Three Georgia men accused of conspiring to obtain explosives now face a much more serious domestic terrorism charge — conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction, Northwest Georgia News reports, and it barely gets a mention by the media.
Terry Eugene Peace, Brian Edward Cannon and Cory Robert Williamson on Monday waived arraignment and pleaded not guilty to the domestic terrorism charge as well as charges of conspiring to defraud the government.
All three have pleaded not guilty, but there’s this:
Peace, Cannon and Williamson — all
members of a militia in Georgia — participated in online chat
discussions between Jan. 23 and Feb. 15, 2014, that were monitored by
the FBI.
During the conversations online,
they discussed using guerilla war tactics and planned to launch attacks
against a metro Atlanta police station and several government agencies
in February 2014.
The three men attempted to “recruit
other individuals to join them and to carry out similar operations in
those individuals’ home states.”
Peace allegedly told other militia members to choose targets including “road blocks, TSA checkpoints, sheriffs/police conducting operations outside the Constitution” as well as to participate in the “removal of government people who support extra-Constitutional activities.”
An undercover FBI source met with the men in 2014 after the three
‘patriots’ sought to obtain several explosive devices, including a
thermite-mix charge and a dozen pipe bombs constructed for “maximum
fragmentation.”Peace allegedly told other militia members to choose targets including “road blocks, TSA checkpoints, sheriffs/police conducting operations outside the Constitution” as well as to participate in the “removal of government people who support extra-Constitutional activities.”
Phone conversations were recorded between one of the men and an informant. Peace requested the explosives and told the informant the devices were a “key element” to their plan.
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