", "The Oath Keepers: The Little-known Militia Now Roaming the Streets of Ferguson", "Return of armed militia group Oath Keepers to Ferguson raises concern", "Oath Keepers: Who are white militia at Ferguson protests and why are they allowed to carry guns? (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). You can watch the Philadelphia event here. "[168], Quoting the Las Vegas Review-Journal, MSNBC political commentator Pat Buchanan wrote: "Oath Keepers, depending on where one stands, are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia." [63], A September 2022 report by the ADL said that, of 38,000 names on the Oath Keepers membership list, over 370 appear to be current employees in law enforcement agencies and over 100 are current military personnel. Now, it's being reported that Taylor Taranto, 37, had two guns, 400 rounds of ammunition, and a machete in his van that he appeared to be living in when he was arrested Thursday, NBC News reported. Was he just in the right place at the right time? 3 min read. [119], Connie Meggs, an Oath Keeper from Dunnellon, Florida, and wife of Kelly Meggs, was charged with conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding, aiding and abetting obstruction, conspiracy, and entering restricted grounds. After members of Oath Keepers had been indicted for their alleged participation in the January 6 Capitol attack, Rogers stated on Twitter, "I am a member of the Oathkeepers and I really like their dedication to our Constitution and to our country," including a photo of her speaking to the Cottonwood, Arizona, chapter of the organization. Sedona: He was always obsessing over the American Revolution. Stewart told her all about how he used to get paid (during our marriage) to have sex with other men's wives while they watched, the affidavit states. Sean Stewart is Rod Stewart's third child and his second with his ex-wife Alana Stewart. Following his arrest, Insider spoke with Rhodes' estranged wife, Tasha Adams. Dakota: I dont think so, but he would have been sympathetic. "Oath Keepers. Sequoia: I dont remember ever meeting him. Dakota: He was always weirdly enmeshed with his mother. A court clerk confirmed Tuesday that the documents were unsealed but could not immediately provide certified copies. All five were found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding and aiding and abetting that action. Just a few years into its development, however, the Oath Keepers evolving credo instructed its members to form civilization preservation teams that included assembling and training local militia. "[163] Mack, a former sheriff, responded by denying the claims, saying, "I have had no contact with any militia group and have never been a member of any militia. Then I saw the photo of the stack going up the steps, and I thought, oh boy, this is Oath Keepers, she added, describing the military-style formation the mob employed to breach the building. After a court session Monday afternoon, Adams and her oldest son Dakota recorded a video that was posted on Twitter. Magazine in 2008, Rhodes asserts, "'It' (a full-blown totalitarian police state) cannot happen here if the majority of police and soldiers obey their oaths to defend the Constitution and refuse to enforce the unconstitutional edicts of the 'Leader'. Tasha and her attorney twisted over 23 years of facts in an attempt to accomplish Tasha's true goal of keeping the children from me, Rhodes court filing said. Dakota: He had a lot of expensive stuff coming through the house, but we never saw any money. In the speech, Page boasted, "I'm also a killer. Brown, you want a civil war, because this is how you get a civil war". Hatewatch: I recall him being standoffish with regard to the Malheur Occupation. Dakota: But mostly they would just burn out. Dakota: Anything that they could put up a GoFundMe for anything that gets a GoFundMe link in front of the mailing list. 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In February, Hatewatch met with and interviewed Rhodes adult children: son Dakota Adams, 24, and daughters Sedona Adams, 23, and Sequoia Adams, 19, in Kalispell, Montana. But what he wanted was collapse, so he could be the king of the collapse, with his own little army, so it was always going to go the way it did. I remember one guy was really surprised because he expected to find Stewart living on a prepper ranch, and instead we were in a crummy rental in the ghetto of Kalispell.. And those early months was really just about getting the little kids caught up in school and trying to mentally heal.. People didnt like him anyways.. Rhodes and his attorneys have submitted to the court that their defense will rely heavily on the Insurrection Act, an obscure law that allows a president to call on the military or militias to suppress a domestic insurrection. It was supposedly bipartisan. I was fully wrapped up in the brainwashing to a degree that they were not. A 2018 affidavit, filed by Rhodes ex-wife, Tasha Adams, as part of her divorce proceedings, alleged that Rhodes emotional and physical abuse of their children included punching and choking them. Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the eye-patch wearing, gruff-talking Yale law school graduate who founded the extremist militia group the Oath Keepers, is currently the most high-profile defendant in the. When J6 happened, I knew Stewart wouldnt go into the Capitol, but would tell people to go in, Adams said of the attack, which a House select committee has spent more than a year investigating as hundreds of people have been arrested and charged with crimes. [31] Four more Oath Keepers were convicted of seditious conspiracy by a separate jury two months later, bringing the total convicted of this rare charge to nine. If an abusive partner has access to a gun, its five timesmore likely that they will murder their partner. [121][122], In 2015, armed Oath Keepers in the Pacific Northwest attended two disputes between gold miners and federal authorities. [18] Under Rhodes's leadership, Oath Keepers in 2013 instructed its members to form "Citizen Preservation" teams, including militias, to operate in communities across the country to defend Americans from government intentionally letting the country descend into chaos then declaring martial law and scrapping the constitution, stating that "They are preparing to control and contain us, and to shoot us, but not preparing to feed us. In 2012, he was convicted of raping his seven-year-old daughter. Dakota: And really expensive stuff would come into the house and it was really unclear what was Oath Keepers property and what was his. 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He continually tells the children about rape and murder in detail far too graphic for their ages, telling them about the mechanics of rape and how little children are often kidnapped and tortured and chopped up. He says he even had his own set of childhood body armor, which Rhodes forced him to wear whenever the power went out, causing Dakota to think the house was being raided. Enough is enough". Sean was born on September 1, 1980, and is part of a blended family, but his full sibling is Kimberly Stewart, who is just one year older than him. Sequoia: We had to go in two separate cars because there were too many of us. [78][79], Three suspected members of Oath Keepers were federally indicted in January for conspiracy for planning their activities during the 2021 storming of the United States Capitol with six more being added to the indictment in February. Hopefully this is where the story ends., Long before he built one of the far-right largest anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, whose members would eventually storm the Cap. All that changed as he became increasingly afraid that a Democrat president would create political cover for the FBI to arrest and charge him over the Bundy Ranch standoff. It was a very complicated family situation, and his father was almost totally absent. We thought that they were going to be delivered that day. Sequoia: Its a very high-turnover place. His strongly sympathetic, albeit brief, position on masking and other proactive health measures included writing an open letter to governors asking them to declare pandemic health emergenc[ies], cancel public gatherings and church services, mobilize national guard units and distribute essential equipment and supplies to local hospitals., Following backlash to his letter from within the group, including the resignation of Chuck Baldwin as the Oath Keepers chaplain, Rhodes and the Oath Keepers began advocating against lockdowns and masking mandates while promoting conspiracy theories. Most research determined the Oath Keeper membership to be approximately 5,000 members, while leaked data showed Oath Keepers' rosters claiming membership of 38,000. Sequoia: He had a whole team of people working for him. The conversation shed important new light on the psychology of the Oath Keepers founder and provided the untold story of the impact of his public activities on his family. [18] The FBI describes the Oath Keepers as a "paramilitary organization" and a "large but loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been coopted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights. In 2023, Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, and another Oath Keepers leader, Kelly Meggs, was sentenced to 12 years for the same crime. The document said he routinely pitted the children against each other in stick fighting, leaving them bruised. In addition to Rhodes, four co-conspirators will stand trial alongside him, while three have already pleaded guilty, including William Todd Wilson, who told a judge that Rhodes spoke directly to a Trump surrogate on the night of the riot and tried to speak directly to the President. They told Hatewatch about living with Rhodes, his motivations for creating the organization, and the reasons for his alleged participation in the riot on Jan. 6. Thomas, one of the most extreme right-wing members of the Court, has often been scrutinized for inconsistencies in the narrative about his life and background. Hate has no place in our country. "[155], One Ferguson activist, Ryan Herring, described their presence as intimidating and frightening and criticized the Oath Keepers for their suggestion that protestors should use their legal right to carry firearms by saying that this would have increased the tension with the police openly. [117], On January 23, 2023, Roberto Minuta, Joseph Hackett, David Moerschel, and Edward Vallejo were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Sequoia: He had a hoard of the most expensive survivalist gear available, but yeah, we never saw any money. For resources and support in abusive relationships, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline. He could channel that American evangelism emotion well. [61] 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. Obviously they were all libertarians, but the idea was that they would protect everyone. They had been tried together. He frequently attacked his own sister in remarks, claiming that she grew up dependent on welfare, but in the early 90s, investigative reporters found this was a gross misrepresentation. Any military training events were usually pretty miserable. Web. 