Federal agents charged four Georgia men they say are part of a fringe militia group with plotting to attack government officials with explosives and the biotoxin ricin, prosecutors in Atlanta announced Tuesday.
"When it comes time to saving the Constitution, that means some people gotta die," an arrest affidavit quotes one of the defendants, 67-year-old Dan Roberts, as saying during one recorded conversation.
According to arrest affidavits filed in the case, Roberts and 73-year-old Frederick Thomas agreed to buy a silencer, a bomb and parts to convert a semi-automatic rifle to a fully automatic machine gun from an undercover agent. Meanwhile, 65-year-old Ray Adams and 68-year-old Samuel Crump worked to obtain castor beans and produce ricin, an FBI agent states in the documents.
And during an April meeting at his home, Thomas told participants he had a "bucket list" of politicians, government officials, corporate leaders and media figures he said should be targeted to "make the country right again."The court papers include some snippets from covertly recorded chats with these guys. There are some lovely details not included in any news account known to me...
"I could shoot ATF and IRS all day long. All the judges and the DOJ and the attorneys and prosecutors," the affidavit quotes Thomas as saying.
21. CRUMP also made the following comments regarding dispersing ricin:Since I now live not far from the whole (unintelligible) of Washington, this threat attracted my respectful attention. So did this reference to a toxic substance other than ricin:
a. "You take a poind of that (unintelligible), get upwind, up around Washington, DC, get about 20,000 feet (in an airplane), and turn that shit loose, it'd cover the whole (unintelligible) of Washington."
14. CRUMP also told CHS1 about another substance even deadlier, stating "That other kind, 1 pound can kill 30 million people. CRUMP then stated, "We need somebody to back us with some damn money so we can make that other shit, which he then described as, "This is worse than anthrax." CRUMP added, "That shit's deadly! There ain't no damn, there ain't no cure it either. And it works, I think within 2 hours."Very intriguing, and very frightening. Just what is this substance? In a later conversation, Crump referenced botulism, which can be weaponized in an aerosol form. (Also see here.)
I'd also like to know just what source of money these guys had in mind.
Oddly, the FBI investigator is careful not to list the militia linked to these individuals. The Georgia Constitutional Militia does not seem to have updated its website in fifteen years. Wikipedia says that there are two (competing?) groups in that state, the Georgia Militia and the Militia of Georgia. The latter seems likely, since it is located in the northern part of the state, which is where our four "patriots" were located. Their bulletin board doesn't look very active. This thread indicates that they think Glenn Beck is soft of communism and the Tea Party was co-opted by "moderate Republicans."
Should we dismiss the threat posed by the four arrested militia members simply because they are senior citizens? I wouldn't.
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They're south of me about 60 miles and no they should get no slack because of their ages. Those idiots need to go into prison forever-- assuming this isn't some gubbermint [expletive] operation.
This thread indicates that they think Glenn Beck is soft of communism and the Tea Party was co-opted by "moderate Republicans."
I agree with Bob - they're dangerous and need to be locked up.
But they're not Tea Partiers.
Oh yes...let's lock people up for spouting bullshit to each other. While we're at it, lets lock up all people associated with the Tea Party because they probably say the same things...there just isn't enough federal agents to record them all.
Do you guys ever listen to yourselves?
"Spouting bullshit"? The complaint looks like something quite a bit more definite to me. I guess you didn't read it.
My point is simple. For all the talk you see on right-wing sites about OWS posing some sort of revolutionary threat, the simple fact is that there ain't no-one on the left talking about ricin or botulism. The American left doesn't have an Oklahoma City on its resume.
(Well, there was the time anarchists blew up the Los Angeles Times building. But you have to go back to ...what was it? 1910? I think it was that year.)
Follow-up to my previous comment: Yeah, it was 1910. Although I had heard about the LAT blow-up all my life, I never looked up the background until just now. It's actually a pretty interesting story...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_Times_bombing
The American left doesn't have an Oklahoma City on its resume.
No, but it does have several bombings (See: Ayers, William)
OTOH anyone who thinks OWS is a revolutionary threat hasn't been paying attention.
What they lack in competence they make up for in cluelessness.
What they lack in competence they make up for in cluelessness.
No more so than the Tea Party crowd. However unlike the T P'ers they haven't been co-opted by one of the political parties.
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