Emptywheel: "Well Known White Supremacist" Frazier Glenn Miller Linked To Spokane MLK Parade Bomber

[kpete]

This morning, Marcy Wheeler has posted a piece at her Emptywheel blog that, for lack of a better phrase, simply blows me away, in terms of what it reveals about the truly down-and-twisted, institutionalized, racist nature of our surveillance state. In her post, we learn that white supremacist and Overland Park, Kansas shooter Frazier Glenn Miller (who's been all over law enforcement's supposed radar for decades) was directly communicating with Spokane MLK Parade bomber Kevin Harpham to the point, as noted by "...HuffPo’s Ryan Reilly, while he was still at TPM. Back in 2012, Reilly interviewed Miller about his contacts with Kevin Harpham, the MLK bomber. As Reilly notes, Federal prosecutors had used Harpham’s contacts with Miller to argue for harsher sentencing."

...Less than a week after 36-year-old Kevin Harpham was arrested for allegedly attempting a racially motivated bombing of a 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Spokane, white supremacist leader Glenn Miller sent him a letter offering to help start a legal fund on his behalf.

“Keep your chin up and stay strong,” Miller wrote in a letter dated March 14, telling Harpham that he and other members of an online white supremacist forum believed he’d “been set up.”

[snip]

Federal prosecutors used Miller’s jailhouse letter and Harpham’s response — in which he said he might have Miller screen individuals as he looked for “someone to house sit for a while” – as one of the factors that “supports the imposition of a sentence that will maximize the time the Defendant is incarcerated and subject to judicial oversight.”

Evidently Harpham’s lawyers soon informed him it probably wasn’t a good idea to be sending letters to a well-known white supremacist while in jail accused of a hate crime, as he didn’t respond to any of Miller’s follow up letters.

“He’s kind of let me know he doesn’t want anything to do with me,” Miller said. “It’s not in his self interest to associate with me, and I can understand that, can’t you?”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/harpham-s-white-supremacist-prison-pen-pal-thinks-mlk-parade-bomber-was-set-up


http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/04/15/the-terror-networks-and-the-hate-criminals/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/04/15/1292180/-Wheeler-Well-Known-White-Supremacist-Frazier-Glenn-Miller-Linked-To-Spokane-MLK-Parade-Bomber