Byron Sonne’s Police Interview Reveals Admissions of Explosives Stockpiling

Christopher Olah, a friend of Byron Sonne, has been releasing some good notes and other shared evidence relating to Byron Sonne’s ongoing trial up in Toronto for his explosives possession charges. In the video below, which is probably prohibitively long to watch, Byron is grilled by a police detective in an effort to help exonerate Sonne’s wife, Kristen Petersen, from any associated wrongdoing with the explosives charges. And in so doing, he manages to get Sonne to confess that he was stockpiling various chemicals that could be used as explosives for about 90 days running up to the G20.

Some of my notes from the video:

• Kristen Petersen warned Byron Sonne in a blog comment that she “would be really, really mad” if he managed to “blow up our house.” 3 Min mark
• Sonne was a huge fan of PirateBay and had downloaded quite a few texts related to domestic terrorism and how to commit it- Practical Pyrotechnics, Setting fires with Mechanical Timers by the terror group Earth Liberation Front and Ragner Benson’s Guide to Home and Recreational use of high Explosives. 15 Min Mark
• The detective tries to insinuate that Sonne’s neighbors had suffered electromagnetic problems with their communications equipment and tried to pin it on Sonne’s failed attempt to create a HERF gun, but I am certain that was BS. Sonne knew it too, and should have realized that the Detective couldn’t possibly have that kind of evidence if he knew that the HERF gun didn’t and couldn’t work.
• Also, Kristen Petersen had experienced a “failed pregnancy.” That was likely traumatic and is sometimes the root cause of failed relationships- so you couple this with Sonne’s anarchist behaviors, and experimentation with explosives, that gets her put in jail too, and its no wonder she divorced him while he was still locked up.
• At about 28 minutes, the Detective asks Sonne if he has any connections with US Militia groups or the Tea Party. WTF, the tea party? LOL, there is never any documented violence from the Tea Party, but Sonne’s association with members of the known-violent Occupy Wall Street movement is well established.
• At 45 minutes, the Detective tells Sonne that he will be testifying at Sonne’s trial and will either tell the Crown that Byron had a bomb and did not intend to use it. Or, he would testify that Sonne had a bomb and intended to use it at the G20. Either way it seemed that Sonne did not contest the fact that he had explosive materials.
• At 57 minutes, Sonne goes into detail on how he acquired the explosive components- He purchased the Ammonium Nitrate in small batches from local grocery stores because “he couldn’t buy 50 pound bags.” He acquired a lot of hexamine from camping stores. He also acquired trioxine.
• At 1:06, he admits to stockpiling all of the chemicals between March and June prior to his June arrest during the G20.
• At 1:11 he discusses how he acquired Potassium Silicate from a gardening store and acquiring large amounts of Hydrogen Peroxide as well for a “concept rocket.” But then admitted the concept rocket wouldn’t work without a platinum screen, which he was unable to afford. This also shoots down all of the excuses that the chemicals were supposed to be used for amateur rocketry- he admitted to only ever using kits with premade fuel sources and had never yet made his own.

Sonne had the knowledge, the instructions, the terrorist manuals, the chemicals, the facility, and the hatred of the government to create a bomb the attack the G20. As the detective said, it is only going to come down to intent. It will be tough to prove how Byron Sonne did not intend to be a threat.

I don’t even know if Sonne knows he confessed to a crime. In an effort to get his wife out of jail, he admitted, freely and without a lawyer, that all of the bomb-making chemicals were purchased after his wife’s blog comment about not blowing up the house. And in so doing, he basically said that all the chemicals were acquired within 90 days of the G20.