Sovereign citizen convicted of plotting to overthrow the West Virginia state government.

Thomas David Deegan

Courtesy of Metro News:  

A Wood County jury quickly convicted the man Friday who had threatened last fall to seize control of the state capitol and the state government of West Virginia. 

The prosecution’s case centered on a conference call recorded last September where Deegan talked about his plan. 

“The conversation was the actual crime itself,” Wood County Prosecutor Jason Wharton told MetroNews Friday morning. “The jury was able to hear the entirety of the conference call as well as some recordings from the regional jail and some other testimony.” 

“He made statements with regard to a plan to essentially bring many individuals to the state capitol in Charleston in an attempt to overtake the offices in that complex,” Wharton said. 

Deegan told those on the conference call they should shoot those who offered any resistance.

Oh he seems nice.

Here's more from the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Deegan is accused of laying out his overthrow plans in a series of conference calls -- one of them as recently as Sept. 14 -- where he called on like-minded armed extremists to grab their firearms and assist him in an attempt to overthrow state government, according to court documents. 

His intended plan was to remove several state government leaders from their offices, charge them with treason and replace them with sovereign citizens. After apparently setting up a sovereign citizen-style court system, those found guilty of treason would be put to death.

Gee who could have guessed that this might be the result of constant anti-government rhetoric pouring out of  right wing radio and conservative news outlets 24 hours a day?

Poll Finds that almost one third of Americans would support the military overthrow of their own government.

Courtesy of the Guardian: 

Almost a third of Americans could imagine supporting a military coup against their own government, according to a new poll. 

The YouGov survey showed 29% of Americans could imagine supporting a coup. Yet, 41% said they could not imagine supporting such an event. 

YouGov, which conducts internet polls about “politics, public affairs, products, brands and other topics of general interest”, surveyed 1,000 people online on the issue. 

They found that 43% of Republicans would support a military coup in certain instances, while only 20% of Democrats and 29% of independents would. 

The overall numbers increased when participants were “asked whether they would hypothetically support the military stepping in to take control from a civilian government which is beginning to violate the constitution”. 43% said yes to this, and 29% said no.

Well that's comforting.

And yet where were these people when the Bush administration lied us into an illegal war, started its own propaganda program to hide that fact, and created a program to spy on the American people? 

Oh that's right. That was all done by a white guy in the White House.

The idea that these idiots want to overthrow THIS government, which has worked tirelessly to repair the damage left by the last administration, stop the wars, and create millions of new jobs,  and not the one that almost bankrupted the country, and was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans, is proof positive that their motivation has nothing to do with merit and everything to do with skin color.

Mark your calendars kids, tomorrow is the day that Operation American Spring takes back the country from President Obama and his Marxist cohorts. Or not. Probably not.

Courtesy of Raw Story:

Self-styled revolutionary patriots plan to converge on Washington, D.C., this week to drive President Barack Obama and disloyal lawmakers out of office. 

“We are calling for the removal of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Harry Reid, Mitch McConnell, John Boehner, Nancy Pelosi, and Eric Holder as a start toward constitutional restoration,” said retired Army Col. Harry Riley, leader of the Operation American Spring protest group. “They have all abandoned the US Constitution, are unworthy to be retained in a position that calls for servant status.” 

Operation American Spring aims to pressure those lawmakers who remain – or are replaced by officials of their own choosing – “to sponsor and pass very Constitutionally crafted State legislation to dissolve the size, powers, scope and spending of the U.S. Government by 2/3rds.” 

The activists say they expect 10 million to 30 million like-minded Americans to join them Friday in the nation’s capital for a rally patterned after Occupy Wall Street and “Arab Spring” protests.

I wrote about these yahoos last week, and have to admit I kind of thought they would self destruct well before the 16th. But I guess not.

And if you thought that their claim that there would be between 10 to 30 million protestors was batshit crazy, wait until you hear what else they imagine will take place: 

Organizers also anticipate “incremental nullification” by state legislatures of “all withholding taxes, employment taxes, employer taxes, and income taxes.” 

“This will effectively DOUBLE the size of ALL American Middle Class family weekly paychecks and cause our local city and town economies to boom,” the group promises on its Facebook page.

Apparently they don't teach economic classes at Benedict Arnold University.

I imagine that this protest will probably be about as successful as that trucker protest last year. 

However what I really think these idiots are trying to do is to get themselves shot by law enforcement so that they can claim that Obama has declared martial law and is attacking REAL patriotic Americans.

And if you think that is far fetched, take a look at where they plan to stage a similar protest on the same day:

They also plan a sister event the same day in Bunkerville, Nevada, where militia groups have gathered to support scofflaw rancher Cliven Bundy in his dispute with the federal government.

These people are getting desperate. And when you combine desperate with crazy, bad things could very likely be about to take place.

Or perhaps six people will show up, nobody will notice, and they will slink back to the mental health facilities from which they escaped.

With new gun control laws on the horizon, when will Alaska Congressman Don Young keep the pledge he made to convicted terrorist Schaeffer Cox to help overthrow the government?

The video above is from way back in 2009, before Schaeffer started getting into legal trouble and well before the Feds started building their case against him. A time back when, for reasons that are not clear to me, he was considered a respected political leader and was able to attract the attention, and support, of Alaska's lone Congressman.

Here is a portion of a Q and A with Congressman Young at that Denny's restaurant in Fairbanks which starts at the 58 second mark:

Unidentified man: "If any government should decide that we have to register certain of our arms or turn them in, what would you say?"

Congressman Young: "Don't do it. I sincerely mean that. Don't turn them in!"

Later in the video Alaska's sole Congressman is shown signing the document presented that day by now convicted domestic terrorist Schaeffer Cox, which read as follows:

"Let it be known that we, the people of Alaska, stand in recognition of the true principal that whenever a government abandons the principle for which we have created it and even becomes hostile toward that which it was a defender of, it is no longer a fit steward of the political power that is inherent in the people and lent to this government with strict conditions. These conditions are clearly defined in the United States Constitution and understood by the common man. Furthermore, to the extent that our government violates these conditions, they nullify their own authority, at which point it is our right and duty, not as subjects but as sovereign Americans, to entrust this power to new stewards  who will not depart from the laws we have given them."

"This being the case, let it be known that should 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 our God-given right to self defense which precedes all all human legislation and is superior to it, that the duty of us good and faithful people will be to not obey but to alter and 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."

Clearly this is a poorly written call for the overthrow of the federal government if ever they attempt to implement new gun laws requiring a tax, registration, or restriction of any American's firearms. (Which of course is EXACTLY what is about to happen.)

And at the 2:50 mark you can clearly see Don Young signing it.

This of course begs the question, with these new gun restrictions clearly coming down the pike, exactly WHEN will Don Young alert his constituents that it is time to take up arms and overthrow the government?

And of course the follow up question would be, WHY do we Alaskans have as our representative somebody who "pals around" with domestic terrorists and pledges to them that he will join them in a gun fight against the federal government in response to legislation designed to protect our children from violence or death?

(P.S. If the video above looks familiar to you, it is probably because I posted it way back in March of 2011. Believe it or not I was reminded about it the other day by somebody working with the FBI. So yeah, they are paying attention.)