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The West-Shangri-La Road, a quiet street where children pedal bicycles past cactus and ornamental plants desert yellow flowers, two men living at number 6748, a life that was suburban, dare the word, otherwise.

C. Camouflage Dean Pleasant used to paint models of hand grenades and leave them in his backyard, to dry.

His housemate, Randy L. Nelson, a painter, called the head of the Viper Militia, slept with his beloved “Shirley”, a Browning machine gun mounted on the head of his bed.

Use the Trim-white-blue bungalow in the suburb of Peoria on Monday, federal agents, according to court documents, found a small room at Dresser weapons and clothes stacked in cupboards: grenades, fuses, spokes - Caps, 2 pistols, 2 machine guns, 6 pistols and 56 cartridges cartons 11463. At the exhibition, a coffee table how-to guide called “Domestic unrest.”

Today, flat 2, with 10 other members of the paramilitary group Vipers are in prison here, in view of costs, illegal possession of a machine gun and conspiracy to teach bombing techniques to provoke unrest. [A newspaper described him as an officer of State Undercover helped the case. The article on page A16.]

A large blue-collar and mixing High School and the failure of graduates-ends, all the Vipers are white, poses no criminal record and plug in Low-paying jobs.

These are two masters from home, a seller of used furniture, AT & T-Billing representing an air conditioning repair man, a bakery ring, an engineer and the doorman Tiffany Cabaret, Phoenix topless bar. Experts say roughly the demography of paramilitary groups anti-government movement. Your defender say that Vipers are merely types of Walter Mitty - Weekend Warrior, innocent of war games in the desert. In this sense, they say that the government would have a difficult time winning any conspiracy convictions.

“Where is behind the conspiracy?” asked Scott Grainger, a longtime friend of Mr. pleasant. “I thought you had a plan. It is not illegal to go further and jump into the desert rock.”

Realizing that arrests have barely a week after the deadly attack on a U.S. military base in Saudi Arabia, Mr. Grainger, is president of the Landkreis by Libertarian Party, said he suspected political motives behind the public against a very tough Group, Federal Agent surveillance has been for seven months. The date of questioning, Mr. Grainger asked: “These guys have already for some time. Why do they choose now? ”

However, magistrates Vipers color of the urban terrorist cell, was willing and able to create chaos as large as that culminated in the bombing in Oklahoma City last year. To reinforce this point of view, they plan a videotape in court this Friday at the bail hearings for the group members.

The videotape was filmed two years ago by Mr. Pleasant, said the indictment, and takes the viewer on a walk of seven local authorities, state and federal buildings and a chain of reference in the field of Phoenix. Mr. Pleasant, the story of some, the group draws attention to how the spectators by the costs of placing columns support the “collapse” of government buildings.

In addition to the treatment of a band of urban guerrillas, Mr. Pleasant, 27, was the longest on paper traces of dozens of detainees. In letters to the editor, political campaign reports lovers and a pistol Newsletter, it treats a portrait ideological birth of M. Pleasant, last week, regularly used as a host of meetings Viper in the living room of his rented house.

Viscerally, unlike state controls, Mr. Pleasant told The Phoenix Gazette, a local newspaper, he had a pistol, face down, without permission, since he was 16 years.

In 1992, Paul Johnson, then mayor of Phoenix, has proposed a regulation on banning minors from owning or with firearms, Mr. Pleasant writes the Gazette, said: “the mayor of the Big Bore research Johnson of Arizona law, with gun enthusiasts His finger on the trigger and said:” Go ahead. Make my day! ”

Treasuring his “Tommy” gun, a Thompson submachine gun situation fires 500 rounds for a minute, Mr. Pleasant conducted a perpetual struggle against the defenders of the pistol.

“If the aim is to help reduce violent crime, making the publisher believes that a killer is less and less hostile with a machete?” He said in another letter to the Gazette, the year 1992. “Debt objects for the evil that people do for any other is socially irresponsible.”

In 1994, Mr. Pleasant lived in the house of his parents here, and the study of a local Community College, when agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms knocks at the door, wishing to ask questions about his recent Gun crafts.