Busted: Leader of Oath Keepers spinoff who called for 'race war' is ex-Vegas homicide detective

06 January

Some supporters of the Oath Keepers have vehemently denied that there is anything racist about the far-right militia group, insisting that non-whites are welcome as members.

But according to The Guardian's Jason Wilson, Robert Kinch — leader of an Oath Keepers spinoff group called Oath Keepers USA — has called for a "race war." And Kinch, a former Las Vegas homicide detective, has maintained his ties to law enforcement, Wilson reports.

In an article published on January 6, 2024 — the fourth anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol Building — Wilson explains, "The revelations about Robert 'Bobby' Kinch, now of Duck Creek, Utah, come from public records, online materials and the work of a longtime infiltrator of the patriot movement in the Pacific Northwest, who provided vital evidence to the Guardian captured inside Kinch's home. The findings show that four years on from January 6, the Oath Keepers, who played a central role in fomenting that day's insurrection in Washington, have not disappeared, but have continued quietly adding law-enforcement officers to their ranks."

Wilson warns that President-elect Donald Trump's return to the White House "may encourage the likes of Kinch to bring their movement back into the spotlight, as the incoming administration promises to carry out unprecedented mass deportation of immigrants and to take on Trump's perceived opponents, whom he has described as 'the enemy within.'"

Wilson doesn't mention the infiltrator by name, citing "fears of retaliation." But the Guardian reporter notes that the person "spent several years from 2021 in contact with multiple, interconnected and overlapping anti-government 'patriot movement' groups in the Pacific Northwest and Intermountain West."

Wilson reports, "Their trove of archived materials includes chat logs, documents and media files, and has been made available to the Guardian and other news organizations by the whistleblower and pro-transparency non-profit, Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOSecrets). The materials also include first-hand photographs and recordings of direct interactions with anti-government leaders who believed that the infiltrator was a like-minded activist, and who accepted them into their inner circles."

Heidi Beirich of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) told The Guardian, "These disclosures show once again how police departments aren't taking the threat of extremists in the ranks seriously."

Read The Guardian's full article at this link.

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