Summary
Robert “Bobby” Kinch, a former Las Vegas homicide detective, is revealed as the leader of the Utah-based Oath Keepers USA, a spinoff of the militia linked to the January 6 Capitol attack.
Kinch, who retired from the force in 2016, has a controversial history, including Facebook posts advocating a “race war” and a photo of him pointing a gun at a plate with Barack Obama’s image.
Critics highlight the threat of extremists in law enforcement.
The Oath Keepers remain active, adding police officers to their ranks amid Trump’s potential return to power.
Remember when every single house Republican voted against investigating the depth of white supremacist penetration into the armed forces and police departments? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/house-republicans-vote-against-neo-223633093.html
We have decided not to investigate ourselves and found absolutely no evidence of wrongdoing
Some… uh… some of those that… ya know, work forces. Just… just sayin’
It’s such a meaningful lyric, but forces and crosses don’t exactly rhyme.
In my head, I like to switch the lyrics to be about the mounted police units.
Some of those that work forces
Also mount and ride horses
This also has the bonus of entirely obliterating the meaning.
That’s an overly simplistic view of rhyming.
In the general sense, general rhyme can refer to various kinds of phonetic similarity between words, and the use of such similar-sounding words in organizing verse. Rhymes in this general sense are classified according to the degree and manner of the phonetic similarity
True…I said they don’t exactly rhyme.
I guess to be more accurate, they are not a perfect rhyme, which I personally find to be a better sounding type of rhyme.
From what I’ve heard, the original line was “those that hold office”, but the label made them reduce the scope.
Ah, that would sound so much better rhyme-wise, and also be more significant.
Too bad…
Also mount and ride horses
Hehehe… Officer Mr. Hands.
Wow lemmy has more toxicity then reddit. Been thinking about leaving this place.
Some of those that work forces…
Man, it is really depressing having to still qoute a 33 year old RATM song.
I think the line should have been
MOST of those that work forces…
It certainly turns out to be so.
Soon to be a member of the Trump administration.
Wouldn’t it be interesting if we started an investigation into how many right-wing extremists are currently holding positions in the White House? We already know at least one person opened a door for the Jan. 6th terrorists. I’m willing to bet that the rot goes a lot deeper than that…
I’m certainly interested
https://www.propublica.org/article/ap3-oath-keepers-militia-mole
Greta article talking about this very same guy and the mole who helped release the info.
Thunberg wasn’t mentioned once in that whole article…
But seriously, I read the whole thing a couple days ago and what a ride. Dude was getting pretty paranoid towards the end, but he got out safely and now we have some knowledge of their inner workings. I hope he takes some comfort in that.
We / our society need many more like that guy, but I wouldn’t wish that level of stress on anyone. I’ll bet he gave two years off his eventual lifespan for every year undercover. On the other hand, lifespan would be worth so little in a white-supremacist christofascism.
as i always say, ACAN, all cops are nazis
The department attempted to contain the fallout by quietly adopting a new social media policy in July 2015 that explicitly prohibits discriminatory speech and threatens termination for violations.
Makes sense. We don’t care if you’re racist, just don’t advertise it because it makes the department look bad.
shocked…shocked I say!
Somehow not surprised.
