Infringed or unhinged? Alaska’s not-so-well regulated militia leaders

12-23-2010 • Anchorage Press

“I know how all of you feel. I know why you’re here,” said Schaeffer Cox. “You feel like there’s something horrible going on and you can’t quite put your finger on what it is, but you know it’s there, you feel helpless to stop it and you feel frustrated because the only thing that you can do is beg a tyrant to be a better kind of tyrant.” Cox was addressing a crowd of about 150 militia members and supporters in March at the Second Amendment/Constitutional Task Force, held in Kenai. His speech was laced with Sovereign Citizen code. “God gave you rights, just as a human being He didn’t give rights to a government that they can then give to you if they want, which would leave you begging at the feet of government as a subject. As a sovereign, you have the right to life, liberty and property, and a corresponding individual duty to protect those rights,” Cox said. “My greatest fear is that they’re not going to hear us until we speak to them in their language, which is force,” Cox s