Sunday Morning Post
Posted by Michelle Moquin on September 16th, 2012
Good Sunday morning!
I felt this article needed to be headlined so that people will understand the conditions under which this president has to operate.
Military Terror Plot: Murder Case Uncovers Terror Plot By ‘Militia’ Within U.S. Military
LUDOWICI, Ga. — Four Army soldiers based in southeast Georgia killed a former comrade and his girlfriend to protect an anarchist militia group they formed that stockpiled assault weapons and plotted a range of anti-government attacks, prosecutors told a judge Monday.
Prosecutors in rural Long County, near the sprawling Army post Fort Stewart, said the militia group of active and former U.S. military members spent at least $87,000 buying guns and bomb components. They allege the group was serious enough to kill two people – former soldier Michael Roark and his 17-year-old girlfriend, Tiffany York – by shooting them in the woods last December in order to keep its plans secret.
“This domestic terrorist organization did not simply plan and talk,” prosecutor Isabel Pauley told a Superior Court judge. “Prior to the murders in this case, the group took action. Evidence shows the group possessed the knowledge, means and motive to carry out their plans.”
One of the Fort Stewart soldiers charged in the case, Pfc. Michael Burnett, also gave testimony that backed up many of the assertions made by prosecutors. The 26-year-old soldier pleaded guilty Monday to manslaughter, illegal gang activity and other charges. He made a deal to cooperate with prosecutors against the three other soldiers.
Prosecutors said the group called itself F.E.A.R., short for Forever Enduring Always Ready. Pauley said authorities don’t know how many members it had.
Burnett, 26, said he knew the group’s leaders from serving with them at Fort Stewart. He agreed to testify against fellow soldiers Pvt. Isaac Aguigui, identified by prosecutors as the militia’s founder and leader, and Sgt. Anthony Peden and Pvt. Christopher Salmon.
All are charged by state authorities with malice murder, felony murder, criminal gang activity, aggravated assault and using a firearm while committing a felony. A hearing for the three soldiers was scheduled Thursday.
Prosecutors say Roark, 19, served with the four defendants in the 4th Brigade Combat Team of the Army’s 3rd Infantry Division and became involved with the militia. Pauley said the group believed it had been betrayed by Roark, who left the Army two days before he was killed, and decided the ex-soldier and his girlfriend needed to be silenced.
Burnett testified that on the night of Dec. 4, he and the three other soldiers lured Roark and York to some woods a short distance from the Army post under the guise that they were going target shooting. He said Peden shot Roark’s girlfriend in the head while she was trying to get out of her car. Salmon, he said, made Roark get on his knees and shot him twice in the head. Burnett said Aguigui ordered the killings.
“A `loose end’ is the way Isaac put it,” Burnett said.
Aguigui’s attorney, Daveniya Fisher, did not immediately return a phone call from The Associated Press. Attorneys for Peden and Salmon both declined to comment Monday.
Also charged in the killings is Salmon’s wife, Heather Salmon. Her attorney, Charles Nester, did not immediately return a call seeking comment.
Pauley said Aguigui funded the militia using $500,000 in insurance and benefit payments from the death of his pregnant wife a year ago. Aguigui was not charged in his wife’s death, but Pauley told the judge her death was “highly suspicious.”
She said Aguigui used the money to buy $87,000 worth of semiautomatic assault rifles, other guns and bomb components that were recovered from the accused soldiers’ homes and from a storage locker. He also used the insurance payments to buy land for his militia group in Washington state, Pauley said.
In a videotaped interview with military investigators, Pauley said, Aguigui called himself “the nicest cold-blooded murderer you will ever meet.” He used the Army to recruit militia members, who wore distinctive tattoos that resemble an anarchy symbol, she said. Prosecutors say they have no idea how many members belong to the group.
“All members of the group were on active-duty or were former members of the military,” Pauley said. “He targeted soldiers who were in trouble or disillusioned.”
