In a wiretapped phone conversation, Doggart discussed his plans to destroy the community in detail, according to court documents:
“When we meet with this state, the people that we seek will know who we are. We will be cruel to them. And we will burn down their buildings … and if anybody attempts to harm us in any way, our standoff gunner will take them down from 350 yards away. The standoff gunner would be me … We’re gonna be carrying an M4 with 500 rounds of ammunition, light armor piercing. A pistol with three extra magazines and a machete. And if it gets down to the machete, we will cut them to shreds … I actually think we can get in and out of there without getting caught. There’s only four policemen in town. The fire department is a volunteer department, so it’ll take them 35 minutes to get there while that building will be burned down already. And we’ll be long gone by then.”
