Posted by Zach Roberts on May 2, 2018 · Leave a Comment
This week on the Visu.News podcast I chat with long time friend and colleague Jeanne Devon. She’s the editor and founder of TheMudflats.net – if you read anything about Sarah Palin back in 2008, it’s likely a story that she wrote and then was picked up by the networks. This week she’s on to talk “sovereign citizens” (the Waffle House shooter likely was one) and the new book she co-wrote with former undercover FBI operative Bill Fulton, who is now a Visu.News regular. That book is, of course, The Blood of Patriots – now available everywhere fine books are sold. As I…
Category Alaska, Headlines, Law & Order, Schaeffer Cox Trial, Second Amendment, The Blood of Patriots · Tags Bill Fulton, blood of patriots, interview, Jeanne Devon, podcast interview, Zach Roberts
Posted by Zach Roberts on March 31, 2018 · 4 Comments
Originally published in Nation of Change The march for our lives brought over 800,000 people out to the streets of our nations capitol… hundreds of thousands more across the country as well. Like the Women’s March in January of 2017 or the March for Science later a couple months later – the March for our lives brought a new contingent of people out to the streets. I’ve known Bill Fulton for a little over a year now personally. But the first time I met him I was in Alaska working for an Alaskan political blog called TheMudflats.net. That was the…
Posted by Zach Roberts on September 4, 2017 · Leave a Comment
Back when Bill Fulton lived in Alaska, he had to deal with a lot of crazy people. And when you call someone ‘crazy’ in Alaska, you’re on a whole other level than Lower 48 crazy. From The Blood of Patriots: “The strategic geography and readily available space in Alaska means a large military presence in the state, with nine bases. The civilian population is a strange mix of oil-field workers, adventurers, commercial fishermen, federal employees, naturalists, bush pilots, environmentalists, hard-scrabble wilderness survivors, entrepreneurs, those looking for second chances, and those fleeing the law… It is a tug-of-war between those who…
Posted by Jeanne Devon on May 21, 2017 · 12 Comments
Hello Mudflatters, it’s me! Those who have been here from the beginning know me as “AKMuckraker,” or AKM. Back when I started tapping out anonymous blog posts about Alaska politics from my living room overlooking the mudflats I didn’t put my name on anything because I didn’t figure anyone would be reading it, and wasn’t convinced anyone would care what I had to say anyway. Then insanity struck, and Alaska’s governor got tapped by John McCain to be his VP nominee. The proverbial moose nuggets hit the fan and my readership kept climbing until The Mudflats reached its peak of…
Category Alaska, Headlines, The Blood of Patriots · Tags Anchorage, authors, Bill Fulton, books, FBI, Jeanne Devon, mccain, Obama, Palin, the blood of patriots, the drop zone
Posted by Jeanne Devon on October 23, 2013 · 23 Comments
There has been a little flurry in the news about an upcoming documentary in the works featuring Schaeffer Cox, and the Alaska Peacemakers Militia. The film about “Plan 241” is spearheaded by filmmaker Joshua Ligouri, but any reporting on it so far has been brief and peripheral. Let’s take a closer look. Here is the “sizzle reel” for the proposed film. Schaeffer Cox To some, Schaeffer Cox is a domestic terrorist, who conspired with members of his Alaska Peacemakers Militia to murder employees of the federal government including a judge, and amassed an arsenal of illegal weapons he’d use to…
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Posted by Jeanne Devon on February 6, 2013 · 31 Comments
We last left Bill Fulton working undercover for the FBI. After he was asked to make contact with militia leader Schaeffer Cox, now convicted on weapons charges and conspiracy to commit murder, Fulton recalled a disturbing meeting. He was in Fairbanks, attending a sale and fundraising event hosted by his own Anchorage military supply store and security company Drop Zone, and held at Far North Tactical, a similar store in Fairbanks, owned by his friend Aaron Bennett who had his own militia group in the area. Fulton’s initial conversation with Cox led him to believe that Cox had “gone crazy.”…
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 18, 2013 · 34 Comments
Bill Fulton, one of two undercover FBI informants in the recent Alaska Militia Trial I covered, continued his in-depth interview with me. After recounting the circumstances of his association with US Senate candidate Joe Miller, and the controversial arrest of a local reporter by his security company at a Miller campaign event (while working undercover), we were ready to begin talking about the Cox investigation and the trial. This portion of the interview discusses how Fulton began his company Drop Zone, his association with the FBI, and the beginning of the investigation of Cox, and other members of the militia….
Category Alaska, Headlines, Law & Order, Public Safety, Schaeffer Cox Trial, Veterans · Tags Alaska militia trial, Army CID, Bill Fulton, common law trial, Denny's trial, Drop Zone Anchorage, Far North Tactical, FBI, FBI informant, IACC, Joe Miller, Liberty Bell Network, Lonnie Vernon trial, Schaeffer Cox trial, Second amendment task force, sovereign citizens, US Army
Posted by Jeanne Devon on January 14, 2013 · 49 Comments
Bill Fulton, undercover FBI informant in the “Alaska Militia Trial,” gave a lengthy interview to The Mudflats about his role in the case, and his controversial life in Anchorage before it was revealed. In this article, he shares his candid opinion about local Anchorage media, national progressive media, Joe Miller, and what they got wrong. Yours truly didn’t even escape entirely unscathed. Bill Fulton came to Alaska, the biggest small town in the world, and became instantly “known.” He owned a shop in Anchorage that was utterly unforgettable. A military supply store, which doubled as offices for a security company,…
Category Alaska, Barack Obama, Headlines, Joe Miller, Lisa Murkowski, Mitt Romney, Public Safety, Republicans, Rural Issues, Sarah Palin, Schaeffer Cox Trial, Veterans · Tags 241 militia trial, Alaska Dispatch, Alaska militia, Anchorage Daily News, Bill Fulton, Drop Zone, Drop Zone Bill, Drop Zone security, FBI informant, KTUU, Mudflats, Schaeffer Cox, Tony Hopfinger
Posted by Jeanne Devon on June 1, 2012 · 23 Comments
Next up for the defense: Bill Fulton This is the one I’d been hoping for. Insider turned state’s evidence for immunity Michael Anderson, FBI informant for leniency in another case JR Olson, and FBI informant Bill Fulton were the three big witnesses for the prosecution. Or so we thought. It turned out that the prosecution did not call Fulton as a witness. This seemed rather odd. Why not call your own informant as a witness? There were disturbing tales of Fulton’s behavior. Nobody seemed to like him. He was described as abrasive, a drunkard, nasty, violent and mean. Michael Anderson…