Teabagger arrested over radiation terrorism plot

Glendon Scott Crawford and Eric J. Feight are an unsavory pair from upstate New York. Crawford has identified himself as a member of the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. Plus, he's a member of a Tea Party group called Americans Demanding Liberty and Freedom.

If you read this blog (as most commonsense people do), you know the Tea Party is by and large a racist movement, not unlike the modern Republican Party (which the Tea Party largely controls). But it's increasingly clear that - in addition to militant racism - terrorism is another seedy quill in the Tea Party's tricorne.

Crawford and Feight have been arrested for a bizarre terrorist plot against Muslims. Authorities say the duo tried to build a mobile radiation weapon that could sicken and kill targets. They planned to sell this truck-mounted death ray device to other folks.

According to authorities, the plot was uncovered after Crawford tried to sell the device to a synagogue - but the synagogue didn't buy the device, despite Crawford's pleadings. Employees of a local Jewish organization rightly alerted police of this "strange man." Crawford also tried selling the weapon to undercover informants posing as a South Carolina-based Klan group. Feight and Crawford also planned to test their remote-controlled death ray at a hotel.

So when are investigators going to drop the hammer on the Tea Party as a whole? Documents that were unearthed recently show how the FBI spied on Occupy, even though there's never been a single instance of Occupy trying to carry out a terrorist plot. (These same documents show that an unnamed group had actually tried to assassinate Occupy supporters.) But the Tea Party has been involved in terrorism attempts again and again, and the right-wing media continues to reprint their press releases verbatim.

(Source: http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Terrorism-radiation-plot-uncovered-in-Albany-4609567.php)