Suspected Antifa sympathizer pleads guilty to detonating shrapnel-filled device by Alabama AG's office

A guy with lots of names, Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, pleaded guilty in federal court to the malicious use of an explosive device that he had planted outside the Alabama Attorney General's office earlier this year. The device was loaded with nails and screws used as shrapnel in order to cause massive bodily injury to anyone in the blast area, the Department of Justice said. 

Calvert, 26, of Irondale, Alabama, is suspected of having Antifa [antifascist] sympathies. He set the device off on February 24 in the early morning hours; fortunately, no injuries were reported.

The home-grown terrorist admitted he made the device himself and lit the fuse then retired quickly safely away from the area. 

He was arrested on April 10th.

Calvert had posted Antifa fascist ideas on social media, stating the violence should be directed at the government and he even place Antifa stickers near the crime scene, the DOJ stated, although he claimed to have no affiliation with those scumcrumpets--a far-left organization that pretends to be an anti-Nazi movement while using fascist techniques for their ends.

Calvert faces between five and 20 years in prison. The case is being investigated by the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

"This defendant built a bomb using nails and screws as shrapnel and detonated it outside the Alabama Attorney General’s Office, endangering a public institution and members of the community," Attorney General Merrick Garland said in a statement. "Public servants should never be targeted for doing their jobs. The Justice Department will not tolerate such conduct, and we will use every resource at our disposal to prevent these attacks and hold perpetrators accountable."

Court documents also said the man was "dangerous" as he had "described his inability to control his own violent, aggressive impulses."

Some of the stickers allegedly posted by Calvert around the area included one that had "An Antifa logo superimposed over a rainbow flag background, with the words, "ANTI-FASCISM IS COMMUNITY SELF-DEFENSE," which makes as much sense as "SCREWING FOR VIRGINITY" makes sense.

Some of the sticker this idiot posted reportedly read, "DEATH TO FASCISM," "ARM THE HOMELESS," "F--K WORK LET’S RIOT!" and "NEVER WORK."

ATF Director Steven Dettelbach said Calvert perpetrated an attack on the American justice system.

"Violent, targeted attacks like this, aim to harm, whether physically or through fear and intimidation, the civil servants and public officials who serve our communities and country," Dettelbach said.

"ATF is committed to holding those who attack American institutions accountable. I commend the work of the ATF and all our federal and local partners in bringing this defendant to justice."

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