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Please do all you can to keep the kids from catching it, I believe its a bioweapon., Shortly after that, Rhodes sent his estranged children a package that included N95 masks, but by the time it reached them, he had already pivoted to a stance on the public health crisis that more closely aligned with the anti-government rhetoric he fostered among the Oath Keepers. We were always moving. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. He is a mortgage broker who seems unfazed by his lower position than Marcy at The Leading Bank of Chicago (when . We are sticking together and sticking to the plan. Dakota: And getting yelled at by the same person. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes a key figure in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol beat his kids, used the toilet in their presence, encouraged them to use drugs and harbored an obsession with sex (that) led him to incredibly inappropriate behavior around the children, newly released court filings obtained by Raw Story allege. Sequoia: Except I hadnt even had a birth certificate made when I was born in Virginia, so I certainly couldnt get a passport or a social security number. Sequoia: He had a board of directors, an IT guy, a treasury person, who was one of the only people who stayed there the whole time because I always remember him yelling at the same person. ", "Evidence Grows of Far-Right Militia Resurgence", "Oath Keepers: What anti-hate groups are saying about them", "Ohio militias: Who are the Oath Keepers, Ohio State Regular Militia? 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S.W.A.T. One of the best and easiest solutions is to depend on local officials, especially the sheriff, to stand against federal intervention and federal criminality. Its hilarious because that is basically what Stewart ended up doing. Stewart Rhodes, pictured on Feb. 28, 2021, in Fort Worth, Texas, is the founder of the Oath Keepers. [20] Former spokesperson for the Oath Keepers, Jason Van Tatenhove, has said of Stewart Rhodes and the Oath Keepers organization:[20][45]. So we snuck our stuff in an overnight bag past him while he was pacing up and down through the one-room cabin. In 2019, the kids attended their first public schools, a huge change that they really embraced. Tasha said her kids joined sports teams football, cross country, cheerleading and went to school dances. Sequoia: In the beginning it wasnt even supposed to be political. After their divorce he was continuing to hold Sequoias birth certificate, and the potential to get her birth certificate straightened out over her as a way to keep up contact. [74], According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Mack espouses a number of conspiracy and legal theories associated with the sovereign citizen and Posse Comitatus movements, chiefly, that sheriffs are the highest law enforcement authorities in the United States. Sequoia: Yes. There were a lot of steps to join the world, Tasha said. [158], The group's activities in Ferguson led to them being labeled "vigilantes" by some journalists. WASHINGTON Stewart Rhodes, the eyepatch-wearing law school graduate who was indicted Thursday for seditious conspiracy over the United States Capitol assault, spent years preparing to do. According to the account of the Adams children, they and their mother suffered all these forms of abuse while they were living with Stewart Rhodes. 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Rod Stewart caters his parenting style to each of his kids. His seditious conspiracy trial began Sept. 27 with jury selection; the trial is expected to span five weeks. (Collin County Jail), {{ post.roar_specific_data.api_data.analytics }}, Angry, violent and abusive: Unsealed court docs allege Stewart Rhodes created constant fear at home, Clarence Thomas in 1983: 'God only knows where' I would be if not for affirmative action, Jan 6 rioter arrested near Obama's home had 400 rounds of ammunition and a machete: report, four misdemeanor counts in connection with Jan. 6, Watch: Trump set to speak to Moms for Liberty 'extremist' group, The Supreme Court only outlawed the kind of bias that its rightwing supermajority dislikes. The former wife of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes detailed how her ex-husband became a "brownshirt for Trump" in a new interview with The Daily Beast. It would just be fumbling teenage Dakota thrown into tactical drills with some army infantry combat veterans and Stewart on the side with his coffee laughing at me, but then later hed get mad because I made the family look bad.. That's why they started doing disaster relief.
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