"Jan. 6 committee investigators have asked at least three witnesses to detail the behind-the-scenes rivalry, mistrust, and animus between Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and prominent Proud Boys member Enrique Tarrio during the run-up to the attack on the Capitol"
didn't know this, that the Oathkeepers were originally all about guns being confiscated during Hurricane Katrina
On this day in 2009, the Oath Keepers was founded on the Lexington Common in Massachusetts in response to the confiscation of guns during Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana in 2005. The date and place were a hat tip to the beginning of the Revolutionary War. pic.twitter.com/cpLCwpwiQa
So now they won! Everybody's got guns! Even in localities where they are illegal. Geo. Floyd protests & riots + pandemic accomplished it for them. The "authoritarian" police have been cowed by citizens. So why not disband?
A friend of mine theorized that the right really doesn't get along with one another - it's why they live so far away from one another and say 'don't tread on me.'
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by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:15pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:16pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:18pm
didn't know this, that the Oathkeepers were originally all about guns being confiscated during Hurricane Katrina
So now they won! Everybody's got guns! Even in localities where they are illegal. Geo. Floyd protests & riots + pandemic accomplished it for them. The "authoritarian" police have been cowed by citizens. So why not disband?
by artappraiser on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:41pm
A friend of mine theorized that the right really doesn't get along with one another - it's why they live so far away from one another and say 'don't tread on me.'
by Orion on Thu, 04/21/2022 - 1:49pm