Posted on 09/30/2020 9:07:08 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stewart Rhodes was living his vision of the future. On television, American cities were burning, while on the internet, rumors warned that antifa bands were coming to terrorize the suburbs. Rhodes was driving around South Texas, getting ready for them. He answered his phone. “Let’s not f**k around,” he said. “We’ve descended into civil war.”
It was a Friday evening in June. Rhodes, 55, is a stocky man with a gray buzz cut, a wardrobe of tactical-casual attire, and a black eye patch. With him in his pickup were a pistol and a dusty black hat with the gold logo of the Oath Keepers, a militant group that has drawn in thousands of people from the military and law-enforcement communities.
Rhodes had been talking about civil war since he founded the Oath Keepers, in 2009. But now more people were listening. And whereas Rhodes had once cast himself as a revolutionary in waiting, he now saw his role as defending the president. He had put out a call for his followers to protect the country against what he was calling an “insurrection.” The unrest, he told me, was the latest attempt to undermine Donald Trump.
Over the summer, Rhodes’s warnings of conflict only grew louder. In August, when a teenager was charged with shooting and killing two people at protests over police brutality in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Rhodes called him “a Hero, a Patriot” on Twitter.
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Here comes the BS
read Bolsonaro’s response to Biden:
Tweet: Glenn Greenwald
Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro’s response to John [sic] Biden’s threats last night to sanction and otherwise punish Brazil if it continues to burn the Amazon (posted to Twitter in Portuguese and this, the English version):
TEXT includes “OUR SOVEREIGNTY IS NON-NEGOTIABLE”.
1 Oct 2020
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1311337995228844032
As with all of the other contrived, leftist outrages :
PROJECTION !
Regarding the Oath Keepers:
New members signed up at recruiting events or on Oath Keepers website: https://oathkeepers.org/
They hailed from every state. About two-thirds had a background in the military or law enforcement. About 10 percent of these members were active-duty.
There was a sheriff in Colorado, a SWAT-team member in Indiana, a police patrolman in Miami, the chief of a small police department in Illinois.
There were members of the Special Forces, private military contractors, an Army psyops sergeant major, a cavalry scout instructor in Texas, a grunt in Afghanistan.
There were Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, a 20-year special agent in the Secret Service, and two people who said they were in the FBI.
“I will not go quietly into this dark night that is facing MY beloved America,” a Marine veteran from Wisconsin wrote; an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department said he’d enlist his colleagues “to fight the tyranny our country is facing.” Similar pledges came from a police captain in Texas, an Army recruiter in Oregon, and a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, among many others.
“Funny story,” wrote a police sergeant in a St. Louis suburb. “I stopped a speeding truck driver, who had your decal on the side of his truck, I asked about it, he went on and on, I said, “Damn I’m all about this.” He listed skills as a firearms and tactical instructor and said he would forward the membership application to his fellow officers.
A special agent in the New York City Police Department’s intelligence bureau recalled that he’d been heading to work one day when he saw a window decal with the Oath Keepers logo and jotted down the name on his hand. He vowed to be ready “if the balloon ever goes up.”
Regarding the Oath Keepers:
New members signed up at recruiting events or on Oath Keepers website: https://oathkeepers.org/
They hailed from every state. About two-thirds had a background in the military or law enforcement. About 10 percent of these members were active-duty.
There was a sheriff in Colorado, a SWAT-team member in Indiana, a police patrolman in Miami, the chief of a small police department in Illinois.
There were members of the Special Forces, private military contractors, an Army psyops sergeant major, a cavalry scout instructor in Texas, a grunt in Afghanistan.
There were Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers, a 20-year special agent in the Secret Service, and two people who said they were in the FBI.
“I will not go quietly into this dark night that is facing MY beloved America,” a Marine veteran from Wisconsin wrote; an officer in the Los Angeles Police Department said he’d enlist his colleagues “to fight the tyranny our country is facing.” Similar pledges came from a police captain in Texas, an Army recruiter in Oregon, and a Border Patrol agent in Arizona, among many others.
“Funny story,” wrote a police sergeant in a St. Louis suburb. “I stopped a speeding truck driver, who had your decal on the side of his truck, I asked about it, he went on and on, I said, “Damn I’m all about this.” He listed skills as a firearms and tactical instructor and said he would forward the membership application to his fellow officers.
A special agent in the New York City Police Department’s intelligence bureau recalled that he’d been heading to work one day when he saw a window decal with the Oath Keepers logo and jotted down the name on his hand. He vowed to be ready “if the balloon ever goes up.”
OathKeepers ‘militant’ ?? lolol and antifa are Santa’s elves.
“All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.”
― Edmund Burke
The Atlantic?
Bwahahahahaha!
OathKeepers is the opposite of a militant group.
The Atlantic is afraid of Oath Kerpers? Ha ha ha. Ha ha! ( Wait til they see what the democraticNaziCommies will provoke if they continue with their election- stealing schemes!
The whole burning the rainforest thing is recycling 80’s nonsense.
It’s a never ending crisis.
Meanwhile China, Soros and dozens of left wing commie radicals are pouring millions into the country to fund, organize and unleash these Antifa/BLM terrorist in our midst. The Atlantic and the rest of the msm plays like ostrichs and willfully ignore it.
I just love the abject fear in their words, and their eyes.
It helps me sleep at night.
If only this headline were true!
If only this headline were true!
The Atlantic; isn’t that the magazine that quoted anonymous sources claiming that President Trump expressed contempt for men who gave their lives in WWI? That everyone who was there and willing to be named, denied, including Bolton? That Atlantic?
Biden repeated the charge in last night’s debate, and denied that he said “...you stupid bastards” to troops even though it was caught on video.
The lying, leftist Atlantic at it again.
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