Oregon bank bomber suspect called "very pro-American" by state GOP chair

[blitzen]

Like father, like son....And check out the Iron Cross tattoo on the son's right arm.





http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/12/police_call_woodburn_bank_bomb.html

"I would be very surprised if Bruce Turnidge was involved in that," said Vance Day, the Oregon GOP chairman and a Salem attorney who has known brothers Bruce and Pat Turnidge for several years. "I know him to be strong, very pro-American. He doesn't believe in violence of that sort whatsoever."

And the arrests of two members of the Turnidge family -- which decades ago helped start the Salem Academy Christian schools -- have left those who know the family incredulous.



The bomb that ripped through a West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn on Friday and killed two police officers was the product of a plot that dates to at least November involving a father-and-son team, according to information released by authorities Tuesday.

Investigators say the son, Joshua Abraham Turnidge, 32, of Salem, secured disposable cell phones, prepaid phone cards and other materials for building the bomb and a decoy. They allege he was involved in making and placing the bomb that exploded as officers dismantled what they mistook to be a hoax.

Authorities also contend his 57-year-old father, Bruce Turnidge, is connected to the crime, although the alleged extent of his role has not been disclosed.

[bottomtheweaver]

1. Motive?

:shrug:

[blitzen]

3. No official word on that yet...

One can only speculate. So I will: some sort of right-wing "Christian Identity" thing, targeting "bankers."

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. Phineas Priesthood?

They have done stuff like this before.

[rwenos]

2. Any spider web tattoos on his body?

The presence of same, with or without spider, could tell us a lot, eh?

[MichaelHarris]

5. These guys will end

up being some kind of white, hate everything types. The "brown" people have kept them down for years. If you read more about them they lost a farm a few years back. They wanted to be McVey types. Now of course, since they are white they won't be charged as terrorists. Just like that idiot with the ricin in Vegas, the court said he didn't appear to be involved in a terrorist activity. Um, OK, ricin is discovered all the time in Vegas hotels I guess.

[sandnsea]

6. This definitely sounds like a terrorist act

I don't know that Oregon will as likely to let them get away with the double standard. If there is any kind of political threat or statement they were trying to make, a number of Oregonians will make sure it gets called terrorism, especially from Portland to Eugene.

[MichaelHarris]

12. I agree

I'm still baffled as to why the Vegas/Ricin guy wasn't charged as a terrorist. They never even said what he was going to do with it. You have that stuff in a city with tons of hotels, that seems like terrorism to me.

[Bravo Zulu]

7. Why did they do it,

Are they active in the GOP?

[Joanne98]

8. He bombed a bank. I think we can guess why!

[Hannah Bell]

14. bank took the family farm?

"Father of Ore. bank bombing suspect arrested
Comments Dec 16, 2008 5:47 PM (1 day ago) AP

JEFFERSON, Ore. (Map, News) - A 57-year-old man living on a rented farm in the Willamette Valley was arrested on Tuesday, suspected of helping build a bomb that his son is accused of using to kill two police officers at a small bank last week....The farm Bruce Turnidge was living on is in the same area as a farm that had been owned by the Turnidge family for years until it went bust, he said."


http://www.examiner.com/a-1748367~Father_of_Ore__bank_bombing_suspect_arrested.html

[Kip Humphrey]

9. Looks like a fine, upstanding Republicon to me.

[Vickers]

10. GOP: this is your base.

Good luck, assholes.

[laststeamtrain]

11. Well, at least he wasn't an eco-terrorist.

:sarcasm:

Idle thought: Will domestic terrorism threat assessments now include people like this instead of just eco-terrorists & Quaker (Friends) anti-war groups?

That would be some change I could hope for.

[cascadiance]

13. No, for shame he wasn't as sophisticated as they are to avoid killing people...

Not good enough to be a REAL terrorist like the ELF who've are a lot worse in targetting property instead of people...