in his neighborhood. Fellow members didn’t notice anything unusual. In fact, he seemed like a nice man, said Jason Davidson, who is the vice president of the Clintondale Community Schools Board of Education.

    However…

    The teen apparently targeted the liaison officer because she handled a case in which he and his father were accused of stealing three golf carts from Fern Hill in May. Both were charged with receiving and concealing stolen property and were arraigned Thursday morning, only hours before their home was raided on the terrorism tip.

    And according to the chat transcript, Andrew Osantowski claims his dad beat him.

    Maybe he’s one of those guys that keeps up public appearances but is a real jerk at home.

    Curiouser and curiouser.

  • Andrew Osantowski’s Website

    Andrew Osantowski’s Website

    Here’s a Trench Exclusive. I have reported it to their local law enforcement and media. I told you a few days ago that I had what I believe to be one of Andrew Osantowski’s websites blacklisted but that I had a partial mirror site. That site can be found here. It has no details whatsoever about his alleged bombing plot. It does go into detail about various break-ins, theft, and vandalism. I have no proof that this site actually belonged to Andrew Osantowski, but the details on the site and details that I’ve picked up in the media make me convinced that it is his site.

  • More News From Michigan

    More News From Michigan

    Teen may face life in prison:

    More news on the Michigan school bombing plot. Andrew Osantowski may face life in prison under attempted murder charges if prosecutors can determine a specific date of the attack. I can theorize about the obvious date it might have been, but I won’t. Without the attempted murder charge, he is facing 20 years in prison. And guess what. He’s a mutant. A quote from prosecuting attorney Steven Kaplan…

    “He’s a psychopath. He lacks a conscience,” said Kaplan. “He’s a publicity-monger who wanted to leave this planet in a blaze of glory, and he was inspired by the Columbine killers.”

    I kind of figured as much when the site that I believe he had something to do with him linked directly to the Columbine section of this site.

    Of course, one of the possible court-appointed attorneys for Osantowski is already crying foul…

    Mount Clemens attorney Brian Legghio, who is among the defense attorneys who could be asked to represent Osantowski, said police and prosecutors have “recklessly damaged the teen’s rights to a fair trial” by releasing evidence seized in the case.

    “This kid’s already convicted in the court of public opinion,” Legghio said. “It’s outrageous what they did. He’s 17 years old.”

    First off, doesn’t the public have a right to know if their lives were endangered, especially when it comes to kids? Secondly, the fact that he’s 17 doesn’t mean anything. Killers come in all ages.

    Also, according to the chat transcript, it sounds like the father wasn’t a neo-Nazi but just white trash who didn’t mind his kids having guns.

    It sounds like the mom is completely clueless, however. This quote from an opinion piece by Laura Berman…

    Osantowski’s mother told reporters, “I think he was brainwashed by all this Nazi stuff he had.”

    There were guns, explosives, and pictures of Adolf Hitler in the house — the sort of lifestyle accoutrements you’d expect a good mom to notice.

    So I guess my original assessment of the parents was incorrect and that in fact, as usual, we have parents who just didn’t care.

    It also turns out that Andrew Osantowski was kicked out of one Catholic school and asked not to return to another. The Catholic schools didn’t share that info with the public school district because they’re not required by law. The Catholic Church keeping secrets, who would have guessed?

    So between the parents, the Catholic Schools, and whoever else Andrew Osantowski might have told, someone could have put a stop to this long before it happened. Could you imagine if none of them did and his plan actually went through?

    Thank God that Celia McGinty had the sense and the courage to do something about it, since no one else did.

  • Michigan Bomb Plot Follow Up

    Michigan Bomb Plot Follow Up

    Domestic terrorists still live among us:

    This is a follow-up to yesterday’s news about the Michigan school bombing plot.

    The article really doesn’t say anything new except that we still have domestic terrorists to deal with along with foreign terrorists, which is, in fact, very true. However, it does include one tidbit of information the Fox News article left out. The main suspect, Andrew Osantowski, used the screen name “nazi_bot_sadistic”. Now I’m 100% convinced that he had something to do with the Geocities site that I had blacklisted. I found a mirror site using the screen name “nazi_bot_brutality”. The screen names are too similar not to be connected. Unfortunately, I can’t comment on any further steps I’ve taken.

    Anyway, the article makes a very valid point…

    The best defense against domestic terror are the friends, family, neighbors, and acquaintances of those who are planning violence. They’re the ones most likely to notice strange behavior, violent utterances, fascination with weapons and other warning signs that indicate a person may be moving past thinking about slaughtering people to actually planning to carry it out.

    That’s the best way to improve our domestic security.

    Tell.

    I couldn’t agree more. So when someone says that a school or parent is overreacting when it comes to these types of threats, you just remind them of this story.

  • Michigan Bomb Plot Foiled

    Michigan Bomb Plot Foiled

    Cop’s Daughter Foils Teen Bomb Plot:

    This is the coolest story I think I’ve done ever. 16-year-old Celia McGinty of Idaho brought down a school bombing plot that was going to happen in Michigan.

