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To: RandFan

I wonder what other Oath Keepers might feel about such a sentence.

“In 2015, Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described the group as ‘heavily armed extremists with a conspiratorial and anti-government mindset looking for potential showdowns with the government’”

“Oath Keepers was founded in March 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate, former U.S. Army paratrooper, and former staffer for Republican Congressman Ron Paul.”

“In 2020, the ADL estimated there were between 1,000 and 3,000 members but said the group’s influence extends well beyond that figure. In September 2021, hackers breached the group’s servers to acquire a large cache of information, some of which was released to press outlets by Distributed Denial of Secrets, including the contact information of 38,000 apparent members. The cache included membership applications from active law enforcement officers, including some who sought to join after the 2021 United States Capitol attack. Dozens of elected officials were also found to be linked to the group.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers


7 posted on 05/07/2023 7:07:58 PM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin

I wonder what other Oath Keepers might feel about such a sentence.

I know at least two in my State. Both were elected officials, and neither believed the Oath Keepers were involved in sedition. So called sedition is contrary to everything they believed and stood for.

Oath Keepers themselves had a number of successful operations against Government overreach that was evidence of their beliefs.


26 posted on 05/08/2023 3:49:01 AM PDT by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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