White supremacist gets 30 years prison for his plot to kill Muslims and Obama

[Eugene]

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

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Reuters
Monday 19 December 2016 20.37 GMT

[7962]

1. Good riddance

[iluvtennis]

11. [phone]

[rzemanfl]

2. I'm quite sure this asshole would say "Muslims, including Obama." n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

20. Oh stop. No he won't. Trump doesn't give a shit about any of the nazi's that helped get him elected

This guy is a nothing on Trump's radar because he can't use him anymore.

[rzemanfl]

21. De Niro "You talking to me?" n/t

[AgadorSparticus]

22. Gah! No. Sorry. Posted in the wrong place.

[rzemanfl]

23. No problem. No text.

[Blue Idaho]

3. Trump pardon in 3... 2... 1... nt.

[welivetotreadonkings]

6. Maybe he gets a cabinet job too.

[Guyechka]

4. Forget prison

Lynch him!

[nycbos]

5. How about putting him in the general population instead?

[backscatter712]

7. Nah, he'd fit in with the neo-nazi prison gangs.

Throw him in supermax until his psyche crumbles...

[War Horse]

12. No

Sorry. But what the world desperately needs now is cool heads.

[metroins]

8. That's too long in my opinion

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]

15. Fuck him. He's a white supremacist.

Member of the KKK, also associated with neo-Nazis.

Break him.

[Guyechka]

9. And Spencer?

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]

10. Oh Look. Yet Another Candidate for SHitler's Cabinet! n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

13. OMG, Shitlers List..

[CousinIT]

14. Indeed! That's a good one. n/t

[Cha]

16. May this be an example to future wannabes..

TY Eugene

[secondwind]

17. Bubba and his pals will take very good care of him in prison....n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

18. Let me guess. Next year he gets a pardon and a medal. nt

[Turbineguy]

19. Well there's one guy Trump can pardon.

He seems to meet the strict standards.