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I was busy on Friday and completely missed this when it came on originally so I actually just watched it for the first time yesterday. I then decided it was something that I should share with all of you because it puts what I wrote yesterday in a more national context.
Also yesterday my friend Dennis Zaki was rooting around the Internet and stumbled across Shaeffer Cox's Twitter page. What is reveals is a sad little man obsessed with heroic military fantasies and with an out of control Napoleon complex.
And this is how he introduces himself to his potential Twitter followers:
Schaeffer Cox
@00SchaefferCox Fairbanks, Ak
Commander of 3500 man militia. God gave everyone the right to life, liberty, & property, along with a duty to defend those rights individually or cooperatively.
As you can see Cox boasts of "commanding" a "3500 man militia" yet, as of this post, he only has a very disheartening nine followers in total. Once has to wonder when the other 3491 are going to get off of their asses and get themselves a Twitter account.
As you might expect his actual tweets are full of self-aggrandizing language and an obvious struggle to get a grip on reality.
I am posting some of his tweets here just in case anybody decides to take his account down and to give more insight on how this little turd thinks.
Now I'm on twitter! The Feds will make up my first 50 or 60 followers. Thanks for keeping the government safe!
22 Jan via Mobile Web
The DA made a motion to bar me from talking about the constitution in court! LOL He'll be work'n as Chip N' Dale dancer if he keeps this up.
25 Jan via Mobile Web
(It should be pointed out that less than two months after he sent this tweet Schaeffer Cox was standing in front of an Alaska judge with his hands shackled in front of him, while wearing a bright orange jumpsuit. Gotta love justice!)
We will commission a new militia unit this week.
29 Jan via Mobile Web
(More imaginary troops for Cox to lead I take it.)
LEX REX lat. -"Law is King". This means the government is not above natural Law.
2 Feb via Mobile Web
Its a girl! Having babys is like processing a moose, it's hard & messy, but it's not that often. So you just get all set up and knock it out
4 Feb via Mobile Web
( Comparing the birth of your child to slaughtering a moose carcass would usually be a pretty disturbing red flag to indicate someones mental condition, but considering who tweeted this it is certainly not the most obvious indicator that this guy is truly fucked up.)
FBI stormed a WA restaurant yesterday looking for Kelly Russel. He wasn't there but now we can't get ahold of him.
7 Feb via Mobile Web
What I take from these tweets, and the information the FBI gathered with their recordings, is that Shaeffer Cox was a legend in his own mind, a nobody who desperately wanted to prove to the world that he was a somebody.
However that certainly does not mean he was not potentially a dangerous individual, because he was. Those with nothing to lose are perhaps the most dangerous of all, and though Cox had a wife a newborn baby, he clearly did not believe them more important than his own ego and sense of superiority over law enforcement.
We should all breathe a sigh of relief that he was caught before his paranoia resulted in the loss of an innocent life. The FBI were able to gather the evidence they required to get this dangerous man, and his co-conspirators off of the streets. But I have to wonder just how many others like Schaeffer Cox are still out there? Angry, armed, and dangerous, but not yet on law enforcement's radar?
P.S. By the way who do you think Cox will get to defend him in this criminal court case?
It would need to be somebody who understood the minds of militia members, perhaps somebody who shared Cox's fear of the government, and perhaps even somebody who ran in the same circles as Schaeffer. But who could fit that bill?
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| Picture of Shaeffer Cox and Joe Miller from Cox's Facebook page |
(Picture courtesy of the Alaska Dispatch.)
Cox + Miller = Palin connection. Birds of a feather, flock together!!
ReplyDeleteIs just me, or do those tweets sound awfully similar in context and grammar to a certain Washed-up Wasilla Lou Sarah?
ReplyDeleteBut I was sure that all the 'homegrown terrorists' were from Chicago...that's what I learned during the 2008 campaign (repeated over and over again, very loudly, from podiums across this great land.) Isn't it interesting that all the guys arrested since then have been angry armed white guys? And that not once has the right expressed any gratitude to the government for finding these guys and getting them of the street?
ReplyDeleteCan you say Westboro Baptist church?
ReplyDeleteHas FOXNews reported that Sarah is palling around with domestic terrorists?
ReplyDeleteOT, have you seen this, G? Pearl Harbor? Really?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x624134
Was Lou Sarah a follower on his twitter account?
