Salon.com > Francis Schaeffer Cox http://www.salon.com Tue, 21 May 2013 02:42:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 “Delusionally dangerous” Alaska militia leader gets 26 years http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/delusionally_dangerous_alaska_militia_leader_gets_26_years/ http://www.salon.com/2013/01/10/delusionally_dangerous_alaska_militia_leader_gets_26_years/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 19:55:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=13167404 The Southern Poverty Law Center Alaska Peacemaker Militia founder and gun-rights advocate Francis Schaeffer Cox — described by federal investigators as a “delusionally dangerous man” — will serve almost 26 years in federal prison, despite his show of last-minute contrition.

The 28-year-old defendant, who became a modern-day poster boy of sorts for the militia movement, was convicted by an Alaska jury last June of nine federal charges – seven of them illegal firearms counts — related to a conspiracy to kill a judge and law enforcement officers. He was acquitted of charges of carrying a handgun while conspiring to purchase destructive devices and possession of a handgun while discussing the murder conspiracy.

“Well, I, uh, I put myself here, with my words,” Cox told the court yesterday before he was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Robert Bryan, the Anchorage Daily News reported in today’s editions.

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