The prosecutor said the militia group had big plans. It plotted to take over Fort Stewart by seizing its ammunition control point and talked of bombing the Forsyth Park fountain in nearby Savannah, she said. In Washington state, she added, the group plotted to bomb a dam and poison the state’s apple crop. Ultimately, prosecutors said, the militia’s goal was to overthrow the government and assassinate the president.
Fort Stewart spokesman Kevin Larson said the Army has dropped its own charges against the four soldiers in the slayings of Roark and York. The Military authorities filed their charges in March but never acted on them. Fort Stewart officials Monday refused to identify the units the accused soldiers served in and their jobs within those units.
“Fort Stewart-Hunter Army Airfield does not have a gang or militia problem,” Larson said in a prepared statement, though he said Army investigators still have an open investigation in the case.
“However, we don’t believe there are any unknown subjects,” he said.
District Attorney Tom Durden said his office has been sharing information with federal authorities, but no charges have been filed in federal court. Jim Durham, an assistant U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Georgia, would not comment on whether a case is pending.
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September 16th, 2012 at 10:33 am
http://www.howiecarr.com/
September 16th, 2012 at 10:54 am
So Howie is that your blog? Are you writing about aliens there now? Have you abandoned this blog?
Louise
September 16th, 2012 at 11:01 am
Get Your Mojo Back and Live Longer
Testosterone helps prevent heart disease, diabetes, more. And it’s not just for men…
The sex hormone testosterone gives a man his beard, deep voice and sex drive. It also may give all of us—men and women—better health and a longer life.
Research shows that low levels of testosterone may increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, depression and Alzheimer’s disease.
Low testosterone also can trigger fatigue, low libido, erectile dysfunction, enlarged prostate (benign prostatic hyperplasia), muscular weakness, poor endurance, irritability, poor concentration and poor memory. What you need to know now…
LIVE LONGER
An estimated 40% of men age 45 and older have testosterone deficiency—total testosterone below 300 ng/dL. (This phenomenon is called by various names, including andropause, male menopause and hypogonadism.) This deficiency is linked to…
Cardiovascular disease (CVD). In a four-year study, men with one risk factor for heart disease (such as high blood pressure) were four times more likely to develop CVD if they had low testosterone.
Other studies link low testosterone to an increased risk for stroke, blood clots, high total cholesterol, high LDL “bad” cholesterol and arrhythmias (irregular heartbeats that can trigger a heart attack or stroke). One such study concluded that “testosterone levels may be a stronger predictor of coronary artery disease than high cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes, smoking and body mass index.”
Metabolic syndrome and type 2 diabetes. Metabolic syndrome—a risk factor for type 2 diabetes—is a constellation of health problems that can include insulin resistance, abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, high triglycerides and low HDL “good” cholesterol.
In a recent two-year study, metabolic syndrome was completely reversed in 65% of men on testosterone replacement therapy (TRT).
Osteoporosis. A study found that men with low testosterone had an 88% higher risk for hip fracture.
Midlife male depression. A study from Columbia University showed that TRT completely reversed depression in more than 50% of depressed men.
Alzheimer’s disease. Research links higher levels of testosterone with better blood flow to the brain, better memory and less risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Death from any cause. In a study of 900 men, those with low testosterone had a 43% higher risk for all-cause mortality (dying from any cause). In another, seven-year study, every 173 ng/dL increase in total testosterone levels was linked to a 21% lower risk for all-cause mortality.
TESTOSTERONE TESTING
The Androgen Deficiency in the Aging Male (ADAM) Questionnaire (see box) can determine if you have symptoms of low testosterone. If you do, you should be tested for a low blood level. However, you can have so-called “normal” test results for total testosterone and still have a deficiency.
That’s because testosterone may be bound to a compound called sex hormone binding globulin, so only a small percentage reaches your cells.
Best:
Ask your doctor to test you for total testosterone and free (unbound) testosterone. You may need a doctor trained in the use of bioidentical hormones or a naturopathic physician.
