Meet The Senior Citizen Militia Members Arrested In Georgia Bio Attack Plot
Meet The Senior Citizen Militia Members Arrested In Georgia Bio Attack Plot
By Ryan J. Reilly
November 2, 2011
“The Rally Begins - Nelson Waller: True Patriot Captain Dan Roberts is MC (to Nelson’s left) from “The Georgia Militia attends the 2003 Georgia State Flag Rally”
Federal authorities on Tuesday arrested four Georgia senior citizens for allegedly plotting to attack U.S. citizens and government officials with the deadly toxin ricin. Let’s meet the players.
Frederick Thomas; Cleveland, Ga.; 73
Thomas was allegedly the leader of the bunch. He lives in a brown two-story family residence that sits on two acres of property. The first meeting allegedly took place at his home, where he claimed he had enough weapons to arm everyone present.
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Dan Roberts; Toccoa; 67
Roberts drives a 1990 Red Ford Ranger pickup and lives in a yellow-sided home on a 1.8 acre plot of land. Roberts allegedly said he knew people in Habersham County who ‘had a substance that could kill people with a very small amount.’ He claimed he’d been talking to a former Army soldier living in Stephens County whom he descibed as a ‘loose cannon’ who manufactured ricin. Roberts said he personally saw the ricin in powder form.
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Ray H. Adams; Toccoa; 65
A retired Department of Agriculture employee, Adams lives in ‘a single story shelter constructed of wood plants and a metal roof.’ The rear of the shelter, according to an FBI affidavit, ‘is a travel trailer used for its kitchen facilities and storage.’ It’s located on 17.21 acres.
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Emory Dan Roberts, 67, who was one of four militia members arrested yesterday in a wide-ranging terrorism plot, was also a neo-Confederate activist who has rubbed elbows with hate group leaders.
In 2003, Roberts helped organize a protest in Toccoa, Ga., against attempts to change the Georgia state flag, which at that time featured the Confederate battle flag in its design. The flag was replaced in 2003 by referendum.
Roberts’ “Georgia State Flag Rally” had on the bill prominent members of neo-Confederate hate groups. One of the speakers listed was Nelson Waller, a South Carolinian who has been a member of the hate groups Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), which believes “mixing the races is rebelliousness against God,” and the League of the South (LOS), a secessionist organization. League leader Jack Kershaw once opined, “Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery.”
