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In reply to the discussion: Oath Keeper attorney says they believed "Trump was going to activate them as a militia under the [View all]joshcryer
(62,269 posts)...sure seems like a winner to me.
I looked up that 2010 case, it wasn't very solid, they were just gun nutters and they had an FBI guy embedded in them (let's be real 90% of these idiots probably have an FBI guy embedded in their groups which is what makes it so funny). They talked about overthrowing the government but never actually did anything. It was just ranting fantasies of rambling militia assholes. They did get charged with Federal arms violations because they had all sorts of heavy weapons and maybe they would've done some stupid shit later, but taking their guns away seems to have neutered them.
Here's a great article on that 2010 case and it makes the case for charging the insurrectionists (back in Feb of 2021), kinda prophetic: https://www.lawfareblog.com/last-time-justice-department-prosecuted-seditious-conspiracy-case