Mo. survivalist arrested in white supremacists investigation convicted on 2 weapons charges

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-missouri-survivalist-convicted,0,1371950.story

MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER

Associated Press Writer

January 12, 2010 | 3:28 p.m.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A former Eagle Scout and U.S. Air Force Academy cadet was convicted Tuesday on federal weapons charges after being caught up in an undercover sweep of white supremacists who claimed they used his 200-acre Ozarks spread for survival training.

Robert N. Joos Jr., 57, was arrested at his home in rural McDonald County in June, when brothers Daniel and Dennis Mahon were taken into custody in Illinois and charged in a 2004 mail bombing that injured a black city official in Scottsdale, Ariz.

Joos was not charged in the bombing, but the Mahons told investigators members of the "movement" used Joos' isolated home for training. They described Joos as a "longtime white supremacist associate and an expert on weapons, explosives, bomb making and general survival skills."

Joos has acknowledged in the past giving survivalist tips but said they involved identifying plants that could be use for food or medicine. He testified Tuesday that he "is not a terrorist" and "absolutely not" a white supremacist. snip

Joos faces up to 10 years in prison on each of charge of being a felon in possession of firearms and a felon in possession of explosives. Sentencing has not yet been set. Joos has previous convictions for unlawful use of a weapon and driving without a license.

[Catshrink]

1. Excellent!

I hope many more convictions to come.

[MineralMan]

2. An Air Force Academy cadet? What does that mean?

Apparently not a graduate. I'd be interested to know why he did not graduate.

[MineralMan]

3. Apparently, Joos was a convicted felon

http://www.whitenationalist.org/lindstedt/ndn32897.html

[MineralMan]

4. More stuff about "Joos"

Robert N. Joos, Jr. is a member of the "Nazarite" sect and he
doesn't have a drivers license, he's repealed his Social Security
number and he refuses to use Federal Reserve notes. He lives in the
poorest, crookedest, most Southwestern county in Missouri, McDonald
County. He is now in jail on a conviction of falsifying a court
order, writing a writ begging for Yahweh to strike a state judge dead,
weapons charges, owning dynamite, resisting arrest, and possible
complicity in the shooting of a highway patrol trooper by a
co-religionist last September while he was in jail.
According to the papers, this all snowballed from a traffic stop
ten years ago when Mr. Joos claimed that since he had a human and
Constitutional right to travel, he didn't need a driver's license.
Ever since, he has been a threat to the state.
Mr. Joos is being judged by a cabal of the same judges who say he
threatened them. One of them goes around wearing a bulletproof vest,
saying that Joos is a menace but that he has an obligation to serve
the public.
On a KOAM-TV program entitled "God's Law vs. Man's Law," the
prosecuting attorney said that people like Joos attract white
supremacists, tax protesters, and assorted anti-government riffraff
and he wants to get Joos put away before year's end for fear that
the new Democrat prosecutor appointed by governor Carnahan might not
want to be bothered with the case.
Such is the judicial temperament in Southwestern Missouri. You
sure can trust them to vigilantly observe the full proprieties
of the due process against a corrupt government, can't you?
For where there is no Justice there can be no Peace and all must
live in Fear.

http://users.mo-net.com/mlindste/swmolbn9.html

[provis99]

5. Joos? Is that pronounced like "Jews"?

How ironic.:eyes:

[MineralMan]

6. It's not his real name. He changed it to that.

And, yes, it is pronounced exactly like that. A real prize, that one. The moron is strong in him.

[MineralMan]

7. Robert Neil Joos, Jr., Also Known As David Dean,

http://cases.justia.com/us-court-of-appeals/F3/97/1125/555270/

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. Nice to see people being prosecuted for illegal possession of firearms.

[Initech]

9. One less racist POS off the streets, so that's good.