3 Percenters

The Three Percenters (also styled "3%ers") is an American patriot movement which pledges resistance against the United States government regarding infringement of the United States Constitution. The group's primary purpose is to protect their views of the constitutional rights and has been characterized as being ideologically similar to the Oath Keepers.

The group's name is based on the American Revolution military's armed resistance against the British. The American Revolution constituted three percent of the population. This number has never been accurately calculated, but is generally believed to be the ratio, thus the name. The participation rate of the eligible population is estimated to have been higher than in most other American military conflicts.

The movement was started on December 17, 2008, in response to the election of Barack Obama. The movement was co-founded by Mike Vanderboegh from Alabama, a member of the Oath Keepers, a group with whom the 3 Percenters remain loosely allied, and who publicized the movement on his blog "Sipsey Street Irregulars" beginning November 2008. Vanderboegh claims to have formerly been a member of Students for a Democratic Society and the Socialist Workers Party, but abandoned left-wing politics in 1977 after being introduced to right-wing libertarianism. The "Three Percenters Club" website was established in 2011 by Michael Graham.

Vanderboegh self-published a serial novel online, Absolved, in 2008, described as "a cautionary tale for the out-of-control gun cops of the ATF."

The "Nyberg Three Percent Flag," designed by Gayle Nyberg in 2008, is based on the Betsy Ross flag with the Roman numeral III inscribed in the circle of thirteen stars.

Vanderboegh and his novel Absolved first received wider media attention in 2011, when four suspected militia members in Georgia were arrested for an alleged plan for a biological attack that had supposedly been inspired by the novel. Vanderboegh distanced himself from the alleged plot.

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