Oath Keepers Founder – Stewart Rhodes
I suppose art really does imitate ‘reality’. The episode in question of Yellowstone featured a pitched battle between John Dutton’s men and an unnamed militia group that was holding Kayce’s son Tate hostage. As stated, they were loaded for ‘bear’.
The core idea of Elmer Stewart Rhodes’ group, the Oath Keepers, is that its members vow to support the oaths they took on joining law enforcement or the military to defend the Constitution forever and the group’s own list of 10 “Orders We Will Not Obey.” The list is a compendium of perceived, unrealized threats from the government – orders, for instance, to force Americans into concentration camps, confiscate their guns or cooperate with foreign troops in the United States.
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Guess where Rhodes is from: yup, Montana.
The Yellowstone episode dates from 2019.
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