More On The Most Spiked Story This Year

There's been very little said about the biggest domestic terror story of the year: the white supremacist movement in the Pacific Northwest, its connections to a bomb planted at the Spokane, Washington MLK Day parade in January, and what it really means in an America with a black President.  There's been little to no information to report about suspect Kevin William Harpham, but after six months the legal defense for Harpham is beginning to firm up.

Kevin Harpham's attorneys wrote late last month that none of the four definitions of a "weapon of mass destruction" in federal law referenced an "improvised explosive device."

"Mr. Harpham's preparation for trial, including his consultation with potential expert witnesses and confrontation of government witnesses will differ, depending on what legal definition of 'weapon of mass destruction' forms the basis of the indictment," Kimberly A. Deate and Kailey E. Moran wrote on Harpham's behalf. "Clarification of this issue will also ultimately be necessary for the formulation of jury instructions."

In a motion this week, federal prosecutors responded to a request for a bill of particulars by attorneys for Harpham. The Justice Department's lawyers said that under federal law a weapon of mass destruction is a destructive device, which is defined as an explosive, incendiary or poison gas bomb, grenade, rocket having a propellant charge of more than four ounces, missile having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce or mine.

In other words, his lawyers aren't going for the defense that Harpham wasn't trying to kill black celebrants at a parade to honor the nation's most famous civil rights leader, but that the device he was using to try to kill people didn't have enough bang to be considered a weapon of mass destruction.  That's what his lawyers are saying.

Awesome.  Maybe David Duke should make a statement on Harpham's behalf as part of his Presidential campaign.