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Leaked documents indicate over 300 members of far-right paramilitary Oath Keepers may be current or former DHS employees, Project on Government Oversight reports
Business Insider via MSN ^ | 13 Dec 22 | Charles Davis

Posted on 12/13/2022 4:11:01 AM PST by Erik Latranyi

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To: Erik Latranyi
Wiki puts OK membership at 5,000-38,000, with DHS cutouts at 300.

Let's take the lower amount, frankly, since the DHS number is likely the lowball.

300:5000, 30:500, 3:50.

Classic deep state 'best practices' on infiltration.

61 posted on 12/13/2022 11:18:40 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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More than 300 members of the paramilitary group describe themselves as current or former DHS employees.

Maybe I haven't been paying enough attention.

Are the Oath Keepers a paramilitary group?

62 posted on 12/13/2022 12:16:55 PM PST by Mr.Unique (My boss wants me to sign up for a 401K. No way I'm running that far! )
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To: Erik Latranyi

Umm, the whole point of the Oath Keepers is that they were ALL (at least at some point) military, police, or government employees to took oaths to defend the country and the constitution.


63 posted on 12/13/2022 5:14:56 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Mr.Unique

“Are the Oath Keepers a paramilitary group?”

It’s such a broad definition the answer is pretty meaningless. You could say the Salvation Army is a paramilitary group. The Nazis DID say the Boy Scouts were a paramilitary group.


64 posted on 12/13/2022 5:18:18 PM PST by Boogieman
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To: Erik Latranyi

Was Oath Keepers SINCE ITS INCEPTION a FISHING EXPEDITION to lure pro-Constitution patriots? Curious minds want to know.


65 posted on 12/13/2022 5:51:53 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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66 posted on 12/14/2022 9:21:39 AM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: Erik Latranyi

Years ago I had a friend who worked undercover... Luckily he ‘got around’ a lot.

Once he was at a sting - tensions running high - - he looked around and realized he knew most of the people. Then, that he knew all of the people. As it turned out it was ONLY law enforcement - and they had set up each other.

It’s possible ‘Oath Keepers’ were outnumbered by Law Enforcement. It’s also possible political witch hunt mentality was part of the reason ‘Oath Keepers’ was chosen over the much more destructive BLM... All this stuff needs to be aired OUT in public - WITHOUT ELON MUSK HAVING TO BUY COMPANIES.


67 posted on 12/14/2022 9:36:29 AM PST by GOPJ (IF OLD twitter management had stood up to Homeland & FBI goons they's be'hurt 7 ways from Sunday'.)
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To: Howie66

They are the ones repairing the copier and keeping the computers turned on. Folks that actually do stuff instead of figuring out who to persecute today.


68 posted on 12/14/2022 10:09:10 AM PST by L,TOWM (An upraised middle finger is my virtue signal.)
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To: Paperpusher

It’s against the law to obey an order one knows to be unlawful or illegal.

Disobeying an unlawful order is an affirmative defense in any type of disciplinary hearing or termination process


69 posted on 12/14/2022 12:43:24 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Erik Latranyi; All

Who are the Oath Keepers and what do they believe?

According to their website, “Oath Keepers is a non-partisan association of current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders, who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to ‘defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.’”

So, Yes. It would make sense that former/retired LEOs, at any level, were members.

Were or are they all idiots like Rhodes, et al? Not on any day of the week.

As it seems apparent. What could have been a legitimate organization has been corrupted by some means and…..here we are.


70 posted on 12/14/2022 12:47:21 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Erik Latranyi; All

And even so many on here believe the “far right extremist nonsense” pushed by the government and MSM.

Some of you may know a retired cop or service member that is/was a member and you’d say they were the furthest thing from a ‘far right extremists’. But go on with your bad self and believe all the BS.


71 posted on 12/14/2022 12:49:49 PM PST by qaz123
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To: Erik Latranyi

Uh?....Could it be that it is government employees who are spying on the Oath Keepers?


72 posted on 12/14/2022 10:55:47 PM PST by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: wintertime

Yes, I think it the GOP hearings will reveal how far the DOJ, FBI, DHS, etc, etc, etc have been involved with these groups and inciting them.

This is getting out in front of those revelations so the braindead socialists do not get shaken out from their fog.


73 posted on 12/15/2022 2:42:41 AM PST by Erik Latranyi (We are being manipulated by forces that most do not see)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Back at the start of the Tea Party movement, I and a few good friends started a local countywide chapter.... we were visited by some of the founding members of Oathkeepers, they were NOT radical terrorists, they were patriotic Americans, most of whom were former LEOs and military... hence the name, “oathkeepers”. Are you falling for the MSM narrative?


74 posted on 12/15/2022 2:54:34 AM PST by Segovia
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To: Erik Latranyi

“A leaked membership list suggests that Oath Keepers have infiltrated the Department of Homeland Security.”

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We could only hope. I have a feeling there aren’t nearly as many at the DHS as I would like.


75 posted on 12/15/2022 7:27:06 AM PST by Bishop_Malachi (Liberal Socialism - A philosophy which advocates spreading a low standard of living equally.)
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To: Tupelo

It was founded by DHS.

Which most of us here have been saying since they appeared the first time


76 posted on 12/15/2022 12:09:34 PM PST by SPDSHDW (Ya’ll knew he was installed via fraud, and chose to do nothing. Enjoy the roller coaster ride.)
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