Brett Harper

I have repeatedly referred to this battle against Christian fascism and nationalistm in our country as a war. In war you have friends and foes. Its important to know who your foes are so that you never underestimate your enemy. You have likely heard the phrase “Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.”

So who are the Christian fascist foot soldiers we are at war with? Some of the various militias and organizations are listed below. I suggest you get aquainted with who they are, what they do and where so you can learn to counter them more efficiently.

Three Percenters

The Three Percenters are a loose anti-government network comprising militia groups and individual activists in the United States. Once a unified organization known as The Three Percenters Original, the movement has evolved into a number of ideologically diverse groups with no centralized leadership at the national level.

The movement adherents advocates gun ownership rights and resistance to the U.S. federal government. The group’s name derives from the erroneous claim that “the active forces in the field against the King’s tyranny never amounted to more than 3% of the colonists” during the American Revolution. Though the Three Percent movement is broadly united by support for gun rights and has been described by Malcolm Nance as right-libertarian, it also encompasses nativist and Christian fundamentalist elements involved in planning bomb attacks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Percenters

https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounder/three-percenters

• Three Percenters are part of the militia movement, which supports the idea of a small number of dedicated “patriots” protecting Americans from government tyranny, just as the patriots of the American Revolution protected early Americans from British tyranny.
• The Three Percenter concept, created in 2008, is based on an inaccurate historical claim that only three percent of Americans fought in the Revolutionary War against the British.
• Three Percenters may join or form traditional militia groups but often form non-paramilitary groups or online networks.  Many are not associated with any particular groups.
• The Three Percenter concept both contributed to and benefited from the resurgence of the militia movement that began in 2008.
• Because many adherents to the militia movement strongly support President Trump, in recent years, Three Percenters have not been as active in opposing the federal government, directing their ire at other perceived foes, including leftists/antifa, Muslims and immigrants.
• Three Percenters have been active in 2019-2020 in reaction to a range of issues, including attempts to pass state level gun control measures, state-imposed restrictions and lockdowns to prevent spread of the coronavirus, and the protests that have taken place around the country over the May 2020 killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
• Three Percenters have a track record of criminal activity ranging from weapons violations to terrorist plots and attacks.

The Proud Boys

The Proud Boys is an American far-right, neo-fascist militant organization that promotes and engages in political violence. The group’s leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the federal government of the United States, including its constitutionally prescribed transfer of presidential power. It has been called a street gang and was designated as a terrorist group in Canada and New Zealand. The Proud Boys are opposed to left-wing and progressive groups and support President Donald Trump. While Proud Boys leadership has denied being a white supremacist organization, the group and some of its members have been connected to white supremacist events, ideologies, and other white-power groups throughout its existence.

The group originated in the far-right Taki’s Magazine in 2016 under the leadership of the Vice Media co-founder and the former commentator Gavin McInnes, taking its name from the song “Proud of Your Boy” from the Walt Disney Company’s musical Aladdin from 2011. Although the Proud Boys emerged as part of the alt-right, McInnes distanced himself from the movement in early 2017, saying the Proud Boys were alt-lite while the alt-right’s focus was on race. Donald Trump’s comment, “Proud Boys, stand back and stand by”, during a presidential debate in September 2020 prior to the 2020 U.S. presidential election was credited with increasing interest and recruitment.

According to the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism the group believes that traditional masculinity and Western culture are under siege, using “Western chauvinism” as euphemism for the white genocide conspiracy theory. Members have participated in overtly racist events and events centered around fascist, anti-left, and anti-socialist violence. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has called the group an “alt-right fight club” and a hate group that uses rhetorical devices to obscure its motives The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described the Proud Boys as “extremist conservative” and “alt lite”, “overtly Islamophobic and misogynistic”, “transphobic and anti-immigration”, “all too willing to embrace racists, antisemites and bigots of all kinds”, and cites the group’s promotion and use of violence as a core tactic.

The group has been banned from multiple social networks, including Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube. In February 2021 the U.S. Department of Justice announced the indictment of members for conspiracy related to the 2021 United States Capitol attack, and the Canadian arm of the group folded after being designated a terrorist organization

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proud_Boys

The Oath Keepers

Oath Keepers is an American far-right anti-government militia whose leaders have been convicted of violently opposing the government of the United States, including the transfer of presidential power as prescribed by the United States constitution. It was incorporated in 2009 by founder Elmer Stewart Rhodes, a lawyer and former paratrooper. In 2023, Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 United States Capitol attack, and another Oath Keepers leader, Kelly Meggs, was sentenced to 12 years for the same crime. Three other members have pleaded guilty to this crime, and four other members have been convicted of it.

Research on their membership determined that two-thirds of the Oath Keepers are former military or law enforcement, and one tenth are active duty military or law enforcement. The group encourages its members to disobey orders which they believe would violate the U.S. Constitution. Most research determined the Oath Keeper membership to be approximately 5,000 members, while leaked data showed Oath Keepers’ rosters claiming membership of 38,000.

Several organizations that monitor U.S. domestic terrorism and hate groups describe the Oath Keepers as a far-right extremist or radical group. In 2015, Mark Pitcavage of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) described the group as “heavily armed extremists with a conspiratorial and anti-government mindset looking for potential showdowns with the government”. According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), the group is anti-government and extremist. Former SPLC senior fellow Mark Potok describes the group as “an anti-government group who believe in a wild set of conspiracy theories”. The FBI describes the Oath Keepers as a “paramilitary organization” and a “large but loosely organized collection of militia who believe that the federal government has been coopted by a shadowy conspiracy that is trying to strip American citizens of their rights.” Some researchers have suggested the Oath Keepers’ organizing principle is as a “profit-maximizing firm”, rather than the hierarchical and close-knit “club” structure that many other groups in these categories show.

Oath Keepers were present wearing military fatigues during the 2014 and 2015 unrest in Ferguson, Missouri, when members armed with semi-automatic rifles roamed streets and rooftops.

By September 2021, twenty members had been indicted for federal crimes related to the January 2021 Capitol attack, with four pleading guilty.

The organization was subpoenaed by the House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack in November 2021. Eleven members of the organization, including its founder and leader Stewart Rhodes, were indicted for seditious conspiracy in January 2022. Nine were convicted of this rare charge, as follows: By late April, two of the indicted members had pleaded guilty to it, and a third member who had not been named in the initial indictment pleaded guilty to it on May 4. On November 29, a jury found Rhodes and one co-defendant guilty of it. Four more Oath Keepers were convicted of it by a separate jury two months later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_Keepers

These are you far-right Christian fascist Nazi militias and those who would install a Theocracie’s foot soldiers. With the expansion of ICE to detain immigrants, you can bet they will be hiring some of their milita buds to kidnap people off the streets for a paycheck. Dark days are ahead. Know your enemies and be vigilant. It wont be long before they aren’t hunting just immigrants but anyone who dares to speak up against them or stand in their way.