Anti-government white supremacist guilty [View All]

[FormerOstrich]

This is why racial profiling makes us less safe. This guy wanted to set off a "dirty bomb". I notice that he wasn't stashed away in a brig for years. Notice how our existing laws can work. Notice....well you guys know I don't need to keep ranting.

JACKSON, Tenn. (AP) -- A federal jury convicted a white supremacist Thursday of attempting to acquire chemical weapons and explosives to destroy government buildings.

In tapes recorded by an undercover agent and played at his trial, Demetrius Van Crocker said that he dreamed of setting off a dirty bomb at the U.S. Capitol and that he wanted a helicopter license so he could bomb black neighborhoods or spray them with poison gas.

Van Crocker, a farmhand from McKenzie, Miss., was arrested in 2004 after the FBI agent, posing as an employee of the Pine Bluff Arsenal in Arkansas, gave him a water-filled Sarin gas canister and a small quantity of C-4 plastic explosives

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