US militia group draws members from military and police, website leak shows
Source: The Guardian
A Guardian investigation of a website leak from the American Patriots Three Percent shows the anti-government militia group have recruited a network across the United States that includes current and former military members, police and border patrol agents.
But the leak also demonstrates how the radical group has recruited from a broad swath of Americans, not just military and law enforcement. Members include both men and women, of ages ranging from their 20s to their 70s, doing jobs from medical physics to dental hygiene and living in all parts of the country...
...According to members who spoke to the Guardian, the website from which the list was leaked was set up by national leaders of Patriot Movement group, which is affiliated with the broader Three Percenter movement.
Names, phone numbers and even photographs of members were obtained by activists who then posted the data to an internet archiving site, and the Guardian cross-referenced these with public records and other published materials...
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/03/us-militia-membership-military-police-american-patriot-three-percenter-website-leak
Anybody know what 'internet archiving site' the article references? Seems to me that there's a lot of doxxing that needs doing...
zanana1
(6,136 posts)Who do we turn to when violence breaks out?
Elessar Zappa
(14,121 posts)most aren't militia types. Yes, there's too many but they're still a small minority.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)The Deacons for Defense and Justice had the right idea, imo:
https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/deacons-defense-and-justice/
Remembering Robert Hicks and the Deacons of Defense
https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=118x331645
mainer
(12,037 posts)I certainly would avoid these people.
kysrsoze
(6,025 posts)ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)do they at some point become what they oppose and disband
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)so they went straight to the people who may be easily convinced to join them. I think the basic goal is a big grift, with the side mission of protecting the Constitution. The constitutional angle is to lend legitimacy to them and convince followers their goals are in the interest of America.
Mailing lists are gold to them and these same lists can be used to un-radicalize Americans in the future.