"Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers have threatened federal employees and institutions that steward public lands".
"When the full story of the 6 January storming of the US Capitol building is told, historians will have to make sense of what might seem an odd footnote. The two most prominent rightwing militia groups that participated in the mob onslaught on Congress – the Three Percenters, based in Idaho, and the Oath Keepers, based in Nevada – cut their teeth in obscure corners of the American west, where for close to a decade they have threatened violence against federal employees and institutions that steward the nation’s public lands.
“The mob violence that swarmed the halls of the Capitol building and other government offices flows from a series of smaller armed insurrections by domestic terrorists across the west,” says Erik Molvar, executive director of the Western Watersheds Project, a non-profit that advocates for environmental regulation of public lands.
Time after time in Idaho, Nevada and Utah, the Three Percenters and Oath Keepers, paramilitary organizations formed in the wake of Barack Obama’s election in 2008, have come to the rescue of ranchers, miners and loggers who have violated federal environmental regulations on the public domain but who the militias said were innocent commoners oppressed by a vicious state apparatus."
Christopher Ketcham reports for the Guardian January 9, 2021.
SEE ALSO:
"Days After The Riot, It’s Business As Usual At Trump’s Environment Agencies" (HuffPost)
"Moving Forward After Four Years Of Fights And Falsehoods" (Environmental Health News)
"Oil Companies Reconsider Political Spending After Attack on Capitol" (Washington Post)
"After Capitol Riot, GOP Faces Reckoning with Corporate America" (Wall St. Journal)
"Energy Sector Rethinks GOP Donations In Insurrection's Wake" (E&E News)
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