Kansas City: Armed Forces trainee converts to Islam, plots jihad massacre at military base

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And again we ask the rhetorical question, why is it converts to Islam “misunderstand’ Islam in exactly the same way?

Kansas City: Former Armed Forces trainee converts to Islam, plots jihad massacre at military base

By Robert Spencer, Jihad Watch, Feb 21, 2020:

Yet another convert to Islam somehow gets the crazy idea that his new, peaceful religion requires him to commit treason and mass murder. Authorities remain completely uninterested in this recurring phenomenon. If numerous converts to Christianity plotted to kill people in the name of their new religion, would law enforcement and intelligence officials be so blasé?

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“Man faces 20 years for terrorist plot in Kansas City in support of ISIS,”

By Pat Pratt, Columbia Daily Tribune, February 19, 2020:

A 20-year sentence and lifetime supervision will deter Robert Lorenzo Hester, Jr. and others like him from from the “clarion call” of the Islamic State, federal prosecutors wrote in a memorandum seeking the maximum penalty for a Columbia man who pleaded guilty to aiding terrorists.

In opposition to the long sentence, defense attorneys for the 28-year-old who plotted to attack transportation services in Kansas City and other acts over the course of several months argue mental health issues combined with a mockery of his race and intellect by fellow soldiers led him to extremists ideologies.

Hester pleaded guilty in September before U.S. District Judge Greg Kays and will be sentenced March 4 in Kansas City. Discharged from the U.S. Army shortly after basic training in 2013, Hester over the next several years turned to Islamic extremism, eventually preparing to wage war against the United States.

Assistant U.S. attorneys Brian Casey and David Raskin wrote in a sentencing memorandum filed Tuesday that the risk of violence Hester created should not be underestimated.

“Hester repeatedly glorified violence, and proclaimed his excitement to help ISIS carry out a terrorist attack,” prosecutors wrote. “Hester thought he was assisting in a plan to cause widespread deaths, doing everything he could to help. Hester did not act in a vacuum. His conduct was part of a larger movement of growing support for ISIS in the United States and abroad.”

Federal public defender Troy Stabenow is seeking a 15-year sentence for Hester. He writes in his motion for sentencing that a combination of societal factors drew Hester to ISIS….

Following an abusive childhood and drug use at an early age, he wanted to feel accepted and do something to make others proud, so he joined the Armed Forces, Stabenow writes….

When “several young men who suggested that Islam was a religion that valued men like him,” Hester began to listen, Stabenow wrote.

“As a new father himself, he was heartbroken and infuriated when he watched carefully edited footage of Western forces engaging in violence that resulted in the deaths of women and children in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere,” Stabenow writes. “In the videos, he was consistently told that the American military had been corrupted and that the United States government had adopted a policy of actively trying to hurt young Muslim families.

“Robert expressed his anger about the violence he saw online, and began to parrot some of what he saw.”

His social media posts drew the attention of the FBI. Undercover agents reached out to him to establish if he was a threat, but before they could establish a rapport, he was arrested in Columbia for throwing a knife through a window at a Hy-Vee and threatening management with a firearm….

The sentencing memorandum filed by prosecutors states that after agents were able to make contact with Hester, he told them the government should be overthrown and he sought others who felt the same. He touched on his knowledge of military tactics and firearms and even suggested an attack on an undisclosed military base because he knew how to enter it.

“Hester wanted to hurt the economy ‘by hitting oil pipelines’ or ‘computer systems,’” the memorandum states. “Throughout their conversations, the undercover employee provided Hester a number of opportunities to dissociate with no questions asked, but Hester repeatedly reaffirmed his commitment to their plot.”…

The staged plot came to a head in the spring of 2017, culminating in a plan to attack buses, trains and a train station on President’s Day 2017 in Kansas City. Weeks before the planned attack Hester purchased nine-volt batteries, duct tape and roofing nails. On Feb. 17, 2017, three days before the planned attack the undercover agents picked Hester up under the guise of seeking out storage sheds to store weaponry….

“During one of their final in-person meetings, the undercover employee showed Hester a number of firearms and purported bombs that the undercover employee stated would be used for an attack,” federal prosecutors wrote, “This excited Hester, who adamantly approved. Hester understood that the plan was to cause mass casualties, and he was excited to assist.”

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felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

And again we ask the rhetorical question, why is it converts to Islam “misunderstand’ Islam in exactly the same way?

THAT is the zillion dollar question!

