NEXT ON THE WHITE POWER CHOPPING BLOCK: KEVIN WILLIAM HARPHAM OF THE NAT'L ALLIANCE

You know what today is, don’t you? Today is the day that the hopefully-soon-to-be-ex-Congressman Peter King begins his witchhunt hearings on Muslims in an attempt to root out terrorists. While he is doing that, police in Spokane, WA will be dealing with one that doesn’t fit King’s profile – or the profile of anyone on the right for that matter. If you were reading left-leaning blogs or MSNBC around Martin Luther King, Jr. Day you would have heard about the bomb that was placed along the parade route of that city’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day parade. If you were reading right-wing blogs or watching Fox News, you wouldn’t have and was probably thinking how unfair it is that the right was being accused for acts of violence. Well, guess who got arrested for the bomb? Kevin William Harpham is not just a right-wing white supremacist, but also, as early reports say, a member of the National Alliance, a group that has been falling apart since its founder William Pierce died in 2002. We always find it amazing how the National Alliance always tried to push this notion that they were against violence, even while one of its leaders went to jail for a few years on assault charges, and now we have this. They are most certainly going to hope and pray that they don’t get that rep after this, and if it was up to the folks at Fox News who aren’t covering this all that much, they won’t get it. It’s isn’t up to them however, becaue the rest of us prefer to go after real terrorists as opposed to creating fake ones out of thin air based on their religion like neo-Nazis and Rep.. King choose to do.

OPB News  

The FBI has arrested a man with Neo-Nazi ties in connection with the attempted bombing on Martin Luther King Day in Spokane.

Agents arrested 36-year-old Kevin William Harpham Wednesday in rural Stevens County, Washington.

Harpham is accused of attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and possession of an unregistered explosive device.

It’s the first arrest in the case of an unexploded backpack bomb left on the route of Spokane’s Martin Luther King Day parade.

U.S. Attorney Mike Ormsby says federal, state, and local investigators have spent the last month and a half sifting through clues in the case.

Mike Ormsby: “They followed literally thousands if not hundreds of thousands of leads in arriving at the point where we could identify a suspect that we felt we had probable cause to arrest.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center says in 2004 Harpham was a registered member of the National Alliance, a prominent Neo-Nazi group.

According to their records, in the late ‘90s he was stationed at what is now Joint Base Lewis McChord near Tacoma.

He was with the Army’s 1st battalion 37th field artillery regiment.