Press Release Tuesday, August 15, 2017
We as a family are extremely distraught about this situation with our son Jerry
Drake Varnell, but what the public must understand is that he is a paranoid
schizophrenic and is extremely susceptible to different types of ideology that
normal people would deem immoral. Underneath his condition, he is a sweet-
hearted person and we are extremely shocked that this event has happened.
However, what truly has us flabbergasted is the fact that the FBI knew he was
schizophrenic. The State of Oklahoma found him mentally incompetent and we,
his parents have legal guardianship over him by the Court. These documents are
sealed from the public, which is why no news media outlet has been able to
obtain them. The FBI clearly knew that he was schizophrenic because they have
gathered every ounce of information on him. Reading the criminal complaint
against him has brought us great pause due to the numerous lies from the
informant. We do not have an underground bunker! We built our home a few
years ago and bought a storage container, as we use it for a storm shelter. We
only recently pushed dirt up around it to make it safe. The building is used for
storage and is NOT a bunker full of food and supplies, in fact the doors close
from the outside. It has neither electricity nor anything that would make it
habitable.
What the public should be looking at is the fact that the FBI gave our son the
means to make this happen. He has no job, no money, no vehicle, and no
drivers license, due to the fact that he is schizophrenic and we; his parents do
everything we can possible to keep him safe and functional. The mental health
system has consistently failed us due to the lack of establishments and health
care coverage for a person like him. He has attended college and just enrolled in
welding school. His medications allow him to be somewhat functional but he will
never be completely functional in life. His brain does not work like a normal
person and never will due to the nature of his mental illness. He has suffered
through countless serious full-blown schizophrenic delusional episodes and he
has been put in numerous mental hospitals since he was 16 years old. The FBI
came and picked him up from our home, they gave him a vehicle, gave him a
fake bomb, and every means to make this happen none of which he had access
to on his own. We know who their informant is and what the public should know
is that he is that a drug-dealing criminal. On June 15, 2017, Jerrys Father told
the criminal informant that he was not allowed back on our property and if he
returned we would have him arrested for trespassing and drugs. Apparently, he
continued to sneak onto our residence. The FBI paid him to continue this
operation and I believe they have cleared his criminal record.
The FBI should have filed conspiracy on our son and had him committed to a
mental institution. They should not have aided and abetted a paranoid
schizophrenic to commit this act. There are many more facts that I will not make
public that will support my son and the disturbing acts made by the FBI.
I realize that many will say my son could have found another person to commit
this act. Yet, any person that has access to the materials and the state of mind
necessary to bomb a building would not have any need for a schizophrenic who
has no resources to contribute. Schizophrenics always have conspiracy theories
and feels everyone is out to get them. They trust no one and there is no doubt in
my mind that this informant began this hate against the government and my son
followed along because others easily influence him. There is no person in his life
that has even heard anything about hatred for the government and we have all
been shocked by the event.
We ask all news media outlets to please respect our privacy. Do not fly
helicopters over our home and stalk us at our gates for a story, we are trying our
very best to comfort each other because this is a devastating loss for our family.
We do not need to be bombarded by reporters who only want to omit important
facts of this event. We understand the public wants to know how this could
possibly happen. We simply ask them to look at the facts of the case and ask
why the FBI made this happen. He is our son and he is a brother and loved one
no matter what he has done. We have unconditional love for him, we are heart
broken by this event and wish we had been made aware by the FBI, and we
would have committed him into a mental institution for help.
Sincerely,
Clifford and Melonie Varnell
