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Montana militia loons busted before jihad starts
2002-02-28
  • Project Seven, a Montana militia group with an arsenal of weapons planned large-scale assassinations as the first step to an escalating confrontation they hoped would lead to a war with the federal government. "We found weapons, ammunition, survival equipment, booby traps, body armor, explosive, bomb-making equipment, you name it," Flathead County Sheriff Jim Dupont said. "It all certainly supports the theory that there was going to be big trouble. The last I heard, it didn't take 30,000 rounds of ammo to kill a turkey."
    Probably depends on the size of the turkey and whether it's on PCP, but I'd tend to agree...

    The militia group hoped to kill enough judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers to force the state to call in the National Guard. The plan was then to kill enough National Guard troops to catch the federal government's attention, setting off an unchecked escalation. "We're pretty sure they were planning on assassinating as many cops and public officials as possible," he said.
    Then they were gonna build a rocket and go to the moon and aim "nucular" weapons they built in their basements at Boise and demand Idaho's surrender, too.

    The militia group also collected "intelligence files" on the targeted officials and their families, who included Dupont's own name and those of a county attorney, police chiefs, district judges, various deputies and police officers and some of their relatives. "They had these information sheets, actual forms printed out from a computer," Dupont said. "They had officers' names, addresses, places they eat, places they shop, stuff about their kids. They even had information on what medications one guy's wife was taking."
    The "Intelligence Corps" also had a large stock of combination eyebrow-glasses-nose-moustache disguises.

    The group was headed by 38-year-old Dave Burgert, who was arrested earlier this month after an armed standoff that lasted nearly seven hours. Burgert had been awaiting trial on charges he assaulted a police officer in January 2001. He also faced charges of obstructing a police officer in a November 2001 incident.
    Judges being no brighter in Montana than elsewhere, he was still walking the streets over a year later instead of being in a loony bin. "My country, tizathee..."

    Burgert faked his own death and disappeared as a judge was ordering him to be taken off house arrest and placed in jail, Dupont said.
    He seen that in this, like, comic book, see?

    He was nabbed after an informant member of Project Seven led officers to the home of Tracy Brockway, where Burgert was hiding out. Brockway, 32, is charged with obstruction of justice for harboring Burgert. She also is suspected of using her job as a cleaning woman at the Whitefish Police Department to gather information about officers and their families.
    Y'see, Tracy had ambitions of being in charge of the Gestapo when Project Seven took over the country, an' she could like, order Tom Cruise to marry her.
  • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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