Oregon militiamen vow to defend the scofflaw Republican senators from arrest by Oregon troopers

Talking Points Memo reported that a III Percent Militia member claimed “more than 200 militiamen from 17 counties had mobilized within the state and around the Oregon-Idaho border.”

“These people are all armed and prepared to put themselves in front of senators to prevent arrests from Oregon State Police specifically,” he told TPM. Oregon “Patriots” have a particularly heated animus towards OSP officers because two of them were involved in the January 2016 shooting of Malheur figure LaVoy Finicum during a police arrest operation when the standoff organizers were traveling. Finicum has subsequently become a major martyr figure for the movement.

One of the III Percent groups apparently involved in the Salem event planning is Eric “EJ” Parker, leader of the Real Three Percenters of Idaho. Parker was a major figure in the 2014 armed standoff led by Cliven Bundy in Nevada, ultimately standing trial (and winning acquittal, as well as the applause of Idaho legislators) for aiming his long-range rifle in the direction of federal agents.

“We see it as the right to protest” Parker told TPM. “We see it as the same right to protest as the protesters in the wash at the Bundy Ranch had.”

Another man listed as one of the organizers of Thursday’s event, John Parker Jr., won brief notoriety in 2015 when he was at the scene of the Oct. 1 mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg. Parker told reporters then that he had been armed during the incident, but chose not to attempt to stop the shooter because he feared creating confusion with law enforcement at the scene.

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