The following is a quote from Political Research Associates, a group that tracks extremists movements in America. It also sheds light on why the Second Amendment is paramount to extremists-- to enable armed resistance to elected government.
The Three Percenters were co-founded in late 2008 by Mike
Vanderboegh, who was active in 1990s Alabama militia groups. Vanderboegh has
said, “The Three Percent idea, the movement, the ideal, was designed to be a
simple, powerful concept that could not be infiltrated or subjected to agents
provocateurs like many organizations that I observed in the constitutional
militia movement of the 90s.” Along with the Oath Keepers, the Three
Percenters are part of a new wave of Patriot movement groups that are
successors to the militia movement of the 1990s and have had a dramatic rebirth
since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency.
Ideologically, the Three Percenters are similar to the
better-known Oath Keepers, a Patriot movement group of current and former
military, law enforcement, and first responders. The Oath Keepers claim to
“defend the Constitution,” and interpret this as a commitment to right-wing
social and economic views of the kind usually associated with the John Birch
Society. The Oath Keepers promote conspiracy theories that claim that the
United States is a socialist government intent on disarming the population so
that a foreign government can invade. They are committed to a libertarian view
of private property that opposes most federal land ownership or restrictions on
private use for environmental or other reasons.
Three Percenter co-founder Vanderboegh is well known for his
violent rhetoric. In 2010, he called for breaking the windows of Democratic
Party offices, and a slew of such attacks followed. He called for armed
resistance to Obamacare and has published personal information about the
families of legislators who voted for gun control measures....
He also called Oregon Governor Kate Brown and others in the state government “tyrants” and “domestic enemies of the Constitution,” before saying, “this country has long had a remedy for tyrants—a second amendment remedy. So be careful for what you wish for, Madam—you may get it.”
He also called Oregon Governor Kate Brown and others in the state government “tyrants” and “domestic enemies of the Constitution,” before saying, “this country has long had a remedy for tyrants—a second amendment remedy. So be careful for what you wish for, Madam—you may get it.”
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Numerous arrests of Three Percenters and those who have shown
affinity with them have been documented.
Allen “Lance” Scarsella, who was arrested in connection with the shooting of five people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Minneapolis in November 2015, showed an affinity for the Three Percenters.
So did Jerad Miller, who was at the Bundy Ranch before he and his wife, Amanda, were involved in a June 2014 ambush of police officers and subsequent shootout that left five dead, including the Millers.
Three Percenter Brad Bartelt threatened to detonate a homemade explosive on Arkansas State University’s campus in December 2015.
Brandon D. Gibbs, who was heavily armed and armored when police arrested him in December 2014 for threatening a city official, also had shown an affinity for the Three Percenters.
And in 2011, Frederick Thomas was arrested in Georgia as a member of a militia group, which “planned to attack cities including Atlanta with deadly ricin, bomb federal buildings and murder law enforcement officials and others.”
For more, read here and here.
Allen “Lance” Scarsella, who was arrested in connection with the shooting of five people at a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Minneapolis in November 2015, showed an affinity for the Three Percenters.
So did Jerad Miller, who was at the Bundy Ranch before he and his wife, Amanda, were involved in a June 2014 ambush of police officers and subsequent shootout that left five dead, including the Millers.
Three Percenter Brad Bartelt threatened to detonate a homemade explosive on Arkansas State University’s campus in December 2015.
Brandon D. Gibbs, who was heavily armed and armored when police arrested him in December 2014 for threatening a city official, also had shown an affinity for the Three Percenters.
And in 2011, Frederick Thomas was arrested in Georgia as a member of a militia group, which “planned to attack cities including Atlanta with deadly ricin, bomb federal buildings and murder law enforcement officials and others.”
For more, read here and here.
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