Definitely one of the more unique stories. I’m thinking he was as much KKK as that was a real death ray…
Via NY Post:
ALBANY, N.Y. —A Ku Klux Klan member conspired to use a remote-controlled X-ray device hidden in a truck, which he called “Hiroshima on a light switch,” as a weapon of mass destruction to harm Muslims and President Barack Obama, a prosecutor told jurors on Monday.
But a lawyer for Glendon Scott Crawford at the start of his trial said that government undercover agents dragged him further into the plot to build what media dubbed the “death ray” machine after he tried to pull away in the initial stages, when he had no more than “a piece of paper” sketching out his ideas.
In opening arguments at US District Court in Albany, New York, a lawyer for Crawford, 51, of Galway, New York, said the device would have never been built if not for the government supplying the necessary components via “criminal” sources.
“[Crawford] has strong political views and he saw Muslim extremism in Europe coming here,” defense lawyer Kevin Luibrand said.