“Show us the law!” they chanted.
“Let Grandma out!” one shouted.
They had descended on Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center in Vancouver, Wash., the evening of Jan. 29 to protest the quarantine of Gayle Meyer, a 74-year-old patient who had refused to take a test for the coronavirus.
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Police in riot gear guarded entrances as the activists who authorities said were armed insisted that Meyer was being held against her will, a claim the hospital denied.
Meyer’s 49-year-old daughter, Satin, an anti-mask activist licensed as her caregiver, had summoned the demonstrators, foot soldiers in a rapidly expanding network called People’s Rights. With the tap of a thumb on a smartphone, members can call a militia like they’d call an Uber and stage a protest within minutes.
Joshua Calvin Hughes
Photos on 37-year-old Joshua Hughes Facebook page show him pumping iron, posing with friends and attending a rally a few years ago in Berkeley, California.
His political views, according to the page, are to âKill all zombies.â
And in the âAbout Joshuaâ section of his page, he offers: âNever give in.â
Jerod Wade Hughes
Social media turns up less about his 36-year-old brother, Jerod.
The two East Helena residents were arrested Feb. 1 and moved by the U.S. Marshals office to Washington, D.C., where they will face charges for participating in the deadly Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol that killed six people.
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Originally published on February 2, 2021 5:01 pm
Three known members of anti-government group the Oath Keepers were the first to be charged with conspiring to commit violence after the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.
But this group didn t start in Washington, D.C. or somewhere else on the East Coast. Rather, Elmer Stewart Rhodes created the Oath Keepers in Montana in 2009.
Listen / The group was really organized around this perception that the federal government is increasingly tyrannical, and that federal government posed the greatest threat to everyday Americans, said Sam Jackson, who researches political conflict and wrote a book about the organization.
Related When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the shores of Flathead Lake. He remembers being a kid in his dad’s truck, driving past while his father explained that the lands inside the fence weren’t tribal lands anymore. As tribal elders tell it, it was common knowledge that the fence was as much to keep them out as it was to keep bison in. “It happened long ago,” Morigeau said, but “it still resonates across generations.
After decades of battling misinformation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes recover their lands and the herd. Image credit: Pete Caster Jan. 26, 2021 From the print edition
When Shane Morigeau was growing up on the Flathead Indian Reservation, he knew that the land inside the fenced National Bison Range was different from the tribal lands elsewhere on the reservation, at the base of Montana’s Mission Mountains or the shores of Flathead Lake. He remembers being a kid in his dad’s truck, driving past while his father explained that the lands inside the fence weren’t tribal lands anymore. As tribal elders tell it, it was common knowledge that the fence was as much to keep them out as it was to keep bison in. “It happened long ago,” Morigeau said, but “it still resonates across generations.