Georgia men charged with plotting to make ricin

Reuters ^ | 01 November 2011 | Colleen Jenkins

[markomalley]

Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested four Georgia men accused of plotting to buy explosives and produce a deadly biological toxin to attack fellow U.S. citizens and government officials.

The Justice Department said the men were members of a fringe domestic militia group and had planned to manufacture ricin for use in their attacks.

The men attended meetings starting in March where they discussed carrying out crimes, including murder, in order to undermine federal and state government, prosecutors said. The targets included local police, federal government buildings and employees of agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service.

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At a meeting at Thomas' house in March, Thomas said he had enough weapons to arm everyone at the table and that he had compiled a "Bucket List" of government employees, politicians, corporate leaders and media members he felt needed to be "taken out" to "make the country right again," according to court documents.

"There is no way for us, as militiamen, to save this country, to save Georgia, without doing something that's highly, highly illegal. Murder," Thomas said during the meeting, court records show.

During a meeting in September, Crump said he wanted to make 10 pounds of ricin and disperse it in various U.S. cities, according to prosecutors. Authorities said he described one scenario in which the toxin would be blown from a car traveling on Atlanta highways.

[HollyB]

makes us wonder, that is for sure.

[Georgia Girl 2]

LOL!!

[ak3647]

Are you referring to the Hutaree? Because the answer is no. They did not have their charges dropped. The trials are currently on-going. In fact, one of them just plead guilty today:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/iteam&id=8415879

[Georgia Girl 2]

LOL!!!