Spare me the mental illness and racism excuse too!
If he was ridiculed for his “intellect”, he has proven beyond a doubt that he has an intelligence deficit there. A dysfunctional upbringing doesn’t automatically bring this on either but may contribute. He seems to like the MACHO aspect of Islam and used that as a release for his inner anger. BTW what does it take to charge someone with TREASON and strip them of their citizenship? How can someone supervise him the rest of his life? Send him back to Columbia after serving his sentence in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT.

In opposition to the long sentence, defense attorneys for the 28-year-old who plotted to attack transportation services in Kansas City and other acts over the course of several months argue mental health issues combined with a mockery of his race and intellect by fellow soldiers led him to extremists ideologies.

I’d like to know why he was discharged from the army.

Discharged from the U.S. Army shortly after basic training in 2013, Hester over the next several years turned to Islamic extremism, eventually preparing to wage war against the United States.

https://www.columbiatribune.com/news/20200219/columbia-man-faces-20-years-for-terrorist-plot-in-support-of-isis

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Traitors should be executed.

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
4 years ago

you mean the death penalty.
But it is just the bare minimum

william couch
william couch
4 years ago

“NO”,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Line him up against the wall and shoot him!!!!

Rob Porter
Rob Porter
4 years ago
Reply to  william couch

No, run over him with an old road-building roller – starting with him feet. Force Robert Mueller to watch before doing the same to him.

Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
Tamara Hussey-Mecklenburg
4 years ago

Yes. Death penalty.

Achmed Mohandjob
Achmed Mohandjob
4 years ago

” .. over the course of several months argue mental health issues combined with a mockery of his race and intellect …”
Just what “race” is a “Hester”? The surname, “Hester”, is of kraut origin. That thing’s middle name is Lorenzo. Lorenzo is a dego/guinea negro of Eyetallion origin.
So, did they mock guinea negroes (greasy wops)? Or, was that thing’s intellect mocked, due to it being so STUPID as to become a moslem (the vilest of ALL creatures)?

SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
4 years ago

you mean converts to islum are dumb
but dumb is the bare minimum.

IQ is probably below complete stupidity.
He was just able to reproduce.
Barely.
I am sorry for the agents that will follow him all his stupid life.

felix1999
felix1999
4 years ago

Why should we pay for his babysitters for life?
Strip him of citizenship and send him packing.
I don’t care where he goes. Just get him out of our country.

patd
patd
4 years ago

Just another moronic parasitic feral animal libturd criminal!!!!

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago

These type of muslums interest me a lot less than the f’ing muslums infiltrating/subverting/co-opting our legislatures, law enforcement and judiciary.

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

Trillions of Dollars will continue to be wasted on endless wars until government recognizes that Islam is the problem.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Gouveia

No! The LEFT are the problem along with their bosses: the globalists. Islam is only a symptom. BUT like all such it should be fiercely treated with maximum effort. Only war will remove or decrease the hold of the first two and remove the last one.

Rick Gouveia
Rick Gouveia
4 years ago

Expert whistleblower on Islamic terror (CAIR) got “suicided by Satan”. † RIP Martyr Philip Haney †. https://www.foxnews.com/us/dhs-whistleblower-philip-haney-found-dead-police-say

Millie Tyler
Millie Tyler
4 years ago
Reply to  Rick Gouveia

He was a major loss. He had a wealth of knowledge in that head of his. I do not believe he shot himself. He was getting ready to come out with the sequel to his book See Something Say Something and was getting ready to get married and he wanted to go back to work at DHS.

movingwaters
movingwaters
4 years ago

When I first started reading this article I wondered what had happened in his childhood that created and grew in him a “spirit of rejection” that opened the door to all kinds of other demonized thinking. I am not excusing his crime. He needs a very long sentence. I understand that psychology and medications can’t fix a tortured soul. People wouldn’t want to sin if they knew how much God wanted to restore and transform them.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

I am yet to know of a convert to islam that is not a marked loser in some important area of his life: be it career, social or love life. Its rigidity of structure by the removable of choice makes it an ideal cage for such who obtain instant “friends” (however false) by converting; instant gratification(as they no longer need to feel pain when they hurt someone but instead feel joy) plus it rewards criminal acts made in the name of allah especially aggressive sexuality. It is a sewer in that it allows the dregs to do what they most wish to do: dominate and hurt.

movingwaters
movingwaters
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

I completely agree. Every one of these “converts” appear to be near duplicates of each other. Many times they feel hurt/rejected and let their hearts become overtaken with a desire to hurt back. I think it is a similar situation to the draw of hopeless appearing young people joining gangs. the explosion of fatherless and/or alternative lifestyle families is a major factor. The Democratic Party elevates single motherhood to almost hero status. It is not. It’s one thing if the father of the family tragically dies and the family must struggle. Just having babies out of marriage and living off the taxpayers is another thing altogether.

