Blog 6
4:20 pm
Often times I don’t think we realize how much the US has a impact of the surrounding world. In this article a 21-year-old man was arrested in Palama, Majorca for attempting to plan and bomb a university campus. In the most interesting part about this planning Is that it was based on the killings in the United States in 1999, Columbine. This man was arrested because he had over 310 pounds of materials used to make bombs, one of which was ammonium nitrate. The Spanish Minister thinks the have avoided a massacre, in which I completely agree. Much like columbine and the most recent attack on Virginia Tech, these attacks were random and took the country by complete surprise. This man had blogged many times about his high regard for the American teenagers who murdered the fellow students. He was infatuated with the idea of taking those lives. His infatuation was in fact what led to him being investigated and arrested. His diary later exposed his want to make and plant shrapnel bombs around the University of the Balearic Islands. Luckily he was not successful. I know tis doesn’t fit under the crime category as much as some of the other post but planning to terrorize a country in definitely a crime and it get even more interesting when the plot and planning behind the crime is based on a United States of America Event. Looking at the social aspect of this crime, I know he hadn’t did any of things he planned to do yet, but he was in the works. In the US we would argue freedom of speech and the 1st amendment but in this case he was a threat to society and himself.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/05/world/europe/man-accused-of-planning-bombing-in-in-spain.html?ref=world
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