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Date Posted: 20:38:15 03/07/02 Thu
Author: MJ
Author Host/IP: wks-166-152-9.kscable.com / 24.166.152.9
Subject: SG

Been to dang busy to read the news or see it on TV, so as to your question from below......I found this tonight and it might give you some answers. Don't know any malitia myself so have to just find stuff out on the net like everyone else. Have no idea if this is fact or someone trying to start up troubles for a person they might not like. We just never know do we? [for discussion use only]
Militia Plot in Montana Uncovered

Story Filed: Thursday, March 07, 2002 2:06 PM EST

WHITEFISH, Mont. (AP) -- Police say David Burgert is a trouble-making blowhard and his alleged ``Project 7'' assassination plot is probably fantasy.

But they are watching their backs. Very carefully.

``You never know. A lot of people thought something like the World Trade Center would never happen,'' Police Chief Bill Dial said. ``I take extremist groups seriously. Would they have done it? I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.''

Investigators believe Burgert's group was plotting to trigger an anti-government revolution. Detectives say they discovered it last month when a Project 7 member tipped them off after Burgert beat him up.

According to Flathead County Sheriff Jim Dupont, the conspirators planned to kill judges, prosecutors and police officers in such numbers that the National Guard would be sent in. Then the troops would be killed, forcing the federal government into the fray and sparking a national uprising.

How serious was the plot?

Project 7 amassed a huge arsenal -- machine guns, 30,000 rounds of ammunition, explosives, night-vision equipment, body armor and booby traps -- that Dupont estimates may have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. The police chief will not say how Burgert or Project 7 paid for the arsenal.

Authorities say Burgert's girlfriend, Tracy Brockway, 32, penetrated the Whitefish police department by getting a job as a cleaning woman, and compiled ``intelligence files'' with extensive personal information on county law enforcement officers and their families.

``When my guys were reading the `intelligence bulletins,' some were kind of taken aback, but at the same time they laughed,'' Dial said. One officer's intelligence file ``said he ate junk food and had bratty kids.''

The Project 7 name refers to Flathead County license plates, which all begin with the number seven.

Montana has gotten an image as a haven for anti-government radicals like Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and the Freemen. Flathead County, which borders Glacier National Park in northwestern Montana, is staunchly conservative. Many here work as loggers or miners and are quick to vilify environmentalists and the federal government.

But Dial dismissed any notion that Project 7 is a symptom of right-wing radicalism directed at law enforcement. ``We just view them as criminals, as thugs,'' he said.

Burgert lawyer Mark Sullivan did not immediately return a call for comment Thursday. But Brockway's lawyer, Gary Doran, said police seem to be engaging in the sort of conspiracy theories they usually ridicule.

The charges originated with ``a 17-year-old kid who got in a fight with Mr. Burgert and went away very angry and immediately gave statements to police officers,'' Doran said.

Until now, the 38-year-old Burgert has been a petty, though frequent, problem for local officers. Because he had a criminal record in Alabama and Colorado, Dupont barred him several years ago from joining the county search-and-rescue team.

``He has hated me ever since -- absolutely hated me,'' the sheriff said. ``The best description of him is, he's a 16-year-old bully with a big mouth.''

The police chief in nearby Kalispell, Frank Garner, was supposedly one of those targeted by the group. A 17-year veteran, he said he considered it a credible threat since ``not many go to these lengths.''

Burgert was arrested Feb. 8 on charges unrelated to the alleged plot and remains jailed in Kalispell, the county's largest community with a population of 17,000. He is accused of assaulting an officer when police came to arrest a friend who had fled to Burgert's home. Brockway is charged with hiding Burgert while he was a fugitive on the assault charge.

No one has been charged in the alleged assassination plot.

There are two more Project 7 members Garner especially wants to see behind bars, and investigators are building cases against them. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI are also investigating.

Dupont and others think that Project 7 had only eight to 10 people, and that only two or three close to Burgert may have been involved with the assassination plot.

On the Net:

County: http://www.co.flathead.mt.us

http://library.northernlight.com/ED...x=2006&sc=0#doc

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Re: SG -- Grumpy�, 21:01:44 03/09/02 Sat
- I did get started -- Normal, 21:54:04 03/09/02 Sat
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  - Re: Weather, whether, whenever, whatever -- Normal, 20:12:57 03/10/02 Sun
    - question Normal -- MJ, 13:25:13 03/11/02 Mon
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        Re: Weather, whether, whenever, whatever -- Southern Gent, 21:40:51 03/11/02 Mon
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        Re: Weather, whether, whenever, whatever -- Southern Gent, 22:12:36 03/11/02 Mon
        Re: Weather, whether, whenever, whatever -- Grumpy�, 22:59:15 03/11/02 Mon
Thanks MJ -- Southern Gent, 18:54:45 03/10/02 Sun