U.S. Charges Two New Yorkers With Building 'Death Ray' Aimed At Killing 'Enemies Of Israel'

[Purveyor]

Suspect with links to Ku Klux Klan approached Albany synagogue and Jewish group to help in bizarre plot to build 'Hiroshima on a light switch.' ABC News: One of the targets - Obama.
By Chemi Shalev | Jun.20, 2013 | 2:14 AM

U.S. Federal authorities in Albany New York have charged two men with conspiring to manufacture a remote-controlled “death ray” to be used against “enemies of Israel” – mainly Muslims.

Glenn Scott Crawford, 49, of Galway, New York and Eric J. Feight, 54, of Hudson, New York, were arrested by the FBI following a 15-month covert investigation in which Federal agents posed as co-conspirators in an attempt to build “a mobile, remotely operated, radiation emitting device capable of killing human targets silently and from a distance with lethal doses of radiation,” according to an affidavit submitted to the court by FBI investigator Geoffrey Kent.

The investigation was launched in April 2012, after Crawford, who is employed as an industrial mechanic for General Electric in Schenectady, allegedly contacted an Albany synagogue and an unidentified Jewish organization asking to speak with a person “who might be willing to help him with a type of technology that could be used by Israel to defeat its enemies - specifically by killing them while they slept.”

Crawford, who is affiliated with several branches of the Ku Klux Klan, succeeded in persuading a “high-ranking” KKK leader in North Carolina to help fund the project. He also recruited Feight, who is described as “an outside GE contractor with mechanical and engineering skills” to design and build a remote control apparatus that would allow the truck-mounted, industrial strength X-ray apparatus to be activated from a distance.

According to Kent’s affidavit, Crawford and Feight were recorded referring to their intended victims as “medical waste.” Crawford described his contraption as “Hiroshima on a light switch” saying that it would cause “everything with respiration to be dead by morning.”

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[nebenaube]

1. Sounds like the laser fire starter

Boss Hogg was gonna use...

[jberryhill]

2. Chertoff's got a new gig?

Well under their employee agreements, it all belongs to GE now.

[tularetom]

3. Death ray, fiddlesticks

[Poll_Blind]

6. LOL! That cartoon is awesome!

PB

[delrem]

4. So according as the headline, these doofuses actually build such a "death ray"?

hheeh he haw

[NaturalHigh]

5. Seems odd that someone affiliated with the KKK...

would want to kill "enemies of Israel." I thought the KKK hated Jews.

[markpkessinger]

7. That was my reaction as well . . .

. . . some years back, my brother was doing some work in the home of an elderly resident of our hometown in PA. This elderly woman showed him some old photos, one of which included a picture of our grandmother from the 1920s. (My grandparents had both been gone for many years when he saw this photograph.) My brother chucked a bit and said, "If I didn't know better, I'd say it looks like she's wearing a Klan robe." The elderly woman responded, "That's exactly what it is." When he got home, my brother immediately asked our father about it. Dad explained that the KKK had a huge following in PA in the 1920s -- it was marketed almost like a social organization along the lines of Elks or Lions clubs. He said that his parents belonged to the organization for a few months, then abruptly dropped out, and would never talk about it after that.

Years later, we got a possible clue. Seems my grandmother's parents, who had immigrated from Germany in the mid 1890s, had a story that was largely kept hidden from the family. Her mother was from a comfortable, upper middle class German Lutheran family. Her father, we later discovered, was the son of an unwed Jewish mother who had emigrated from Hungary to Germany. Her mother's family was scandalized that their daughter had become involved with a Jewish man (let alone an 'illegitimate' one), and paid the couple to come to America to avoid scandalizing the family. (After this had all be pieced together in theory, one of my grandmother's two still-living sisters confirmed the story.) My great grandfather was not a religious man, and so they made the (sad) decision to keep the truth of his background a secret. We suspect that perhaps my grandparents dropped out of the Klan upon becoming aware of their anti-Jewish sentiments.

[NaturalHigh]

8. Wow...interesting story.

Have you ever tried to do any genealogy research, like through ancestry.com or anything? You might have the material for a good book.