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Fire the beam weapons! A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison over his dream of a novel "weapon of mass destruction":
A 52-year-old industrial mechanic who was the first person in the U.S. convicted of trying to produce a weapon of mass destruction under a 2004 law intended to stop terrorists from using radiation-dispersing "dirty bombs" was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison followed by a lifetime of supervised release.
Glendon Scott Crawford, of Galway in upstate New York, planned to kill Muslims because of their religion as well as other people whose political and social beliefs he disagreed with, U.S. Attorney Richard Hartunian said. "This is a classic case of domestic terrorism," Hartunian said after Crawford's sentencing by U.S. District Judge Gary L. Sharpe.
Investigators began tracking Crawford in 2012 after he approached two local Jewish groups with his idea for how they could defeat their enemies using a mobile X-ray weapon. Prosecutors said Crawford also sought support for the device in 2013 from a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard in North Carolina who was an FBI informant.
Also at NBC New York. Here's a story about Glendon Crawford and his friend Eric Feight being charged back in 2013.
The moral of this story? Trust no one and do it yourself.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @09:55PM
The moral of this story? Trust no one and do it yourself.
Only if you are completely devoid of a moral compass, or basic humanity.
The moral of the story is not "do it yourself" (subtext: "don't get caught"), the moral of the story is don't seek to create a weapon of mass destruction and murder countless numbers of your fellow humans. Or else.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:06PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OnpkDWbeJs [youtube.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:47AM
LOL, hi Aristarchus, ever manage to get that gerbil out of your ass?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:07PM
That's right. Irradiating the general public to no meaningful end is the TSA's job. Leave it to the professionals.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 19 2017, @12:26PM
He planned to fondle his victims' genitals, too?
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday January 18 2017, @10:34PM
A term with oodles of meaning as applied in this case.
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(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday January 19 2017, @12:27PM
That term is so odious and vapid. I want to go back to "ABC weapons" (Atomic Biological Chemical).
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Thursday January 19 2017, @02:15PM
From all the military people I had met they all referred to it as NBC (nuclear, biological, checmical) and then the alternate meaning of No Body Cares.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:35PM
The moral of the story is that if everybody had its portable X ray gun, people would be nicer to each others.
Account abandoned.
(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday January 18 2017, @11:57PM
Mobile x-ray guns don't kill people, people kill people.
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 19 2017, @12:17AM