A chilling set of skills is buried in a leaked Oath Keepers membership list

[Nevilledog]

https://www.rawstory.com/oath-keepers-kansas/

Few things surprise me anymore. Journalists look into all kinds of assorted (and sorted and sordid) data, and it’s our job to tease meaningful stories out of the information, whether it’s a stack of boxes from a cold case murder to a spreadsheet on what the local city council spends on travel. But when I was handed a leaked membership roster for the Oath Keepers in Kansas, something shocked me enough to swear out loud.

One of the dues-paying members had listed nuclear weapons training as among his skills.

“What the funk,” I muttered, or something similar, feeling as if I was reading a mash-up of the January 6th Committee Report and the 1962 political thriller “Seven Days in May.”

The Oath Keepers is the extreme right-wing militia whose leader was convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Kansas roster, which was current as of September 2021, is part of a national database of more than 38,000 individuals, and includes not just names and addresses but sometimes detailed background information self-reported by members.

It wasn’t a surprise there were 373 dues-paying Keepers scattered across the Sunflower State. Most described themselves as military veterans or retired cops, the key demographics for the organization. Four of the Kansas members listed themselves as active-duty military, including two with “.mil” email addresses. Some described themselves as currently in law enforcement. A few Kansas Keepers said they were thinking of running for public office, and at least one actually did, losing a race for county sheriff.

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[Mad_Machine76]

1. That's scary all right

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. I'd imagine that the skills are self-reported.

It's possible that his "nuclear weapons training" amounts to knowing how to attach a dosimeter to his shirt.

[Johnny2X2X]

3. The irony of their name

Oathkeepers, while asking military both ex and active, to break their oaths they took to uphold the Constitution.