Oath Keepers founder...was in direct contact with rioters before & during Capitol breach...

[DonViejo]

Source: Washington Post


Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact with rioters before and during Capitol breach, U.S. alleges

By Spencer S. Hsu
March 9, 2021 at 8:00 a.m. EST

U.S. prosecutors alleged Monday that Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was in direct contact before, during and immediately after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach with members since charged with plotting to prevent Congress from confirming the results of the 2020 presidential election.

In a late-night court filing, prosecutors alleged that Rhodes directed the right-wing, anti-government group to rally during the riot to the southeast steps of the Capitol, after which several members forcibly entered the east side of the building.

Prosecutors said they had recovered a chat called “DC OP: Jan 6 21” on the encrypted Signal messaging app that “shows that individuals, including those alleged to have conspired with [others], were actively planning to use force and violence.”

Prosecutors said chat participants included Rhodes — identified only as “Person One” in the filing but whom prosecutors named in earlier court papers — and two charged Oath Keepers members: Jessica Watkins, 38, an Ohio leader; and Kelly Meggs, 52, of Florida.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/stewart-rhodes-oathkeepers-capitol-riot/2021/03/09/2c3d7fd8-808a-11eb-9ca6-54e187ee4939_story.html

[magicarpet]

1. Conspiracy to commit an insurrection.

Reoccurring criminal enterprise,.. grounds to open a RICO Case.

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The Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act is a United States federal law that provides for extended criminal penalties and a civil cause of action for acts performed as part of an ongoing criminal organization.
Statutes at Large: 84 Stat. 922-3 aka 84 Stat. 941
U.S.C. sections created: 18 U.S.C. §§ 1961–1968
Enacted by: the 91st United States Congress
Effective: October 15, 1970

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act

[BComplex]

3. I just hope trump himself, and his spawn, are all guilty of this as well.

They all need to be locked up.

[soothsayer]

2. Lock them up

[turbinetree]

4. Oath Keepers they wouldn't know a fucking oath unless it included treason

in there lexiCON, oh yea they know how to commit treason and sedition...................throw away the fucking key............

[Dreampuff]

5. Interesting

But I'm waiting to see how much involvement Roger Stone and Trump himself had in actual violence besides spreading their propaganda for weeks on end. Doesn't treason still call for the firing squad or was that changed?

[niyad]

6. INSURRECTION. NOT "breach". We DEMAND that you do better, wapo.

[MiHale]

7. Breach...

That’s like me blowing up your foot, setting fire to it, pissing on it then weakly apologizing for stepping on your toe.

[czarjak]

8. Just feel the Love of Jesus?

[BadgerMom]

9. Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, America First, Nick Fuentes...

On the right there are numerous groups-these are just 2. There are also Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys, Klansmen, Nazis. The leaders are known. I listed the names of the heads of those first two organizations. I get steamed thinking about the journalistic malpractice that goes on when reporters and anchors don’t press Republicans who blame their supporters’ actions on the nebulous antifa. What organization is antifa? Who is its head? There is no worthwhile comparison between the systemic hatred on the right and the meager organized opposition that’s built up as The Left. Many times I think the so-called left is decent people standing up to the right’s bullies and telling them, “Not here.” Getting journalists to report facts seems too much to ask.

Rant over.