Punk Band Responds After Former Oath Keeper Wears Its Shirt At Jan. 6 Hearing

A punk band isn’t rocking with the previous Oath Keeper spokesperson who determined to put on the group’s shirt to a listening to Tuesday earlier than the Home choose committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.

The Descendents, an influential group of rockers identified for albums like “Milo Goes to Faculty” and “All,” weighed in on Jason Van Tatenhove sporting their merch throughout his testimony on the extremist group’s involvement within the Capitol assault.

Van Tatenhove, who claimed he left the group years earlier than the assault, citing specifically members’ antisemitic rhetoric, detailed how he noticed the group drifting “additional and additional proper into the alt-right world, into white nationalists and even straight-up racists.”

He additionally warned of the “real hazard” that extremist teams such because the Oath Keepers ― whom he described as a violent “militia” ― pose to America.

His shirt featured the cartoon character Milo, a mascot for the band impressed by lead singer Milo Aukerman and included on a variety of the band’s album covers.

The band, through its Twitter account, swiftly separated itself from the group Van Tatenhove as soon as spoke for.

“We utterly disavow teams just like the Oath Keepers and on no account condone their hateful ideology,” the band wrote in a tweet.

The assertion sparked questions from followers and Twitter customers who puzzled how a former Oath Keeper could possibly be “punk.”

The band hasn’t shied away from weighing in on the state of the U.S. up to now.

Aukerman, within the music ”’Merican,” expresses his disdain with America being the “land of the slaves,” the Ku Klux Klan and former U.S. Sen. Joe McCarthy.

He closes the music with “I’m proud and ashamed each Fourth of July. You bought to know the reality earlier than you say that you simply received delight.”