Another problem with testosterone tests is that “normal” values vary widely from laboratory to laboratory. One study from Harvard Medical School found 17 different sets of “normal” values for total testosterone among 25 labs.
What to do:
If you have the symptoms of low testosterone…and your level of either total or free testosterone is below normal or borderline normal at whatever lab your doctor chooses…you should consider TRT.
MAKE LIFESTYLE CHANGES
If you have low testosterone, you can first try to boost it by…
Losing weight
Managing stress
Weight-training
Getting eight hours of sleep
Eating healthy, monounsaturated fats and limiting processed carbohydrates, such as sugar and white flour
Eating organic food (estrogen-like pesticides can stymie testosterone).
TREATMENT
If you still have low testosterone after making lifestyle changes, you may need TRT. There are four forms of TRT for men. All are effective and safe. You and your doctor can determine the best treatment for you…
Prescription 1% or 1.62% testosterone gel, such as Testim and AndroGel, which is applied once a day.
Testosterone injections, which typically are given once every two weeks, though some doctors prefer to give them once a week.
Testosterone pellets, which are surgically inserted.
Compounded 1% to 10% testosterone cream is custom-formulated by a compounding pharmacy and applied once a day.
Whatever the form of testosterone, the following is advisable…
Aim for a total testosterone blood level of 600 ng/dL or just a little higher (up to 900 ng/dL).
Recheck blood levels.
Many primary care doctors prescribe testosterone gel—and never recheck their patients. Your doctor should check your levels after one month…then every three months for one year…every four months for the second year…and every six months for the third year and thereafter.
WOMEN AND TRT
A deficiency of testosterone in perimenopausal or menopausal women can cause symptoms similar to testosterone deficiency in middle-aged and older men, such as fatigue, depression, weight gain, low libido and osteoporosis.
What to do:
Ask your doctor to test your free testosterone. If your level is low, consider treatment with testosterone cream from a compounding pharmacy at a dose of 0.5 milligrams (mg) to 2 mg daily. (This is an off-label use of testosterone, not approved by the FDA.) Most women notice more energy, younger-looking skin, thicker hair and increased libido.
Some women worry that testosterone will give them “manly” characteristics, but this does not happen with female-appropriate doses.
Source: Chris D. Meletis, ND, and Bill Gottlieb, CHC. Dr. Meletis is executive director of the Institute for Healthy Aging and coauthor of His Change of Life: Male Menopause and Healthy Aging with Testosterone (Praeger). http://www.DrMeletis.com.
Bill Gottlieb, CHC, is a health coach certified by the American Association of Drugless Practitioners and author of Maximum Manhood: Sexual Healing Secrets and Anti-Aging Breakthroughs (OPM), in which Dr. Meletis is a featured expert. http://www.BillGottliebHealth.com
September 16th, 2012 at 11:04 am
WTF is wrong with people??? The world is going nuts
September 16th, 2012 at 11:08 am
This is another case of the white boy jUStice system at work, If they were Muslims, it would have been automatically classified as a terror plot, not anarchism. There would be attempts to find out if there is a link to some foreign groups and governments, and ultimately, it would be linked to Islam by the loon industry and their minions.
But since they are white boys they are “entitled” to be anarchists rather than terrorists. Only OTW americans are terrorists.
Whites make my country suck.
Jose
September 16th, 2012 at 11:10 am
This article makes a very important pointl. These men would have gotten much more attention in the mass media if they were muslims. They would have most probably been described as “muslim fanatics/terrorists that are trying to take control of the USA”.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:11 am
you know whats unfortunate? there is a left wing conspiracy theorist named alex jones who i heard said that there will be a white al qaeda. at the time i thought that it was a silly notion. you would never see large numbers of white people being a part of a militant islamist group… now i think i know what he meant… he meant an al qaeda equivalent made up of whites…. and i am seeing it now… with anders breivik, these guys, etc…. pretty soon, if more of this continues, which i am sure it will, even white people will get harassed at airports and subways. by local and federal police. be demonized by certain media outlets, etc…
i wonder if white terrorist groups get more notoriety, would the white population of USA and abroad try and distance themselves from their extremist fringes like the muslims have been doing to theirs? and if so, how forgiving do you think the people on the outside, looking in, would be to this kind of distancing? would they be as harsh as whites are towards the muslims?
