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Four Georgia men are facing charges in a terror plot. The senior citizens, all at least 65 years old, were arrested Tuesday after allegedly planning to attack government officials. CNN reports -- an FBI informant recorded the men talking about the alleged plot.

“These men allegedly had plans to kill a lot of people. Here, the four affidavits released from this federal investigation. We’ll take a quote from Fred Thomas who is described as the leader of the group. Listen to this. ‘There is no way to save this country, to save Georgia, without doing something that is highly, highly illegal.’ Another quote reads, ‘when it comes to saving the Constitution, that means, some people gotta die.’”

The FBI affidavit claims the group, called “The Covert Group,” compiled a “bucket list” of government employees, politicians, corporate leaders and members of the media who would need to be “taken out” to “make the country right again.”

WSB-TV talked with citizens from the town where the men live.

REPORTER: For folks in this community, they’re really blown away that this type of activity happened in a small town like this.
CITIZEN: I feel unsafe, you know, because if they’re coming this close, then, there are a lot of people that are going to get on their knees and pray.
REPORTER: We went to the address listed in the federal complaint for Samuel Krump, one of the four men arrested. Those at his home did not have much to say, except, we should go elsewhere.

The Faster Times says, this proves terrorism can occur anywhere.

“Today’s news offered powerful evidence that terrorism can be the domain of all races, cultures and creeds, and ‘geo-spacial’ locations.”

However, New York Magazine isn’t taking the scheme too seriously.

“Ha! That one guy is 73! Are you serious? What were they going to use, their canes? Were they, like, going to get a megaphone and bore everyone to death with stories about the old days?”

The New York Times reports the group planned to use ricin, a poison found in castor beans. They were planning on blowing it out of a car along the highways in Atlanta. And the Times says biological attacks are not something to mess around with.

“The specter of a biological attack is difficult for almost anyone to imagine. It makes of the most mundane object, death: a doorknob, a handshake, a breath can become poison... it can seem the province of fantasy or nightmare or, worse, political manipulation.”

Media Matters reports, the group cited Fox News’ Mike Vanderboegh’s book Absolved as the source of their plan. Prosecutors filed a motion Wednesday to keep the suspects behind bars until the next hearing on November 9.

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