The VERY strange case of William Krar-white supremist terrorist

[underpants]

Paul Krugman had a NYT op-ed piece on this last week so I figured I would look it up. The first article is from (gasp) UPI which actually pointing out Ashcroft's double standard and PR methods. The second is from CNN-Krar was sentenced to 11 years ...............just in case you missed the wrap-up of the overwhelming media coverage.

http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20040311-030156-8181r

WASHINGTON, March 14 (UPI) -- Since his appointment as attorney general, John Ashcroft's Washington office has issued 2,295 news releases. Not one of them has mentioned the name William Joseph Krar.

Krar, who is affiliated with several anti-government, white supremacist militia organizations, was apprehended after mailing a package containing false U.N. credentials, Defense Intelligence Agency IDs, phony birth certificates and a forged federal concealed weapons permit to a co-conspirator in New Jersey.(ended up at wrong address-recipient called the authorities)

An alert citizen contacted the FBI, which led to the arrest of Krar and the discovery of a mind-numbing weapons cache: fully automatic machine guns, remote-controlled explosive devices disguised as briefcases, 60 pipe bombs, nearly 500,000 rounds of ammunition and enough pure sodium cyanide "to kill everyone inside a 30,000 square foot building," according to federal authorities.

Even more astounding is the stony silence from the Ashcroft Justice Department, which found at least 2,295 occasions to toot its own horn that are apparently more newsworthy than the Krar arrest.

"We don't spend a lot of time thinking about how we announce our activities," a Justice Department spokesman told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

Really? This is from a Justice Department that averages two news releases every day and has never been shy to march out every triumph over the arrest or conviction of anyone remotely connected to overseas terror.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/LAW/05/04/cyanide.sentencing.ap/
Tuesday, May 4, 2004 Posted: 8:23 PM EDT (0023 GMT)
TYLER, Texas (AP) -- A man who stockpiled machine guns, bombs and enough cyanide to kill everyone inside a building the size of a small-town civic center was sentenced Tuesday to more than 11 years in prison.

[WoodrowFan]

1. great article, thanks

Orcinus has been discussing this case as well.

http://dneiwert.blogspot.com/2003_12_28_dneiwert_archive.html#107257032555368697

[underpants]

2. The sweet irony of the address mix up

Either he was so STOOPID that he put the wrong address on it (major kudos to the citizen who called it in)

-OR-

This anti-government type was so STOOPID that he mailed it US Post Office and someone's incompetence caused it to be sent to the wrong address.

[MadHound]

3. Living in Missouri, I can say this is not suprising

Under Ashcroft's terms as AG and govenor, right wing and Christian militia units were given a lot of slack from law enforcement and social service agencies. One group, The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord, remained undisturbed in their SW Missouri compound, openly patrolling with AK-47s and holding some VERY large demolition practices. I lived fairly close to these people, and it was an open secret in the county that child abuse was going on inside the compound.

And yet despite numerous complaints, nothing was ever done. As far as I know, these folks are still holed up in the Ozarks. Ashcroft was always very reluctant to arrest or prosecute those whom he idealogically agreed with. Quite frankly I think that if another OK city bombing occured, Ashcroft would dither around and let it slide if the deed was committed by a fellow RW nut. He is that far out there.

[underpants]

4. The Crisco Kid rides again

I didn't know about that but of course even Mr.Krar's gun record would HAVE to be protected. This is what makes the prosecution of Eric Rudolph so troubling for him I am sure-not much coverage of that either huh?