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The Oath Keepers has been identified as one of the "largest and most prominent organizations of the militia/patriot movement." [33] [34] Oath Keepers was founded in March 2009 by Elmer Stewart Rhodes, [35] [36] [37] a Yale Law School graduate, former U.S. Army paratrooper, and former staffer for Republican Congressman Ron Paul. [38]
In Canada, each juror has the choice to take either an oath or affirmation. The oath/affirmation states something to the effect of: Do you swear to well and truly try and true deliverance make between our sovereign lady the Queen, and the accused at the bar, who you shall have in charge, and a true verdict give, according to the evidence, so help you God?
In August 2019, two more of the Proud Boys, Maxwell Hare and John Kinsman, were convicted following a jury trial of attempted gang assault, attempted assault and riot; the jury deliberated a day and a half before rejecting their claims of self-defense. [147] Hare and Kinsman were each sentenced to four years in prison. [152]
Group’s leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditioous conspiracy
A Washington, D.C., jury began deliberations Tuesday in the seditious conspiracy case against Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and four other associates in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 ...
Jacob Ware, co-author of the book "God, Guns and Sedition," notes that organizations like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers were effectively "broken up" by the Jan. 6 backlash and the prosecutions.
Arroyo was the vice president of the Arizona chapter of the far-right militia the Oath Keepers in 2021 [2] [3] and 2022. [4] He is the founder of the Yavapai County Preparedness Team. [5] In 2022 he designed and led an effort to surveil ballot boxes in Arizona, in a program he named Operation: Drop Box. [1]
A former Oath Keeper who gave “extensive” assistance to federal prosecutors investigating members of the anti-government militia group in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack was ...