September 16th, 2012 at 11:12 am
I agree – I saw this on Twitter and immediately had the ‘what if they were’ thought.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:12 am
I agree – I saw this on Twitter and immediately had the ‘what if they were’ thought.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:13 am
Billie:
I checked out your link and found the Howie Carr Show. I thought it was a very funny coincidence.
Who would have thunk it?
I think it is funny to see our names put together making up a Media Personality.
HOWIE
September 16th, 2012 at 11:13 am
this is what happens when you preach/breed divisiveness in a nation that should be united… instead of fighting about our differences, we need to be discussing our similarities and how we can unite and use them in the common cause of repairing this nation… both inside and out. Unfortunately i don’t see this happening any time soon.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:14 am
I agree. At one point Amercia was considered the best at everything, now we are a nation of name calling, idiots. And it starts with both parties, damn when we wake up and realize that we need to come together instead of tearing at each other.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:15 am
It’s far right wing nutjobs like you that will assure President Obama is re-elected. You are a slowly but surely shrinking breed of idiots that will soon have nothing but your small minded worlds to live in SOLELY amongst one another. Thank the LORD for that!
September 16th, 2012 at 11:17 am
ED – you are a jackass
September 16th, 2012 at 11:18 am
Ed
People like you are the real problem with America. You can only tear things about and call names. Try doing something constructive for a change. Stop all the hating.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:19 am
There were guys plotting to kiill the president just after he was elected. I don’t think this case has anything to do with dividing us as a nation. It was THEIR personal agenda.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:23 am
You crazies can believe what you want to believe but the President is not a muslim and he deserves to be treated with respect just like any other President.
I didn’t like George W. Bush but I would never disrespect him because he was elected to the highest office in the land. I would venture to say that that it is the hate that you spew towards Obama that is the reason for the the division in this country.
You and the hateful republicans who blew up the economy in the first place. Now they expect everyone to have amnesa and just blame President Obama for every thing so that they can do it all all again in 2013. You sir are idiots and so is the republican party!
September 16th, 2012 at 11:25 am
How could anyone in America purchase $87,000 worth of semi assault rifles, other guns and bomb making material and not raise the eyebrows of people at the FBI and the ATF..
September 16th, 2012 at 11:26 am
Man, I’m at a loss of words here… What is going on in the heads of these people?
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September 16th, 2012 at 11:26 am
It NEVER, I repeat NEVER …. is in the best interest of the country to try to harm the President. It would contradict the very purpose of our nation… it would be cowardly… and it is 100% unamerican. A true American votes to change the reigns of power.
Get out and vote and let your voice count.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:29 am
unrest in america breeds these actions from its own citizens, so why hasn’t this administration done its job, obozo is a total failure. vote 4 mitt romney
September 16th, 2012 at 11:33 am
You on the Right should educate yourselves about the facts! No. 1 Under this administration illegal immigration has been at an all time low!
No 2. This administration stopped a tidal wave finacail depression from happing to this country when he helped GM and te other financial institutions out, can you imagine all the people who would have been put out of work across the nation if our major industry would went bankrupt as Romney suggested, that’s all your auto part stores, mechanics, assembly factories, insurance companies, and then some!
No. 3 Under this administration our sons and daugthers can go to college without fear of having major indebtness to student loans or having to carry thier own health insurance…
You should have been vocal when the republicans were giving your jobs away overseas, letting the the banks and wall street gamble with the american bankroll in the so called free market, that’s when you should have been screaming bloody murder… don’t listen to the thieves that robbed you blind, listen to the one that are trying to help you… educate yourself and stop the hating.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Jeff, yeah that’s right..BLAME OBAMA FOR THESE GUYS ACTIONS! If they were so concerned about America’s unrest, WHY DIDN’T THEY TAKE UP ARMS AGAINST GEORGE W before he left office?
