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Oath Keeper wanted to load boat with weapons for Potomac
The Hill ^ | 02/12/21 12:16 PM EST | BY CELINE CASTRONUOVO

Posted on 02/12/2021 7:43:30 PM PST by RandFan

A member of the right-wing paramilitary group the Oath Keepers in the days leading up to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot proposed a plan to transport “heavy weapons” in a boat across the Potomac River, prosecutors said in a Thursday court filing.

Federal prosecutors made the allegation in a memo opposing a motion for release from the attorneys of Thomas Edward Caldwell, who along with fellow Oath Keeper members Jessica Marie Watkins and Donovan Crowl faces conspiracy charges in connection with alleged plans to lead a coup ahead of the deadly pro-Trump mob attack.

Days before the attack, prosecutors in the court filing say Caldwell reached out to a member of the Three Percenters, an extremist gun rights militia, saying with “someone standing by at a dock ramp (one near the Pentagon for sure) we could have our Quick Response Team with the heavy weapons standing by, quickly load them and ferry them across the river to our waiting arms.”

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 3percenters; banglist; caldwell; crowl; donovancrowl; fbi; jessicamariewatkins; jessicawatkins; lies; oathkeepers; thomascaldwell; thomasedwardcaldwell; threepercenters; watkins
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To: Monterrosa-24

IANAL, but I think you actually have the means to carry it out for it to actually be a crime. Just talking about what you “should do” or “want to do” is hypothetical, especially if you can’t realistically do it, and thus not a threat.

But I don’t know all the details of what was said, or whether they had the weapons or the boats.


41 posted on 02/12/2021 8:57:39 PM PST by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: RandFan

Oath keepers and three per centers are not right wing militia extremists. That label is so old and tiresome.


42 posted on 02/12/2021 9:20:48 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: RandFan
The problem is, people believe it. They believe these things.

Whatever the average person now knows/remembers about the oath keepers is what this and similar voices tell them.

They probably will also now use the same adjectives and expressions used here to label and describe this and other groups on “the right” ... or “ultra-right” or “whatever-right” they’re pointing their emotional finger at.

Why wouldn’t they? Every voice they trust tells them the same stories and they naturally believe them.

People believe the con. How do you counter that?

43 posted on 02/12/2021 9:48:13 PM PST by GBA (Endeavor to persevere)
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To: RandFan

Not an Oathkeeper, that is for certain. They (them) are targeting the Oathkeepers to develop a military that will follow illegal orders... and fire on US Citizens when the cabal orders them. Going to find it very difficult to find the loonies who would do that- maybe find out the hard way.

Utter nonsense trying to tie in Oathkeepers. And they are NOT a paramilitary group— that is the fantasy of the pervos at the Southern Poverty Law Center and shakedown offshore Foundation scammers.


44 posted on 02/12/2021 9:50:50 PM PST by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: RandFan

Somebody has been reading too many Remo Williams novels.


45 posted on 02/12/2021 9:56:21 PM PST by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> --- )
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To: RandFan

They are the perfect example of the boy who cried wolf.


46 posted on 02/12/2021 10:03:44 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: RandFan

Right wing paramilitary group? Oath keepers? 😯


47 posted on 02/12/2021 10:22:49 PM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this?)
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To: kiryandil

Have a relative who’s a cop. I support the police but he said when they wrote up a police report they would have made Mother Teresa sound like she was Son of Sam. Anything that could be seen one or two ways is always written up to make it sound the worst way.


48 posted on 02/12/2021 10:30:01 PM PST by Az Joe (Commie Kamala is a super-spreader....know what I mean?)
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To: DesertRhino

But then claiming their loss due to a boating accident would not need a “/s” after it.


49 posted on 02/12/2021 10:35:36 PM PST by Roccus (Prima di ogni altra cosa, siate armati!)
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To: RandFan

Consider the source and the accusers. Unfortunately, they are guilty before they ever enter the courthouse. Their fate has already been decided, the process is just a show. What the left is trying to do is singling out certain elements of their opposition and persecute them in the hopes that the rest of the opposition will become fearful and choose silence. If you are not a leftist, the LAST place you want to be is in a courthouse.


50 posted on 02/12/2021 10:41:33 PM PST by The Right Edge (Staunch Trump Supporter AND PROUD to be!)
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To: RandFan

Probably an FBI agent acting as an Oath Keeper trying to entrap others.


51 posted on 02/12/2021 10:42:29 PM PST by Chgogal (Hey Biden, I am a loyal supporter of the Biden's Banana Republic!)
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To: RandFan

It is the “light weapons” that have the potential to change the current direction.


52 posted on 02/12/2021 10:58:58 PM PST by The Duke (President Trump = America's Last, Best Chance)
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To: RandFan

The OK have been hitting out of the box for quite some time, not that I give credence to this story. That have strayed from their original mission (I guess it wasn’t sexy enough) and has become a pseudo militia.

I was in the VA OK and it was pretty much the same thing: no one wanted to do the hard work of educating, lobbying, and forming alliances— but everyone wanted to do militia training with a fantasy of “bugging out” to the rural areas. It made zero sense.


53 posted on 02/12/2021 11:11:46 PM PST by Salvavida
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To: Texas Eagle

Plus they can find out all this in such a short amount of time and they sat on their hands all summer long while Anitfa/blm was burning, looting, murdering all across the country.


54 posted on 02/12/2021 11:38:22 PM PST by joshua c (Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv, natl name brands)
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To: patriot torch

Demonize-Ostracize-Criminalize

We are at the Criminalize Phase.

Gina was spot on.


55 posted on 02/12/2021 11:48:28 PM PST by joshua c (Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv, natl name brands)
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To: RandFan

I am assuming FIB confiscated a large arsenal of heavy weapons?

No? If they had we would have seen the display on the LEFTIST media nonstop.


56 posted on 02/12/2021 11:50:46 PM PST by joshua c (Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv, natl name brands)
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To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Yeah but the lie lives on. The DEM inquisition managers told that lie as part of their persecution


57 posted on 02/12/2021 11:53:00 PM PST by joshua c (Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv, natl name brands)
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To: monkeyshine

In a conspiracy you need two elements:
1. at least two people involved in a plan to commit an offence
2. an overt act committed by any one of them in furtherance of the plan

For example if you and I meet and plan to rob a bank, and part of the plan is to wear gorilla masks. THAT is not a conspiracy. If I go our and actually obtain the masks - THAT is a conspiracy.

IANAL, but that is what I learned while working in Army Counter Intelligence. YMMV.


58 posted on 02/13/2021 12:21:21 AM PST by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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To: GBA

The problem is, people believe it. They believe these things.

It might seem that way from the leftist rat media onslaught, but it’s not.

Here’s evidence it’s not working. Go to YouTube and look at any of the standard rat media political news feeds: NBC, ABC, CNN, whatever. Select a video, then immediately hit pause so you’re not subjected to their drivel.

Now look below the video at the like vs dislike count. More often than not the dislike counter is much higher. Now scroll thru the comments. A vast majority are wise to the rat press being sycophants for the rat regime. People know the media is garbage.


59 posted on 02/13/2021 1:06:02 AM PST by Flick Lives (“Today we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives.”)
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To: Flick Lives

Herr Goebbles is still alive and making all the plans for Soreass and the DemonRats.


60 posted on 02/13/2021 2:22:35 AM PST by Highest Authority (DemonRats are pure EVIL)
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