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Title: Man With Gas Cans in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Planned to Burn It Down, Prosecutor Says
Post by: thackney on April 25, 2019, 07:33:50 pm
Man With Gas Cans in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Planned to Burn It Down, Prosecutor Says
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/nyregion/st-patricks-cathedral-attack-marc-lamparello.html (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/24/nyregion/st-patricks-cathedral-attack-marc-lamparello.html)

The philosophy teacher charged last week with carrying gas cans and lighter fluid into St. Patrick’s Cathedral had a clear plan, prosecutors say, to set the Fifth Avenue landmark ablaze.

The man, Marc Lamparello, had also booked a one-way flight to Rome — and a hotel room within a 20 minutes’ drive of the Vatican, a prosecutor told a judge on Wednesday.

“He was present at the church the day before,” the prosecutor, David Stuart, told Judge Kevin McGrath during a video arraignment in Manhattan criminal court. “And was present at the church for more than an hour before walking in that night.”

His intent? “To burn down St. Patrick’s Cathedral,” Mr. Stuart said.

Mr. Lamparello, a 37-year-old graduate student and philosophy teacher, watched Wednesday’s proceeding over a closed-circuit video link to Bellevue Hospital Center, where he sat in a hospital gown next to his lawyer, Christopher DiLorenzo....
Title: Re: Man With Gas Cans in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Planned to Burn It Down, Prosecutor Says
Post by: truth_seeker on April 25, 2019, 08:48:44 pm
"Mr. Lamparello, a 37-year-old graduate student and philosophy teacher,"

Just what we need to subsidize, with lifetime unlimited free "college."


Forgive all of the current college debt.

Let everybody out of prison.

Let everybody in the world, come here.

Make all drugs legal.

Raise taxes ro 90% on the "rich."

Rebuild every building in NYC.

Eliminate all planes, cars and trucks.

Give everybody "basic income."


Title: Re: Man With Gas Cans in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Planned to Burn It Down, Prosecutor Says
Post by: verga on April 25, 2019, 10:20:43 pm
BKMK
Title: Re: Man With Gas Cans in St. Patrick’s Cathedral Planned to Burn It Down, Prosecutor Says
Post by: mountaineer on April 26, 2019, 01:48:25 pm
http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,358806.0.html (http://www.gopbriefingroom.com/index.php/topic,358806.0.html)
Original thread on the incident.