Oregon GOP Official Wants Private Militias To Protect Republicans
Oregon GOP Official Wants Private Militias To Protect Republicans
Some of the militias under consideration are recognized as “extreme antigovernment groups.”
By Ed Mazza 05/30/2017 03:48 am ET
A Republican leader in Oregon says the party may use private militias, including groups widely recognized as antigovernment extremists, to protect GOP officials.
The move comes after Friday’s deadly stabbing attack in Portland in which two people were killed and a third injured while defending a Muslim teen from a man shouting anti-Islamic slurs.
James Buchal, chair of the Republican party for Multnomah County, which includes Portland, told The Guardian that GOP figures may need “a security force protecting them” while out in public. When asked if he meant private groups, Buchal told the newspaper, “Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.”
Both groups are on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s list of active, extremist antigovernment groups and considered as such by the Anti-Defamation League as well.
But Buchal said these groups were under consideration for his “security force” plan.
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