In 2011, analyst Daryl Johnson of the
United States Department of Homeland Security said that the
Hutaree Christian
militia movement possessed more weapons than the combined weapons holdings of all Islamic terror defendants charged in the US since the
September 11 attacks.
[109]
In 2015, Robert Doggart, a 63 year old mechanical engineer, was indicted for solicitation to commit a civil rights violation by intending to damage or destroy religious property after communicating that he intended to amass weapons to attack a Muslim enclave in
Delaware County, New York.
[110] Doggart, a member of several private militia groups, communicated to an FBI source in a phone call that he had an
M4 carbine with "500 rounds of ammunition" that he intended to take to the Delaware County enclave, along with a handgun,
molotov cocktails and a machete. The FBI source recorded him saying "if it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds."
[111]Doggart had previously travelled to a site in
Dover, Tennessee described in chain emails as a "jihadist training camp", and found that the claims were wrong. Doggart pleaded guilty in an April
plea bargain stating he had “willfully and knowingly sent a message in interstate commerce containing a true threat” to injure someone. The plea bargain was struck down by a judge because it did not contain enough facts to constitute a true threat.
[112][113] Doggart stood as an independent candidate in
Tennessee's 4th congressional district, losing with 6.4% of the vote.
[114] He has a number of degrees from a
degree mill and an ordination from an
ordination mill. Various Muslim groups have declared Doggart a terrorist, though none of the charges against him are terrorism related.
[115][116][117][118]
In November 2015, Robert Lewis Dear killed
three and injured nine at the Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
[119] Dear voiced on several occasions his support for radical Christian views and interpretations of the Bible, and praised people who attacked abortion providers, saying they were doing "God's work." He also described members of the Army of God, a loosely organized group of anti-abortion Christian extremists that has claimed responsibility for a number of killings and bombings, as heroes.
[120] In May 1991, Dear was arrested and convicted in Charleston, for the unlawful carrying of a "
long blade knife" and illegal possession of a loaded gun.
[121] A woman who was married to Dear from 1985 to 1993 told NBC News that Dear had targeted a Planned Parenthood clinic before, by putting glue on its locks, and had a history of violent behavior. In the court document for their 1993 divorce, his ex-wife said, "He claims to be a
Christian and is extremely
evangelistic, but does not follow the
Bible in his actions. He says that as long as he believes he will be
saved, he can do whatever he pleases. He is obsessed with
the world coming to an end."