ReplyDeleteHope this fuckwad enjoys his years in prison.
Um hum..
ReplyDeleteScaeffer Cox + Joe Miller = Sarah Palin.
Gryphen:
ReplyDeleteIf Cox' birth name is Francis and he took on the name Schaeffer, I have a thought for you to ponder:
A "Schaefer" is a herder of sheep in the German language.
(It actually is spelled with the "a Umlaut" i.e. an "a" with two dots on it, but when one uses the qwerty keyboard, the dots are substituted by an "e".
So he is herding his sheep and keeping them from straying? Must sound good to some penny-ante wanna-be dictator.
Cox and his ilk are the perfect storm
ReplyDeleteof vicious religious racists who wrap themselves in the flag and the cross, and proclaim righteousness from the gun barrel. I hope to hell he gets a 10 year sentence for this. When he gets inside a prison, he's going to find out exactly what happens to smug white goons with KKK ethics.
Off-topic, but this just arrived in my inbox:
ReplyDeleteHello, We have received new release date information related to the order you placed on February 06 2010 (Order# 102-3820198-1401052). The item(s) listed below will actually ship sooner than we originally expected based on the new release date: Geoffrey Dunn "The Lies of Sarah Palin: The Untold Story Behind Her Relentless Quest for Power"Previous estimated arrival date: June 10 2011 - June 14 2011New estimated arrival date: May 13 2011 - May 17 2011
People of AK dodged a bullet and a dangerous situation with Joe Miller. In doing the right thing people are Herod for following up reporting on Miller. Beware the politicians who will not answer questions nor allow any media coverage.
ReplyDeletePeople need to pause and examine the mind sets of extremists and militia people and politicians who embrace them and egg them on. Palin's constant divisive rhetoric hammering her us against them theme distorting in her habitual lies is like putting gasoline on fires. Inciting by agitating people who already are incapable of rational thinking presents a national security problem.
I have no doubt Loughner was doing his patriotic duty.
In consideration of how the Palin's project maybe the Palin's and Beck actually have an agenda to eliminate non "Christians", instigate civil war recruiting extremists while praising them they are patriots. Seriously, who is behind and pursuing radical transformation issuing the battle cry Take the country back"?
It is time to take the like of these people seriously instead of believing they do it for money.
If our President had been associating with Cox to the extent that Palin and her family were, you can imagine the shit storm that we would be seeing on every Fox News program AND the major news outlets. They won't even have the cajones to ask Sarah about her pallin' around with terrorists.
ReplyDeleteRecall how Sarah wanted the McCain campaign to lie about the Palins' involvement with the AIP. Where there is smoke, there is fire.
For the journalists who want to get it right, here are your questions:
1) Schaffer Cox, the domestic terrorist who was captured by the FBI recently for a plot to kill a judge, highway patrol officers and their families, said in an interview in 2009 that he knew you well. Can you explain your dealings with such terrorist groups in Alaska?
2) During the McCain campaign for president, Todd's membership in the AIP was discovered and your speech for the group was revealed, can you explain your involvement?
3) You strongly endorsed Joe Miller for Senate, a candidate with ties to Schaeffer Cox and actually used his militia as his personal body guards. His connection to such extremist groups is well known, can you explain your involvement?
4)In your own words, Governor, aren't you pallin' around with terrorists?
Maybe it is just me, but it seems like the more strident someone is in their anti-government, pro-freedom rhetoric, the more likely they are to have very rigid ideas about how other people are supposed to live their lives.
ReplyDeleteAnd if they say that rights and freedom come from god, they always seem to know how god wants you to live your life.
It all seems Orwellian to me.
i can't escape the observation that cox looks a lot like mcveigh.
ReplyDeleteand i also can't escape the observation that the language and anti-gov't sentiments that cox expresses (which are embedded in a previous post) are very similar to those of sarah palin. he is just more intelligible. and creepier because of it.
Call them the Tea Party Gang. Commonsense Americans who will fight to defend the Constitution and love America. Despicable
ReplyDeleteHey, Gryph,
ReplyDeleteAs soon as I saw this nutjob's arrest that you posted the other day, I fired off an email to Rachel. She had JUST done a story on that congressional hearing/witch hunt on terrorists of the Muslim variety. I told her that she oughta take a look at your column, the ADN, etc., and do a followup about these REAL American terrorists. I'm so glad she did!
