oathkeepers scam members, spend money on liquor, adult shops+car repairs!

[butters]

First, recruitment and donations slumped after more than a dozen Oath Keepers members were indicted for allegedly conspiring to violently overthrow the government on Jan. 6, BuzzFeed News reported.

Other reports suggested that Oath Keepers members charged in the insurrection were breaking ranks and pointing fingers at each other as they pursued plea bargains. Meanwhile, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes rejected his attorney's advice and met with the FBI, and bank records appeared to show that the group's leadership had spent its money on car repairs, liquor, cellphone games, and undisclosed items at an adult entertainment shop, the Wall Street Journal reported.

Now, leaked emails reveal that new recruits demanded refunds after they paid to join the Oath Keepers but never received "membership packages" — or any other response — which left them "feeling scammed," according to the Daily Beast. The emails were made public this week by the transparency group Distributed Denial of Secrets.

https://www.rawstory.com/who-are-the-oath-keepers/?

 

[RoryN]

This is fantastic!

 

[LukSkyFokker]

Makes sense. They get liquored up, drive to an LGBT+ S&M shop, and crash on the way home.

 

[Lazaran]

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I hope that those "recruits" who are crying about getting scammed don't recover a penny of the money they sent to the Oaf Kreepers.

I want all of them to feel some pain.

 

[MissMandy86]

A Christian organization

 

[RoryN]

A Christian organization

But of course!

 

[pecksniff]

Oath Keepers:

Oath Keepers is a far-right, anti-government militia organization founded by Elmer Stewart Rhodes (1966–) in 2009.[1] Oath Keepers is considered to be part of the broader 'patriot movement', which includes other militias, sovereign citizens and tax protesters.[2] Their membership consists of "current and formerly serving military, police, and first responders, who pledge to fulfill the oath all military and police take to 'defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.'" — but any old gun nut can join as an associate member.[3] That sounds all perfectly reasonable — except that members frequently have a different idea of what "defend the Constitution" means than ordinary people or Constitutional scholars: Oath Keepers' belief that they will prevent tyranny revolves around the New World Order conspiracy theory.[2] In practice, this can mean inciting members to intimidate voters they don't like,[4] or engaging in an insurrection against a democratically-elected government.[5]

Rhodes, who once worked for Ron Paul, has been described by his ex-wife as paranoid views about the government.[6] According to Jason Van Tatenhove, former spokesman for the Oath Keepers, Rhodes' appears is comparable to a performance, a claim that is confirmed to some degree by Rhodes' inability to draw large live audiences and his not actually training a militia.[6] Rhodes' followers are largely armchair militants whom Rhodes grifts according to Van Tatenhove, and that would seem to be confirmed by Rhodes' allegedly leading a force of only 18 Oath Keepers at the 2021 U.S. Capitol riot — from a safe distance.[6]