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Oath Keepers founder sentenced to 18 years in Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy case
NBC News ^ | May 25, 2023 | Ryan J. Reilly, Daniel Barnes and Gary Grumbach

Posted on 05/25/2023 11:06:08 AM PDT by piytar

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To: piytar; Jim Robinson; Travis McGee; Alas Babylon!; Taxman; BlackbirdSST
I looked into this organization on their website (now defunct) some years back. It consisted of active, reserve, retired military. It also included active, reserve, retired LEO's. I saw nothing nefarious about their promise to uphold their Oaths to the Constitution. They may have changed their tactics...I don't know.

For those unaware, certain members of this very website created Veterans for Constitutional Restoration (VetsCoR), a legal non-profit corporation. I was proud to be a founding member and then Secretary who wrote a monthly newsletter for the members. I later became Chairman.

VetsCoR's purpose and mission was to build a Veterans' movement to inform and address by peaceful means the anti-Constitution activities of our politicians. Unfortunately we couldn't get the funding to go large and get our message out.

More importantly, the Vets we would approach through personal contacts and the various Veteran organizations like American Legion, VFW, AMVETS and others had little interest in politics. They felt they had done their duty and would rather hang out at their local Posts, while conducting local charitable events. Fair enough. They all do a LOT of good for the causes they support.

VetsCoR motto:

AN OATH IS FOREVER

41 posted on 05/25/2023 1:12:43 PM PDT by A Navy Vet (USA Birth Certificate - 1787. Death Certificate - 2021? )
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To: piytar

America will have its reckoning with these judicial scoundrels. Rhodes will never serve this outrageous sentence.


42 posted on 05/25/2023 1:29:28 PM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: Gnome1949

I certainly hope you are correct, but I’m starting to lose faith in a huge chunk of the American populace. Sigh.


43 posted on 05/25/2023 2:11:41 PM PDT by piytar (Do NOT forget Ashli Babbit!)
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To: piytar

This was good news for Rhodes. Prosecutor wanted 25 years as punishment for a conviction of seditious conspiracy to overthrow the US constitution.


44 posted on 05/25/2023 3:03:11 PM PDT by babble-on
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To: A Navy Vet

Hey, me too!

I was proud of that. I do miss Neil Wright and his leadership on that. Still got my certificate on the wall.

I joined Oath Keepers when they first came out. Never really participated though, so I haven’t been rounded up by the FIB... Yet.


45 posted on 05/25/2023 3:26:15 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Gov't declaring misinformation is tyranny: “Who determines what false information is?” )
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To: pas

Exactly.


46 posted on 05/25/2023 3:47:08 PM PDT by Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi ( Gen. 12:3: a warning to all antisemites)
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To: Nextrush

Bingo!


47 posted on 05/25/2023 4:01:54 PM PDT by nicollo ("I said no!")
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To: Lazamataz
"If I am in a Democrat enclave, do two things: 1) Commit no actions whatsoever, except the second, which is 2) Leave the Democrat enclave as quickly as possible."

That's good advice for everyone.

As we travel about the country always do so by avoiding the blue as much as possible.. And NEVER spend the night in any of those crap-holes..

48 posted on 05/25/2023 5:05:36 PM PDT by unread ("It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required." W. Churchill.)
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To: piytar

What a bunch of BS! Did we ever hear of Antifa getting sentenced for their crimes?


49 posted on 05/25/2023 5:39:27 PM PDT by beachn4fun (I do not have to acknowledge your craziness.)
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To: piytar

A friend just told me that Kelly Meggs was also sentenced today—12 years.

Same judge.

The only confirmation I’ve seen so far is Fox News.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/second-oath-keeper-sentenced-years-prison-jan-capitol-riot


50 posted on 05/25/2023 5:49:25 PM PDT by trustverify0128
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To: JesusIsLord
Sondergerichte, special courts.

Judges in Nazi Germany were then instructed that in the event of any conflict between the Nazi Party and Law, the Nazi Party should always succeed as their objectives surmounted any notions of fair play.

51 posted on 05/25/2023 6:08:37 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

“As chief of the German justice system, I can only say that since the National Socialist legal system is the foundation of the National Socialist State, for us, our supreme Führer is also supreme judge. And since we know how sacred the principles of justice are to our Führer, we can assure you, fellow citizens, that your life and existence is secure in this National Socialist State of order, freedom, and law!”

-Hans Frank (Triumph Of The Will)

(Yes, that Hans Frank who oversaw the Holocaust in Poland)


52 posted on 05/25/2023 6:13:14 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: piytar

The War of Northern Aggression continues!

There WILL be retribution!


53 posted on 05/25/2023 7:39:13 PM PDT by Taxman (SAVE AMERICA! VOTE REPUBLICAN IN 2023 AND 2024!)
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To: piytar

If that’s what they’ll do to their own operatives, imagine what they’ll do to real patriots.


54 posted on 05/25/2023 9:00:58 PM PDT by TBP (Decent people cannot fathom the amoral cruelty of the Biden regime.)
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To: dfwgator

When “the law” means whatever the Nazis want to do.


55 posted on 05/26/2023 1:07:38 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: A Navy Vet
AN OATH IS FOREVER

Thanks for the ping FRiend.

56 posted on 05/26/2023 4:39:12 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Hey, me too!

I was proud of that. I do miss Neil Wright and his leadership on that. Still got my certificate on the wall.

I joined Oath Keepers when they first came out. Never really participated though, so I haven’t been rounded up by the FIB... Yet.

I'm proud to have walked that same path with you FRiend.

57 posted on 05/26/2023 4:47:54 AM PDT by BlackbirdSST (Trump or Bust! Long live the Republic.)
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To: piytar
Should be Comey, (the) Stork, McCabe and Wray instead. Obama, Clinton and Biden should be charged with Treason for selling us out to China, tried, found guilty and then hung.

This J6 Debacle makes our current set of politicians immoral at the very least. They are nothing but cowardly, unethical, dishonorable two bit conmen shaming our country, its founders and every Trooper who spilt blood for America.

58 posted on 05/26/2023 5:52:14 AM PDT by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to hell.)
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To: lowbridge

the drama with these liberal a**holes is over the top. The live in a fake world with made up words and event. So sick of these scum being in a position of power.


59 posted on 05/26/2023 8:39:15 AM PDT by Jonny7797
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To: piytar

Shows how much they’ve hated Oath Keepers all these years and couldn’t wait to pin something on them.


60 posted on 05/26/2023 8:51:55 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan (Conservatism's last hope, last recourse, in fact last expedient, against the libertarian hordes.)
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