Fourth search warrant released in case against Peacemaker's militia members reveals new, and chilling, details about murder plot.

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From Alaska Dispatch:

The fourth federal search warrant to be unsealed in connection with weapons and murder plot charges levied earlier this month in federal court against a handful of Fairbanks-based militia members reveals new details about how Lonnie and Karen Vernon of Salcha allegedly planned to kill a federal judge and his family members. The new documents also show that the Vernons were betrayed by someone they knew. One of the informants the government used to build its case was not only a member of the Alaska Peacekeeper Militia, a group Vernon and others charged in the case belong to, but was also a coworker of Lonnie Vernon's on a recent construction job.

Now I have had some fun at the expense these militia idiots, pointing out how disorganized they were, how crazily conspiratorial their thinking was, and how easily they were manipulated by the FBI. But make no mistake these guys were definitely dangerous.

Especially this Lonnie Vernon guy who decided that it was better to murder multiple innocent people rather than be forced to pay his taxes.

As militia members discussed the situation, including a member who was secretly working for government investigators and who was also a construction co-worker of Lonnie Vernon's, Lonnie Vernon said no matter what happened, he would win, according to Westerhaus's version of events. And, a new silencer Vernon had ordered would come in handy in waging his battle.

"Vernon said that every day of his life the judge would be looking for that silencer to hit him in the back of his head," Westerhaus wrote in his affidavit to the court. "Vernon also said the judge is trying to play God over his family."

Vernon also threatened to kill members of the judge's family, the receptionist at the IRS office and an IRS agent, authorities say.

The informant had also reported that the Vernons had "numerous handguns, shotguns and assault rifles that were strategically placed at doors and windows," and that Vernon had said "he has designed his house as an ambush site and added that if 'the feds' show up he would do harm to them."

"Lonnie Vernon described his plan to kill all of Judge Beistline's family on one coordinated operation," begins Westerhaus's narrative of the events that day. "Vernon said that he would need (the confidential source's) and Coleman Barney's assistance to strike three residences at once."

The Vernons' plan called for Karen Vernon to drop her husband off near a dark area close to the home of one of Beistline's relatives, where two children also lived. Lonnie Vernon would then break into the house, "shoot everyone in the head with his new silencer" and burn the house down using glass jars filled with gasoline.

Authorities also say Vernon then tasked Barney and the informant with killing two other family members of the judge, who lived in separate houses. Lonnie Vernon handed the informant a piece of paper with addresses and descriptions of the people who lived there, and Karen gave directions to the locations, according to the affidavit in support of the search warrant.

I would hope that there is a very definite line that MOST anti-government wingnuts recognize between wanting the Federal and local government to leave them alone, and the decision to MAKE them leave them alone by murdering their children.

I have heard these "2nd Amendment Task Force" guys, and Teabaggers talk about using their second amendment rights to stand up to government intrusion into their lives, but the idea that meant murdering judges in their homes and slaughtering their children never really occurred to me.

So far there has been a deafening silence coming from local militia members and members of the 2nd Amendment Task Force concerning these arrests.  However I would like to have it clarified if THIS kind of aggression directed toward law enforcement officials is something they condone or something they abhor like the rest of the American citizens?

America awaits your reply gentlemen.