Oath Keepers Pledge to Prevent Dictatorship in United States
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL Oct. 18, 2009
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Oath Keepers pledges to prevent dictatorship in United States
Group asks police and military to lay down arms in response to orders deemed unlawful
By ALAN MAIMON
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."
That type of rhetoric has caught the attention of groups that track extremist activity in the United States.
In a July report titled "Return of the Militias," the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center singled out Oath Keepers as "a particularly worrisome example of the Patriot revival."
The Patriot movement, so named because its adherents believe the federal government has stepped on the constitutional ideals of the American Revolution, gained traction in the 1990s and has been closely linked to anti-government militia and white supremacist movements.
The movement is blamed for spawning Timothy McVeigh, who bombed a federal building in Oklahoma City in 1995, killing 168 people.
"I'm not accusing Stewart Rhodes or any member of his group of being Timothy McVeigh or a future Timothy McVeigh," law center spokesman Mark Potok said. "But these kinds of conspiracy theories are what drive a small number of people to criminal violence. ... What's troubling about Oath Keepers is the idea that men and women armed and ordered to protect the public in this country are clearly being drawn into a world of false conspiracy theory."
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This is on Drudge too
Awesome!
Edit: was posted below, I missed it.
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SPLC is a conspiracy group, the crap they send out is
the most racist, hate filled garbage imaginable. What they try to pass off as real events is the conspiracy.
"What was taken from the boomers, it ain't there, what was taken from the X'ers it ain't there, what is being taken from their great, great, great squared grandchildren it ain't there. Some generation just has to have the guts to quit passing it on." Me
Won't matter much
in just a few more weeks
Lord Christopher Monckton Speaking at Bethel University
http://www.youtube.com/wa...
I Think It's A Great Idea
Can't have a revolution without an army. There is no such thing as a peaceful revolution. I'd like to see all the gun clubs start organizing and developing communications. And anybody should be able to join not only former soldiers or police.
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This is on front page of Drudge Report
as of 1:14 am ET. Pretty awesome.
I post this EVERY night on my TWITTER page before I go to sleep
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Every time I read anything
Every time I read anything out of that rat hole Southern Poverty Law Center the only thing that comes to mind is how happy I would be if someone would take every SOB that works for that outfit, line them all up against a wall, and blow their brains out while stating, "Conspiracy theory this A.H."
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When are they going to start
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Perhaps it is time to point out
the idiocy of using the accusation of conspiracy theorist as a defense for unconstitutional actions or positions.
Quote: "What's troubling about Oath Keepers is the idea that men and women armed and ordered to protect the public in this country are clearly being drawn into a world of false conspiracy theory."
It seems, if one is awake, that the reality of life all around us should speak for itself. Isn't it amazing how we wake up every morning to find that yesterday's conspiracy theory is today's reality. As often as that turns out to be the case, evidently the average conspiracy theorist is far better informed than the defenders of the status quo.
What always strikes me...
...as odd, is that when I have conversations with people who claim I'm being a conspiracy theorist, they act as though their comment negates facts leading up to the theory. Realistically the theory aspect is the only thing that can legitimately be disputed if it's drawn from factual events, but they've convinced themselves that the facts are also false because they don't agree with the conclusions.
If people don't agree with my theories that's fine, but when I encounter things and a picture begins to form I can't help but speculate. I'd much rather people openly discuss the facts and offer their own theories than use convenient phrases to avoid listening and participating.
More people are aware than in the past though. The town hall events were very uplifting because I believe a lot of things became clear to a lot of people, and they stood up for themselves. I also feel that those events are a small fraction of what we'll see when things get more intrusive.
My wife gets very worried about things but I keep telling her that writing bills and passing them secretly is one thing, but when their actions have a direct effect on people's lives we'll respond appropriately, and after that we'll have our country back.
I believe it's been easy for those in power to go about their day screwing around with our lives and liberties which gives them a false sense of their own superiority, but people are beginning to pay attention. They have no jobs and no money and very few distractions, so what else can they do?
