They found more pipe bombs in a bedroom inside Mr. Spafford’s house, loosely stuffed in a backpack that bore a patch shaped like a hand grenade and a logo reading “#NoLivesMatter,” prosecutors said.
No Lives Matter is a nihilistic, far-right ideology that largely exists on encrypted online messaging apps like Telegram
Sometimes they put a dude under surveillance and only act when a threat seems imminent, such as he’s stuffing bombs into a bag, searching a location in maps, and gassing up the car.
They do this for due diligence and also to levy the highest possible charges against the suspect.
You’d be surprised how little time you can get for just owning a pile of pipe bombs. Acting with intent to use pipe bombs to do murder against a specific target gets you way more time, hence the feds aim for the sweet spot just before a major violence occurs, instead of nabbing the dude when he goes to the Ag store to get his first bag of Ammonium nitrate