Rep. Young (R-AK) Signed Seditious Document Circulated by Man Just Indicted in Plot to Kill Judge(s), State Troopers
Cox has been laying out his case for sedition for at least several years now, apparently making it only a matter of time before some encounter with law enforcement set the clock ticking for a violent confrontation. A domestic violence incident in early 2010 was plea-bargained down from a felony to a misdemeanor, but Cox was not about to back down on another almost-simultaneous charge for “approaching a police officer and failing to disclose that he was carrying a concealed gun”, which went to the very core of his rightwing ideology. A Media Matters post on the arrests noted:
Cox is a self-declared “sovereign citizen,” a movement that preaches violent resistance to the federal and Alaska state government.
In a major report covering the rise of the sovereign citizen movement in recent years and the corresponding violence against law enforcement officers, the Southern Poverty Law Center last fall characterized it as a “sprawling subculture” of “hundreds of thousands of far-right extremists who believe that they — not judges, juries, law enforcement or elected officials — get to decide which laws to obey and which to ignore, and who don’t think they should have to pay taxes.”
Cox is also the founder of the Alaska-based Second Amendment Task Force, a “pro-gun rights” group. Its website details a supposed United Nations-orchestrated conspiracy to deprive Americans of theirs constitutional right to bear arms.
According to a post at Political Correction, in June 2009 (almost a year before his legal troubles began) Cox posted a video (included with the post) which included Congressman Don Young signing a declaration that stated, in part:
[S]hould our government seek to further tax, restrict or register firearms or otherwise impose on the right that shall not be infringed, thus impairing our ability to exercise the God-given right to self-defense and precedes all human legislation and is superior to it, that the duty of us good and faithful people will not be to obey them but to alter or abolish them and institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to us shall seem most likely to effect our safety and happiness. [Emphasis added.]
This statement signed by Young clearly conflicts with his oath of office. From the Office of the Clerk of the House:
Updated in accordance with the Congressional Record, November 16, 2010.
OATH of OFFICE
The oath of office required by the sixth article of the Constitution of the United States, and as provided by section 2 of the act of May 13, 1884 (23 Stat. 22), to be administered to Members, Resident Commissioner, and Delegates of the House of Representatives, the text of which is carried in 5 U.S.C. 3331:
- “I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.” [Emphasis added.]
has been subscribed to in person and filed in duplicate with the Clerk of the House of Representatives by the following Members of the 111th Congress, pursuant to the provisions of 2 U.S.C. 25: ….
Alaska
- Don Young (At Large)
Young has been in Congress, repeatedly swearing or affirming this oath since 1973. The case against him is open and shut. There is only one question to be asked and answered: Is Don Young above the law or not?
p.s. The post at Political Correction carries an update in which a Don Young spokesperson completely fails to address the issue of sedition and violating his congressional oath:
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