Mohamed Osman Mohamud: FBI Claims it Stopped Terrorist at Portland's Pioneer Courthouse who Wanted to "Dummy" Bomb the Christmas Tree Lighting Celebration

The FBI has arrested Mohamed Osman Mohamud. They claim Mohamud was preparing to bomb the lighting of the Christmas Tree at Portland, Oregon's Pioneer Court House. However, details of the contents of the van tell a different story.

A Corvallis man, thinking he was going to ignite a bomb, drove a van to the corner of the square at Southwest Yamhill Street and Sixth Avenue and attempted to detonate it.

However, the supposed explosive was a dummy that FBI operatives supplied to him, according to an affidavit in support of a criminal complaint signed Friday night by U.S. Magistrate Judge John V. Acosta.

Mohamed Osman Mohamud, 19, a Somali-born U.S. citizen, was arrested at 5:42 p.m., 18 minutes before the tree lighting was to occur, on an accusation of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction. The felony charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison and a $250,000 fine.

The arrest was the culmination of a long-term undercover operation, during which Mohamud had been monitored for months as his alleged bomb plot developed.

"The device was in fact inert, and the public was never in danger," according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney's Office.

There's that term again, weapon of mass destruction. It seems its frequently used these days, but a president's reputation was smeared over weapons of mass destruction. Like Iraq, it appears there was never a weapon of mass destruction.

This term weapon of mass destruction was also used for the Hutaree militia raid. Remember, they too were charged with weapons of mass destruction?

Listen, I don't know if this Mohamud guy is good or bad. It seems to me the rhetoric coming from federal officials including the FBI is intended to create fear, and with fear comes power. In America, we should be able to enjoy the lighting of a Christmas tree without incident, and yet we have this story of weapons of mass destruction in the middle of Portland, Oregon, with the words "dummy bomb" and "public was never in danger."

Was Mohamud a boogie man? Was he harmless and this story overplayed to raise concerns of terrorism in the United States all to further the police state created by the Department of Homeland Security? Eventually, you have got to start asking yourself those questions.

Let's look back to the Fort Hood shootings. The FBI knew Major Nidal Malik Hasan was dangerous, and yet they did little to stop him from attacking innocent people on the Fort Hood Army base. Now we have this 19 year old kid who drove a van with a "dummy" bomb to street corner, and he is being arrested for "weapons of mass destruction," a term mocked by the media and some in government for nearly seven years.

Now they are using that term quite freely to describe any type of weapon. Which means if a car bomb is a weapon of mass destruction, well then George W. Bush wasn't lying to us. Right?

This term has become candy in the media since Bush's departure. It's designed to create fear in hopes you will accept what the federal government is doing for your security without noticing they are creating a police state. Need proof? Go to your airport and look at the TSA line. See how they are asking for your compliance and conditioning you to go through their checkpoints.

If you don't comply, notice the rhetoric they use to call you out and embarrass you. "Opt out! We've got an opt out!" In hopes eyes will follow you with disgust that you haven't bought into the security system of the federal government.

It really bothers me how words are changing meaning since the war on terror has started. Weapons of mass destruction used to be some nukes, biologicals, and chemical weapons designed for megadeath. Now it's a "dummy" bomb on a street corner, and it's all designed to get you to comply with their intrusive technology and pat downs that are the foundations of the American police state.