Anti-government white supremacist guilty

[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

http://news.lycos.com/wired/story.asp?section=Breaking&storyId=1511198

[Ecumenist]

1. Now, that good old boy is damn far too white, American and european ...

for anyone to expect him to be subject to laws that take care of those "christian hatin' brown folks". Ya'll know better n' that... He's just a good ole boy who done lost his way, that's all. He don't mean nuthin' by it... He's got "blood in the face", I thought ya'll knew that.. :sarcasm:

[Judi Lynn]

2. More on this freeper:Tennessee Man Arrested on Chemical Weapons Charges

Tennessee Man Arrested on Chemical Weapons Charges
Posted: November 1, 2004

Federal authorities in Tennessee arrested a man for allegedly attempting to acquire chemical weapons, explosives and weapons of mass destruction in order to attack government buildings.

After a seven month investigation, Demetrius Van Crocker, 39, a farmhand from McKenzie, Tennessee, was arrested in Jackson on October 25, 2004, for trying to obtain what he believed were ingredients for sarin nerve gas and C-4 explosives from an undercover agent, according to a federal complaint filed in U.S. District Court.

According to the arrest affidavit, an undercover federal agent was introduced to Crocker by a cooperating witness. Crocker told the agent that he hates Jewish people, admires Adolf Hitler and that creating a concentration camp for Jewish insurance executives “would be a desirable endeavor.” Local officials familiar with Crocker said that in the 1980s Crocker had been involved with a white supremacist group.

Crocker also told the agent that “it would be a good thing if somebody could detonate some sort of weapon of mass destruction on Washington D.C., while both the U.S. Congress and Senate were in session.”
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http://www.adl.org/learn/extremism_in_the_news/Anti_Government/tennessee_chemical_weapons_041101.htm?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_the_News

[Judi Lynn]

3. Van Crocker received "honorable mention" in this article:

National Security Watch: 60 right-wing terror plots foiled
By Danielle Knight

Posted 7/12/05

In the 10 years since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing killed 168 people, roughly 60 right-wing terrorist plots have been uncovered in the United States, according to an upcoming report by the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Project. The plots, all foiled by law enforcement, reportedly included violent plans by antigovernment militia groups, racist skinhead organizations, and Ku Klux Klan members to use various types of chemical bombs and other weapons.

The plots demonstrate that the Department of Homeland Security still needs to closely monitor right-wing groups, says Heidi Beirich, with the Intelligence Project. The DHS was criticized by hate-group experts in April when an internal planning document on domestic terrorist threats was leaked to the press. The DHS report listed radical leftist groups, such as the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, which have been involved in numerous arson cases, but not violent right-wing militia and skinhead groups.

Rep. Bennie G. Thompson of Mississippi, the ranking Democrat on the House Committee on Homeland Security, is calling for the DHS to do more to fight right-wing domestic terror groups and to work more closely with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. "The FBI has a considerably more thorough view of domestic terrorism than DHS," says Thompson. The DHS has said that the internal document was never intended to be made public and does not represent all its assessments on domestic terrorism.
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Oct. 25, 2004: FBI agents in Tennessee arrested Demetrius "Van" Crocker after he allegedly tried to purchase ingredients for deadly sarin nerve gas and C-4 plastic explosives from an undercover agent. Crocker, who was involved with white supremacist groups, was charged with trying to get explosives to destroy a building and faces more than 20 years in prison.
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/articles/050712/12natsec.htm

Attaboy, freep. Your true colors are flying.

[Judi Lynn]

4. Crocker case expected to go to jury this afternoon

Crocker case expected to go to jury this afternoon

By PETE WICKHAM
[e-mail]

The federal case against Demetrius "Van" Crocker is expected to go to the jury this afternoon in U.S. District Court in Jackson. They will not hear anything more from the defendant other than what was heard on undercover tapes made by FBI agents.

Crocker waived his right to testify just before noon today, and the defense rested its case after cross-examination of their expert psychologist, Dr. Fred Steinberg of Memphis.

Crocker, a 41-year-old farm hand, faces a six-count indictment that could net him anywhere from 5 years to life in prison. He is charged with paying $500 to obtain plastic explosive and a canister he thought held materials to make Sarin nerve gas from an undercover FBI agent in October 2004. He is also charged with possession of non-registered firearms.

Steinberg stuck to his diagnosis that Crocker suffered from depression, low self-esteem, and tended to exaggerate in order to help that condition.
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Gutierrez, who evaluated Crocker in May of last year, said he found considerable evidence that Crocker was malingering, which means to exaggerate or fake answers in situations like psychiatric evaluations.

"He exaggerated his depression, and faked that he had brain damage or cognitive deficits," Gutierrez said.
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http://www.jacksonsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060413/NEWS01/60413003

[BR_Parkway]

5. What's missing from the articles? How the gov't used Patriot Act

to protect us from this guy and how they wouldn't have gotten this conviction without those changes.

How they never referred to the White guy who tried to buy sarin gas and use on the entire Congress as a terrorist, but had he been a little darker skinned...

How they never called a Sarin gas canister WMD, but 'sand toilets' were referred to that way for months after it had been disproven.

And how if he had substituted the phrase "gays" for "Jewish insurance executives" he'd be referred to as a pro-family Christian rather than a hate-monger.

[MADem]

6. Funny--they mention he made "terroristic threats" but they never call

him what he is--A TERRORIST.

Guess he doesn't fit the profile!

The only white American males on that list, apparently, are registered Democrats, and members of peace groups, like the Quakers...

[file83]

7. The guy wanted to fly helicopters so he could spray black neighborhoods...

...wow, this guy didn't even realize that getting a regular pilot's license to fly a crop duster would have been a LOT easier & cheaper for his "Dr.Evil" like plan - what a dipshit.
He hates but can't think. Hmmm...I wonder if those two are inversely proportional? :rofl:

[sofa king]

8. If he were a pro-government white supremacist....

...He'd be Trent Lott.