Kevin Harpham 2011 MLK Day Parade Spokane Backpack Bomb
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January 17, 2011 Kevin Harpham 2011 MLK Day Parade Spokane Backpack Bomb In Spokane, Washington, a backpack bomb is placed along a Martin Luther King Day parade route. It is aimed at a civil rights march, but is found and disabled before it can explode. White supremacist Kevin Harpham is convicted and sentenced to 32 years in federal prison. Harpham made over 1,000 posts on online forums at the extreme rightwing website Vanguard News Network, and Frazier Glenn Miller who killed 3 at 2 jewish centers in 2014 offered his support.
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- *Vanguard News Network Kevin William Harpham made over 1,000 posts on online forums at the extreme rightwing website Vanguard News Network.
*Frazier Glenn Miller contacted Harpham and made offers of support
*Vanguard News Network Kevin William Harpham made over 1,000 posts on online forums at the extreme rightwing website Vanguard News Network.
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The man accused in the failed Martin Luther King Day bomb plot in Spokane, Wash., has reported links to the white supremacist movement, including a past membership in a neo-Nazi group.
Kevin William Harpham, arrested Wednesday and charged with attempting to use a "weapon of mass destruction" in the foiled Jan. 17 plot, appears to have made over 1,000 posts on online forums at the extreme rightwing website Vanguard News Network.
Harpham, who apparently posted under his own name and then an alias, was active in the forums until a day before the bomb scare. More than a week before that, Harpham was one of several users who offered to house prominent white nationalist Craig Cobb. Cobb is on the run from Canadian authorities for alleged hate crimes and had called his supporters to launch violent attacks in the name of white supremacy, according to a report by The Vancouver Sun.
Accused MLK Bomb Plotter's Alleged Ties to Neo-Nazi Movement - ABC News
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10 hours ago - ... Frazier Glenn Miller Linked To Spokane MLK Parade Bomber ... in the murder of 3 people at Jewish targets the other day, Peter Bergen ...
Kevin Harpham was arrested for allegedly attempting a racially motivated bombing of a 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. parade in Spokane
This morning, Marcy Wheeler 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...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.”
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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?” [my emphasis]
Much more from Marcy...
The Terror Networks and the Hate Criminals
Published April 15, 2014 | By emptywheel
In response to Frazier Glenn Miller’s arrest in the murder of 3 people at Jewish targets the other day, Peter Bergen reminds that white supremacist terrorists have been more dangerous in recent years than Islamic terrorists.
Now let’s do the thought experiment in which instead of shouting “Heil Hitler” after he was arrested, the suspect had shouted “Allahu Akbar.” Only two days before the first anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings, this simple switch of words would surely have greatly increased the extent and type of coverage the incident received.
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