Frank Figliuzzi: Here's proof that charges against Oath Keepers is having a positive effect.
, including its founder Stewart Rhodes, have been charged with seditious conspiracy, one of the most serious crimes in federal law.over 370 individuals who appear to currently work in police agencies, and, disturbingly, some of them are active chiefs of police and sheriffs. There were also more than 100 on the lists who may be actively serving in our military. It gets worse.
Being on a membership list can’t be construed as proving anything more than the likelihood that someone, at some point in time, thought keeping an oath sounded good. Now it seems that daylight and hindsight have some of them singing a different tune.The Associated Press attempted to contact the 10 known chiefs of police and 11 known sheriffs the ADL says it found in the Oath Keepers membership lists.
These sentiments might be heartfelt and genuine. They may be forced and feigned. But whenever members of a group, which includes people radicalized to violence, decide they need to disassociate, it’s worth asking why. Because it might mean we’re doing something right.Rachel Carroll Rivas of the Southern Poverty Law Center told the AP that since the assault on the U.S. Capitol and the arrest of Rhodes, Oath Keepers “has struggled to keep members.” That shouldn’t be a surprise.
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