White supremacist gets 30 years prison for his plot to kill Muslims and Obama
Source: Reuters
A self-proclaimed white supremacist convicted on charges he planned to use a death ray to kill Muslims and Barack Obama was sentenced on Monday to 30 years in prison, federal prosecutors in New York said.
Glendon Scott Crawford, 52, a Navy veteran and a member of the Ku Klux Klan, was found guilty in August 2015 of conspiring with another man to build a radiation dispersal device, dubbed a death ray by tabloids.
Crawford is the first person to be convicted under a law barring attempts to acquire or use a radiological dispersal device, which combines conventional explosives, such as dynamite, with radioactive material. Congress passed the statute in 2004 to punish individuals who try to set off a so-called dirty bomb.
US district judge Gary Sharpe imposed the sentence at a hearing in Albany, prosecutors said in a statement. He was convicted on three counts, including conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/19/death-ray-plot-muslims-obama-glendon-scott-crawford-new-york
Reuters
Monday 19 December 2016 20.37 GMT
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(11,841 posts)iluvtennis
(19,852 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)This guy is a nothing on Trump's radar because he can't use him anymore.
rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)rzemanfl
(29,557 posts)Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)welivetotreadonkings
(134 posts)Guyechka
(25 posts)Lynch him!
nycbos
(6,034 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Throw him in supermax until his psyche crumbles...
Sorry. But what the world desperately needs now is cool heads.
metroins
(2,550 posts)A plot, no execution, no victims, no harm, just a plan. You only get one life, I hate to see decades lost in prison. Honestly, 5-10 years would likely have gotten the point across and hopefully have taught a lesson.
I think we jail too many people, for too long and we don't understand that this is a person's life.
I doubt he was even smart enough to pull it off.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Member of the KKK, also associated with neo-Nazis.
Break him.
Guyechka
(25 posts)Hasn't he done as much (more actually) than this man? Plans for a dirty bomb versus telling his followers to go after Jews in Montana?
I hope this 30 years sets a precedent that will soon be followed with the arrest and imprisonment of Spencer.
CousinIT
(9,241 posts)Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)CousinIT
(9,241 posts)Cha
(297,191 posts)TY Eugene
secondwind
(16,903 posts)Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)Turbineguy
(37,324 posts)He seems to meet the strict standards.