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    Hang them high

    FEAR Militia Faces Death Penalty
    Sep 3, 2012 11:00 PM EDT
    In a hearing today, the U.S. military cell plotting to overthrow the government will face the consequences. Eli Lake reports.
    A Very Strange Murder Case - The Daily Beast
    Georgia prosecutors today will seek the death penalty against three soldiers based at Fort Stewart who are charged with a 2011 murder and plotting terrorist attacks in the United States.

    Tom Durden, the district attorney for Long County, Georgia, who is prosecuting the case, told The Daily Beast yesterday that he would seek the death penalty against Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, Sgt. Anthony Peden, and Pvt. Christopher Salmon, three members of a four-person cell known as FEAR, an acronym for Forever Enduring Always Ready. (A fourth member of the group, Pfc. Michael Burnett, has pled to the less severe crime of manslaughter and is expected to avoid the death penalty.)

    Burnett told the Georgia Superior Court on Monday that Aguigui was the leader of a militia that recruited active members of the military and had ordered the murders of a former member of the group and his teenage girlfriend. Prosecutors said Monday that FEAR aimed to overthrow the U.S. government and murder the U.S. president. Specifically, the group planned to poison an apple orchard in Washington State, seize control of Fort Stewart, and blow up a dam, with the aim of ultimately toppling the government. Its members bore tattoos with iconography traditionally associated with the anarchist movement, though no links to other anarchist groups have been established.

    No charges have been filed by the Department of Justice or the army’s criminal investigators in the case, though the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, as well as the army’s own investigators, aided the criminal probe. A spokesman for the army’s criminal investigation command said the probe into the FEAR plot was ongoing. He also said there were no other suspects in the case beyond Aguigui, Peden, Salmon, and Burnett.
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    From left: Pvt. Christopher Salmon, Pfc. Michael Burnett, Pvt. Isaac Aguigui and Sgt. Anthony Peden. (AP Photo (2))

    The case began nearly nine months ago when a local fisherman in Long County, Georgia discovered the bodies of Army Pvt. Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York. On Dec. 6, Roark (who had just been discharged from the army) and his girlfriend were lured into the woods for what he was told would be target practice, according to Burnett’s testimony and the prosecution. As York got out of the car, Peden shot her in the head. Salmon then forced Roark to get on his knees and executed him, according to the prosecution. The two were murdered, Burnett testified, because the small group suspected Roark of disloyalty.

    Lewis Levine, a local videographer and news reporter in Long County, was the first reporter to write about the murder. At first, Levine told me, “the local police were looking at it as a murder case. They had no indication of how widespread this plot was.”

    The Long County Sheriff’s office, according to Levine and a clerk with the sheriff’s office, soon turned over the case to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. “They don’t have the resources to investigate a double homicide of that nature,” Levine said.

    Durden declined to discuss the moment when the plot described Monday by Burnett was uncovered. But he has said in other press statements that law enforcement found $87,000 worth of semi-automatic assault rifles and other guns and bomb-making materials in the homes of the suspects and a local storage locker.

    The case began nearly nine months ago when a local fisherman in Long County, Georgia discovered two bodies.

    Press reports have described FEAR as an anarchist militia, but Durden on Wednesday said he had no evidence that the group was linked to any other known anarchist organization.

    And no known contemporary anarchist groups have proposed the kind of horrifying violence alleged in the case against Aguigui and FEAR. “There is a lot of debate within the Occupy movement and anarchist circles about tactics like property damage,” said Will Potter, an author who has covered the anarchist movement since the late 1990s. “These are debates about breaking windows. They are not about killing innocent people or assassinating the president.”

    Correction: The three soldiers facing the death penalty were originally identified as non-commissioned officers. In fact, only one is a non-commissioned officer.
    Anarchist Leader In Assassination Plot Was Apparently A Page At The 2008 GOP Convention
    Geoffrey Ingersoll | Aug. 28, 2012, 8:57 AM | 5,739 | 7

    Shortly after the media frenzy over these "anarchist" militant revolutionaries and their alleged aspirations to overthrow the government (with $87,000 of weapons and multiple members with loose lips), Gawker revealed that their leader, Isaac Aguigui was apparently a page at the Republican National Convention in 2008.

    Gawker reports that they found a photo of what appears to be Aguigui, or maybe just a guy who looks incredibly like him and also has the name "Isaac Aguigui."

    The caption of the photograph says "Republican National Convention page Isaac Aguigui watches from the edge of the floor at the start of the first session of the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 1, 2008."

    One commenter on the Gawker story quipped about how long it would be before hyperbolic pundits like Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh somehow tied this into a well-timed democratic conspiracy to sabotage the RNC. The timing is uncanny though. Break out the tinfoil hats folks.

    Aguigui allegedly started an Anarchist group that branded itself with anarchy tattoos, openly recruited, and stock piled weapons, in an alleged plot to overthrow the government and kill Barack Obama.

    Their plan ran into a snag though when one of their member, Michael Roark, allegedly had second thoughts.

    Aguigui is accused of "silencing" Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York, in a messy execution in the woods—leading to the eventual indictment of him and his "gang."

    Read more: Anarchist Leader In Assassination Plot Was Apparently A Page At The 2008 GOP Convention - Business Insider
    To sit down with these men and deal with them as the representatives of an enlightened and civilized people is to deride ones own dignity and to invite the disaster of their treachery - General Matthew Ridgway

  • #2
    Originally posted by troung View Post
    Hang them high
    On an 80' gallows with a 70' rope....
    sigpic"If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees.
    If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children."

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    • #3
      Originally posted by USSWisconsin View Post
      On an 80' gallows with a 70' rope....
      90 foot rope..:fish: just keep dropping the line
      Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost.”
      ~Ronald Reagan

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