Bill Fulton answers your questions.

As promised here is FBI informant Bill Fulton's response to your questions.

Courtesy of 2emptynest: First of all, thank you, Mr. Fulton, for doing our country a great service. We need people like you infiltrating these groups to expose these people for what they truly are and many thanks to Gryphen for his forum and his unending search for the truth. My question is a general one - do you think that there is a connection, or any centralized organization, between the militia groups found in various states? Do you think that the current threats of gun control will make them more radical?

Fulton: Have you heard of the internet?  Not to be flip but of course they use social media, just like the rest of us.

And to your second question, yes I do think the talk of increased gun control makes them more radical. No doubt about it.

Courtesy of Deb:  Since the issue of gun control is now front and center of our national debate, I do hope this is one of the questions that you will take and elaborate on. What has been the general consensus among your colleagues and yourself as to what they are hearing or what concerns them if some measure of gun control is passed? What is being discussed in regards to how these militia groups might respond if some gun control laws are passed? Personally, what type of gun control laws, if any, would you like to see pass?

Fulton: In my view again the wrong question is being asked, gun control is a symptom of a much larger issue.

The one thing that nobody seems to be looking at here is that maybe we need to sit down like adults raise the debate a little and have a serious discussion on weather or not the Constitution as written is working anymore. Gun Control is a small part of that. Does the 2nd amendment guarantee a right to own guns I believe yes. Do we need the second amendment anymore is a question that we should be asking, and people much smarter than myself need to be debating.

While were at it we should debate all of it. We are not a country where only rich, educated, white, male, land owners get to vote and hold office anymore. Maybe we need to sit down and figure out if we should allow the country to be run by the document those men produced. I have sworn an oath to defend the Constitution and in no way am I saying we should just toss it away. What I am suggesting is that it may be time for all of us to grow up a little and just deal with it.

I don't know if that's possible since we live in a world where most of our information is spoon fed to us in 30 second sound bites by networks we choose to watch because they agree with our point of view.

As for the second part of your question, I can't really discuss that.

And as to the last, I refer you to the first part of my answer.

Courtesy of Gles:  Thanks for doing this interview, both you and Jesse. Can you discern the difference between a really serious threat as opposed to someone that is a blowhard or is that left up to superiors? I ask this because there may be a time when instincts dictate there is no time to wait for backup. Are you empowered to act?

Fulton: I don't actually identify threats. That is the job of my supervisors, though I can bring them information and leave it up to them to decide if it is actionable.

And yes I am allowed to act in order to defend myself.



Courtesy of Anonymous 6:06: Did you ever meet Todd? Is he as wimpy in person, as he appears in interviews? 

 Fulton: I did meet Todd socially many times. However I am not going to lower myself to making any disparaging comments about the man. He is who he is.

Courtesy of Katie Annie Oakley: Q for Mr. Fulton: Did you get the sense or have first-hand knowledge that Schaeffer Cox and Sarah Palin dealt directly with each other, that he took first-person direction from her or was everything handled through intermediaries, such as Frank Bailey, Joe Miller, etc.? 

OR: 

Did you get the sense or have first-hand knowledge that Norm Olson and / or Ray Southwell or other ACM members and Sarah Palin dealt directly with each other, that he / they took first-person direction from her or was everything handled through intermediaries, such as Frank Bailey, Joe Miller or Schaeffer Cox, etc.?

Fulton: I do not have any knowledge that Sarah Palin and Schaeffer Cox ever met personally, and as far as I know Palin always used intermediaries.

Courtesy of Thanks a Bunch John: Bill, a sign appeared on the door of DropZone after the hand-cuffing incident reading: 

IF YOU'RE JUST LOOKING JUST GO SOMEPLACE ELSE WE ARE NOT A FUCKING MUSEUM IF YOU ACT AS SUCH YOU WILL BE ASKED TO LEAVE 

WE SELL TACTICAL AND MILITARY EQUIPMENT IF YOU HAVE ISSUES WITH KILLING PEOPLE PROFANITY OR CONSERVATIVE GUN LOVING PARANOID TEA PARTY ZOMBIE HUNTERS TURN AROUND AND GO CRAWL BACK IN YOUR PEACE AND LOVE HOLE 

THE MANAGEMENT DROPZONE 

Were you responsible for that, if not who was? 