We are seeing so many extremely frustrated and enraged young people who don’t fit in anywhere except hate groups like Antifa. Most of them will probably remain lost souls for a long time. Government indoctrination centers under the guise of education don’t help. Spiritual problems have spiritual answers that Secular Humanists can’t fix. I would love the opportunity to minister to this guy. It would take awhile to remove his walls but people like that can experience freedom from the prison they have built around themselves. You can be free even in prison.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago
Reply to  movingwaters

No father and a home where the ethics are those of convenience rather than of morality and even that assumes that the mother is a maternal figurehead as opposed to the wanton trollop we see so often in maternal guise. If you look at the mothers it is not hard to see why their boy children have contempt for women. If you look at the typical father who runs at first problem (that is IF he was even there) it is not hard to see why the children are like they are so often. The destruction of the family is the greatest crime of the Left.

movingwaters
movingwaters
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

the planned step-by-step destruction of the family with the intention of slowly destroying society. The ones at the top who designed and implemented this agenda are brilliantly evil. Real manhood and fatherhood are not easy. But they are out there holding things together despite the Left’s hatred for manhood.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

But in muslum states to have any degree of material success practically requires someone to be muslum. Some muslum converts have been materially successful precisely because they converted to the muslum death cult (e.g. Keith Ellison or Grover Norquist). Collaborating w/muslums is also frequently materially advantageous (as Norman Finkelstein discovered) for as long as you’re useful to your muslum masters.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

Agreed. They like useful converts even though they laugh behind their backs. I have sharia bank make a BIG financial difference to owning a home or a small business in the west. In muslim countries the sharia banks have little money. In the west they are rich as oil funded. funny that!

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago

I would say moslem knife attacks, just like UK, Germany and other places. Notice would not say Moslems in France. Hate to see what the Grooming Gangs in France like.
Macron needs to dangle with Merkel
France sees an average of 120 knife attacks per day
https://voiceofeurope.com/2020/02/france-sees-an-average-of-120-knife-attacks-per-day/

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

Grooming gangs ONLY exist in the UK as courageous people like TR made it so. In the rest of the west haunted by Islam they are hidden but we can be certain that they are just as bad but we will never be told and that is another reason to hang not a few politicians and bureaucrats.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

I’ve wondered that too. It’s hard to imagine muslum grooming gang are only active in the United Kaliphate, but perhaps the law enforcement and judiciary of the United Kaliphate are considerably more corrupt than the rest of the dying atheist West.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

In such comments try replacing “atheist” with “leftist” and you will not only be more accurate but less insulting to potential allies. Of course, if you do not wish such as allies in the already started war, then you are foolish. In a real war, no one has to like their allies.

MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
4 years ago
Reply to  Michelle

I can’t help but notice my supposed “allies” have nothing to say about the ongoing extermination of Nigerian Christians — incl. YOU.

Michelle
Michelle
4 years ago

Most of your posts are both predictable and pathetic but that one “takes the cake” as they say. Seeing as I worked in Africa for not a few years I have forgotten more about muslim atrocities committed against Christian Africans than you could even know. IMO the average African Christian is not a sham Christian as are you.

knightsstrength
knightsstrength
4 years ago

What sick minds these who convert to Islam especially from the armed forces. They do need a firing squad

Stephen Honig
Stephen Honig
4 years ago

He deserves at least 20 years to life for treason!

Defence Man
Defence Man
4 years ago

New jihadist recruits quite normally are very gung ho about their duty to kill unbelievers. This guy is not unusual in this regard. Any military or police recruit that become a Muslim should be monitored very closely.

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.
– Ephesians 6:12

mjazzguitar
mjazzguitar
4 years ago

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in heavenly places.
– Ephesians 6:12

iprazhm
iprazhm
4 years ago

“Got an election coming up, so gotta let the citizens win our Jihad Lottery this time.” Signed – The FBI

Joan Flaherty
Joan Flaherty
4 years ago

Would you trust anyone with eyes like that? – always the eyes.

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