THREAD: Some have questioned my characterization of Ammon Bundy's People's Rights Network(PRN), so here's a list of some of the things PRN leaders have been arrested/convicted of since the founding of the organization.
Sean Anderson. PRN Idaho Area 4 Area Assistant. Convicted and sentenced to 18 years in jail for a shootout with law enforcement. ktvb.com/article/news/c…
Ammon Bundy. PRN Founder. Jan 2023 Pled guilty to trespassing at St. Luke's Hospital. April 2022. Sentenced to 10 days in Jail for COntempt. March 2022. Found guilty of trespassing and delaying an officer. idahocapitalsun.com/2023/01/23/amm…
David Pettinger. PRN Idaho Area 4NE Assistant. February 2021, arrested on charges of obstructing officers and assault on an officer. December 2020 arrested and charged with disturbing the peace for protesting outside commissioner's home. ktvb.com/article/news/c…
Aaron Schmidt. PRN Idaho Area 4NW Assistant. Arrested for trespassing alongside Bundy. Convicted. kivitv.com/news/court-rec…
Casey Whalen. Idaho. Arrested for arrested for falsifying and/or concealing public records.
Garth Gaylord. PRN Idaho. Cited on charges of resisting and obstructing officers in a confrontation with court security outside the courthouse. kivitv.com/news/court-rec…
Casey Baker. Felony count of battery on a law enforcement officer as well as misdemeanor for resisting and obstructing officer.
Lori Marr. PRN Idaho Area 4SW Area Assistant. Arrested for Battery and Resisting Arrest. isc.idaho.gov/opinions/49656…
Robert Jones. PRN Idaho Area 9 Assistant. Sentenced to 180 days in Jail for disturbing the peace while protesting outside the home of a member of the Central District Health board.
Susan Lang. PRN Idaho. Sentenced for disturbing the peace while protesting outside the home of a member of the Central District Health board. westernstatescenter.org/pressreleasear…
Kelli Stewart. PRN WA. Arrest warrants (allegedly issued for Stewart, Satin Meyer, and Patrick Morris after a confrontation at Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital in Clark CO, WA on 1/29/2021. peoplesrights.org/news_view?/war…
There are more that could be added, but this list is already massive. It's worth noting that those listed here are primarily leaders within the People's Rights Network, not just members or supporters.
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THREAD: Major updates in the allegations of theft/fraud against CSPOA leader Richard Mack. Today it was confirmed that an attorney for America's Frontline Doctors (Free Speech Foundation) filed theft/fraud charges against Mack--who was serving as president of AFLDS.
According to the AFLDS attorney who filed the charges, Lauren Bradford, Mack was removed as president on April 1 by the board. He was ordered to return the money. He did not, according to oversight board member Kevin Jenkins.
Bradford also noted that the board voted in a new board of directors: Dr. Stephen Guffanti, MD, Dr. Cordie Williams, DC, and Dr. Aaron Lewis, PhD. The new board named Jenkins as the new AFLDS CEO.
The exhaustively debunked election denial film, 2,000 Mules, has inspired many far-right groups to take up ballot drop box vigilantism. Surveillance, armed patrols, and intimidation of voters are real threats this cycle.
Among those organizing such efforts is Matt Shea.
In Arizona, the far-right paramilitary group, Lions of Liberty, launched what they're calling "Operation: Drop Box." With the help of a supportive sheriff, they "plan on watching the ballot boxes throughout Yavapai County."
In Michigan, a coalition of Tea Party, COVID Denial, and other far-right groups (including the LaRouchies) are all part of the Michigan Election Protection Team. They're trying to turn out 5,000 for the election.
For those just catching up on the "Constitutional Sheriff" scheme to intervene in elections, I highly recommend reading the following @IREHR pieces for both history and context.
1. "Constitutional Sheriffs" and the "Election Fraud" Conspiracy Posse
My biggest takeaways from today's #CPAC2022 coverage are:
1. how dominant the anti-woke message has become and how it fuses COVID denial, racism denial, anti-trans, anti-sex ed, anti-public schools message into one big bundle of white victimhood.
2. how they're trying to sweep Jan. 6 under the rug and reframe the conversation to be about a "faulty" 2020 election and push for voter suppression laws. That Stop the Steal figures like Jenny Beth Martin, and Senators like Hawley and Cruz headlined are signs of further trouble.
3. How, like we'd anticipated, anti-immigrant politics are emerging just in time for the mid-terms. The myth of the border is used as a way to shift the blame on everything from crime rates to the opioid epidemic onto immigrants.
1. It was hard not to laugh out loud at an "economic anxiety" piece centered around a woman who arrived in DC in a private jet.
2. This was a very small sample size, even among those who have been identified, let alone the mass of individuals who stormed the barricades. It's classic cherry-picking to make a point that the overall data does not support.
Wondering where the anti-mask fervor is generated? The lastest @IREHR data on far-right groups opposed to #COVID19 restrictions found 227 groups with 254,534 members explicitly dedicated to the anti-mask cause.
This includes Facebook groups like "Masks Are A Choice - Orange County", "MASKS ARE FOR THE SHEEP AND THE SLAVES OF THE ZIONIST JEWS!" and "People against wearing masks! AKA, we're not sheep!"
Of 1114 groups on the list, 227 are explicitly anti-mask focused. They incubate much of the anti-mask propaganda that gets pumped into the larger constellation of "#reopen" groups (814 groups, 2.5 million members), then fed into the mainstream.