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The American government is as much an enemy of the American people as is any Middle Eastern terrorist organization.

Well, not everyone within the government, nor all of those who draw a government paycheck...I hope. But there are many such within who answer to other masters superior to their oaths to the Constitution of the United States, or who are just in it for the paycheck and retirement package.

But I'm certainly more at ease with the knowledge that my oath is to *support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same...*:

"I, (name)(SSAN), having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of Major, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservations or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter; So help me God."

(DA Form 71, 1 August 1959, for officers.)

... there are many such within who answer to other masters superior to their oaths to the Constitution of the United States, or who are just in it for the paycheck and retirement package.

Bears repeating ... along with the pledge they have betrayed.

When I was discharged from the USMC the officer in charge of the proceedings took great pains to remind me that while my legal obligation the the US Marines was fulfilled my oath to 'support and defend the Constitution against all enemies' was most decidedly not and wouldn't be until the day I die.

I've never forgotten that.

I never will.