Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes' wife alleges widespread abuse in petition for restraining order

[DesertRat]

Oath Keepers is an anti-government American far-right organization associated with the patriot and militia movements.

Stewart Rhodes, the head of the antigovernment Oath Keepers, will frequently threaten himself and his family with a weapon he always carries, and he has a history of violent outbursts against his family, including an incident in 2016 when he choked his teenage daughter by the throat.

That history was outlined in a sworn petition Rhodes’ wife, Tasha Vonn Adams Rhodes, filed last month in a Lincoln County, Montana, court room asking for a temporary protective order against her husband. Hatewatch obtained a copy of the petition on Thursday.

Vonn Adams Rhodes claims in the filing that the most recent incident involving her husband occurred last November at the family home in Trego, a far-northern Montana town where Rhodes lives with his wife and four of their six children.

“Whenever [Stewart Rhodes] is unhappy with my behavior (say I want to leave the house — he doesn’t like me to leave) he will draw his handgun (which he always wears), rack the slide, wave it around, and then point it at his own head, telling me my behavior has caused this,” Vonn Adams Rhodes wrote in the petition, which was filed on February 20. “I filed for divorce a few days ago and am terrified.”

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2018/03/15/oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-wife-alleges-widespread-abuse-petition-restraining

[Demovictory9]

1. patriarchal group

nuff said

[Volaris]

10. Family as personal property. Just like Jebus wanted.

I'm so damn tired of appx half the men in this country having dick issues...

[Demsrule86]

16. She should get a gun then and use it to protect herself and her family against this monster.

A gun saved my life and my oldest child's life. I want to see them registered (manufacture to destruction) and don't want open carry or any sort of carry without massive background checks. But defending yourself against an abuser is always OK in my book.

[Ilsa]

2. It might work out better for her if he does it.

Maybe she could make sure there is one bullet for him always available. Maybe at the right moment, turn on a remote speaker system with the voice of "God" telling him to do himself first, God is waiting to reward him in heaven.

Yeah, I'm a horrible person. But it might save her life and the lives of her kids.

[Egnever]

3. Gun humper is violent...news at eleven...

[Stallion]

4. Rhodes Recently Called Upon OathKeepers to Form Militias to Protect schools

Just the kind of gun nut we need around schools


From Wikipedia:

"In February 2018, soon after the Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. Oath Keepers founder Rhoades publicly called upon "tens of thousands" of the group's members to form militias to protect US schools and colleges.[39] Rhodes posted on the Oath Keepers' website in a "National Call to Action": “Oath Keepers, in the wake of the horrific attack … it is time to step up nationwide and defend our schools against the threat of mass murder. Enough is enough”.[40]"

[DesertRat]

5. Omg

[nolabear]

8. Apparently they're doing it too.

If you Google Oath Keepers guard schools you get article after article. What could possibly go wrong?

[Downtown Hound]

6. Scratch a gun nut

You'll find a criminal in there somewhere.

[PaulX2]

7. Another Right Wing Nut Job

There is millions of them.

[uponit7771]

12. +1

[malaise]

9. Ever notice that the only people who have rights according to RWs

are themselves.

[Initech]

11. Violent gun nut is violent, what a shocker!

[MrScorpio]

13. Surprise, surprise, surprise...

(Missing Gomer Pyle GIF)

[ProudLib72]

14. Motion for restraining order was denied.

Why?

[MaryMagdaline]

15. Unbelievable

[ck4829]

17. Because they'd have to take his guns? I don't see him surrendering them peacefully.

"Not touching that! Run!"

[Achilleaze]

18. Yet another example of sucky "republican* family values"

republican values suck cesspool scum. Ewwwwww!


* I'd bet my stash of well-aged xmas cookies that this soul-poisoned assclown voted for Dirty Donny, the republican Casino Hustler, Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, and family-values role model.