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Oregon GOP Official Wants Private Militias To Protect Republicans
Some of the militias under consideration are recognized as extreme antigovernment groups.
By Ed Mazza 05/30/2017 03:48 am ET
A Republican leader in Oregon says the party may use private militias, including groups widely recognized as antigovernment extremists, to protect GOP officials.
The move comes after Fridays deadly stabbing attack in Portland in which two people were killed and a third injured while defending a Muslim teen from a man shouting anti-Islamic slurs.
James Buchal, chair of the Republican party for Multnomah County, which includes Portland, told The Guardian that GOP figures may need a security force protecting them while out in public. When asked if he meant private groups, Buchal told the newspaper, Yeah. And there are these people arising, like the Oath Keepers and the Three Percenters.
Both groups are on the Southern Poverty Law Centers list of active, extremist antigovernment groups and considered as such by the Anti-Defamation League as well.
But Buchal said these groups were under consideration for his security force plan.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/oregan-rebublican-militia_us_592cf421e4b0065b20b7d9d4?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
ProfessorGAC
(65,040 posts)People get killed by a xenophobic nutjob on their side, and Republicans need protection from crazies? That's just blindly stupid.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Trump and the republican party are following Hitlers playbook, it seems.
TrishaJ
(798 posts)determined to destroy American institutions, they are considering they may need some military protection outside of U.S. law enforcement in the not to distant future. Just sayin.'
ProfessorGAC
(65,040 posts)It sounds awfully SA of him, doesn't it? Maybe he can get the ghost of Ernst Rolm to provide some cover, too.