When right wingers/anti-gvt types go too far.

[Archangel M]

http://www.policeone.com/investigat...eign-Citizens-plot-to-kidnap-kill-Alaska-cops

FAIRBANKS, Alaska — Five people, including militia activist Schaeffer Cox, were arrested Thursday in the Fairbanks area for allegedly conspiring to kill multiple Alaska State Troopers and a federal judge.

The group had stockpiled weapons and conducted surveillance on the homes of two troopers, according to Alaska State Troopers. Some of the weapons known to be in the cache are prohibited by state or federal law, according to troopers.

In addition to Cox, those taken into custody are Lonnie and Karen Vernon of Salcha, Coleman Barney of North Pole and Michael Anderson, whose hometown was unclear. All were taken into custody without incident.

The arrests were made by the Alaska State Troopers’ Special Emergency Reaction Team, along with Fairbanks troopers, the FBI, U.S. Marshal’s Service and the Fairbanks Police Department.

U.S. District Court Judge Ralph Beistline was the judge targeted, U.S. Attorney Karen Loeffler said. Lonnie Vernon was recently indicted on the charge of threatening to kill Beistline, the chief judge for the U.S. District Court in Alaska, “in the fulfillment of his duties” and is the only member of the group facing federal charges, Loeffler said.

Beistline is presiding over a tax-evasion case involving the Vernons.

In a lengthy courtroom speech last year, Cox said he does not intend to cooperate with the court system, but he sees himself as a peacemaker between his supporters and the government.

The FBI describes the Sovereign Citizen Movement as a domestic terrorism group.

Members of the movement do not believe U.S. laws apply to them and sometimes make their own license plates or create their own legal trials, according to the FBI. A group of Fairbanks residents recently conducted their own trial of Cox at Denny’s Restaurant.

Cox has previously appeared as a public figure as gun rights activist and a legislative candidate. He unsuccessfully challenged Republican Rep. Mike Kelly in 2008.

He is a leader of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia and the Second Amendment Task Force. He has helped organize multiple gun-rights and personal freedoms rallies, including the 2009 “Freedom Fest” at the Carlson Center. Cox is a member of a “Liberty Bell network,” which sends out mass notifications to assemble a crowd of witnesses when a member believes his or her rights are being violated.

 

[Archangel M]

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/arkansas/070110-wm-shooters-claimed-to-be-"sovereign-citizens"

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - West Memphis police officers and some local prosecutors just finished training on how to identify and deal with anti-government, extremist groups.

This comes six weeks after a father-son pair of so-called "sovereign citizens", shot and killed two West Memphis police officers.

The FBI said "sovereign citizens" are anti-government extremist who believe they don't have to answer to any government authority including courts, taxing entities or law enforcement. The FBI lists the movement as a "domestic terror threat".

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[Bill Mattocks]

Sovereign Citizens reminds me of Posse Comitatus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign_citizen_movement

The sovereign citizen movement is a loose network of American litigants, commentators and financial scheme promoters. Self-described "sovereign citizens" believe that they are answerable only to English common law and are not subject to any statutes or proceedings at the federal, state or municipal levels. They especially reject most forms of taxation as illegitimate.[1] Participants in the movement argue this concept in opposition to "federal citizens" who, they believe, have unknowingly forfeited their rights by accepting some aspect of federal law.[2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_(organization)

The Posse Comitatus (from the Latin phrase meaning "force of the county") is a loosely organized far right social movement that opposes the United States federal government and believes in localism. There is no single national group, and local units are autonomous.
Posse charters were issued in 1969 in Portland, Oregon, by Henry Lamont Beach, "a retired dry cleaner and one-time member of the Silver Shirts, a Nazi-inspired organization that was established in America after Hitler took power in Germany" [Corcoran].[1] William Potter Gale has been described by one expert as the founder of the movement.[2]

Great. Just what we need, the return of the 'militia movement', tax protesters, Posse Comitatus, and the other weirdos. How wonderful.