Kevin Harpham

Harpham's White Supremacist Prison Pen Pal Thinks MLK Parade Bomber Was Set Up

Ryan J. Reilly | January 27, 2012, 6:10AM

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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Topics: Glenn Miller, Kevin Harpham, Racism, White People, White Supremacist Groups

Larry Deen

'Operation Exodus': Louisiana Sheriff Taps Locals For Emergency Security Plan

Zachary Roth | March 3, 2010, 5:55PM

A Louisiana sheriff plans to arm volunteers with shotguns, riot shields, batons, and a .50-caliber machine gun mounted on a "war wagon," as part of "Operation Exodus," a program to provide security in the event of a terrorist attack or civic unrest. "It's a calling," he says.

The office of Sheriff Larry Deen of Bossier Parish, near Shreveport in the northwest part of the state, last month selected for the program 200 local residents -- mostly ex-law-enforcement personnel -- and began training them in "defensive techniques in the event of a struggle," reports the Shreveport Times. The plan calls for the new recruits to be sent to protect food from grocery stores, gas from gas stations, and other crucial local resources, should the situation demand it.

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Topics: Bossier Parish, Larry Deen, Louisiana, Militia Movement, Militias, Operation Exodus, Sheriff, Shreveport Times, Stockpiling Guns And Ammunition, Terrorism, War Wagon, White People