Was it to appease the militants you were trying to fool - and didn't they realize it would further cement their image as unhinged? 

I never forgot that sign... "If you have issues with killing people.." Seriously? 

Thanks, Laurie

Fulton: To be blunt, yes I authored that sign. And I take full responsibility for what it said, and how it was said.

However by way of explanation you should know that after the Hopfinger incident we got a lot of crazies coming in and threatening my employees and disrupting our ability to conduct our business. I just didn't feel we needed to deal with that any more, and thought the sign might dissuade people from just walking in off the streets and being assholes. Which it did.

I do regret that I put the sign up now of course, but keep in mind I was getting hit pretty hard back then and I was not exactly in a kind and generous frame of mind.

It should be noted that the sign did nothing to scare away my regular clients, or people who were actually interested in making a purchase. In fact they loved it.

Courtesy of Anonymous 9:04: Had Bill ever heard of any prostitution ring around AK and was this ever discussed by those he worked with during his undercover time? Did Bill feel like he could trust local police and did he have a good rapport with them? Did Bill ever hear of any members of local churches that had any affiliations with the militia-types he hung around?

Fulton? Of course I heard of prostitution rings, this is Alaska!  Did I ever hear that Todd Palin was involved in any of them? No.

Yes I we had a good rapport with the police. My bounty hunting job required that I interact cooperatively with the police. No problems to speak of.

Was the militia affiliated with any churches? No not really. Schaeffer's dad was a Baptist minister and Norm Olsen runs a church of some kind, but there was no direct correlation between the churches and any militias.

Courtesy of Anonymous 9:46:  Did Bill Fulton feel that the ADN was in anyone's pocket? I know he can't speculate, but were the people he dealt with paranoid about AK media? Or did they feel it was under their control?

Fulton: No, not to my knowledge. I think the news outlets have their own agenda directed by their owners desire to make a profit, but I don't think anybody was bought off if that's what you're asking me.

Courtesy of TomandLou:  Bill in your opinion are the militias in Alaska a threat to the rest of the Country. And if so on a scale of one to ten how much of a threat and in what way?

Fulton: Well not all militias are created equal. The ones that organize to protect their families and communities are all right in my book, it is only when they threaten to kill law enforcement agents that they become a problem.

However for those militias that do have government overthrow on their to do list, yes I think that they were encouraged by Shaeffer Cox and probably see what happened to him as a reinforcement of their paranoid view that the government fears them and wants to lock them all up.

Let me add that we did not go after Schaeffer Cox because he was a member of a militia, we went after him because of what he was planning to do with that militia.

Courtesy of Anonymous 12:04: Is Sarah and Todd Palin known to be underhanded people? Did Sarah and Todd have others do their dirty work to keep their hands clean?

Fulton: Read Bailey's book.

Courtesy of Anonymous 12:13: Right now all Alaskan politicians seems crooked. Who can be trusted?

Fulton: I trust nobody who calls themselves a politician. To put it in simple terms.

Courtesy of Anonymous 8:02 PM:  

Is there any truth to this document ?  "As the G4 he wrote off numerous FLIPL’s (Financial Liability Investigation for Property Loss) and rubber stamped charges against soldiers, without proper investigations and never took into account that all facility Security was compromised with COL D***** possessing access to secured equipment around the state. 

Domestic Terrorists (Sovereign Citizens/Shaffer Cox) were caught with what seems to be many of our missing items." "Arranged for Sensitive Property to be stolen for Domestic Terrorists (Sovereign Citizens)." 

"Has spoken of support for the “Sovereign Citizens” member that have been arrested for attempts to kidnap and kill a Federal Judge and State Troopers. 

They were caught with stolen military property that looks like a shopping list of items missing from the AKARNG" 

Just curious, thanks Bill !