Anyone want to place bets on what sort of false flag event we'll have next?
Question?
Why is there nothing on the oathkeepers site about the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh? The police thugs showed America what to expect when the Globalists are in town.
http://masslpa.org/conten...
Next time the NWO fascists want to push U.S. around, Let's unite the active oathkeepers to line up in oppostion and push them all back across to Atlantic to the Queen and her Zionist cronies.
There is something
on Oathkeeper's about the G-20 Summit--it's under "Latest Videos" section...
Sorry
I stand corrected.
thanks for the heads up.
Luke is the man.
I've About Had It With Morris Dees And The SPLC Heres The Dirt
This scum tried to use a dildo on his daughter among other things like breaking his wife's jaw...The Oath Keepers need to print millions of copies of the court transcripts and shut this POS up...
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Wow, that appeal Doc was highly disturbing!
It had John Wayne Gayce written all over it. Why are the higher ups so inherently F*cked up?
Bump
for our Oath Keepers...
Recently a photo circulated
Recently a photo circulated showing a soldier in Iraq/Afghan/Pakistan wearing an Oathkeeper patch.
Question:
What is an Oathkeeper doing "serving" or "following orders" in those countries?
No oath was sworn to defend
No oath was sworn to defend those countries ..They are not functioning as an American force ..They are under the Coalition force orders.
American troops are not your enemy, if it comes to a violent takeover attempt. Some may become part of a Coalition attempt sometime. .. ???
We live in a deceptive time. Satan is busy because he knows his time is short..
Good people do Good deeds
Good people make it happen
dalesvp~ Soldiers are waking up
Most of them are very young and of course many have been very indoctrinated to the MIC. They have been deployed over and over again and see also what is going on at home. Some of them are are waking up.
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"I think we are living in a world of lies: lies that don't even know they are lies, because they are the children and grandchildren of lies." ~ Chris Floyd
Waking up is
Waking up is good....
Standing up would be better....
Oathkeepers Hitpiece
Don't you just love it when they cite the Southern Poverty Law Center? No agenda here at all....
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."
Thomas Jefferson
WE can EXPAND their growth exponentially . . .
A few days ago, I had an idea about how we can help the Oathkeepers' numbers grow. Now seems like a good time to repost it . . . See the discussion here - http://www.dailypaul.com/... I've done most of the research for you and I still think its a great idea.
Blessings )o(
I changed the title on my
I changed the title on my previous post reference up above, and now its in the moderation queue . . . GRRRRR
Moderators - I only changed the title for crying out loud, could you please get it posted? Thanks
Blessings )o(
Explosive Growth!!!
They are growing like crazy! The facebook group has 8,000+ members already! Anyone can join their organization too!
Does anyone have any stats
on percentage of Law Enforcement and MIlitary members?
-I favor extending to Israel the same honest friendship that Jefferson and the Founding Fathers urged us to offer to all nations. ...This means I also favor discontinuing foreign aid to governments that are actual or potential enemies of Israel,--Ron Paul
bump
for oath keepers.
to stop a dictatorship from
to stop a dictatorship from happening......to late!
>>In the age of town halls,
>>In the age of town halls, talk radio and tea parties, middle ground of opinion is hard to find.<<
You know what middle ground is, don't you? It's only half a lie.
These oathkeepers
are exactly what this country needs to maintain itself against police-state domination or martial law.
It is extremely important as a check against oppression using law enforcement and military as tools to dominate.
These people are to be commended!
And of course, the traitor Mark Potok and the rest of the traitors at the SPLC, attempt to slander them.
I want everyone to see what scum Mark Potok, Morris Dees, and the SPLC are.
The people should become very vocal about ANY role that the SPLC plays in "providing info" to ANY gov't or law enforcement agencies, and hopefully we can blunt any of their effects, or preferably force them to close their organizations from public outcry.