Trial set to begin for Alaska men charged with plotting to kill government employees

Homeland Security Report Warns Of Rising Right-Wing Extremism

05/15/09

If you think the conservative "Tea Party" movement is daunting, take a look at a new report issued by the Department of Homeland Security that says right-wing extremism is on the rise throughout the country.

In the report (a full copy of which is below), officials warn that right-wing extremists could use the bad state of the U.S. economy and the election of the country's first black president to recruit new members to their cause.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/14/homeland-security-report_n_186834.html

Alaska militia members spoke of hanging bodies from lamp posts: prosecutor

By Yereth Rosen

ANCHORAGE, Alaska | Tue May 8, 2012 8:41pm EDT

(Reuters) - Three members of a pro-gun Alaska militia plotted to kidnap or kill two law enforcement officers for every militiaman arrested or killed, in tough talk that included discussion about hanging bodies from lamp posts, a federal prosecutor said on Tuesday.

Schaeffer Cox, a fixture in the Fairbanks political scene who founded the "Alaska Peacekeepers Militia," is on trial in Anchorage along with fellow members Coleman Barney and Lonnie Vernon on weapons and murder-conspiracy charges linked to the plot, dubbed "2-4-1."

The men have pleaded not guilty. They face terms of up to life in prison if convicted of the most serious charges.

Evidence of the plot and the illegal weapons acquired to carry it out lay in 100 hours of recorded conversations obtained through informants, Assistant U.S. Attorney Yvonne Lamoureux said in opening statements in U.S. District Court in Anchorage.

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