Keep up the great work, Oh Learned Kemo Sabe! Your dedication to getting the truth out makes a difference, each and every day.
If joke miller doesn't defend Cox, WAR probably will.
ReplyDeleteCox's psychology seem very similar to the narcissistic, half-witted, part-term state grifter, doesn't it?
Wondering exactly where parnell fits into this picture, cause it is unlikely that he has nothing to do with it. His endorsement of miller, keeping palin's pals on staff, etc speaks volumes for who he is.
Wasn't it Sinclair Lewis who said "When fascism comes to America, it will be draped in a flag and carrying a cross"?
Is there a possibility that the Gov or Todd would have been emailing with members of such radical domestic terrorist groups?
ReplyDeleteIf Anonymous, the talented geeks on the internet who can break any security system, can you please get involved to send Palin to her naughty chair never to be heard from again. Also, too, if you could check the emails and calendar of Governor Walker, it would be swell.
By the way, Walker is starting to act like Palin in so many ways. He believes he is above all process and law. He feels so persecuted that he and his wife "have grown closer through prayer". He rewarded his cronies while firing guards at his previous government job, but when it was found out that his new guards were felons, he had to hire the old guards back. He is Sarah Palin in a Frank Burns mask.
I was at the WI Capitol this week, and when Palin called those wonderful people union thugs, I was furious. The protesters were some of the nicest people I've ever met. Loud,yes! Concerned for low income wage earners, yes. Non-violent, yes. Taking their country back, yes. Concerned for the schools, yes! Concerned for seniors who would have their medicaid cut and get kicked out of nursing homes, yes. All in all, they were wonderful people. Secretaries, plow drivers, professors, farmers, students, teachers, firefighters, police, etc. and not one UNION THUG in the bunch, Sarah!
Gryphen, thanks for continuing to write about these stories. These are my childhood nightmares still true, and as we watch the disparate threads tie together - the Koch$$, the antiwoman legislation, workers' rights trashed, white supremacists armed with weapons and the internet - I smell The Handmaid's Tale in our future. Ever vigilant! The arc of history depends on us.
ReplyDeleteAnon@ 7:11 AM
ReplyDeleteIsn't it wonderful how Palin, the Fox entertainers, rw bloggers, and their supporters are able to make such judgments without talking to any of the protesters involved in the movement?*
**extreme sarcasm intended**
It boggles the mind.
Since the AIP and the more disturbing militia types are clearly linked to Palin, if she actually decides to run for POTUS, she would be forced to distance herself from these assholes - which would be difficult, since she was thought to be a member of the AIP from some in the movement.
ReplyDeletePalin is a cretinous peawit who believes in all of the loopiest nonsense that she's been exposed to, like the secessionist fantasies, witchcraft, dinosaur ridin' humans, and any other batshit crazy garbage she encounters. She is so goddamn gullible that all of it resonates in her tiny little empty skull.
I hope she starts getting questions about these imbecilic flaccid Rambo wannabes who she's been palin' around with. It would be entertaining to watch her try and weasel out of THAT one.
Actually, s paylins weaseling has ceased to be entertaining a long time ago. She needs some fresh material. Not likely to happen tho.
ReplyDelete"Chafin' Cocks" will get is soon enough.
ReplyDeleteWhat is so amusing is that the militia had 5 members, 5!! Not 3500, not even close; even in the ADN article this band of idiots were concerned that they did not have enough members to carry out their despicable acts. I sleep well at night knowing though, even if this militia was but 5 strong, the FBI was paying attention and watching and listening. It gives me great hope that even the smallest and "fringiest" of these domestic terrorist cells are being closely monitored.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that if Palin sticks her head out to run for national office, this will be one investigation that will be done on her and Toad by the Repubs and Dems. Remember, she already tried to lie her way out of Toad's affiliation and McCain's group caught her in the untruth and stopped her cold turkey. She and Toad will be stopped again. What assholes!
ReplyDeleteAnon 5:04am has an interesting observation regarding the "Schaeffer" name choice of little Francis Cox.
ReplyDeleteI bet you a penny that like SP fancies herself "Queen Esther", Cox chose a German word meaning "Shepard" to play into a messianic sense of self-importance.