What are some of the most egregious examples?
A large number of right-wing militia and patriot groups have produced crude preparations of ricin. In the mid-1990s the Minnesota Patriots Council, a militia organization in Alexandria, Minn., produced ricin as part of a plot to kill U.S. marshals, IRS agents and deputy sheriffs in the community. They were not highly educated, but some of them worked as carpet cleaners, so they were familiar with solvents and could follow the recipe from a right-wing publication that told them how to extract ricin. They ordered the beans from an ad in a right-wing magazine. The individual who placed the ad was Maynard Campbell, from Oregon, who is a well-known figure in the militia movement. Was this Minnesota group prosecuted? Yes. They were, in fact, the first to be prosecuted under the 1989 biological weapons antiterrorism act passed by Congress, and they were convicted in 1995. Four members were convicted. [Campbell, who had already been imprisoned for threatening federal officials in a 1992 stando
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