Home Grown Nazi-Turned-Terrorist Claims Hes an Aspie

Meet Emerson Begolly. He grew up in the Pennsylvania mountains in a divorced home. His Dad dresses him up in Nazi regalia and later encourages him to engage in target practice with an AK-47 while wearing camo gear with AlQueda patches on his shoulders, and a full beard. When he was arrested by the FBI for engaging in terroristic threats online, he bit the agents in an attempt to provoke them into killing him to make him a martyr. Now his Mom says the whole thing is a big misunderstanding and her son suffers from Aspergers and is misunderstood.

From the Post-Gazette here by way of HotAir:

A 21-year-old loner from Armstrong County had an arsenal in his bedroom, a radical Islamist online persona and videos suggesting paramilitary training before his arrest last week for biting two FBI agents.

Mr. Begolly “has a strong desire to kill non-Muslims and many other groups of people,” said Assistant U.S. Attorney Soo C. Song. “He was preparing, and he was getting closer and closer to bringing his words and aspirations to fruition.”

Mr. Begolly was arrested after two FBI agents approached him Jan. 4 at a New Bethlehem Burger King, seeking to talk to him even as other agents executed search warrants on his father’s Mayport farmhouse and his mother’s Natrona Heights home. The parents are divorced.

He reached for a Makarov pistol, for which he had no concealed carry permit, and then bit the agents as they wrestled him into handcuffs. He is charged with assault upon an officer of the United States and possessing a firearm in furtherance of a crime.

Mr. Begolly’s bedroom contained 14 firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, a fake hand grenade, a military helmet and a gas mask, said FBI Special Agent Thomas W. Ferguson III. Three of the firearms, including one found under his pillow, were AK-47-type rifles.

One online post by Begolly detailed how an old Buick could be turned into a car bomb using gasoline and tanks — apparently of propane — that could be ignited with a gunshot.

Another talked of “being a suicide martyr on your school,” or taking school kids as hostages and demanding the freedom of Muslim prisoners.

Other online communications dealt with how to handle an arrest attempt. “I would make Waco look like a tea party,” and another said anyone faced with arrest should hurt the agent in any way possible, in a bid to become a martyr.

Shawn Begolly, the defendant’s father, can be heard on some of the videos. In one, the voice said, “Now you wounded him now” in apparent reference to a direct hit on the pumpkin.

Ms. Sims said he was accused of no violence “other then against a pumpkin” before the FBI “snuck up on him” as he sat in his mother’s car in a Burger King parking lot. She said he suffers from Asperger’s syndrome, an autism spectrum disorder that affects social ability.

Nice MySpace photo. I bet he got all the girls. It seems like this punk was raised by his Dad to loathe the jews, first as a Nazi and then as a Muslim. Why the Dad hasn’t been arrested yet is anyone’s guess, and the Jawa Report thinks Dad’s heavily involved in shaping Emerson to be a jihadi.

And how about that? Claiming to have Aspergers, which I’m certain is a self-diagnosis just like all cases, is becoming a common claim of defense lawyers everywhere. To lawyers, having aspergers equals insane equals innocent. Its a bad trend.