On Wednesday, a domestic terrorist implicated in a Molotov cocktail arson attack on a Las Vegas Tesla dealership was arrested, and he now faces serious local and federal charges. One down, many more to go, but this guy’s quick arrest and eventual (hopefully prolonged) sentence should serve as a good object lesson to any other lunatics contemplating similar attempts.
Paul Hyon Kim, 36, was arrested Wednesday by the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, after at least five cars were allegedly set on fire March 18 at a local Tesla Collision Center.
Kim has been charged with multiple crimes ranging from destruction of property, arson, and possessing a fire device, according to jail records.
He will also face federal charges, Spencer Evans, the FBI agent-in-charge of the bureau’s Las Vegas office, told reporters at a Thursday news briefing.
“There’s nothing courageous or noble about firebombing private property and terrorizing your local community,” Evans said. “The self-righteous mob that’s cheering you on today to commit acts of violence on their behalf will leave you high and dry and forget about you tomorrow. And at the end of the day, you and you alone will be held responsible and face the prospect of a lengthy prison sentence.”
“Terrorizing” isn’t at all too strong a word here. A person who is capable of firebombing a car dealership is on a short path to attacking people directly; that’s how terrorists work. One of the proper responses to this kind of domestic terrorism is to make the risk too high and the eventual penalties too severe to make it worth the attempt.
And Paul Hyon Kim is clearly a guy who was prepared to escalate.
Authorities said Kim’s social media activity showed potential links to communist groups and Palestinian causes. His DNA matched DNA samples collected at the scene of the attack, authorities said.
Investigators searched two vehicles linked to Kim and his apartment, and found multiple firearms, including rifles, a shotgun a handgun, gun parts, as well as ammunition.
The people of Las Vegas are safer now with this goblin off the streets.
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While I can’t read minds any more than anyone else, it seems very likely that Paul Hyon Kim, almost certainly, was planning something more audacious and more dangerous. He has already committed a major act of arson, resulting in thousands upon thousands of dollars of property damage, all because he’s hurt that Elon Musk has joined the Trump administration effort to bring the federal government back to some semblance of a reasonable size, to eliminate fraud, waste and abuse in government spending. It’s perfectly OK to disagree with those goals – clueless, perhaps, but OK – and Paul Kim could have stood on a soapbox on a street corner all day and all night shouting about it until his eyes bled, and he would have been within his consitutional rights, so long as he didn’t interfere with any passerby.
But he chose violence. He was clearly planning more violence. Now, he counts the cost – and that cost is going to be significant. Other would-be vandals and domestic terrorists should take notice.
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