вЂ“ Stewart Rhodes on Infowars, January 2021 вЂњYou needed to be raising local militias in your towns and counties, and like the Founders did, you need to then nullify, refuse to comply, and when they come for you, you defend yourselves. вЂ“ Stewart Rhodes, as quoted in вЂњOath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes calls for Militia members to prepare for violence against вЂillegitimateвЂ™ Biden administration,вЂќ, Jan. So we have an opportunity to walk the path of the Founding Fathers and declare your independence from that illegitimate regime.вЂќ ItвЂ™s just amazing that Trump let the election be stolen out from under him and to let our country be stolen like this, our government. Even if he were duly elected, he would still by violating his oath in passing unconstitutional nonsense. Because it wouldn't be constitutional anyway. вЂњSo you just refuse to acknowledge that anything he does is constitutional.

Among those members who have been identified as having played a role in the insurrection, charges have varied but include вЂњ conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding and entering and remaining in an restricted building or grounds.вЂќ In their own words At least 14 Oath Keeper members have been charged with taking part in the insurrection that left five people dead and several Capitol police officers injured. Events around that day ultimately spiraled into chaos when far-right extremists stormed the Capital building. alongside other Oath Keepers on Jan.6, the day the presidential election results were scheduled to be certified by Congress. Rhodes is alleged to have been present in D.C. Capitol Building in an effort to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. These ideas included false claims that a large illegal voting operation was coordinated ahead of the 2016 general election, the portrayal of immigrants from Central and South America as waging a war on the вЂњthe West to flood us with Third World people,вЂќ and mobilizing his followers to take part in the January 2021 insurrection on the U.S. During this time, Rhodes became increasingly conspiratorial, adopting and peddling a number of fringe right-wing conspiracy theories with the assistance of his friend Alex Jones. Rhodes and Oath Keepers supported Trump during his presidency. Rhodes had his group patrol the polls in an activity they called Operation Sabot during the 2016 Presidential election. With Rhodes at the helm, the group continued to promote their own version of vigilante justice by providing voluntary and sometimes illegal security during tense situations in America, after a terrorist attack and during the protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and by taking part in multiple standoffs against the government. These supposed threats are, in fact, part of the central conspiracy theory advocated by the antigovernment movement of which the Oath Keepers is a part вЂ“ the baseless claim that the federal government plans to impose martial law, seize AmericansвЂ™ weapons, force those who resist into concentration camps and, ultimately, push the country into a one-world socialistic government known as the вЂњNew World Order.вЂќ In 2013, the group announced the planned formation of вЂњCitizen PreservationвЂќ militias meant to defend Americans against the New World Order. The core idea of RhodesвЂ™ group, the Oath Keepers, is that its members vow to support the oaths they took on joining law enforcement or the military to defend the Constitution forever and the groupвЂ™s own list of 10 вЂњOrders We Will Not Obey.вЂќ The list is a compendium of perceived, unrealized threats from the government вЂ“ orders, for instance, to force Americans into concentration camps, confiscate their guns or cooperate with foreign troops in the United States.

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