White Supremacists Gets 32 Years

             Kevin William Harpham, a 37-year-old white supremacist, was sentence to 32 years in prison for placing a bomb-laden backpack along the route of a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade in Spokane, WA, in January. Luckily, police officers found the backpack in time to save the lives of thousands of people. In the backpack was a 6-inch steel pipe with 100 grams of black powder and over 100 fishing weights. He coated the pipe with an anticoagulant, which prevents blood clotting. His plan was to trigger the bomb from afar and watch many people die in front of him. "Today, Mr. Harpham faces the consequences of his hate-filled act. A prototypical 'lone wolf' such as Mr. Harpham presents a particularly vexing threat -- with nothing foreshadowing a carefully planned attack," Laura M. Laughlin, special agent in charge of the FBI Seattle office, said in a statement (cnn.com). It is sad that there are still people like this living in our country. It's 2011 people, time to get over racism. 

           The author of this article, Michael Martinez, presented no bias in his writing. He did not add any personal thoughts or opinions on the matter. What he did do was present quotes and facts such as age or number of materials to validate his writing. I thought that it was helpful when he added that Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general for the civil rights division, said, "Acts of hate like this one have no place in our country in the year 2011, but yet, unfortunately, we continue to see attempted violence in our communities due to racial animus" (cnn.com). It is true that acts like this do not belong anymore. Martinez did a good job of choosing quotes to use.

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