Posted on 12/22/2016 8:22:01 AM PST by digger48
MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (WKRN) – He concocted a plan to build a death ray machine, calling it Hiroshima on a light switch. His target was apparently Muslims and President Barack Obama, according to federal officials.
This week, the New York man and reputed Klansman and Muslim extremist was sentenced to 30 years in prison.
And one of the key witnesses in the trial of Glendon Crawford is from Murfreesboro.
Owner and publisher of The Reader, Pete Doughtie saw a news flash that Crawford had been sentenced.
“There’s another guy that had the potential danger to other people that has been taken off the streets,” Doughtie said.
The newsman was one of the key witnesses for the federal government in Crawford’s trial in August of last year.
“It was sort of interesting, and I’m surprised that how little a part that I played in this whole thing was part of convicting this guy,” Doughtie said.
His testimony for the trial, which was held in Albany, New York, was short yet impactful.
Glendon Crawford (Courtesy: WTEN) Glendon Crawford (Courtesy: WTEN) “I just told my story of how he contacted me, drove down from New York, and he and I met on a Sunday afternoon,” Doughtie explained.
Crawford met with Doughtie at the Hardee’s on Memorial Boulevard in Murfreesboro about his death ray machine, which he pitched as capable of killing from a distance.
Doughtie believes he was contacted because of his extensive coverage of the way Rutherford County officials approved construction of the controversial Murfreesboro mosque.
Doughtie said after the meeting was over, Crawford asked if he knew anyone who could back him financially so he could continue constructing the deadly radiation-spewing machine.
Doughtie said Crawford then tried contacting him two more times by phone.
“It got serious when he tried to contact me on several other occasions, and that was about the time the FBI stepped in,” he said.
Not too long after that, undercover video shows Crawford working on the machine in a garage until the FBI rushed in.
“FBI! Get on the ground!” agents can be heard saying on the video.
Doughtie said he’s happy to do this part in helping to bring down Crawford, who the FBI calls a domestic terrorist.
“It was just a small part that God used me to help put this guy away,” he said.
Pete Doughtie. (Provided Photo/WKRN) Pete Doughtie. (Provided Photo/WKRN) Crawford is also accused of soliciting the help of Eric Feight, a New York computer software expert, in the plot to design the radiation weapon.
Feight pleaded guilty to domestic terrorism in 2014 and received eight years in prison.
Say whaaaa?
Jernullism. It be like dead and sh*t.
As my dearly departed Mom would say..."Jesus,Mary and Joseph!"
Redundancy
Either his death ray machine worked or it didn’t.
Case A: It works—why isn’t the Army all over this?
Case B: It doesn’t, he’s nuts: Why is he getting 30 years? Shouldn’t he just get a mental evaluation?
Somehow an old cartoon from the 1950s or 60s comes to mind.
Inventor takes a death ray gun to the patent office manager. The manager tries it out the window and says...”Death ray my eye! It didn’t even slow them down!”
Isn’t there an Obama engineered enclave of Muslims in that area?
One of his metastasize sites.
Is the Onion?
And if white supremacy is such a problem how could there be any Muslims in Tennessee?
Well did this guy actually kill any muslims or Obama?
No?
The drop it. No harm. No foul.
Ok, so entire divisions of the DOJ are dispatched to haul off one kook that thinks he’s Lex Luthor, but Dude’s that think they’re Lois Lane are welcome in the girls bathroom?
Way to go America!
It’s TV gerbalsim.
Did you flunk out of journalism school from a 3rd rate junior college?
NO PROBLEM!
There’s always work at your local TV news station.
Does the thing even work? What was he charged with? Hateful science fiction?
Charles Addams
Meanwhile, a man who shot & nearly killed the President, and others, which ended up killing James Brady (years after the fact from complications), is free as a bird.
Fake news? The source is listed as “WISH”. As in wishful thinking?
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