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| Schaeffer Cox with Rep. Don Young. |
The criminal charges against him are false, but they might be God’s punishment for being too prideful, Fairbanks militia leader Schaeffer Cox wrote in a letter from jail that is being circulated among Cox’s friends and supporters in anticipation of a sentencing hearing next month.
The letter takes the form of a spiritual confession and apology.
“To be passionate and full of zeal is good, but I was foolish and full of pride,” Cox wrote. “In my foolish pride, I got on my soapbox to wag my finger at the government for every little thing they did wrong. I taunted them until they had enough and manufactured a case against me. While the criminal charges that were brought by man are lies, the spiritual charges brought before God are true,” he said.
Cox was a political candidate in Fairbanks in 2008 and during the next few years drew crowds of hundreds in Fairbanks and Western states. As part of the sovereign citizens movement, he renounced his U.S. citizenship and created a number of institutions, including the Alaska Peacemaker’s Militia, that he said could keep order if the U.S. government fell.
In his letter from jail, he goes on to say it was foolish for him to try to change the world.
“It was stupid of me to think the root problem of our national and individual moral decay could be fixed if the government obeyed the Constitution. And it was double-stupid for me to think that I, through my own efforts, could make a difference,” he wrote.
"The criminal charges that were brought by man are lies?" Interesting.
Well then I guess this video of Cox saying, in front of his young son, that it would be "killing time" if any law enforcement came to arrest a member of his family, must all be made up as well.
Gee I wonder how the FBI got those words to come out of Schaeffer's mouth?
By the way word on the street is that Schaeffer might be interested in cutting a deal. I hope that he does, because there are certainly others that I would like to see face a little justice.
Looking at you Wasilla.
Afflicted with religion.......just like someone else we know.
ReplyDeleteHmmmmm. Not exactly Letter from Birmingham Jail--huh?
ReplyDeleteCox is an idiot. And there is no bigger idiot than someone who threatens violence on others then maintains he was just too prideful. Cox would have let a whole lot of people go down while he cowered behind them. Maybe that is his definition of pride.
He'll make someone a lovely wife in prison.
ReplyDeleteI agree, and I'm thinking that's why he wants to cut a deal. He's already been road-tested by several and has decided life would be better on the outside.
DeleteWhat a disgusting suggestion.
DeleteCox is a criminal who'll be in jail the rest of his life, or close to it, most likely. THAT'S his punishment.
He was NOT sentenced to being anally raped. To joke about this is foul.
5:51 and 7:33
DeleteThank you 10:24 for your comment.
I have said before that I will post a note in opposition whenever I see these "rape them in jail" comments.
Rape is rape whether the victim is a creepy, evil criminal or an innocent child. It is a violent act that has little or nothing to do with the victim and is all about the perpetrator and their issues. The victim does not ever "deserve to be raped".
I cannot imagine the horror or fear that people in prison must feel knowing there is no way out. We do not send people to prison to be tortured by rapists, we send them to do TIME for their crimes.
Rape is not funny. It is nothing to joke about. It is never OK to tell rape jokes. And it speaks loudly about the person who makes the joke. One would hope a joker speaks from ignorance and does not actually condone or support rape--in any fashion or for any reason.
Maggie Wall in Kodiak
Representive Don Young pals around this guy?
ReplyDeleteNot since Schaeffer got arrested. Wingnut, seditionist, sovereign citizen zealot, seceder, lobbyist all apparently a-ok with Don Young (aka Yon Dung), but since the arrest something has changed.
DeleteMaybe can pull off when he gets to the Coconut Road interchange and put in a good word for Schaeffer. He's another Chuck Colson, given another 30 years.
Another god-fearing' wife beater.
ReplyDeleteI hear a lot of pride in that attempted confession of pride. Big fail.
ReplyDeleteMaybe he wants the Wasillabillies to join him in his new domain. TAWD with his Girlie Man voice would make an appropriate Cellmate. Sarah would be curled up in her Fetal Position playing the Victim. BWAHAHAHA.
ReplyDeleteHiding behind religion to try to weasel your way out of being held accountable for your actions is not pleasing to God.
ReplyDeleteI'm too pretty to go to prison.
ReplyDeleteIf all that Cox did was talk a lot, that would be one thing, but he armed himself and others and incited dangerous actions that could have hurt many people. As far as I'm concerned, it's too little and too late.
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