Feds indict Klansman trying to build an anti-Muslim X-ray cannon

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Feds indict Klansman trying to build an anti-Muslim X-ray cannon
By George Chidi
Thursday, January 23, 2014 11:10 EST

Federal prosecutors moved forward with a terrorism case against a purported Klansman who had been soliciting money from Jewish businessmen to build a bizarre — but technologically feasible — X-ray cannon intended to secretly kill Muslims.

Eric J. Feight, 55 pleaded guilty Wednesday to domestic terrorism-related charges in a federal courtroom in Albany, N.Y., and faces up to 15 years in prison. His alleged co-conspirator, Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, pleaded not guilty to the charges Wednesday after being indicted on three federal felony counts. The indictment filed in U.S. District Court in Albany, New York last week charged Crawford with attempting to produce and use a radiological dispersal device, conspiracy to use a weapon of mass destruction, and distributing information relating to weapons of mass destruction,

The Times-Union of Albany reported that Feight and his lawyers may seek a plea agreement in exchange for testimony against Crawford.

Investigators began looking at Crawford in April 2012, after the self-described Klansman approached a Schenectady synagogue, looking for financial support to build the radiation device.


Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/01/23/feds-indict-klansman-trying-to-build-an-anti-muslim-x-ray-cannon/

[KamaAina]

1. "a purported Klansman who had been soliciting money from Jewish businessmen"??

[AtheistCrusader]

7. Well, I for one am sure glad the NSA was all over this cowboy.

I mean who knows what could have happened if we let law enforcement handle domestic terrorism.... oh.. wait.

[Cryptoad]

9. The Sad part is that the driving forces

running beneath you sarcasm , are the reason the Age of Privacy is Dead and Gone and will never return.!

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Well, not me, but

yes, there are a significant number of people in this country that would accept such surveillance if it actually worked once in a while, or had the appearance of having worked once in a while..

Enough so that it is unlikely the programs will go away.

[Cryptoad]

11. It is no longer a matter of acceptance

even more and more data will be collected as time passes! Oh "they" will pretend that collection is being curtailed,,,,, just smoke and mirrors.

[AtheistCrusader]

12. Sure. It's debateable at this point if congress even HAS the power to curtail such operations.

Like when we find out 30 years after the fact that the CIA is funding ops by running drugs...

[Ash_F]

22. It is most likely he just blabbed too much and someone reported him

No super-secret NSA stuff needed.

[MyNameGoesHere]

2. "This will be working real good" MINIONS!

[shenmue]

3. A what?

Crazy.

[TrollBuster9090]

4. Good thing Flash Gordon put a stop to his evil plans!

[longship]

5. Now there are words you don't often see in a headline.

Anti-Muslim X-Ray Cannon

Fucking amazing.

[pangaia]

15. My thought exactly.

It was so unreal, I read the post.

[kelliekat44]

6. I really want to know how much financing he raised? There is no end to RW idiocy. nt

[dilby]

8. technologically feasible???

I am thinking if it was technologically feasible they would have hired him instead of indicting him. I am thinking this guy was some loon and the FBI needed to look like they were doing something.

[Incitatus]

14. I doubt they need his expertise to build it.

They already have systems like that for crowd control. If a different frequency can be used to quietly kill people, the MIC already knows how to build/use them. Maybe they just don't want to admit they have it.

My first thought was a loon or someone just trying to con money, but apparently he was trying to build it.


"Mr. Crawford was arrested Tuesday as he tried to connect a remote activation device to an X-ray machine that undercover agents had provided to him after rendering it inoperable, the authorities said. They added that Mr. Crawford may have had the technical know-how to realize his goal. “From our investigation, the device — and there are a number of components that needed to be put together — would have been capable of emitting X-ray radiation that would have caused death,” a prosecutor, John Duncan, said in an interview. "

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/nyregion/2-accused-of-trying-to-create-a-weapon.html

The article also says he worked for GE as an industrial mechanic, so maybe.

[dilby]

19. Figures, a device that the FBI provided for him.

The FBI is notorious for finding crazy people, grooming them, supplying them with the means and then arresting them. They do this with so called home grown terrorists too, show up, act like a friend, give the idea of blowing something up, supply the fake bomb and then arrest and call themselves heroes.

[yourmovemonkey]

17. He is definitely a loon

But if he hadn't been caught, eventually he would have done something to hurt innocent people.

[dilby]

20. He probably would have died of radiation poisoning on his own.

I am sure he is not an expert on X-rays and would have been dosing himself heavily with his testing.

[DeSwiss]

21. ''technologically feasible???'' - Yes. Very much so.

- And much, much more.....

US army unveils electromagnetic weapon for crowd control

Active Denial Technology (ADT)

DARPA Antics: ‘Remote Control of Brain Activity Using Ultrasound’

Army Studying Replacing Thousands of Grunts with Robots

[Xithras]

24. Oh, it's entirely feasible. The Nazi's built one.

It was a Wunderwaffen experiment to build an energy based antiaircraft weapon. The thing technically worked, but it was highly weather dependent, it required huge amounts of energy, and it had an unfortunate tendency to make its operators glow in the dark (until they dropped dead of cancer). The mechanism is fairly straightforward, the plans for the thing are actually on the Internet, and it could be a lethal (though admittedly odd) weapon if someone really wanted to build one.

If you have a lot of money and some really good engineers, you can also build yourself an X-Ray laser. In laser form, it's a particularly nasty device that can inflict serious damage from MILES away. X-Ray lasers were actually one of the proposed weapons systems in the Star Wars SDI initiative in the 1980's, and were going to be used to shoot down missiles. Interestingly, that's where the "Raygun" part of Reagan's "Ronnie Raygun" nickname began. Ray guns from space to shoot down missiles.

The awful part of a weapon like this is that it's nearly undetectable. Radiation isn't detectable when you're being exposed unless you have special equipment, and most people would have no idea they had been dosed with X-Rays. By the time their cancers started showing up a few months later, any obvious evidence of X-Ray exposure would be long gone. It would be written off as a cancer cluster of unknown origin.

[onehandle]

13. Where there are Klansmen, there are gun nuts. nt

[FiveGoodMen]

16. "That's when Sheldon built his sonic death ray"

"SONIC DEATH RAY?!"

"Well... that's what he called it; didn't even slow down the neighbor kids"

Seriously, was it supposed to kill Muslims selectively or is that just how he wanted to use it?

[groundloop]

18. It sounds more like he should have been charged with fraud

Anti-Muslim X-ray cannon, really? That's just comical, what jury in the country is gonna' buy into that? But on the other hand, if he was arrested for trying to raise money for something that had zero chance of working, that might stand up to scrutiny.

[bemildred]

23. The Surrealists were prophets. nt

[Tommy_Carcetti]

25. And let's not forget their backup plan.