Posted on 10/18/2009 6:47:38 PM PDT by GVnana
Ready to Revolt: Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States
Group asks police and military to lay down arms in response to orders deemed unlawful
Depending on your perspective, the Oath Keepers are either strident defenders of liberty or dangerous peddlers of paranoia.
In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find.
Launched in March by Las Vegan Stewart Rhodes, Oath Keepers bills itself as a nonpartisan group of current and retired law enforcement and military personnel who vow to fulfill their oaths to the Constitution.
More specifically, the group's members, which number in the thousands, pledge to disobey orders they deem unlawful, including directives to disarm the American people and to blockade American cities. By refusing the latter order, the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming "giant concentration camps," a scenario the 44-year-old Rhodes says he can envision happening in the coming years.
It's a Cold War-era nightmare vision with a major twist: The occupying forces in this imagined future are American, not Soviet.
"The whole point of Oath Keepers is to stop a dictatorship from ever happening here," Rhodes, a former Army paratrooper and Yale-trained lawyer, said in an interview with the Review-Journal. "My focus is on the guys with the guns, because they can't do it without them.
"We say if the American people decide it's time for a revolution, we'll fight with you."
(Excerpt) Read more at lvrj.com ...
You betcha!
I am former military and retired law enforcement. I swore an oath on several occasions and in each event was not kidding.
I have cried many times at events where the National Anthem or Americas the Beautiful was played. As Yoda would say. "Defend her, I will."
The Oathkeepers are putting themselves out there for public display of the enemy...and while I would normally warn against that, something tells me the time is right (or ripe).
Yet another reason I don’t like SPLC.
the Oath Keepers hope to prevent cities from becoming “giant concentration camps,”
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most big cities are liberal blue cesspools, so why would they turn them into camps?
The cities may become battlefields in CWII, and some may burn, but I think of it as urban renewal.
yeah but they aren’t very accurate with their weapons, they hold their gak all sideways n stuff.
I’m no fan of theirs.
They’re not especially enamored of folks like me.
So it’s mutual. They should know that I’ve got a List, too.
You get special mention, Travis, as they’ve chosen to take one of your pictures and make it into one of their ‘bogeymen’. That’s rich, and a complete inversion of reality.
On the serious side, I’ve sworn the same oath my father did so many years ago. Like my father before me, I am a rifleman and a patriot. Let scum like the SPLC make the most of it.
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They just need to amend that pesky Constitution. Get rid of the “mistakes” like the BOR etc. Give it the full Obama makeover.
Won’t be easy, though. Millions of us swore to defend the Constitution we have, and we’re armed, and we don’t forget an oath.
Why would they bother with that? It's not like it's actually been observed for the last few decades or anything.
Tick, tock-------
It’s said that Admiral Yamamoto, architect of the Pearl Harbor attack, declared the impossibility of a land invasion of the United States by noting that “there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass” confronting any invader.
Some challenge the veracity of this quote, but history confirms Yamamoto’s reluctance to attack the “sleeping giant”.
IMHO, a rifle behind a blade of grass can be aimed in any direction. The sleeping giant is known to bitterly cling to guns and religion.
Now that this link is on Drudge, I have a feeling Oath Keepers will see an increase in size....
Yup, and we got more than just bb guns too.
Because if they stretch the real Constitution too far, they may ignite a foreceful countermovement to defend the Constitution. Including by members of the military and LE.
OTOH, if they ram through some Marxist-oriented constitutional convention, then the military will simply have a "new" constitution to defend. One that say, enshrines income guarantees, free housing, free medical, redistribution of wealth, no 2nd Amd, etc.
Many or most in the military would gladly accept the "new" constitution. That is the coming gambit, a few years hence.
Amen, Brother. So help me God.
And as a someone with prior military experience, I can tell you that most soldiers in any organized Army or militia are only issued one firearm. How many of "we" 50 million have more than just one gun to turn to???
Well, I am not a member of Oath Keepers but I did take more than one oath. I intend to honor them.
God (and Country) Bless you, brother!
Yeppers...We have a great deal of alternatives.
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