Flynn's Fave Paramilitary Rebrands as Private Security Firm

[babylonsister]

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Flynn’s Fave Paramilitary Rebrands as Private Security Firm
“The Shepherd Group,” a venture of 1st Amendment Praetorian, went live days before the right-wing group’s leader, Robert Patrick Lewis, was subpoenaed in a Jan. 6 probe.
William Bredderman
Researcher
Updated Dec. 12, 2021 2:31AM ET / Published Dec. 11, 2021 9:29PM ET


A far-right group that purports to recruit military and law enforcement veterans to provide personal bodyguards to Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and other top conspiracy theorists revamped itself last month as an “intelligence, investigations, security and support” firm—shortly before the House Jan. 6 committee subpoenaed its leader.

Between Nov. 1 and Nov. 19, multiple social-media accounts associated with a California-based company calling itself “The Shepherd Group” went live, as did a website hawking its “holistic, boutique approach” to digital forensics, physical security, surveillance/counter-surveillance, and corporate intelligence.

“Our clients include private individuals and corporations, law-enforcement agencies and the U.S. Government with a focus on missions that strive toward the betterment of the Republic and humanity,” the page reads, although it provides no list of past jobs or customers.

But a little digging reveals that the Shepherd Group is not entirely new: rather, it appears to be a front for the militant group 1st Amendment Praetorian, previously a volunteer outfit that has deployed its self-described force of former armed forces and police personnel as security for right-wing leaders and events. The group’s name derives from the elite cadre of Roman soldiers who served as the emperor’s personal retinue.

Most prominently, the modern outfit chaperoned the conservative star-studded rally on D.C.’s Freedom Plaza on the eve of the Capitol riot. Experts suggested the pivot to a for-profit business model might represent a bid for legitimacy in the face of public scrutiny. After all, the shift came just weeks ahead of the order for its founder to appear before Congress, though it is unclear whether this timing was deliberate or fortuitous.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/flynns-fave-paramilitary-rebrands-as-private-security-firm?ref=home

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The enforcement arm of private $10,000 lawsuits?

Privatization is one way to view the step SCOTUS has taken with the Texas abortion ruling.

[DBoon]

2. They should call themselves the "Schutzstaffel"

The Schutzstaffel (SS; also stylized as ᛋᛋ with Armanen runes; German pronunciation: [ˈʃʊtsˌʃtafl̩] (About this soundlisten); "Protection Squadron" ) was a major paramilitary organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party in Nazi Germany, and later throughout German-occupied Europe during World War II. It began with a small guard unit known as the Saal-Schutz ("Hall Security" ) made up of party volunteers to provide security for party meetings in Munich. In 1925, Heinrich Himmler joined the unit, which had by then been reformed and given its final name. Under his direction (1929–1945) it grew from a small paramilitary formation during the Weimar Republic to one of the most powerful organizations in Nazi Germany. From the time of the Nazi Party's rise to power until the regime's collapse in 1945, the SS was the foremost agency of security, surveillance, and terror within Germany and German-occupied Europe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schutzstaffel

[2naSalit]

3. Saw this coming back in W's regime.

When mercenaries are allowed to conduct business against citizens, we got problems.

Next it will be publicly known death squads.

[TheRealNorth]

4. Pretty much an SS

Another way to funnel money to the militias by legitimizing them as "private security"

[moondust]

5. Where's Eric Prince?

Sounds like his kind of thing, maybe looking for some government "security" h̶a̶n̶d̶o̶u̶t̶s̶ contracts.