Time: Thu Jul 17 18:50:08 1997 by primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id SAA16453 for [address in tool bar]; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:46:51 -0700 (MST) by usr07.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id SAA02748; Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:44:41 -0700 (MST) Date: Thu, 17 Jul 1997 18:44:16 -0700 To: (Recipient list suppressed) From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: Setting up Militias (and knocking them down) (fwd) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <snip> > >------------------------------ >NOTE: Bradley Glover is a known infiltrator-provocateur from waaaay >back and close associate, friend, and "ideological brother" of Stewart >Waterhouse. I wonder if he'll "cut a deal" or turn state's evidence, or >disappear into the federal witness protection program like Jim Ellison >did? >Stay tuned! The plot is sure to thicken. >------------------------------ > >>From the Dallas Morning News: > >Attack on U.S. bases thwarted > >7 people are arrested in militia plot, officials say > >07/17/97 > >By Bruce Tomaso and Kelly Ryan / The Dallas Morning News > >A plot to attack Fort Hood and other U.S. military installations was >thwarted with the arrests in four states of members of a so-called >militia group, authorities said Wednesday. > >The seven people, taken into in custody in separate arrests in recent >days, targeted military bases they thought were being used to train >United Nations troops, said Jim Keathley, a captain with the Missouri >State Highway Patrol. > >"The discussion was to attack the U.S. government facilities," he said. > >[Note: I believe that is probably the only thing that ever took place - >a discussion. E.W.] > >Those arrested include two people, Bradley Playford Glover, 57, and >Michael Leonard Dorsett, 41, who were seized July 4 in a campground in >San Saba County, Texas, just west of Fort Hood. > >Authorities said the men were en route to the huge Army base near >Killeen, where they planned an assault to coincide with an Independence >Day open house. > >Fort Hood officials said they were familiar with the alleged plot but >declined to comment in detail. At no time, they said, were any personnel >or visitors in danger. > >[Of course not. 7 people were going to take on a military base?? E.W.] > >"Fort Hood has procedures in place to protect its people and facilities. >However, as a matter of Army policy, we do not discuss specific >security matters," said Jim Wittmeyer, deputy director of public >affairs. >He added: "It is inappropriate for us to comment on matters under >investigation by civil law enforcement agencies." > >San Saba County sheriff's officials said they were under instructions >from the FBI not to discuss the arrests. > >The FBI office in San Antonio is coordinating the Texas facet of the >multistate investigation. Calls to that office were not returned late >Wednesday. > >According to federal documents, at the time of their arrest Mr. Glover >and Mr. Dorsett were carrying suspected explosive material, what >appeared to be a homemade silencer made of plastic pipe, two rifles, >five pistols, 1,600 rounds of ammunition, cannon fuse, a container >labeled "riot smoke," a night vision scope, a radio scanner, two >bulletproof vests, and a manual entitled Militia Soldiers Operations >Handbook. > >[Oh. I guess with all of that, they stood a real chance of taking over >Ft. Hood. -E.W.] > >In all, authorities said, 14 pipe bombs have been recovered from members >of the nameless militia band, along with machine guns and other weaponry >and military paraphernalia. > >Capt. Keathley said his agency first uncovered the alleged plot to >attack military bases state troopers infiltrated a meeting last April of >the "Third Continental Congress" in Independence, Mo. About 200 people >from across the country attended the meeting, a sort of convention of >paramilitary groups, radical survivalists and other anti-government >types. > >While there, the undercover troopers heard a small, splinter group talk >about overthrowing the U.S. government and replacing it [with a >Constitutional Republic,] Capt. Keathley said. > >"They got together to discuss the direction they felt the government >should go," he said. "Their belief is that the federal government is >going to take away a lot of their rights, for instance their guns >rights, that the United States is slowly being taken over by U.N. >control." > >[This is the discussion referred to above. The men probably also felt >that they might one day be arrested on fictitious charges. Just goes to >show what loonies they were. E.W.] > >The case was subsequently turned over to the FBI, he said. Capt. >Keathley said all those involved in the splinter group have been >arrested. He added that while the group members were heavily armed and >talked boldly about revolution, their alleged intrigues were thwarted >with no one having been physically harmed. > >"There have been no bombings or terrorist acts," he said. > >[Imagine that.] > >The others arrested in the case were identified as Terry and Kevin >Hobeck, who were taken into custody on weapons charges in the remote >mountain town of Creede, Colo; Thomas and Kimberly Newman of Wichita, >Kan., associates of the Hobecks who had visited them in Creede; and >Merlon "Butch" Lingenfelter, of Mondovi, Wis., who was charged with >possession of two pipe bombs and two machine guns. > >According an FBI agents' affidavit unsealed in Denver, the Hobecks >offered Mr. Dorsett and Mr. Glover "safe haven," in Creede, a hamlet >of 360 people high in the Rio Grande National Forest of southwestern >Colorado. > >[Which probably translates into: "How'd you like to come and live on our >ranch and be survivalists together?"] > >The Associated Press contributed to this report. > > © 1997 The Dallas Morning News > >=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= >Unsub info - send e-mail to majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com, with >"unsubscribe liberty-and-justice" in the body (not the subject) >Liberty-and-Justice list-owner is Mike Goldman <whig@pobox.com> > > ======================================================================== Paul Andrew Mitchell : Counselor at Law, federal witness B.A., Political Science, UCLA; M.S., Public Administration, U.C. 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