    The “alleged” suspect, 17-year-old Andrew Osantowski, had shared the plot with McGinty. He planned on bombing Chippewa Valley High School. Turns out that McGinty’s dad, George, heads the cybercrime unit for the Washington State University police. D’oh!

    What police found at Osantowski’s home were instructions for making a bomb, videotapes of him with assault weapons, weapons and ammunition, Nazi flags, and books about white supremacy and Adolf Hitler. Where were the parents, you say?

    Marvin Osantowski, 52, the boy’s father, was charged with concealing stolen firearms and pleaded not guilty. Bond was set at $500,000.

    So it seems like we have a family of neo-Nazis that plotted on blowing up the school. But it gets even better.

    I noticed the byline of the article said Clinton Township, MI. I was wondering why that should sound familiar to me, since I’ve never been to Michigan. Then I remembered. I am 99% positive that these are the same assclowns that ran a site on Geocities called Cemetery Party of National Socialists that I helped get blacklisted.

    So anyway, cheers to Celia McGinty for saving a lot of lives and having the courage to do what others might not have done and putting these mutants behind bars.

  • Mass. Bombing Plot Foiled

    Mass. Bombing Plot Foiled

    You know. It’s been a long time since I’ve written a worthwhile post. Sometimes that’s a good thing because it means that things aren’t too fucked up in my world. Then I read that police in Massachusetts foiled a plot in which three high school students planned to bomb their high school and shoot fleeing teachers and students as they escaped the building.

    In an article that I read on Yahoo, they state that police were tipped off by the school janitor who found the plans outlying the attack. Police found in the suspects’ homes shotgun shells, bomb-making instructions, knives, flares, and pictures of themselves with weapons. Of course, the word Columbine was thrown around once or twice and with good reason.

    When I read this article at the BostonHerald.com they said this….

    “McKeehan, who often dressed in Marilyn Manson T-shirts and a long, black trenchcoat with choke-collar chains, had shaved the sides of his head and wore his hair pulled back in a ponytail, which he frequently dyed different colors, said Kimball and a neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified.”

    Here we go again. Look, when I was 17 I wore a black trench coat, had long hair and wore Ozzy t-shirts, but I never threatened to blow up a school. But this case goes way beyond that. Apparently, the lead suspect, Eric McKeehan, had fits of violence. It seems he was estranged from his family and that his parents did not want anything to do with him. One of the other juvenile suspects allegedly has ADD and was distraught over his father’s death from cancer. Boo-freakin’ hoo. We’ve all had a rough life. Some rougher than others. But this is still no excuse to plot the deaths of dozens, if not hundreds.

    And in this article from the Boston Globe Online, the mother of one of the suspects, who took in the other two suspects prior to the arrests, denies everything. She says that the shotgun shells were from a hunting trip. And that the kids were “gentle” and “misunderstood”. Then the article goes on to say…

    “She said the students may have made some threats, but that they never really intended to hurt anybody.”

    Excuse me? People who are gentle and misunderstood do not make threats to kill others. Sounds to me like another case of “not my kid”. People just do not want to take responsibility for any of their actions. Is this what we’ve become as a nation? Should the nation’s motto be “it’s not my fault”? Suck it up, America. Be responsible and keep a better eye on your kids.

  • Suspected School Bombing Plot

    Suspected School Bombing Plot

    I came across an AP article on Thursday about a 14-year-old boy in Georgia who was discovered to have who had several guns, Nazi posters, $4,900 in cash, and bomb recipes in his room in relation to a suspected bomb threat against his middle school. 10 other homes of students were raided as well. Now the media is labeling them as “goths” but I guess that’s par for the course these days. Now the article goes on as the AP interviewed the boy’s father. He tried to defend his son by stating the following…

    The boy’s father told The Associated Press on Thursday that the handguns belong to his son-in-law, who is visiting from Illinois. The pistols were stashed in his son’s room to keep them away from younger children, he said. “He is not a violent kid,” the father said. The boy pulled bomb-making recipes off the Internet only to demonstrate to his father how easily teens could find such instructions online, the father said. As for the drawing of Adolf Hitler seized from the boy’s room, the father said his son once wrote a school report on Adolf Hitler and got a good grade for it. He said his son claimed the $4,900 belonged to a friend.

    Now, I’ve been a victim of extreme coincidence, but this sounds so far-fetched. Even to me. It sounds like the father is trying to cover his own ass for either not knowing that this was going on or, he was encouraging this behavior. The guns, the bomb instructions, Nazi paraphernalia, it all fits together too nicely. And the old “He’s holding the $5,000 for a friend” routine is a classic case of “Not my child” syndrome. Unfortunately, this just another case of parents who have no involvement in their children’s lives. With all the recent outbreaks of school violence, I fear another tragedy might happen this 20th. For the love of God, I hope I’m wrong.