Militia members access at least one revenue stream through Amazon’s charity partnership program, Amazon Smile. Starting Tuesday night, Amazon shoppers can choose to donate 0.5% of the acquisition costs to the Indiana chapter of the anti-government armed group Oath Keepers, of which one member was just loaded with conspiracy to attack the Chapter.
Sleeping Giants, which marks the online promotion for far-right groups, I saw the connection today. Amazon Smile is listed on the Indiana Oath Keepers website as an affiliate.
Several other charities that refer to Oath Keepers and other far-right groups are also listed as participating in the Amazon Smile program, but we were unable to confirm key details about these accounts prior to publication.
This morning, the Washington Post reported that a 66-year-old man claimed to be a Member Oath Keeper he became the first accused of conspiracy in connection with the January 6 attack on the Chapter. FBI documents, including personal communications, suggest he had atdecided to organize 30-40 followers to coordinate the siege. A message from the group called for the “arrest of the citizen” of the parliamentarians.
The guardians of the oath, which matters law enforcement among them were a pillar of armed protests over the years with other travelers like Boogaloo Bois and the three percent. They, too Self-Promotion at places of climate disaster.
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It’s unclear how Indiana Oath Keepers uses the funds raised through Amazon Smile. However, this is probably irrelevant. Amazon Smile Terms specifically prohibit groups that “engage in, support, encourage or promote intolerance, hatred, terrorism” and “violence”.
Amazon has not yet responded to a request for comment. Also, Oath Keepers and OathKeepers.org did not respond to a request for comment.
Last month, the UK investigative store openedDemocracy found that Amazon hosted over 40 anti-LGBTQ and anti-abortion hate evangelism groups. These include the Billy Graham Evangelical Association, which has spent more than $ 96 million since 2008. international campaigns blocking access to abortion and suppressing LGBTQ rights; The American center for law and justice related to Trump, which provided legal arguments for a ban on abortion in Poland; and the Indiana chapter of the American Family Association, designated by a Southern Poverty Law Center hate group who accused Nazism of homosexuality. As of this writing, none of the more than 40 groups surveyed and alerted to Amazon have been removed.
An Amazon spokesman said in an email last month that charities that violate its eligibility requirements, which include promoting illegal activities, will no longer be able to participate in the Smile program. He added that Amazon is relying on the US Office for the Control of Foreign Assets and SPLC “to provide data for these determinations.” SPLC has named Oath Keepers an extremist group that deserves a long profile.
Praiseworthy, Amazon he stood aside his policy prohibiting violent content by revoking Parler’s hosting services. After Parler submitted a proposal for Amazon Web Services to reinstall the site, Amazon sent a list of horrors samples of posts, including death threats related to racial insults. Amazon said it had already spoken to Parler about its failure to moderate the ugly speeches in November 2020.
The Indiana Oath Keepers website also directs visitors to choose as beneficiaries of the Kroger Community Rewards Program, where it can no longer be found. The supermarket chain said in an email that it was “dismayed” to learn that Oath Keepers had benefited from the program and immediately removed it.