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Heavily Armed Oath Keepers Show Up in Ferguson to Protect Right-Wing Journalists
nymag.com ^ | Jaime Fuller

Posted on 08/11/2015 9:28:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux

On Monday night, as a smattering of protesters continued to remember the anniversary of Michael Brown's death, a group of four white men carrying assault weapons walked onto the streets of Ferguson.

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They might have looked familiar to veterans from last year's protests in Missouri. The heavily armed people in flak jackets are from a "patriot" group called the Oath Keepers. It is an organization of soldiers, police officers, firefighters, and veterans — the group claims 30,000 members — that is deeply suspicious of President Obama, and preparing to fight the federal government in the unlikely event that it declares martial law. The organization was founded in 2009 by former paratrooper and Yale Law School graduate Stewart Rhodes, who campaigned for Ron Paul in 2008 and has described a certain 2016 presidential candidate as Hitlery Clinton. Around 2010, when tea-party rallies speckled state capitols across the country, he was a frequent guest of conservative-television pundits.

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Perhaps inevitably, the night ended with a few of the armed men cordially speaking to protesters about how great Donald Trump is.

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1 posted on 08/11/2015 9:28:51 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux

What’s an Assault Weapon? The Rifles the Cops carry?


2 posted on 08/11/2015 9:31:24 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses... RIP Roddy Piper.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Forget about ISIS, these guys are dangerous! (/s mandatory sarcasm tag)


3 posted on 08/11/2015 9:32:19 AM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: Kickass Conservative
What’s an Assault Weapon? The Rifles the Cops carry?

Its anything from a water pistol to a paintball gun according to far left morons. ex: ask most school principals.

4 posted on 08/11/2015 9:34:42 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: hoosiermama

Interesting that the Oath Keepers are for Trump.


5 posted on 08/11/2015 9:34:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: RoosterRedux
Perhaps inevitably, the night ended with a few of the armed men cordially speaking to protesters about how great Donald Trump is.

Donald has them trained good. :)

6 posted on 08/11/2015 9:35:28 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: RoosterRedux

Part of the
Kick ass
Take gas

Support Crew.
(Ollie North will be so disappointed)


7 posted on 08/11/2015 9:37:43 AM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet)
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To: webheart
I hope these guys are careful. Obama is likely laying the groundwork to arrest them with the same charges used against the ISIS converts.

Obama would love to have an excuse and the GOPe wouldn't stop him.

8 posted on 08/11/2015 9:39:20 AM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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To: hoosiermama
Kick ass

Take gas

LOL. I think I've got a new tagline.

9 posted on 08/11/2015 9:40:12 AM PDT by RoosterRedux (Kick ass. Take gas.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Man oh man, I wish I had the resources to join them.
I would gladly stand at post beside these patriots.


10 posted on 08/11/2015 9:40:44 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Finally, the activists, progressive politicians, police, and media have all found someone they can hate....


11 posted on 08/11/2015 9:41:44 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: RoosterRedux

I cleaned it up. ;×) First work was “nuke”


12 posted on 08/11/2015 9:41:52 AM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet)
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To: RoosterRedux


13 posted on 08/11/2015 9:42:05 AM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: RoosterRedux

Funny how local law brass (Affirmative Action hired enablers) are more worried about a few white guards than the hundreds of feral savages destroying their city.


14 posted on 08/11/2015 9:42:57 AM PDT by envisio (I ain't here long... I'm out of napalm and .22 bullets.)
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To: RoosterRedux
Interesting that the Oath Keepers are for Trump.

Yeah. I wonder if the Oath Keepers know that Trump wants to ban "assault weapons."

15 posted on 08/11/2015 9:46:38 AM PDT by Martin Tell (Victrix causa diis placuit sed victa Catoni.)
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To: envisio

“...worried about a few white guards...”

There was at least one black Oath Keeper there. See the pics in the comment section.


16 posted on 08/11/2015 9:49:49 AM PDT by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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To: RoosterRedux

I can’t recall too many articles using the term “left wing journalist.” Maybe about zero.


17 posted on 08/11/2015 9:56:21 AM PDT by doug from upland (Obama and the leftists - destroying our country one day at a time)
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To: RoosterRedux

I would not protect a journalist.


18 posted on 08/11/2015 9:56:30 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: RoosterRedux

Meanwhile a local reporter got the snot beat out of him by the crowd.


19 posted on 08/11/2015 9:59:29 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: RoosterRedux

Sons of Liberty—a militia to protect Journalists, White People, any free American really—black, brown yellow Red or White. police can’t do their job because of Media and PC—Its time to call upon extraordinary means.


20 posted on 08/11/2015 10:10:04 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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