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TexasTowelie

(116,888 posts)
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 03:58 PM Dec 2016

KKK member plotted to kill Muslims - with a homemade death ray

Based on court records, Glendon Scott Crawford is ruthless enough to plot an elaborate mass killing of unsuspecting Muslims.

But, it seems, he's also foolish enough to enlist the help of strangers - who turned out to be undercover law enforcement officers.

Which is probably why, according to the Albany Times-Union, Crawford's friends described him as a cross between Darth Vader, an intergalactic mass murderer, and Forrest Gump, once described by The Washington Post as a low-IQ Southern character with a propensity for gate-crashing history.

Crawford was sentenced Monday to 30 years in federal prison for plotting to build an industrial X-ray machine that would spew lethal doses of radiation powerful enough to kill people from a distance. His plan, according to a federal complaint, was to place the machine inside a truck or a van, park the vehicle outside Muslim institutions and activate it remotely. The goal was for his targets to be dead long before they realize they'd inhaled poison.

Read more: http://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2016/12/kkk_member_plotted_to_kill_mus.html

[font color=330099]The article continues with information about the plot and his anti-Obama tirades.[/font]

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KKK member plotted to kill Muslims - with a homemade death ray (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2016 OP
It's easier than that. HassleCat Dec 2016 #1
Well, The Post said he was low-IQ Southern character. TexasTowelie Dec 2016 #2
home made death rays are no good - you need ones from ACME. bluedigger Dec 2016 #3
LOL underpants Dec 2016 #4
A death ray? Turbineguy Dec 2016 #5
My guess is death rays have been tried before. gordianot Dec 2016 #6
 

HassleCat

(6,409 posts)
1. It's easier than that.
Mon Dec 19, 2016, 04:08 PM
Dec 2016

Rent a radioactive source used for taking x-rays of pipe welding. Sneak it into the mosque and open the container. This was the plot line of some 1970s detective show, although I forget whicj one. Rockford Files, maybe.

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