Yale Law School ‘04 graduate Elmer “Stewart” Rhodes, III.Stewart Rhodes is the founder, boss and kingpin of the Oath Keepers.
Hey Republicans, you can crack open the entire story of January 6, 2021 (“1/6”) with one simple, relentless question: what is the FBI and Army Counterintelligence’s relationship with Stewart Rhodes?
The Oath Keepers, we are told, are America’s largest militia, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, and the preeminent right-wing domestic extremist insider threat to the entire U.S. military.
But Stewart Rhodes is not simply a key figure in the Oath Keepers. Stewart Rhodes is the Oath Keepers, according to Oath Keepers board member Richard Mack.
Elmer Stewart Rhodes III — a one-time Army paratrooper, disbarred Yale lawyer, constitutionalist, gun enthusiast, and far-right media star — founded the group called the Oath Keepers in 2009. Since then, he has ridden crosscurrents of American anger and strife that ran from scrubby Western deserts to angry urban protests right into the Capitol rotunda.
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Mack said he and others also raised concerns about the Oath Keepers’ participation in violent protests…
He said it had become clear that the board had no real power. “[Stewart Rhodes] is the Oath Keepers. It’s hard to separate the two,” Mack said. “It’s his organization, and he can do what he wants to do.”
Other dissenting voices found that they were no longer welcome. Jim Arroyo, the vice president of the Arizona chapter, said relations began to fray over Rhodes’ insistence on total control... [Buzzfeed]
A mere indictment of Stewart Rhodes, today, for the same conspiracy charges alleged against his underlings, would collapse the entire “threat” of the Oath Keepers that the country has heard so much about. From NPR:
Rhodes is the central figure of the organization. He is the founder, leader and center of gravity for the group. In theory, then, an indictment against Rhodes could lead to the group’s collapse.
The Justice Department argues that Stewart Rhodes both substantially organized and activated an imputed plan to use violence, on 1/6, in real-time, through a series of encrypted Signal messages beginning at 1:38 p.m., as Trump concluded his rally speech on the National Mall, and 62 minutes before Oath Keepers lieutenants allegedly formed a “military stack” to rush the Capitol doors.
These facts alone, as alleged, are more than legally sufficient to secure an indictment of Stewart Rhodes. We will walk you through the mountains of direct and circumstantial evidence built on top of these allegations, but readers must understand this: the only reason Stewart Rhodes is not in jail *right now* is because of a deliberate decision by the Justice Department to protect him.
Indeed, it is unclear whether the FBI has even sought to search Stewart Rhodes’s residence, personal belongings, or electronic devices, other than a single iPhone allegedly seized on the streets from agents in unmarked FBI vehicles in late April (since returned). For reasons discussed below, there is good reason to suspect the FBI will pursue a tightly controlled and very limited scope of investigation into Stewart Rhodes,. Beyond that narrow scope, they may not want the information they are likely to find.
Why doesn’t anyone at the FBI or DOJ want him?
If 1/6 was an “insurrection,” why protect the one man who, more than any other individual referenced in the charging documents of the 530+ open criminal cases, comes closest to the media’s ravenous description of a “lead insurrectionist?”
Is it possible that the Oath Keepers, the most prominent antigovernment group in the United States, has been run, in effect, by the United States government itself — and nobody has mentioned it until now?
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What insurrection? These morons don't know the meaning of the word. Jan. 6 was a protest, a lot milder than what Antifa and BLM have been getting away with.
Exactly. Dems wording is always propagandist manipulation & brainwashng re-education.
Another PLOY by the Communist Party to DIVIDE & CONQUER! Don't fall for another Woke/Joke! If you believe this crap then you know Hunter O'Biden is the Pope of the Catholic Church!
Agreed !! Why don't people see that this is in fact a ploy to divide and conquer... Rhodes is a Patriot, they are scared to death of him.. case closed!!!!
That sounds like "The Big Lie;" something that would make Joseph Goebbels proud. I'm not an insider of the Oath Keepers, only a past onlooker. But originally, the Oath Keepers mandate was only to encourage members of the military and law enforcement communities to support and defend the US Constitution. They were not to obey the unconstitutional orders of those who clearly desire to do away with the US Constitution, our national sovereignty, and bring our nation under the boot heel of the globalists.
It was stressed in the beginning that the Oath Keepers was not intended to be a militia group. Could that change? Sure, as circumstances dictate. But does it not follow that the US Constitution, love of God and love of country is a hurdle for the globalists to overcome? And does it not follow that the globalists would seek to discredit all those loyal to the Constitution as was originally written and intended?
Psychological Operations is an art and a craft, The Nazis used it extensively and well. In the USA it was perhaps refined in the so-called banana republics, but it is alive and well and broadly used in our country today.
Tactically speaking, in terms of psychological operations, it makes good sense to accuse Stewart Rhodes and anyone else who is trying to save the Republic, of working for those who desire to actually destroy it. Again, I'm guessing it's "The Big Lie."
B.S.
This report is slanted against groups that want to save America! The initial march was in protest to Chief Justice Robert’s refusal to hear the case for voter fraud in the 2020 election. By his refusal to even hear the case, he made Trumps three new justices irrelevant. In short he caved to the threats of nationwide violence if the American people learned the truth. He should have heard the case, got the verdict, then delt with the outcome! He is a terrible judge bought and paid for by the left.
In reality, the groups from the left that were there to actually harm the US, were far more dangerous. CAUGHT ON VIDEO: Antifa Protester John Sullivan leader of the Utah branch of the Antifa-BLM chapter brags about posing as a Trump Supporter and breaking windows at US Capitol building during riot. (I have a photo of him with his Trump hat on).
Footage obtained by the Gateway Pundit from militant Black Lives Matter and Antifa activist John Sullivan’s Discord server shows the so-called “civil rights activist” and his followers reveling inside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as they damaged federal property.
Sullivan has maintained in multiple interviews that he regularly attends protests only to record what’s going on, but did not actively partake in the insurgence in Washington, THATS A LIE!
“I’m just recording, solely, and not being active in it,” he told Fox News last week, THATS A LIE!
Yet, in footage streamed to his followers on Discord, Sullivan, who uses the name “Jayden X” on the app, can be heard inciting violence from inside the U.S. Capitol and boasting about breaking windows.
He and his followers were chanting “If we don’t get in, we’re going to burn this sh*t down,” he gloats. “Let’s go! This sh*t’s ours. F*ck yeah. I can’t believe this is reality and we accomplished this sh*t”. “We did this sh*t together”. “I didn’t know I hit the window that hard”. “No one got that on camera”? “F*ck the blue! F*ck the blue!”
Btw, both CNN and NBC gave him $35,000 for his ‘report’! I saw a picture of 10 Antifa that were stopped at the Capital, but since has been scrubbed.
The Democrats own this!
Victory1
Well look who submitted John Robert's as Chief Justice. Obama, Clinton's, Bushes, etc are part of the dell state and swamp. Who's to say 9/11 wasn't orchestrated by George Bush, to get his way & go to Iraq. It's all about money, oil money and all the elites getting rich off the American people.