Posted on 06/19/2013 2:25:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Feds: Suspect promised to build "Hiroshima on a light switch"
An industrial mechanic with General Electric Co., who is also allegedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan, designed a deadly mobile radiation device that he intended to sell to Jewish groups or a southern branch of the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday in Albany.
The device was intended to be a truck-mounted radiation particle weapon that could be remotely controlled and capable of silently aiming a lethal beam of radioactivity at its human targets. The concept was that victims would eventually die from radiation sickness. Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, is accused in a federal complaint of developing "a radiation emitting device that could be placed in the back of a van to covertly emit ionizing radiation strong enough to bring about radiation sickness or death against Crawford's enemies,"
states the complaint attributed to an FBI agent. Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, also is identified as a co-conspirator and listed in the complaint as Crawford's acquaintance. Feight works for an electronics company in Columbia County. He is accused in a federal complaint of agreeing to help Crawford construct the electronic controls for the device.
Crawford never actually obtained a radiation source and the device was not fully constructed, officials said. During the past year, the complaint indicates he was dealing with an undercover FBI agent pretending to be a supplier of radiation equipment, such as x-ray tubes
used in construction projects or medical devices. At one point, the undercover agent sent an email to Crawford showing different x-ray systems that could be supplied.
The investigation broke open in April 2012 when Crawford allegedly went into an Albany-area synagogue and "asked to speak with a person who might be willing to help him with a type of technology that could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies, specifically, by killing Israel's enemies while they slept," the complaint says. He referred to Muslims and enemies of the United States as "medical waste," according to court records.
Later that day, Crawford telephoned an Albany Jewish organization, using his cell phone, and made a similar offer, the complaint states. An FBI agent's affidavit indicates that someone at the unidentified synagogue contacted police, who relayed the information to the FBI. At that point a Joint Terrorism Task Force began an investigation. Rabbi Matthew Cutler of Congregation Gates of Heaven in Schenectady said a "strange man" came to their synagogue in April 2012 and began discussing a device he developed that would protect the Jewish people, though he did not specify what it was. Cutler said that when they told the man they were not interested, he asked for suggestions on what he could do with his creation and employees told him to contact the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York.
"They had a hard time getting rid of him," Cutler said. "He had this device, this plan on what to do."
The employees, who are secretaries, were so shaken by the interaction they notified Guilderland police, Cutler said. He said he believes police interviewed Crawford and the synagogue increased security after the troubling interaction.
Shelly Shapiro, director of the Jewish Federation in Albany, said Crawford never visited their offices and his only contact with the organization was a brief telephone call last year. After the encounters with the Jewish organizations, the FBI began investigating Crawford and took steps to get close to him. The FBI complaint states that on June 5, 2012, Crawford met at a Scotia restaurant with a person working as a confidential source for the FBI. Crawford allegedly talked about his enemies and of being "tired of getting 'raped,' that there are people out there who have decided that they don't get their fair share in life, and that (Crawford) wanted to stop these people." In telephone calls recorded by the FBI, Crawford identified himself as "a member of the Ku Klux Klan, specifically, the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan." Crawford is listed on several websites as a member of Americans Demanding Liberty and Freedom, a Galway-based Tea Party group.
Two months ago, in a five-part text message monitored by the FBI, Crawford, said that he found a power-supply for the weapon in a message laced with political anger. The text messages were sent on April 15, the day of the Boston Marathon bombing. "Well, tell it to your treasoness bedwetting maggot in chief," Crawford wrote, apparently referring to President Barack Obama, according to a transcript in the complaint. "He started bringing the scumbags (here) wholesale as he got in charge. He directed the ins (U.S. immigration agency) to start bringing the muzzies here without background checks."
LOL!
Even though the person involved was supposedly smart enough to build this 'weapon', they never did.
The only thing that all three groups might have in common is that they are all in the sights of the Obamites.
So, here we are, back to the 'domestic terrorist/bitter clinger/racist/Joos/Teaparty' meme, supposedly inventing a gee whiz scifi weapon without enough zot to bring down a sparrow.
(makes you wonder if the Obamites are using small and portable directed energy weapons on people (Breitbart?--most people I have seen who are having a heart attack are far more pale, not reddened in their complexion)
I'm thinking semi-sane idiot massaged and groomed by informants to look like a threat to low-information voter types and buzzword groups.
Did I miss anything in the cliche?
I'm convinced there are a few well-groomed (by informants) marginally functional people out there who are ready-made media events with just a little spin.
>Something gets ugly and the patsy gets busted to show how well the Feds are doing their jobs and take the heat off.
Doubtless, every alphabet enforcement agency has a few of these 'cases' around, just waiting for budget time to pull their rabbit of choice out of the hat and gin up some press.
In the event they actually make something that goes 'boom' or works, either the agency stops it and puts a feather in their hat, doesn't stop it but 'solves' the crime with incredible speed, or they take the kook off somewhere and milk them for the details on the gadget.
The charge was conspiracy-based, needing only an agreement between two parties to work toward a sanctioned activity, not an operational 007 Q special device.
A KKK member who was trying to help the Israelis? Hmmmm....
BUMP
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? Israel, the KKK, and tea parties by and large have no use for one another.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Klucker supporting Israel, a bit odd. The genesis of the second Klan incarnation (current, unless one considers the 60s a third incarnation) came from the League of Mary Phagan, may have the name wrong, who burned their first cross on her grave. Leaders of the Phagan group becoming founders of the KKK. Rabid Jew and Catholic haters, along with blacks. Didn't like Republicans much either.
Agreed. The KKK hates the Jewish people and Israel.
I had a friend who slipped into that world. I hadn’t seen her in years and we were just catching up. She went off on an anti-semetic rant and I had to (politely) inform her that I had “Jew blood” in me and that I’d converted to Judaism.
Oops.
Very credible: a KKK member out to help Israel.
LOL.
What a loon.
“He should have built a Golem.”
You have to know how to pronounce the tetragrammton to get it to “go,” though.
Tricky stuff, that.
Thanks for calling the golem help line. For Hebrew, press 1, for Yiddish, press 2, for Ladino, press 3. Guy: When are they gonna get to English??
I don’t know of any reason to think there was ever a golem vs. Muslim conflict. But earlier this week, there was a bear vs. shark thread, so maybe there should be a golem vs. jinn topic.
Awkward. Did she try to backtrack or what?
“Awkward.”
That’s exactly what I thought. In retrospect, it’s actually pretty funny.
No, she didn’t backtrack. She stumbled for a bit, then concluded that I wasn’t a ‘real’ Jew and that I ‘didn’t count’.
The sad part is, some of these people would changed if they were talked to. In our society though, I don’t think we encourage that.
There was no way that she was going to change her beliefs. She was flat-out determined.
Some people can’t/won’t be reached.
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