The leader of the group, Schaeffer Cox, is also a "leader of  the Alaska Peacemakers Militia and the Second Amendment Task Force. He has helped organize multiple gun-rights and personal freedoms rallies, including the 2009 “Freedom Fest” at the Carlson Center. Cox is a member of a “Liberty Bell network,” which sends out mass notifications to assemble a crowd of witnesses when a member believes his or her rights are being violated."

Cox is also a member of the Sovereign Citizens Movement and claims that the Alaska Court System is a for-profit corporation with no authority over him. The FBI considers the Sovereign Citizen Movement as a domestic terrorism group.

So why hasn't this news made headlines across the USA?  If these were Muslims, Fox News would be headlining them every hour.  

Media Matters, has however, picked it up.

 

These guys don't sound like the ordinary right wing hard liners.  They fit the description of terrorists, except looking at their photos in the Anchorage Daily News, they don't fit the stereotype of the typical terrorist that Americans have been conditioned to fear...whether its a suspicious looking passenger on an airline or a group with headresses kneeling down to pray. They look like your neighbors in a typical white suburb.

Maybe Rep Peter King should investigate the characteristics of these guys and include them in his hearings.  But that would enrage a big part of his constituents.