America’s right-wing radicals – US veterans against democracy | DW Documentary

On 6 January 2021, hundreds of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington. Five people were killed and many injured. Some 15 per cent of those involved were former members of the US military or police.

By storming the Capitol, hundreds of supporters of former US President Donald Trump aimed to prevent the Senate and House of Representatives from officially confirming Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential elections. Some 15 per cent of those involved were former members of the US military or police. This shocking statistic prompts an important question: Why are the very people who have sworn an oath to protect the nation’s democracy attacking it?

The US-American filmmaker Charlie Sadoff and his co-writer and producer Kenneth Harbaugh both used to be in the military, something that allowed them to delve deep into the veterans’ world. Through them, they gained access to violent rightwing extremist circles in America, including anti-government militias such as the Proud Boys, the Three Percenters and the Oath Keepers.

These groups – organized and led by well-educated, highly motivated military veterans – represent the greatest threat to democracy in the United States today. The documentary examines the complexity of this development, tracing it back to its historical roots. The smoke over the Capitol may have cleared, but the problem remains: US society remains deeply divided. The groups are still active and the next elections are imminent.

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  3. OSS-CIA NARCOTIC DIVISIONS GEORGE HUNTER WHITE ESTABLISHED YOUR CORRUPT MIND CONTROL DIVISIONS AND CHIEFS OF POISON, SEX EXPERIMENTS, PROSTITUTION AND FORCED CRIMES ACROSS AMERICA AND BREEDING PROGRAMS THROUGHOUT SCHOOL BOARDS, JUDICIAL FAMILIES AND POLICE FAMILIES OF MILITIA. EPSTIEN TOOK OVER WHEN GEORGE WHITE RETIRED IN CALIFORNIA BY 1976. EPSTIEN WAS CIA NARCOTIC MIND CONTROL DIVISIONS AND TEAMS CONNECTED TO GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN. GEORGE WHITE 1943 WW2. BY 1945 MET WITH FRENCH ITALIAN NAZI MILITARY IN NEW YORK CITY.

  5. MICHIGAN DIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH THE GATHERING OF SMALL CHILDREN AND INFANTS FOR FOX ISLAND AND SKIN WALKER RANCH OF EPSTIEN AND MANY INVESTORS OF CONGLOMERATE CONGRESS MEMBERS. FLINT CONGRESSMAN INVOLVED. SENATORS INVOLVED.

  6. CONNECTED TO MAYOR'S OFFICE OF MONTCALM COUNTY SEAT, MICHIGAN. WALKER, JOHNSTON, BROOKS, SCHOFIELD, CASWELL, SIMPSON, MINEHEART, DAVIS AND EDWARDS FAMILIES.

  7. TRIBIAN, BASOM, CORWIN, BOGART, ERWIN ARE RETIRED POLICE OFFICERS DIRECTLY INVOLVED WITH STANTON AMERICAN LEGION AND JUDICIAL FAMILIES OF DRUGS AND CORRUPTION.

  8. I AM A LEGALLY DOCUMENTED DIRECT DECENDENT OF JOHN HANCOCK AND CIA GEORGE HUNTER WHITE AND JOHNS A DARK FRENCH SOLDIER OF MICHIGAN.

  11. Americans (US) have yet to accept and come to grips with the fact that propaganda was invented here by Edward Bernays (Freud's nephew). Goebbels elevated it to a higher level. Post WWII, Bernays recast it as, public relations (how quaint). It remains the same social poison for the weak minded and the evil manipulators.

  13. MISS SULLIVAN WAS BROUGHT INTO MICHIGAN FOR ED SULLIVAN'S SHOWS HIDDEN IN CARGO DEPT IN BOTTOM OF A SHIP. REVEALED SKIN FIRST ON THE TARZAN SHOWS.

  14. CANADA HAS A MEMBER OF A TRIBE HERE IN MICHIGAN, LUCAS JACKO. ASSOCIATED WITH GLENN JOHNSTON, GARY SCHOFIELD, BOB CASWELL, JACK WALKER AND BILL SIMPSON, PRESIDENT OF CENTRAL MONTCALM PUBLIC SCHOOL BOARD, CORRINORS OFFICES AND LEGIONS OF STANTON AMERICAN LEGION AND COMMUNITY BOARD.

  15. BILL SIMPSON AND AMY MINEHEART BOTH ARE FAMILIES OF GLENN JOHNSTON AND ADDIS FAMILIES OF 7TH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH OF GREENVILLE, MICHIGAN. KNOWN ASSOCIATIONS WITH BILL AND TIMBER ERWIN OF KENT COUNTY NARCOTIC TEAMS AND POLICE FAMILIES. MINISTER AND FIRST RESPONDERS AND FIRE SAFETY FAMILIES.

  17. MONTCALM COUNTY POLICE SHERIFF HAS PAST CRACK COCAINE RECORDS AND KNOWN CORRUPTION AND DEATHS FOR REFUSALS OF MEDICAL ASSISTANCE. RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO FIRST RESPONDERS UNITS AND BUILDINGS.

  24. After today, they are portraying us as traitors. We love our nation. We swore to protect the nation from foreign and domestic enemies. We would die to keep the nation how the founders intended.

  29. Failed Trump assassination. Couldve been a civil war in US if that succeeded. Now as long as Trump is alive, Trump is a guaranteed win for president this incoming election.

  31. "how they ended up on the other side of that door" is that their oath meant nothing to them. They signed up to maybe get the chance to shoot someone, that's it.

  37. This is what you get when your education system fails to give people the ability to think for themselves. Oh yes, they think they can, but they are all just followers being manipulated by a few very evil people.

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