Fulton:I know LTC(RET) Blaylock and have for years. Although there are a few correct pieces of information in that document it was neither written nor endorsed by LTC(RET) Blaylock they didn’t even get his rank right. There is absolutely no connection between either the active duty Army or the Alaska National Guard to the Schaeffer Cox Case. This is somebody’s attempt to discredit the National Guard but they were too afraid to put their name on it because they knew it was false so they used Ken. Who ever produced this document and posted it on the internet is just as bad as those people in the document they're accusing of crimes. This document has affected my good friend (his name and phone number are on it), and misinforms the public as to certain events that may have transpired. 

Gryphen: Well that is the last of the questions. Any last words you would like to say to wrap this up Bill?

Well to sum up I don't really know the Palins that well personally and only had brief interactions with them over the years. I know that disappoints some of your visitors, but there you have it.

Over all I think Alaska is a great place with some truly unfortunate people in positions of power, but that is likely true in many places.

I really appreciate the thoughtful questions that all of your visitors provided Gryph as well as the opportunity to set the record straight. So thanks for helping to put this together.

You're not so bad for a lefty loon.

Gryphen; Yeah thanks your not such a bad guy yourself, You know for a jack booted thug.

P.S. Last night, after I finished typing this out for today, I was alerted to the fact that even though Bill had been rather careful not to define ALL militias by the behaviors of Schaeffer Cox. there were those in the Alaska militia groups that were far less magnanimous toward him.

This from an interview with Norm Olsen, who helped found the Alaska Citizens Militia, with the LA Times:

A day earlier, Olson, who is based on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, posted a tongue-in-cheek reference to Fulton, who has left Alaska because of fear of reprisals for his FBI work. 

"FBI paid informant, Bill Fulton, was found dead last night from what sources say appears to be an assassination. His hands were bound and a hood was placed over his head. Militia literature was left near the body with a note scribbled, 'payback's a bitch,'" Olson wrote in a post on his organization's Web forum. 

"Bill Fulton is very much alive NOW, but he is a man without a country. He was used by the FBI to wreck Joe Miller's bid for the Alaska Senate and has turned traitor to the militia/patriot cause," Olson went on. 

The main topic of discussion on the Alaska Citizens Militia forum was suspicions that Fulton was likely to be offed not by a vengeful militia member but by the FBI, as a way of making the militia movement look bad. 

"His cover has been blown and now he is telling tales about his involvement with the FBI and how he cooperated with them and has also divulged information about FBI operations and informants. That is a no-no," Olson wrote. "He is of no further use to the FBI EXCEPT FOR THE FACT THAT HIS DEATH WILL BE PINNED ON THE MILITIA AS AN ACT OF REPRISAL. When his miserable carcass is found, the feds will conclude that the militia whacked him. But it won't [investigate] too far." 

Other forum members appeared to agree this was indeed a possibility. 

"If he does get whacked it will be used to label Alaska militia men and women as dangerous terrorists. I would not put it past the FBI to grease him themselves in order to set up a false flag against the patriot movement up here," one forum member wrote. 

"No doubt," said another. 

Olson went on: "They'll paint the militia much like the mafia: you can [get] out, leave feet first. They can use his 'passing' as a message to anyone who affiliates with the militia that they are the savages that the central government paints us out to be."

Yeah, gee no paranoia there!

Now Norm Olsen (Pictured above and to the right standing next to Ray Southwell, the other founding member of the Alaska Citizens Militia.) is tough talking, cry baby who has a history of agitating people and then running away when they get into trouble with the law. (Think Timothy McVeigh.)

He is an agitator who is jealous of all of the attention that Schaeffer Cox has received, but at the same time terrified that the Feds might someday take his Yosemite Sam style rhetoric seriously.

Essentially he is a camouflage covered cream puff, but he is living in an area where he is surrounded by paranoid anti-social types who might actually believe he is somebody worth listening to, and that makes him dangerous.

Fulton was smart to leave Alaska.