Southern Black Belt
Posted on 10/26/2009 1:22:42 AM PDT by Jet Jaguar
No amount of controversy will keep Oath Keepers from educating people about what it means to support and defend the Constitution.
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Started earlier this year by Las Vegas resident Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers is a nonprofit organization made up primarily of current and former police and military personnel who renew their oaths to the Constitution.
Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale University Law School graduate, opened the conference at Texas Station with a warning that Washington politicians cannot be trusted to uphold their oaths to the Constitution.
"That's why we have a civic duty to keep our oaths," Rhodes told about a hundred fellow Oath Keepers in the hotel ballroom.
Less pep rally than American history seminar, the first day of the conference focused in great part on the history and structure of the Constitution. Most of the day's sessions were open to the public.
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Oath Keepers has a "Declaration of Orders We Will Not Obey." The directives to disobey include unlawfully disarming Americans or forcing them into detention camps, conducting warrantless searches, or imposing martial law.
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Appearing on the MSNBC show "Hardball," Rhodes was questioned by host Chris Matthews about his "vigilante group" and on his "strange view of the world."
Matthews talked about a recent Southern Poverty Law Center report that identified Oath Keepers as a "particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival," a movement the law center said could carry out acts of anti-government and racist violence.
Lou Dobbs of CNN had a different opinion of Oath Keepers. On his radio show, Dobbs praised Rhodes for efforts that should bring "solace and comfort" to everyone.
Both Dobbs and Rhodes accused the Southern Poverty Law Center of perpetuating the same kind of intolerance it claims to condemn.
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I sleep better because of oath keepers.
An oath either means something, or it is ridiculous to keep swearing people in. If you violate an oath in court it’s perjury but if you do it in congress or the white house it is business as usual!
If I were to say what I thought of the Southern Poverty Law Center. I would probably be banned.
I guess I would also.
Prissy Matthews - what a pansy
Unfortunately, only two or three police officers were faithful to their oaths during the Rescue Movement in the 1980s, and in 1993 Bob Dole and most Republicans voted to help Bill Clinton destroy the Rescue Movement with the FACE Act.
“Just following orders” is still the philosophy of the vast majority of public “servants.”
God bless Lou Dobbs.
If it weren't for southern poverty, the SPLC would be SOL.
It's in the SPLC's best interest that there is always a poor black people.
They're nothing more than leftist poverty perpetuating pimps.
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Not to worry BigCinBigD,
They just put ya in time out for a week or so when you really go overboard in saying bad things about say the Southern Poverty Law Center, obozo or any thing else.
What’s your point?
If you squint just right, you can almost see a hammer and sickle in that map.
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Chris Matthews, many times winner of the Ellsworth Toohey award for smear journalism, strikes again.
Ah, yes... as it always is, opposition to elitist government control of every aspect of our lives is "racist".
If it weren't for southern poverty, the SPLC would be SOL. It's in the SPLC's best interest that there is always a poor black people. They're nothing more than leftist poverty perpetuating pimps.
He has a sad, but great point. The democraps benefit by keeping a large section of our citizenry poor and poorly educated. Those leaving the 9th ward of New Orleans for the first time in their lives and getting a taste of what it opportunities there are elsewhere and not wanting to go back, was enlightening to me. I didn't realize so many people were being suppressed by our joke of a public collectivist education system.
Here is a map of how the election went by county. Notice the same "Democrat Black Belt" of poverty.
So do I. Zero & crissy have to understand that their is a limit to the destruction of the economy that will be tolarated. All the oath keepers are saying is that they understand the same thing and won’t kill Americans trying to address the problem.
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