‘Sovereign Citizen’ Militia Leader Boasted Of ‘Nifty’ Bombs, Lasers, Boats
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Cox was first put on a watch list on February 16, 2010, about a year before he and four other members of his Alaska Peacemakers Militia were arrested for allegedly stockpiling weapons and plotting to kill a federal judge and Alaska State Troopers.
Though the full speeches are still sealed, the documents include an excerpt from a speech Cox gave in Montana, in which he reportedly described selling people into slavery as a possible outcome of the “common-law court” system that would take the place of the current justice system.
According to the documents, Cox answered a question about “capital murder or a capital crime” cases and common-law trials, saying “I don’t think we can deal with those until our current system is very, very decrepit, but common law jurisprudence says that in the case of murder that person has forfeited their right, and at that point the victim can choose.”
He continued that in those cases “if the pain they went through is so horrible if they want to spare other people the pain by deterring others, by putting that person to death, that’s up to the victim or the victim’s family. They can do that, and that person can be hung; or they can sell that person into slavery for the rest of their life. That person is owned by the person they violated, and they can sell him or they can kill him.”