Booker, like so very many jihadis and Islamic supremacists before him, is playing the victim: “During a rambling statement he made to Murguia, Booker complained that he wasn’t given help to deal with his mental health issues. If he had received money to help him deal with his problems, Booker wouldn’t be in court facing two sentences Monday, Booker told the judge.”
In fact, he kills two birds with one stone by not only playing the victim, but by claiming at the same time that his jihad stemmed from mental illness, which is usually something we see non-Muslim authorities claiming about jihadis, not jihadis claiming themselves. Give Booker credit for innovative thinking.
“Topeka native John Booker Jr. gets 30 years for Fort Riley bomb plot,” by Steve Fry, Topeka Capital-Journal, July 24, 2017:
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — John T. Booker Jr., a Topeka man convicted in a plot to detonate an explosive device at Fort Riley, was sentenced Monday to a life term of 30 years in a federal prison.
Booker, 22, pleaded guilty on February 3, 2016, to attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to destroy government property by fire or explosion. In exchange for the guilty pleas, a third charge of providing material support to the Islamic State was dismissed.
Booker was sentenced to 30 years for attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and to 20 years for attempting to destroy government property. The sentences will run concurrently.
After completing the sentences, Booker will be under lifetime supervised release on the conviction of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and a concurrent supervision of three years on the attempting to destroy government property, U.S. District Court Judge Carlos Murguia said….
During a rambling statement he made to Murguia, Booker complained that he wasn’t given help to deal with his mental health issues.
If he had received money to help him deal with his problems, Booker wouldn’t be in court facing two sentences Monday, Booker told the judge.
However, after Booker’s sentencing, FBI officials disagreed with Booker, saying FBI agents, who initially identified themselves to Booker as federal agents, had sought to aid Booker with his mental health problems, sometimes driving him to appointments if he needed transportation.
“We wanted to get him the mental health help he thought he needed,” said Aaron Tapp, supervisory special agent in charge in Topeka.
To help Booker, the FBI also contacted a local Topeka mosque, contacted Imam Omar Hazim at the mosque to talk to Booker, and attempted to get people in the mosque to aid Booker, Tapp said.
The FBI met with Booker’s family, who said they had done everything they could to help him, Tapp said.
Agents monitored Booker to see whether he had changed, Tapp said.
But when Booker’s behavior and his radical Islamic beliefs continued, Darrin E. Jones said, then the FBI conducted an undercover operation and arrested him after he agreed to detonate what he thought was an explosive device at Fort Riley.
Jones is the special agent in-charge of the Kansas City field office of the FBI. The device was inert, meaning it wouldn’t explode….
The FBI’s first contact with Booker was in March 2014 when someone complained to the FBI that Booker had posted on Facebook that intended “to commit jihad and that he was not scared to die,” the factual basis for his guilty plea said….
Benedict says
Isn’t Islam a panacea against mental health issues?
AzB says
Yep. Especially the part about ascending to higher realms of paradise if you die fighting for allah.
This component of the theology leads to the most balanced of spiritual feelings for all young men with an interest in violence.
It helps to calm any unease and mollify the decision to destroy some people.
medaber_emet says
at last
may he rot in jail till he die
Robeaver says
He will be out in 9 or 10 years for good behaviuor, after a few dozen more converts he will make. And at only 53 000 a year on taxpayer dime. With tv and Internet and weight room so he can be strong and informed about jihad when he gets out. Oh and his kurran and his very own imam to help him thru the dark times. And his own prayer room. And laughs with his Muslim brothers. And fresh meat posteriors, which is what he is used to. Not bad for an illiterate. Who says America isn’t great!
John A. Marre says
It is hard to distinguish the practice of Islam from advanced mental deterioration, because they both are a detachment from reality, and lead to actions in direct contradiction with one’s human nature.
Michael says
That animal will be freed when he’s 52 years old. That’s younger than I am now.
Jim Conch says
Well, you know since the muslims are inbred, they all have psychological and metal health issues.
Telh says
It’s time to cancel Muslims citizenship & put them all in concentration camps, until they can find some other country to take them.
Elizabeth L. says
It is high time to call sin for what it really is, and not a mental health issue which seems to be the common mantra of our cultural Marxist society of today.