Key Oath Keepers leader revealed as former Las Vegas police detective who face reprimand for calling for 'race war'

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Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police

The man in control of the Utah-based rightwing militia Oath Keepers USA, a recent spinoff of the national organization first established by Stewart Rhodes in 2009, is a former Las Vegas metropolitan police department (LVMPD) homicide detective who left the force in acrimony after advocating “race war”.

According to reporting from the Las Vegas Sun, KNPR and Raw Story, Kinch had been serving in the department’s elite repeat offenders program (ROP) since 2009. In December 2013, however, fellow officers discovered inflammatory Facebook posts, including one that read: “Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

Conservatives. Always with the identity politics.

 

[Pommer]

Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police
[SNIP]
“Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

Conservatives. Always with the identity politics.

I liked how he seamlessly worked in the intersectionality in there!

 

[Zaha Torte]

Details about Utah-based Robert Kinch, who backed ‘race war’, suggest rightwing militia has retained links with police

The man in control of the Utah-based rightwing militia Oath Keepers USA, a recent spinoff of the national organization first established by Stewart Rhodes in 2009, is a former Las Vegas metropolitan police department (LVMPD) homicide detective who left the force in acrimony after advocating “race war”.

According to reporting from the Las Vegas Sun, KNPR and Raw Story, Kinch had been serving in the department’s elite repeat offenders program (ROP) since 2009. In December 2013, however, fellow officers discovered inflammatory Facebook posts, including one that read: “Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

Conservatives. Always with the identity politics.

Sounds like he was just calling the bluffs of the Left - the actual advocates of all these kinds of wars.

 

[Pommer]

Sounds like he was just calling the bluffs of the Left - the actual advocates of all these kinds of wars.

It must be heck, losing one’s (intersectional) privilege.

 

[Zaha Torte]

It must be heck, losing one’s (intersectional) privilege.

What's that?

 

[Pommer]

What's that?

There’s four posts and it would seem that our lighthearted banter was too much for you to follow.
What’s what?

 

[Zaha Torte]

There’s four posts and it would seem that our lighthearted banter was too much for you to follow.
What’s what?

What is "intersectional privilege"?

 

[Pommer]

What is "intersectional privilege"?

Oh!
“Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

The bits in red.

 

[Zaha Torte]

Oh!
“Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

The bits in red.

Those are just four things about him - how are those "privileges"?

 

[Pommer]

Those are just four things about him - how are those "privileges"?

The writer obviously thought that those “things about him” gave him some sort of privilege to have things his “American, Christian, White, Heterosexual [male]” own way, or go to “war” to get them!

Socratic debating is a time honored tradition but is more than “just asking questions”.

 

[Zaha Torte]

The writer obviously thought that those “things about him” gave him some sort of privilege to have things his “American, Christian, White, Heterosexual [male]” own way, or go to “war” to get them!

Socratic debating is a time honored tradition but is more than “just asking questions”.

I don't see where he asked for anything to be "his way" or that the "war" was a call to get anything.

Why do you assume that?

 

[Pommer]

I don't see where he asked for anything to be "his way" or that the "war" was a call to get anything.

From the OP,
In December 2013, however, fellow officers discovered inflammatory Facebook posts, including one that read: “Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

This guy was primed in 2013.

Why do you assume that?

If he’s not serious and just shooting of his mouth (or keyboard), then there’s nothing for us to worry about, just some “free-speechifying”. Why, he’s probably a nice guy once you get to know him!

The bombastic ones are okay.
Until they’re not.

 

[Zaha Torte]

From the OP,
In December 2013, however, fellow officers discovered inflammatory Facebook posts, including one that read: “Let’s just get this over! Race war, Civil, Revolution? Bring it! I’m about as fed up as a man (American, Christian, White, Heterosexual) can get!”

This guy was primed in 2013.

Being "primed" doesn't mean he is invoking some imagined "privilege" to get his way.

His noticing the divisive rhetoric of the Left - their calls for conflict based on race and other civil issues - and calling them out on it is not him declaring that he has any sort of "privilege".

If he’s not serious and just shooting of his mouth (or keyboard), then there’s nothing for us to worry about, just some “free-speechifying”. Why, he’s probably a nice guy once you get to know him!

The bombastic ones are okay.
Until they’re not.

I don't know if you would say the same about those on the Left who actively threaten people who disagree with them online.

 

[Pommer]

Being "primed" doesn't mean he is invoking some imagined "privilege" to get his way.

His noticing the divisive rhetoric of the Left - their calls for conflict based on race and other civil issues - and calling them out on it is not him declaring that he has any sort of "privilege".

I don't know if you would say the same about those on the Left who actively threaten people who disagree with them online.

It would appear that we are looking at the same evidence but coming to vastly different conclusions about a person who seemed (in 2013), irked that “male Christian white heterosexual“ Americans had to share rights with folk what aren’t, to the point that he was ready for “war”.

We don’t need a war to know that each person holds the exact same rights as any other person, (while we are free to become miffed at such truth, it doesn’t change that truth).

 

[Zaha Torte]

It would appear that we are looking at the same evidence but coming to vastly different conclusions about a person who seemed (in 2013), irked that “male Christian white heterosexual“ Americans had to share rights with folk what aren’t, to the point that he was ready for “war”.

The key difference is that you have no evidence to support your conclusion.

He called out the divisive rhetoric of the Left - then stated which "side" he would be on in their desired conflict (based on their own rules) - and told them to get it over with already.

We don’t need a war to know that each person holds the exact same rights as any other person, (while we are free to become miffed at such truth, it doesn’t change that truth).

I would agree - but the Left doesn't.

 

[Pommer]

The key difference is that you have no evidence to support your conclusion.

My conclusion takes the man’s words at face-value, instead of trying to wheedle away his privileged and entitled missive to old man says stuff!

He called out the divisive rhetoric of the Left - then stated which "side" he would be on in their desired conflict (based on their own rules) - and told them to get it over with already.

He wants things to be swell again for male Christian white heterosexuals, and if he doesn’t get that, sounds as if he want to be belligerent in order to attempt to get it his way.

I would agree - but the Left doesn't.

I’m not your enemy we just have differing politics!