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"THEY BE BLIND LEADERS OF THE BLIND AND IF THE BLIND LEAD THE BLIND, BOTH SHALL FALL INTO THE DITCH. "Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers Leader, Is Denied Bail on Sedition Charge.Merriam-Webster - Definition of sedition: incitement of resistance to or insurrection against lawful authorityStewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6 last year, was denied bail on Wednesday by a federal judge in Texas who said he was a flight risk partly because of the “elaborate escape tunnels” he had installed in his backyard. Mr. Rhodes, Judge Kimberly C. Priest Johnson said, also stashed “unregistered cars in the woods” near his home.Mr. Rhodes, 56, “LIVED IN FEAR” of being “picked up by the feds” and bought hundreds of thousands of dollars of razor wire intended for the perimeter of his property in Montana.More than 20 members of the Oath Keepers have been charged in connection with the Capitol attack, “including at least four who are known to be cooperating with federal prosecutors.”In an unusual turn of events, Mr. Rhodes’s estranged former wife, Tasha Adams, reached out to Judge Johnson after his bail hearing on Monday, asking for her permission to offer information about their marriage. After noting that she had filed for divorce in 2018, Ms. Adams told the judge that Mr. Rhodes often brandished weapons in their home “to control her behavior” and that he physically abused their six children “under the guise of participating in ‘martial arts practice.”“Ms. Adams testified that defendant’s violence toward the family became more frequent in 2016 and that her greatest fear was that defendant would murder Ms. Adams and the children before committing suicide,” Judge Johnson wrote.