Second Amendment Task Force organizer Schaeffer Cox prepares to address fellow gun rights supporters at Friends Community Church in Fairbanks, Alaska. His baby face belies the allegations against him – that he played a key role plotting with others to murder a judge, state troopers and other government officials in Alaska, a case one expert says is indicative of a booming sovereign citizen movement across the country.RACHEL D’ORO
Associated Press
ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Schaeffer Cox carries himself with youthful swagger as he spreads a message to his many admirers of an out-of-control federal government bulldozing individual freedoms.
Federal prosecutors portray him quite differently: as a dangerous Alaska militia leader who with others amassed a huge cache of illegal weapons while plotting a strategy to one day kill judges, state troopers and other government officials.
According to prosecutors, Cox, the 28-year-old head of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia, believed his group would eventually need to take up arms against the government, and “be sufficiently armed and equipped to sustain a take-over of the ‘government’ or become a new government in the event of a ‘government collapse.”‘ So he and others allegedly hatched a plan intended to kill two government officials for every one militia member who was killed – a strategy known within the group as “241” or “two for one.”