Congressman Don Young (R-AK) Signed Seditious Document Circulated by Man Just Indicted In Plot To Kill Judge(s) & State Troopers.
In January, Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 others were shot, six of whom were killed by a rightwing anti-government zealot, Jared Loughner. The right was not responsible, we were told, because Loughner wasn’t involved in the most current and popular manifestation of rightwing paranoia, and besides, “both sides do it”.
It was a ridiculous pair of arguments then, and it’s even more ridiculous now that a small group of Alaska-based rightwing activists, at the center of a much wider network, has been arrested for plotting to murder law enforcement officers and at least one judge–and their Congressman, Don Young, has publicly endorsed one of their seditious documents, thereby violating his oath of office, and starkly illustrating how mainstream Republican Party officials collaborate with and encourage violence-prone extremists in their base.
As reported by the Anchorage Daily News on March 12:
Militia members charged in ’241′ plot to kill judge, troopers
Court documents detail plans for revenge.
By CASEY GROVE…
Federal agents made extensive recordings of Fairbanks militia members plotting to kill or kidnap judges and Alaska State Troopers and burn their houses, according to documents filed in court Friday.
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According to a post at Political Correction, in June 2009 (almost a year before his legal troubles began) Cox posted a video (included with the post) which included Congressman Don Young signing a declaration that stated, in part:
{S}hould our government seek to further tax, restrict or register firearms or otherwise impose on the right that shall not be infringed, thus impairing our ability to exercise the God-given right to self-defense and precedes all human legislation and is superior to it, that the duty of us good and faithful people will not be to obey them but to alter or abolish them and institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to us shall seem most likely to effect our safety and happiness.
This statement signed by Young clearly conflicts with his oath of office. From the Office of the Clerk of the House:
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http://dirtyhippies.org/2011/03/14/congressman-don-young-r-ak-signed-seditious-document-circulated-by-man-just-indicted-in-plot-to-kill-judges-state-troopers/
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