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J6 as the ice of the tip-berg: ADL reveals Oath Keeper membership roll with a few surprises [1]

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Date: 2022-09-07

Subversion of democracy does have card-carrying members, because when the going gets tough, the semi-fascists sometimes go to DC in January.

New analysis today from ADL (the Anti-Defamation League) Center on Extremism finds that the leaked membership list for the Oath Keepers, a right-wing anti-government extremist group, includes hundreds of elected officials, law enforcement officers, members of the military and first responders.

“The Oath Keepers are a virulently anti-government, violent extremist group, whose members have been arrested in connection with a wide range of criminal activities, including seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and including various firearms violations, conspiracy to impede federal workers, possession of explosives and threatening public officials,” said ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt. “To know that members of this group have permeated key aspects of civil society should serve as a wake-up call to people of all political persuasions that extremists hell-bent on destroying our democratic norms are making in-roads across the country.”

ADL today also unveiled an interactive map, detailing the number of Oath Keepers from the membership database found in each state, broken down by category (law enforcement, military, elected official, first responder, etc.).

Key Findings

As of August 8, the Center on Extremism has identified 373 individuals we believe are currently serving in law enforcement agencies across the country. This number is far higher than any previously identified number of extremists within law enforcement; for comparison, an ADL report released in 2021 identified 76 cases – 73 of which were unique – in which extremists were found serving in law enforcement.

This number is far higher than any previously identified number of extremists within law enforcement; for comparison, an ADL report released in 2021 identified 76 cases – 73 of which were unique – in which extremists were found serving in law enforcement. ADL identified individuals we believe are currently holding senior leadership positions within their respective agencies, including at least ten chiefs of police and eleven sheriffs.

In addition to those actively serving in law enforcement, ADL identified more than 1,000 individuals who we believe previously served in law enforcement.

ADL’s Center on Extremism analysis identified 81 individuals across the country who are currently holding or running for public office in 2022. These individuals run the gamut from local office – mayors, town councilmembers, school board members – to state representatives and senators.

across the country who are currently holding or running for public office in 2022. These individuals run the gamut from local office – mayors, town councilmembers, school board members – to state representatives and senators. Prior to this year’s primary season, ADL confirmed 42 Oath Keepers-aligned individuals who were up for election for public office in 2022, consisting of 22 incumbents and 20 candidates. As of August 8, 21 of these candidates have advanced to the general election either by winning their primary or having their primary cancelled. 13 of the candidates have lost their primary race. Even more concerning, four individuals have already won their general election.

ADL identified 117 individuals who we believe currently serve in the U.S. military , an additional 11 people who serve in the reserves , and 31 individuals who hold civilian positions or are military contractors.

, an additional , and or are military contractors. In addition to those currently serving in the military, ADL estimates that one in ten of the individuals in the database previously served in the military in some capacity.

www.adl.org/…

x Judge rejects Oath Keepers founder’s ‘bewildering’ bid to delay trial



U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta dismissed most of Stewart Rhodes’s proposed demands as irrelevant, legally impermissible or redundant.https://t.co/2M3ItUkf4q — David A. Martinez (@tabatt13) September 8, 2022

The federal judge overseeing the seditious conspiracy case against Stewart Rhodes rebuked the Oath Keepers founder in court Wednesday for trying to delay a trial set to start in three weeks. Rhodes filed a motion Tuesday afternoon in federal court in the District claiming he could not continue with his current legal team because of “a complete, or near-complete breakdown of communication,” and needed at least three months with a new lawyer to file over a dozen motions. U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta called Rhodes’s allegations about the case and his own attorneys “incorrect and frankly bewildering.” In a nearly two-hour hearing, he dismissed most of Rhodes’s proposed demands as irrelevant, legally impermissible or redundant. “Mr. Rhodes at no point … since he’s been arrested has remained silent,” Mehta said. “Never, not once … have I heard a peep from Mr. Rhodes about his lack of contact with his lawyers or his disenchantment with his lawyers’ performance.” He said Rhodes could add an attorney to his legal team if he wanted but that he would be going to trial in three weeks and that his original counsel, James Lee Bright and Phillip Linder, would not be removed from the case. Rhodes is accused of conspiring to use force against the federal government and stop the lawful transfer of power by attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. While he is not accused of entering the building, prosecutors say he oversaw a group that violently confronted law enforcement and tried to hide evidence of those crimes. Three associates have pleaded guilty to seditious conspiracy; four will go to trial with him and four more in November. www.washingtonpost.com/... x Were these people indicted because Stewart Rhodes wanted to call them as witnesses or because they were with him on January 6, taking part of in the same effort to help Trump illegally retain power that Rhodes was? https://t.co/beTIPHJaOE — Dan Friedman (@dfriedman33) September 8, 2022

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