September 16th, 2012 at 11:34 am
Hey Raymond, show me in the Constitution where the Federal Government is authorized to bail out a company that has made and continues to make really bad decisions?
After Obama printed trillions of dollars out of thin air, why isn’t the unemployment rate any lower? All he did was dig us deeper in debt.
When you start running out of money do you go on a spending spree by giving your last dollars to your buddies and go steal money from other people to give away to your friends?
Number 3 is really funny…. who is picking up the tab for this “free” college tuition? I think that Romney is an idiot too, and the last true president that we had was JFK. Ron Paul 2012.
September 16th, 2012 at 11:37 am
That black bastard is turning our capitalistic country into a socialist country.
September 16th, 2012 at 12:09 pm
Oops Tom, you let the B-word slip (black). Remember, you are not supposed to come right out and say thats why you hate him. We say things like “food-stamp president” and link him to “welfare queens” and give the ole wink and nod.
Then when the other side accuses you of racism, you can yell in disgust how THEY keep making it a race issue! Its a win-win. You have a lot to learn young one, but you are well on your way.
September 16th, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Paul, yes, how dare Obama use deficit spending to support American business and stimulate the economy?! We should do like Mitt, Ryan and Bush did, use those trillions in deficit spending on more tax cuts for the rich! Why do people not see the logic in this!?
September 16th, 2012 at 12:11 pm
Paul simple question where was your voice during the last administration? I did 2 tours in Iraq and went back to iraq to support the troops for 4 more years as a retired vet…
Even though I felt Bush was wrong about alot of things I supported him as my president and leader and didnt let race or political antics influence my patriotic support…
And guess what America has always bailed out companies… put that in your constitution pipe and smoke it! Tom you don’t deserve a comment you’re to far gone too see the truth!
September 16th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
I don’t like Obama either but, there is a system in place and he was voted in!! Damn man, He Is Our Commander and Chief and I was a soldier once…you take an oath to defend and protect the Constitution and the President of the United States. What These Soldiers Did Was Treason!
September 16th, 2012 at 12:14 pm
Can’t believe there are actually posts on here supporting these treasonous pieces of trash. Bombing a dam and trying to poison an apple crop to kill innocent people? Yeah, what a bunch of “heroes.” I don’t care what you think about Obama or politics, that’s stright up murder and terrorism. Death penalty.
September 16th, 2012 at 12:29 pm
You’re a shallow man, the worst of the kind,
always feeling you’ve been misaligned.
Masquerading as a do-good human,
hiding behind your purported numen.
Threatened by women and words and stories,
how pathetic a man that can’t share glories.
Your time will come. You’ll have your fall.
And I’ll be there to recount it all.
I shall enjoy to see you drink
the dose of malice that you think
you direct at all the others.
I’d drag it out if I had my druthers.
And I need do nothing but sit and wait
because your enemies will dish your fate.
Mark my words, times will change.
Aliens are learning they have more range.
One of them will take you down,
you stupid little pompous clown.
And as you’re dying you’ll cry my name,
then leave this earth in self-imposed shame.
September 16th, 2012 at 12:32 pm
That’s a damned shame, let those dogs pay dearly for their murderous acts and for tainting the image of our honest men and women in uniform, who serve our nation proudly and without self interest.
September 16th, 2012 at 4:15 pm
Out standing Prism Princess!
Zen Lill, I hope life is returning to a calmer place. You certainly deserve it.
September 16th, 2012 at 4:21 pm
NY selling out to Romney by censoring their own article. That’s a new low for NYT. No suprises there and was bound to happen as the big money turns the squeeze on NYT editorial police !!
September 17th, 2012 at 7:57 am
Today is a new day, with new opportunities to practice love. I want to practice on YOU.